Queen Scout's Award for Abi and Ed

Report Date 02/06/11

Abi Peett and Ed Harrison were presented with their Queen’s Scout Awards and Duke of Edinburgh Gold Awards at our annual awards evening. The Queen’s Scout Award is the highest that can be gained by anyone under the age of 25 and like the D of E award requires individuals to learn and make use of a new skill, undertake a physical challenge, demonstrating a significant improvement over a period of 6 months, complete a residential project involving working with people not previously known by them, give 9 months continuous service to the community and complete a 5 day expedition in wild country which they did earlier this year in Exmoor. In addition the Queen’s Scout Award required  them to complete an International and an Environmental project and to have camped for at least 18 nights.

The awards were presented by Russ Parke, the Deputy County Commissioner for Scouting in Hampshire. These awards mean that both Abi and Ed will receive invitations to Windsor Castle for next year’s parade of Queen’s Scouts and to St James’ Palace for a special event for Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award holders. .