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Comp Wood Pricing Change Notification
1st February 2011
Following a review of the Campsite and the increase in its use and subsequent running costs, it has been agreed by the Malling District Executive Committee, that fees charged to Groups outside of the Malling District, will be increased.
The new pricing structure will take affect from 1st April 2011. The changes will be as follows:-
- Current Charges (effective until 31st March 2011)
- £2 Per Person Per Night
- £1 Per Person Per Day
- £10 Building & Evening Use
- New Charges (effective 1st April 2011)
- £3 Per Person Per Night
- £1.50 Per Person Per Day
- £15 Building & Evening Use
All bookings made, that take place after 31st March 2011, will be subject to the new pricing structure.
A revised booking form will be made available on-line very shortly.
Groups within the Malling District should be advised that there is no increase on the current charges.
- Current Charges (effective until 31st March 2011)
Blacklands at Duxford
15th September 2010
District Air Activity Day at Duxford – 26 June 2010
The day started at Larkfield Leisure Centre. We had to get there at 8 o’clock in the morning. There were 17 of us from Blacklands Cubs and 4 Leaders and a lot of other Cubs and Leaders from the District. Three coaches were there to take us to Duxford. Phillip wasn’t feeling too well but Trish persuaded him to get on the coach and have a sleep on the way. We were all excited.
The coach trip took two hours. We saw Duxford next to the motorway from the coach. It is a big airfield with lots of old planes and also a tank museum. When we got there we were given a quiz sheet and had to find the answers around the airfield. (The quiz wasn’t easy but we had a little help from the Leaders). We split into two groups, each with a leader who knew a lot about the planes. We started off in Hanger No 1 and saw lots of war planes and bombs and engines. Concorde was there and we got to go inside. It is the test plane No 1 which was flying in 1969. It was small inside and didn’t take many passengers. The last Concorde flew in 1993.
We saw lots of planes which flew in the Second World War and some could still fly – there were flying boats and bi-planes – and some of us went in a simulator – that was really cool! We also got to go inside some old passenger planes which belonged to companies like BOAC and BEA. We saw inside some bombers, where the pilot sat and the bomb bay.
After lunch we made our way up to the tank museum, visiting other hangers on the way up. There were models in the tank museum which Akela had made. There was one tank in a German butcher’s shop. There were lots of different tanks and landrovers from various wars – some were painted sand colour because they were used in desert battles. Some were green and some were painted in camouflage so that they wouldn’t be easily spotted.
One hanger had planes from the Battle of Britain and our leaders told us all about it. The best bit was a crashed German plane.
We had a lovely day at Duxford and were very tired when we left. We all completed our quiz sheets and all earned our Air Activity Badge. We would like to say thank you to Ken our ADC who organised the trip and to Scott, Dan, Trish and Allan for taking us.
Blacklands Cub Scouts
Borough Green Cubs visit Ashdown Forest
26th May 2010
Simon, a Cub Scout with the 1st Borough Green Scout Group, has sent in an article about their recent trip to the Ashdown Forest. Simon has sent the article in as part of his Kent Invicta Challenge. Simon writes..
In April 2010 me and my Cub Pack went and camped in Ashdown Forest. On Friday night we pitched the tents and then explored the Forest near by and then we set off lanterns around the camp fire and this went unfortunately not that well as we set fire to a tree. Then we had to find our way back to camp.
In the morning we had some breakfast at 6 o'clock and made our sandwiches ourselves. Then we changed into our full Cub uniform and packed our ruck sacks. We set off to our wonderful Llama farm in Ashdown forest and saw a baby reindeer in an enclosure and stroked the hairy llama Ralph. That day it was pouring with rain drenching us, but we still insisted on our 8 mile hike to Pooh Bridge & finally made it. On the way back we struggled so took a short cut along the road and eventually got back to our camp. As Cubs we navigated all the way and gained our Navigators badge & our map readers' badge. When we got back we changed our cloths as we were very wet & then played 40/40 in the forest until dinner was ready. After dinner we had a camp fire & sang some songs & went to bed straight after.
On Sunday morning we had breakfast at 8am & went pot holing in the underground tunnels in a bank. This was very cold in the holes because it was also wet & slimy.
After pot holing we had lunch & then helped break camp & then went home with our Mum & Dad which was very good as by then I was wet again and very cold.
Overall this was a good camp & I found it very exciting as I enjoyed the mixture of activities.
Simon, 1st Borough Green Cubs
