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Scout Survival Skills Activity Badge
May 23 @ 12:00 am - May 25 @ 12:00 am
£70.00
The Gloucestershire Scouts Bushcraft and Survival Skills Team would like to invite you to the Scout Survival Skills Activity Badge Course Weekend. The venue is TBC but will be in the Wilds of South Gloucestershire!
Participants will need to be 12yrs+
Sign up here: [LINKTO FOLLOW]
Young people taking part will complete the Survival Skills Scout Badge requirements. In addition, previous attendees have learned how to:
- Use a life raft and practise sea survival techniques
- Receive expert outdoor First Aid training from a paramedic
- Explore wildlife management and learn deer preparation
- Prepare and cook squirrel and fish for food
- Apply basic physics by designing and setting food traps
- Sample emergency rations and dehydrated supplies
- Purify water, carve wood, and bake bread on hot stones
- Identify and safely eat wild foods such as raw nettles
- Signal for rescue using flares and signal mirrors
- Master fire lighting through repeated challenges
- Travel light, set up tarps and hammocks, and build camp furniture
- Safely use an axe and saw to establish an expedition camp
- Cook improvised meals such as “roadkill” or “sled dog” stew
- And much, much more!