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Our Beavers, Cubs and Scouts travelled to Brentwood at the end of May to take part in the North London Scout District Camp together with our fellow Scouts from across Camden, the City, Haringey and Islington.
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Summer Camp 2025 saw the Scout Troop return to Butchers Coppice in Bournemouth for a week of activities by the sea. A small but well-formed party of campers from 8th Holborn took advantage of all the Dorset coastal towns of Poole and Bournemouth have to offer. After arriving by train from Waterloo we made our…
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We went to the theatre this week to see a musical all about Scouting at a fringe theatre in Hampstead!
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8th Holborn entered two teams of Scouts into this year’s North London Scout District Winter Mad Hike, which took place on an unseasonably sunny March Saturday morning. 14 teams from around the district competed to complete a 7-mile round, with challenges to take part in along the way. Congratulations to our team of older Scouts…
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Our Scout troop’s first camp of the year was at PACCAR Scout Camp in Buckinghamshire joining the annual February Freezer camp. A weekend of fun activities and entertainment. This event attracts 1,200 Scouts and Guides from around south east England, and is so popular that when the organisers opened bookings in the autumn, groups had…
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On the first Saturday of November the streets of the Square Mile are filled with sound and colour for the Lord Mayor’s Show procession, a spectacle that has taken place annually for more than 800 years. For the past two years 8th Holborn has been involved in selling commemorative programmes to spectators along the route,…
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As has been our custom for more than a decade, we joined the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers for their Remembrance Sunday wreath laying in Holborn.
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10 Scouts from 8th Holborn joined 400 others from across Greater London North to take part in the Chiltern 20 Challenge hike on 12 October. Meeting just after 5.30am to catch the first train from Marylebone, we headed to Princes Risborough School for the check-in and kit check. We had two unaccompanied teams in the…
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We were very sad to learn of the sudden death of June Peacock who in the mid-2000s was a member of our Explorer Scout Unit and was one of the 8th Holborn members who took part in EuroJam in 2005. 8th Holborn was represented at her funeral by David, Jessica and Balan. Our deepest condolences…
