This year’s Teamwork Challenge event took place on a freezing cold, snowy afternoon in March. It was attended by 9 colonies from across the District. Beavers worked in teams where their problem-solving, team-working and leadership skills were put to the test.They tackled a variety of tasks which included creating animal paper sculptures using small pieces of paper which had to be easily identifiable by their leaders, building the tallest tower, present wrapping, quizzes and a scavenger hunt in the snow! The final task required them to work well as a team using their pioneering skills to create a gadget that would enable them to retrieve a bag of goodies from the other side of the hall using bamboo canes, sticky tape, elastic bands, string and garden wire!
A big thank you to Sue Cruse and her team for organising such a fantastic event. The beavers thoroughly enjoy themselves and are already looking forward to next year’s event.
Allyson

Another successful year for the Scooter Rally with 65 Cubs from 12 packs attending. Every Cub that I speak too really enjoys this event.
As you know we hold the event at Crow Camp the ideal home for this event. With the forest and small slopes, we can construct a good track for the racing. We changed the format of the event this year. We now have teams of three cubs this has made it fairer for smaller packs to be able to win this event.
It was a cold day but the rain held off. The track was dry and full of leaves. Cubs kept warm with Hot Chocolate and Hot Dogs which ran out too soon, I will need to buy more next year.
I would like to thank the leaders who turned up to assist with the event without them we could not run this event.
Congratulations to 1st Squirrels Heath who won the trophy this year. The cubs were presented with Certificates for First, second and third.

| Position | Team | Score | Group |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 39 | 1st Squirrels Heath |
| 2 | 7 | 38 | 8th Hornchurch Jupiter |
| 3 | 13 | 37 | 1st Squirrels Heath |
| 4 | 3 | 35 | 2d Elm Park |
| 5 | 14 | 34 | 1st Squirrels Heath |
| 6 | 15 | 34 | 1st Elm Park |
| 7 | 18 | 31 | 1st Corbets Tey / 1st Cranham |
| 8 | 20 | 30 | 1st Squirrels Heath / Ist Rainham / 8th Hornchurch Mercury |
| 9 | 8 | 28 | 8th Hornchurch Mercury |
| 10 | 9 | 27 | 8th Hornchurch Mercury |
| 10 | 16 | 27 | 2nd Upminster |
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