County Events

Recognition is a great way for us to celebrate young people in Scouting achieving top awards, our annual awards day is focused on rewarding young people for their continued and committed efforts in achieving their award.

The day allows award recipients and their family celebrate their achievements with an award ceremony and a wide range of activities, in the beautiful environment of Youlbury.

Award achievers are nominated by their leaders and are invited in the April of each year. For more information you can visit the Youth awards page here.

Aqua Camp is open to all Scout Troops in Oxfordshire. It sets out to provide both beginners and the more experienced Scouts with the opportunity to:

• Take part in a wide range of water activities, which they may not otherwise have access to
• Experience a large Scout section event, with the chance to meet hundreds of other Scouts
• Enjoy a weekend camping with their Troop, that contributes towards their own badge work

This year, we will be offering kayaking, open canoes, raft building, sailing, gig pulling and dragon boating, alongside some additional land activities, and of course evening entertainment too.

The camp will be held at Linch Hill Leisure Park near Standlake, from Friday 14th to Sunday 16th June 2019

The event is open to all Scouts, although places are limited, and we allocate spaces on a ‘first-come, first-served’ basis.

Download the information and booking pack here.

Please note Aqua Camp 2019 is now fully booked.

12^th – 14^th July 2019

We are holding a County Cub camp in 2019 at the Wet’n’Wild Aqua Park on Queensford Lake, near Berinsfield.  We will have sole access to the lake over the weekend including exclusive use of the Aqua Park.

The camp, which will run from Friday evening until Sunday afternoon, will have an international theme with each of the Districts representing a continent (or region, in some cases) of the world – see below. The camp will include a grand opening ceremony, parade, day and night activities and much, much more.  We would like to see everyone dressed up for the parade on the Saturday night in the theme of their region:

• West Oxon: Asia
• Oxford Spires:  North America
• North Oxon:  Europe
• Thames Ridge:  Africa
• Thames Chiltern:  Oceania
• King Alfred: Latin America

Activities will be based around three zones; Land, Sea and Air and will provide Cubs with the opportunity to undertake all sorts of activities including the aqua park, dragon boating, pioneering, pedaloes, drumming workshops, paddle boarding, bushcraft, science activities, grass sledging, coding and communications and much, much more!

Camp cost – £50 for Cubs; £5 for leaders, young leaders, and all other non-participating attendees

To attend you need to register your pack on EMS (www.scouts-ems.org.uk) and send a £100 deposit by the end of January 2019.  The system is now open for bookings.  The deposit will be deducted from the final booking that you make.  Final numbers and all monies will need to be paid by 19^th April 2019 (Good Friday).

Heath forms will need to be completed online and all DBS checks completed for adults on camp by 31^st May 2019.

Your district representatives will be communicating all details regarding the camp, they are:
Thames Chiltern – Penny Hannigan
Oxford Spires – Sarah Thompson
King Alfred – Simon Atkin
Thames Ridge – James Dagg
North Oxon –Teresa Cook
West Oxfordshire –  Amanda Bielby

The terms and conditions of the event can be found here.

Download the leader information here.

Gilwell 24 is a 24-hour event and the 2019 event are set to be our biggest and best yet at Scout

Adventures Gilwell Park, London. Gilwell 24 2019 will take place from 12th to 14th July 2019.

Gilwell 24 is 24 hours of non-stop action! Can you stay awake for 24 hours? With numerous

adventurous and exciting activities across the site to keep you entertained – from fairground rides to

bands and a huge disco, to zip wire, water slides and bag jump… and everything in between!

Can you also stay awake long enough to complete our Gilwell 24 Gauntlet Challenge in the middle of

the night and make it through to the survivor’s photo?

This event will start at 0900 on Saturday the 13th July and will keep everyone fully entertained until

0900 on Sunday the 14th July. In addition, we will host a disco to welcome you as we will be staying

overnight on the Friday.

Oxfordshire Scouts have the opportunity to travel by coach with other Explorer Scouts to the event

Friday 12th July departing M40 Junction 10 Oxford Services at 6pm, arriving home at approx. 1pm

Sunday 14th July as we will be departing Gilwell at 10.30am for some much-needed sleep!

Further information will be available in the spring