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Follow our adventures!

The Unit’s Explorer-led Publicity Team are always hard at work getting the word out about everything we get up to, in a whole range of different formats. We’ve decided that moving forward we are going to reduce the use of our blog, but we’re still having loads of amazing adventures that we’d love to share […]

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Hiking, Wild Camping

Highlands Hillwalking 2024

In October half-term, Nigel and I (John) took a small group of WWESU’s Explorers to the West Highlands. As always, most of the plan was by necessity worked out on the (long!) drive up, but by the time the crew had crossed the border, there was a plan.The group would do the formidable Knoydart traverse; […]

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Community, Fireworks

Fireworks 2024: Behind the Scenes

On the 2nd November we held our 13th Annual Fireworks Display, bringing back this much-loved event to Scout Park and welcoming hundreds of guests from our community. The Explorers from our Publicity Team have written this blog to show you what goes on behind the scenes of this entirely volunteer-run event! After a 5-year hiatus, […]

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Community, Fireworks

Fireworks 2024: Tickets now on sale!

We are really excited to announce that tickets are now on sale for our 13th Annual Fireworks Display, which will be held at Scout Park on the 2nd November 2024. For more information about the event please have a look around our website pages, or to head straight to book your tickets please click the […]

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Camping, Hiking, Scouting Skills, Wild Camping

Eryri Expedition

Expeditioning is a massive part of Scouting and Wild Wolf, usually consisting of hiking and wild camping while carrying all your gear on your back. Read on to find out about our most recent expedition in Eryri National Park, a sodden but joyful camp…

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Summer Camp

Summer Camp 2023: Kander 100

This summer WWESU travelled to Switzerland for Kander 100, the centenary celebrations at Kandersteg International Scout Centre. We had an amazing time and lots of adventures – check out our video to see what we got up to…

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Camping, Hiking, Wild Camping

West Highlands Hillwalking

For WWESU’s 2022 annual October Half Term Hillwalking Trip we returned to the great mountain ranges of Scotland, this time to Fort William and the West Highlands. Read on to find out what we got up to… Sunday Kicking off with an early 5am start outside Scout Park, our group of 8 Explorers and 2 […]

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Events, Fireworks, Fundraising

Fireworks 2022

This year we held a smaller version of our usual Fireworks Display, just for family & friends of the Unit. Thank you to all our friends and family who we invited to this years’ event for coming along and helping to support WWESU. We hope that next year we can return to our full size […]

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