Highgate & Holloway visit
A group of Venturers and their leaders from Highgate & Holloway district WF organised a bivouac camp at Scarletts last weekend. They hiked with their rucksacks full of equipment for four hours from East Grinstead…
Multi District Camp 25th-27th Sept’26
A weekend camp open to Pioneers, Venturers and DF’s A weekend camp open to Pioneers, Venturers and DF’s.Activities on offer include: Nature Recovery Projects, Bushcraft & Greenwood Working Games, Whittling, Firelighting, Bat walk, Crafts and…
Campfires, Creatures and Conservation Fun
Scarletts Campsite welcomed young people from the Reigate & Redhill and Lewisham & Greenwich Districts for a very successful re‑launch camp held from 22–25 May. With hot, sunny weather throughout, the weekend provided the perfect…
Funding success
A funding application submitted to the National Lottery Community Fund, under the Awards for All Environment Fund, by Debs McCahon, Woodcraft’s Fundraising & Partnerships Manager, has been awarded in full. The £19,800 grant will be…
Second tree-planting day this Sunday
Hedges support up to 80% of our woodland birds, 50% of our mammals and 30% of our butterflies. They enable wildlife to move through the countryside, protect soils from wind erosion, and provide shelter for people…
First tree-planting day a success
A band of volunteers met at Scarletts last Sunday to begin planting trees – more than 200 were planted in addition to clearing brambles and rubbish, creating a dead hedge, planning the site for a…
Camp for Venturers & DFs
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding this camp from 23rd May to 25th May to relaunch Scarletts. The programme will include activities connected with our nature recovery project and there will…
Tree planting this weekend
All the saplings are ready to go. Woodland Trust have supplied 12 fewer hedging and 12 additional wild wood, plus they have substituted some different hedging as they said they might. Wild wood planting advice,…
Students’ work experience
Two students from Capel Manor College, Scott and Theo, braved the winter chill, the wind and the rain to get some work experience at Scarletts last week. They planted a couple of sycamores in the…
Weald to Waves
Scarletts is now part of ‘Weald to Waves‘, a wildlife corridor that runs from Ashdown Forest in the High Weald through the Low Weald and via the chalklands of the South Downs National Park, and…