| SEPTEMBER - SURVIVAL | ||
| With a local Scout Troop, take part in an overnight survival camp, cooking all meals on an open fire and sleeping in a shelter built from natural materials. | Outdoor & Adventure Zone Skills Zone |  |
| Learn how to correctly prepare a dead wild animal for cooking (ie. rabbit, pigeon, squirrel, fish). Ask an expert to demonstrate. | Scouting Skills Activity Badge | |
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| OCTOBER - TEAM | ||
| Organise and run an activity and invite other Units to attend. | Values & Relataionships Zone | |
| As a Unit, take part in a team-building activity where Explorers work in small teams, e.g. a cooking competition, high ropes. | Physical Recreation Zone | |
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| NOVEMBER - ENTERPRISE | ||
| Create, as part of a team, a business plan; including financial projections (income & expenditure, cash flow) for a sustainable fundraising idea for your Explorer Scout Unit. It can be off the wall, no idea is a silly one; but it must be achievable and there must be an end goal (eg. raising money for a piece of equipment or an expedition). As part of your plan, you must say why it is important to your Unit to raise this money and a little bit about why your group is different - what makes your unit stand out from the crowd | Skills Zone | |
| Run a 'Dragon's Den' challenge with a local Scout Troop in your District as part of the Entreprener Challenge | | |
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| DECEMBER - FAITH | ||
| Arrange a visit to a local faith centre or place of worship such as a Church, Mosque, Temple, Synangogue to learn about their customs and beliefs. | Values & Relationships Zone | |
| Arrane for a faith leader from within the local community to visit the Unit. | ||
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| JANUARY - ECO | ||
| Take part in a conservation workday at your local campsite, nature reserve or woodland area. | Community Service Zone | |
| Make and use an Ekwuk conservation stove. | Skills Zone and Outdoor & Adventure Zone | |
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| FEBRUARY - CREATIVE | ||
| Put on a play, pantomime, variety show or music night for local Scout Troops and other Explorer Units to come along to. | Skills Zone Performing Arts Activity Badge | |
| Make pancakes at your Unit night for Shrove Tuesday. | Values & Relationships Zone | |
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| MARCH - CULTURE | ||
| Arrange a cultural foods night at your Unit meeting. Divide into teams, each team to prepare a meal from a particular country and find out about the origin of the food and dish. Teams to share their food and information with the rest of the unit and local Scout Network. | Global Zone Skills Zone | |
| Arrange a music night with a difference?! | ||
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| APRIL - SKILL | ||
| Skill Swap Night. Each person in the Unit has to teach a skill they have to other members of the Unit (ie. how to play chords on a guitar, how to dribble a football, how to draw Bart Simpson, etc.) | Skills Zone | |
| Make Easter cakes and decorate with mini eggs! | ||
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| MAY - CHALLENGE | ||
| As a Unit, abseil off all the climbing towers at our activity centres in Essex, and record it with photos and videos. | Outdoor & Adventure Zone | |
| Arrange a 'restaurant night' for eight special guests of your choice (dignataries from the community, teachers, doctors, rotarians) to atten a three course sit-down meal at your headquarters (transformed in to a restaurant for the evening). | Community Service Zone and Vlaues & Relationships Zone | |
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| JUNE - RESIDENTIAL EXPERIENCES | ||
| Take part in a Queen's Diamond Jubilee - themed camp / residential experience with at least two other Sections. | Outdoor & Adventure Zone Physical Recreation Zone | |
| Arrange an expedition or walking day or weekend for the Unit which can be used as training towards Chief Scout or Duke of Edinburgh Awards. | ||
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| JULY - WATER | ||
| Over the summer months qualify for the BCU Paddlepower Passport. | Outdoor & Adventure Zone Skills Zone Physical Recreation Zone Paddle Sports or Water Activities Activity Badge | |
| Undertake a water activity with Adventures Offshore, our water based District in Essex, or with another District. | ||
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| AUGUST - ESSEX INTERNATIONAL JAMBOREE | ||
| Attend the Essex International Jamboree. | Outdoor & Adventure Zone Global Zone | |
| Travel to the Jambore site by alternative forms of transport. | Navigation Activity Badge | |
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