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Last Updated :  18:41:04. 30 September 2009

At present, September 2009, we’re 25 strong and for the first time for a couple of years we’ve got more guys (16) than girls (9) covering the whole Explorer age range from some newly arrived ex-Scouts to some oldies who are thinking about a Gold DofE expedition next year after the success of the Gold we did in the Peak District in July this year.

We’ve got 4 leaders, Dave who started it all in 2002 as one of the earliest Explorer Units to be up and running, Jacqui who made the fatal mistake of asking Dave “Do you need a hand?” in 2005, and Jacqui’s son Mat who joined in 2008. Ben, a former Badger Hill Scout, joined us this summer.

This site is partly general stuff about Explorers and partly the story of what we’ve done recently, what we’re doing now, and what we’d like to be doing in the future.

To contact us, please email webmaster@brocks-explorers.org.uk and we’ll get back to you.

Welcome to Brocks website

In July 2008 we changed our name from Badger Hill to Brocks Explorer Scout Unit, or Brocks E.S.U. for short. If you didn’t know, “Brock” is a traditional country name for an older, wiser, craftier Badger .......which sums up Brocks Explorers quite neatly. ‘Nuff said.....

We’re still the same Explorers with the same leaders and we still have the link built up over six years with our partner group at Badger Hill.

Click here for the website of our partner Scout Group www.badgerhillscouts.org.uk

The photo above was taken by one or our original Explorers Tammy, who is now a professional photographer, at our recent “Wine’n’Dine” to celebrate our 7th birthday. We know we’re not in Explorer Uniform but hey, it’s a good pic! Thanks Tammy.

The Legal Stuff

Lucy, on the left here, is at the forefront of the Scout Association publicity surrounding the 2009 census figures which show a major increase in girls in Scouting, particularly in Explorers, and particularly in Bedfordshire. Until this summer when Rose, Caitlin, Emma, Sophie, and Amy all went off to Uni or college we had more girls than guys but we’re still above the average boy/girl ratio for Explorer Units.

Lucy was picked to accompany the former Chief Scout, Peter Duncan, doing the rounds of TV and Radio interviews on Monday 27 April and also featured in the publicity surrounding the handover to Bear Grylls.She and Andrew, another of our YSPs, knew that he was the new Chief Scout about 6 weeks before the announcement but were sworn to secrecy :-(