20th Southgate Scout Group
​A new "Wall of Fame" awaits
Here is a picture of our "Wall of Fame" which is located just inside the main hall of the Cub Hut - please come and have a look at it one Thursday. At the start of each new term it is updated with photos from the various meetings and activities which took place during the previous term. The current "Wall of Fame" features photos of such activities as the visits to the fire station and the RAF Museum, our Scientist Badge evening, night hike and variety show, and the District 5-a-side tournament, Quiz and Cub Trek competition. Lots of memories, many of which can be relived here and lots more to be made in the Spring term of 2026. Happy New Year to everyone and looking forward to all of our Cubs joining the adventures and appearing on the next "Wall of Fame".
​The start of the 2026 Spring Term
The Spring term is up and running and with a very warm welcome to our new starters Jasmine and Sean. During part of this term and part of the Summer term our main focus will be on completing one of the core badges for the Chief Scout’s Silver Award, the Our World Award, in addition to the usual range of other activities and adventures. With the District Chess and Swimming Gala plus a Connect 4 competition and some football, hopefully as always there will be something for everyone, and the pen and paper is being kept busy planning perhaps another Cub Pack outing and a Sleepover. Felt pens and paper were much in evidence at our "Skills evening" on 15th January when Felipe very kindly ran a drawing and illustrating evening for us, with some fantastic results.
​A new "Wall of Fame" is developing...
It's nearly halfway through the Spring term and there is already lots of material ready to go onto the next "Wall of Fame". Our Thursday meetings have seen the usual variety including another street dance session delivered by Jo from Fiction Dance, a meeting planned entirely by our Young Leaders Jack, Liam and Louisa, and a really important badge work evening for the Disability Awareness badge. This got the Cubs thinking hard, particularly about recognising hidden disabilities and viewing the world from the social model of disability, and they all excelled in the various bases during this session. One weekend activity saw our first ever Pack Connect 4 competition and many congratulations to Ben who was the overall winner. We were all surprised at how fast Connect 4 games go and everyone got to play 15 games! The Cubs also had a rare indoors football practice after three consecutive days of rain and thank you to the Mum who said it was a great session. Don't forget to claim the 10% discount off next term's subs as agreed!
​Southgate District Chess Champions
As the title says, I am delighted to report that our Cubs won the annual Southgate District Chess competition which was held on 8th February. During the competition each Cub plays four games of chess against Cubs from other Packs in Southgate with 50 points available for a win by checkmate. By the end of the competition, our
A-Team had achieved an excellent 663 out of the maximum available 800 points. Our B-Team also did themselves proud especially as two of them had only recently started playing chess. A successful afternoon and congratulations to all our Cubs who took part.
To Poland and back in 90 minutes
Our final meeting of the first half of the spring term saw the Cubs 'visit' Poland in what was probably the busiest Thursday session we've ever had! Counting towards some of the requirements for the Our World Challenge Award, the Cubs arrived to find the Poland flag and a video showing some dancing from the festival of Wianki before it was time for them to play three games from Poland: Dwa Ogne which is a bit like dodgeball, Klasy which is a bit like hopscotch and Kapela where they had to defend a 'Chapel'. With the help of Monika and Feliks the Cubs compared the Law and Promise between the UK and Poland and had a go at saying the Promise in Polish. Next it was time to try some Polish food before Feliks and Rosa took to the keyboards to imitate a Polish festival which even finished with a firework display. The Cubs all got fully engaged and learnt lots about Poland including some famous Polish people ranging from the former Arsenal goalie to the former Pope!
More spring term activities
The Spring term continues to fly along and the first meeting back after half-term saw four of our Cubs: Ben, Feliks, Henry and Patrick plan and deliver games in order to complete the final part of their Team Leader Award. This also meant they 'went silver' - at the end of the meeting they were presented with their Chief Scout's Silver Award, a fantastic achievement and thoroughly deserved. The following Thursday saw the Pack go on another night hike around Whitewebbs Woods. Perfect weather conditions on the evening and another hikes stage completed for the Cubs. The remaining meetings of term are going to feature a teamwork evening and Easter Egg hunt with a gymnastics session sandwiched in between.
District events
The spring term has also been a busy time for District events - a variety of these (hopefully something for everyone) take place throughout the Cub year. As described above, February had seen us win the Southgate District Chess competition and and towards the end of the month we were invited to take part in the Connect 4 competition which was organised by Enfield District. Wow, it was certainly an experience with over 100 Cubs taking part and Connect 4 isn't as quiet a game as chess! At the end of the evening our Cubs finished in a fantastic 3rd place out of the 24 teams taking part. Early March saw our Cubs entering into the Southgate District Swimming Gala at Southgate Pool and against some very strong and experienced competition, we finished 5th out of the 11 teams taking part. Well done to all of our Cubs for always trying their best.