2010-12-05 – Scouts/Explorers Birthday Bowling

Today, 42 of the older members of the 5th Dartford Scout group made their way to the AMF bowling centre in Gravesend for an afternoon of Ten-pin bowling as part of the Group’s 94th birthday celebrations.  Each bowler played 3 games (a series) and there were competitions for under 18’s in the following categories: Lowest scoring single game, most misses overall, most spares picked up & most strikes, which will all be rewarded with a bar of chocolate, but the main competition is all about high scores, so there are Bronze, Silver and Gold medals to be awarded for both the highest single game and the highest series and yet more chocolate. Below are the medals table and the final scores. 

Congratulations to medal winners Adam, Lewes, Harry Z and Harry H.

2010-12-04 – Happy 94th Birthday 5th Dartford

Today the 5th Dartford Scout group is 94 years old and we’ve come such a long way since Skipper Leigh started up our our History when he formed our scout group for boys aged between 11 and 16 and the single weekly meetings, held in a classroom in the Congregational Church Hall just down the hill from our current site. 

This year has seen unpresidented interest in membership from all ares of our community, so much so that we’ve opened two new mixed gender sections to cater for it.  WOW! How our Our Structure, membership and leadership numbers have grown and evolved so much since those early days.

Another year older – Another year of fantastic scouting memories. 

Happy Birthday 5th – Hope to see you all on parade tomorrow morning ;O)