Kidlington Land Scouts tested
their survival skills overnight in a woodland camp to raise money to fund a
Maasai teacher in in Kenya.
From Saturday 8th
October and Sunday 9th October the Scouts fended for themselves
armed with only an Army Ration Pack and a litre of water each, sleeping in
shelters they made themselves.
The Scouts are well on their
way to raising their target of £750, which will be enough to train a teacher
and then pay their salary for a year.
Money from the event will go to
the Woodland Ways Bushcraft Foundation (WWBCF) charity, which aims to use the
skills, history and story of bushcraft to provide tribal peoples around the
globe with assistance where required or requested. The charity owns the 250
acre woodland in Appleton where the Scouts camped out.
Land Scout Section Leader
Andrew Davis and Assistant Section Leader James Palmer came up with the idea
for the event during a talk by the charity’s founder Jason Ingamells at the Bushcraft
show in May.
“James and I sat in on one of his talks, his personal journey that
started the foundation,” explained Andrew. “It was a very moving, inspiring,
tear jerking story, and without hesitation James and I looked at each other and
said “sponsored event”. We chatted to him afterwards about our idea and he
offered us the use of his site here in Oxfordshire”.
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