We allocated the weekend of 31st October to 2nd November to the two troops to organise their own camp at Boyd Field campsite in Henlow.

The camp was an opportunity for the boys to complete their outdoor challenge and the leaders arranged a few activities for the Scouts to do. The rest of the programme was done by the Scouts themselves. They booked the site and booked the climbing, archery and shooting.

We took food for the Friday night and the Saturday breakfast. On the Saturday morning 4 of the Scouts took a trip into sainsburys and both troops had a maximum of £50 to spend on food for the rest of the weekend. One troop managed £44 and the others came to £47.

One of the activities for the outdoor challenge was to build a pioneering table with benches. All of the teams managed to do the task, although some were quite large.

All the Scouts cooked on an open fire and trangias over the weekend.

We finished up on the Sunday with a first aid practical for the outdoor challenge.