Charnwood International Camp

Charnwood International Scout & Guide Camp is run approximately every 4 years in Leicestershire, attracting thousands from across the globe. The 2019 camp held at Cattows Farm will go down in the history books as the wettest & muddiest in living memory…

Our intrepid leaders took 20 Ashby Hastings Scouts for what had promised to be an amazing 1 week camp, on the Fire subcamp. We had been concerned that the ground would be so hard that pitching tents would be difficult. Well, that didn’t last long. The torrential rain turned the site into a mud bath, with organisers working flat out to provide shovels to dig channels & source & lay large quantities of straw in the worst affected areas.

Our Scouts managed to have a great time, some even declaring it the best camp ever! All credit to our leaders for keeping morale high and everyone safe. One Scout even featured in the interview

with Chief Scout, Bear Grylls, when he dropped in for a visit. Watch it here on our YouTube channel.

The camp organisers took the difficult decision to close camp early on the Thursday, and one of our leaders who’s a police sergeant was able to organise a police van to evacuate the troop! The early close caused problems for all the groups who’d travelled some distance who weren’t able to reorganise their travel, so local groups stepped up to host them. We welcomed Dalgety Bay Guides and Rangers for a few days, who enjoyed the dry conditions of our Scout hut.