Wardle Scout Group

17 intrepid Wardle beavers walked nearly 4 miles from Watergrove Reservoir to Healey Dell Heritage Centre & Tea Rooms today to have Afternoon Tea followed by a climb up the steps of the Viaduct and a further 1 mile walk to go pond dipping.
Beavers found a lot of tadpoles, some water leaches and some little fishes then went to make a forest shelter better by adding some sticks and stones to it.
Well done beavers, you’ve had an amazingly scouting adventure in the very best countryside on a very sunny day.
Thank you so much to out leader volunteers who all gave up their day so the beavers could enjoy a splendid day out.
Pennine Scout District
Greater Manchester North Scout County
The Scouts

Well done to the 10 scouts from Wardle Scout Troop who have completed a 23 mile expedition this weekend to complete their Expedition Challenge Award.
Great weather 🌦️ saw them through the hike which had them setting off on Saturday morning from The White House, camping at Hebden Hey Scout Centre and hiking back along Rochdale Canal to Littleborough Summit.
Well done Scouts and a huge thank you to leaders and helpers for supporting them on their 2 day expedition.
Pennine Scout District
Greater Manchester North Scout County
The Scouts

Wardle Scout Group has two cub packs.
The Wednesday evening cub pack meets from 7pm until 8:30pm at Wardle Scout HQ and currently has four places for young people (boys or girls) born between 1/2/2014 and 31/12/2014.

If your child meets the age criteria and wishes to come along to a taster session, please either complete the details on our webpage at https://www.wardlescouts.org.uk/contact/joining-enquiry/
or email [email protected] to let us know they would like to join us. We will contact you and invite your child along.

We are also accepting enquiries from parents whose children are under 6 for their children to be added to the waiting list to join the beaver section https://www.wardlescouts.org.uk/contact/joining-enquiry/

Thank you to all the Wardle beavers, cubs, scouts and explorers who joined the Pennine Scout District St George’s day event at Queen’s Park Heywood. Leaders are very proud of you and we hope you enjoyed your activities after the parade.
Here is a photo of the Mayor and Mayoress who photo-bombed us (well we did invite them to join us!). 😂

It rained more than in Wardle but we just got a little muddy at Great Tower Scout Activity Centre this weekend.

Members of Wardle Scout Troop had a great Activity day at Ashworth Valley Scout Camp site today. Thanks to the campsite and all the leaders for organising it.
Pennine Scout District
Greater Manchester North Scout County

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Congratulations to members of Wardle Scout Troop who won the Pennine District 5-a-side Football competition. The competition saw some brilliant play and great teamwork. Well done everyone and thank you to the leaders who supported and ran the event.

New Volunteer Opportunities - join our team

Beavers are aged 6-8, have lots of fun and make new friends. Would you like to come and join our team of enthusiastic volunteers?

About Wardle Scout Group
Wardle Scout Group is a successful scout group within the community. We are planning a trip in August 2025 to attend Euro Disney and the PGL Centre just outside Paris. This would be for the Beaver and Cub ages 6-11. We last visited Euro Disney in August 2019, 6 months before the Covid lockdown. This experience leads us onto encourage all our members to make the most of the opportunities they are offered. Leaders will be given the opportunity to attend.
The volunteer opportunities are as follows:

On Monday evenings we have three regular volunteers already and need one additional team member to make a full team to lead sixteen young people into fun and adventure.

On Tuesday evenings we have one regular, lead volunteer. The other volunteers have recently moved on to assist with the older sections so we need up to three assistants in order to make the volunteering fun for the adult as well as the young people. We are currently running using parent helpers but need more committed volunteers.

If you'd like the comeraderie of working in a small team, want to make new friends and have lots of fun then please contact us via our Website: https://www.wardlescouts.org.uk/get-involved/become-a-volunteer/

Wow, Scouts from Wardle Scout Troop came first and 4th at the district cooking competition. Well done Scouts.

Members of Wardle Explorer Unit attend the final event in their World Scout Jamboree journey. What an amazing opportunity they all had. Thank you to Wardle Community for supporting all the fundraising efforts.

Boxing Day walk
Weather is looking quite promising for the 48th village Boxing Day walk on Tuesday. This village event starts at 10am from Wardle Square, Ramsden Road and will be a somewhat muddy trek up to the top of Brown Wardle.
After the walk, Wardle Scout Group will be serving bacon butties in our Scout HQ.
Even if you don't complete the walk, you are invited to come and and share the Christmas cheer and have a bacon butty with us.
Bacon butties will be on sale from 11:00 until approx 12:30.

Happy 18th Birthday to Josh Wellens who has been a Beaver, Cub, Scout, Explorer, Young Leader and represented the Scout Group at the World Scout Jamboree.
Josh has been a keen scout all through his full 12 years of membership in Scouting as a young person but no more so when he was a Sixer in cubs.
Josh proudly joins the volunteer ranks today as a leader in the Brown Wardle (Monday) Beaver colony.
We are so proud of all you have achieved.

Leaders are extremely proud of members of Wardle Scout Group who were part of Wardle village Remembrance parade this afternoon.
Congratulations all of you, compliments on your behaviour from councillors too.

Hi all, I just wanted to tell you all what a great weekend I had, it was fab and I am so proud of all of our Explorers.
The way they conducted themselves on camp was a credit to the group; they all got on well, did the jobs they were asked to do when they were asked to do them and did a fab job in their first Mudder Challenge.
Thanks to Lauren Aldred who told us about this camp and organised everything about the camp for us to go, Susan Tygga Wright for working with you guys to do the catering and Samuel Townsend who was adding Scout nights camping to his tally towards the 18 he has to clock up towards his Kings Scout Award. Brilliant weekend and I hope your young people all enjoyed it too.

What a fantastic weekend for Wardle Scouts and Cubs and 12thA SmithyBridge Cubs.

Well done Lauren. Amazing effort.

Well we did it. We’ve cleared the Scout room from the Car Boot sale detritus - and made about £135 in the process. Thank you to our community for supporting us. This is our cleared room that we’ve not really seen since February 2020!
Especially thank you to those Scouts, Explorers and leaders who came to help. What an achievement.
The Beaver Sleepover can now go ahead!

Aimee was our first female cub in Wardle Cubs and now look where she is. Well done Aimee, our leaders are so proud of you.

Meet the musician behind the bearskin…

Musician Aimee Carter has recently joined the band, making it into uniform just in time for the . An alumni of Wardle Academy and their fantastic , Aimee is a welcome addition to our section.

To hear more about Aimee’s journey into the The Royal Corps of Army Music and find out how she’s feeling about her first , head to our stories!

💂🏻‍♀️🎶💂🏻‍♀️

The Household Division Grenadier Guards TYMBA - Traditional Youth Marching Bands Association The Army in London - HQ London District

8 Explorer Scouts from our small village of Wardle will be setting off to Seoul in 50 days time. They have done so well raising £4,000 each to pay the fee whilst spending 16 nights away at training camps.
Whilst some of them are hard at exams, others' are now packing for our last training camp - a weekend in Paris to make sure we can Manoeuvre as a group through Manchester airport and the Metro - all skills they will need when we have our stopover in Soeul.
They are so excited.
Greater Manchester North Scouts - International
Greater Manchester North Scout County
The Scouts
Making Memories and changing their lives forever.

If you would like to be part of developing young people to take on a challenge this big - email [email protected]
We started with a trip to London to celebrate the Cubs Centenary in 2016 and look where it is led for some of them!! We are so proud of our Scouts.

Some of our members still have exams to do - the rest of us can’t contain ourselves!! We’re so excited.
Greater Manchester North Scout County
Bury and Ramsbottom Scout District
Prestwich, Radcliffe and Whitefield District Scouts -PRaWs
UK Contingent
The Scouts
Pennine Scout District
Oldham Borough Scouts
Bolton South with Farnworth Scout District
Bolton Moorland Scout District

Wardle Village Jumble Trail will be held on Sunday 11 June 10-14:00.
Stalls will be set out at Wardle Scout HQ, Wardle Village Church (after Church) and Wardle Village if you'd like to register your house to hold it.
Wardle Scout Group will also be serving refreshments, bacon butties, hot dogs and cake and available a number of tables upstairs for you to hire - £5 per table.

To register your house on the trail, complete the form here: https://www.cognitoforms.com/_17t.../WardleJumbleTrailSignup
To be included in the map please go out our donate page here: https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/23762
Please note you don''t have to donate but we'd very much appreciate it. Suggested donation is £5.
To take a table in our Scout HQ email [email protected]

I'll produce the map of Friday and publish it again on this page as soon as it's complete. Thank you for your support.

This morning I saw a post on Rochdale Borough Noticeboard from a Mum of 6 saying she had no food or milk and no money. She lives on Wardle Road, Smallbridge.
At our meeting tonight, we emptied our cupboards and decided to prepare some meals with kids in mind.
The Explorers decided what we could cook with our ingredients and set to.
- 2 trays of Macaroni cheese
- 1 pasta bolognaise with beans
- 3 wrap pizzas
- 13 coffee and walnut muffins

This is the message I’ve received back after delivering them
“Thank you so so much the food is amazing you’re Scout Group is a life saver you have given me meals for my kids. I'm so so grateful”
We’ll done Wardle Explorers. You are awesome ! We do hope the family enjoys the meals we’ve cooked for them.
When i delivered the food, grandad told me the Cub Scout Promise. Once a Scout, always a Scout. Doubly pleased we have been able to give assistance to a scout in need.
Greater Manchester North Scout County
Pennine Scout District
The Scouts
Rochdale Online

We are very proud of Sam Townsend our Assistant Scout Leader at Wardle Scout Troop who is at Buckingham Palace today receiving his Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award.
Whilst he gained the award with his school, Sam has chosen to wear his scout leader’s uniform to the palace.
Congratulations Sam.

Sam started in Wardle Scout Group as a beaver and has been a cub, scout and explorer with us. He left explorers just before lockdown and contacted us last year to volunteer to be a leader. Having young people back with the scout group makes us doubly proud - and they bring so much enthusiasm and energy with them.

Greater Manchester North Scout County
The Scouts
Pennine Scout District
World Organization of the Scout Movement - WOSM

If anyone lost touch with Scouting because of the pandemic but would like to continue their Scouting, please get back in touch with us, we’d love to hear from you. [email protected]

Well this was a bit of a surprise. Wardle Explorers used one of these (Ridge Monkey) to cook Toad in the Hole and the verdict was ‘delicious’.
Explorers watch a YouTube video first and then just organised themselves to cook. What a successful evening!
Greater Manchester North Scout County
Pennine Scout District

We hope you’ve enjoyed the this evening!

Tomorrow is - part of the Coronation celebrations, and a national day of volunteering to inspire people to try volunteering for the first time…

Our Leaders love volunteering - but tomorrow we’re having a well-deserved day off 😆

You can however use tomorrow to find out more about volunteering with Scouting https://www.scouts.org.uk/volunteer/volunteering-with-scouts/

And maybe even send us a message to enquire about how you can help support our group!

Go on… give it a go! You’ll love it!

Long live the King!

Today we’re celebrating the of HM King Charles III. It’s an opportunity for us all to reflect on service to others, which is a key part of our Promise and values.

Very proud of Wardle Scout Group today. Fantastic turn out at the first ever Pennine District St George’s day event. Everyone was very smart and so well behaved. The Scout Group leaders are very proud of you all. Well done.
Greater Manchester North Scout County

What are you doing with your Scout Group today?

We are soooo excited.

Yes, 10:45am in 100 days time and we’ll be off!