Venturers

With just a few days to go until the early booking deadline it’s been a busy month for the VCamp team and Venturer Committee, working hard to make the camp the best it can be! It’s great to see that lots of you have booked now – keep them coming before Friday 15^th Feb to get £10 off!

This Navigation Skills course is aimed at Venturers and DFs who would like to gain some skills and experience in map reading, route planning and of course putting it into practice.  This will be a practical course with lots of hands on experience using the wonderful location of Lockerbrook in the High Peak to explore the stunning landscape.  If your group would like to join us for this course please complete this enquiry form by 24 February 2019.  It will cost £49.50 which includes accommodation, food and the cost of the tr

If you are a Venturer group and have not yet visited Lockerbrook come on this Venturer Activity Weekend. You will have an opportunity to meet up with other Venturer groups from around the country. There will be a maximum of 30 places. Cost for w/end including accommodation, food and activities will be £49.50 per person.

We're gathering together ideas from our districts about how to raise funds to support your activities. You will find these in the resources tagged by 'local fundraising', or you can click the links below to go straight to a specific activity.

Please submit your ideas at woodcraft.org.uk/local-fundraising-ideas-webform.

Stirling Venturers is a group for young people aged 12 to 15 years.  The group meets fortnightly during school term time on Thursday evenings from 7:30 to 8:30pm.  We do lots of different activities aimed at having fun and developing our confidence and awareness of the world.  You can see our programme for this term at this link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N6B3PMsCgkEzHySFLv5cPyj5iXGSsgHY/view?usp=sharing

This is Newham Venturers in London have launched a Woodcraft campaign to stop the DSEI arms fair at the Excel Centre. 

In September an arms fair will be hosted in east London where countries from all over the world will be invited to buy and trade weapons.

The Venturer Camp team are well under way with preparing for the camp this summer!

Since we want as many of you to go as possible we've extended the early bird booking deadline to the 15th February.