Module 38-2-25 – Nights Away Autumn Course – 5th-6th October 2025
Between: 4th October 2025 - 5th October 2025
Between: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Location:
This course delivers the skills needed to apply for a Nights Away Permit. It is also suitable for adults who wish to support Nights Away events.
The course consists of a series of 6 online Zoom sessions (dates tba) leading to one practical residential weekend course.
This is the Autumn course for 2025. The course will be held at Bentley Copse and will be residential (camping in tents) and will be a practical, hands-on weekend. Skills covered will include:
- Choosing a Venue
- Site Layout
- Pitching a variety of tents
- Axe and Saw
- Lamps & Stoves
- Catering – 6th September 2025
- Wood Fires
- Camp Gadgets
- Toilets & Safe Drinking Water
- Campfires
- Programme Planning
- Please book your place here
- Important: All the online sessions must be attended before attending one of the residential weekends – dates tba. (The Zoom sessions already being held in 2025 can also be attended)
- The Catering Zoom session for the October 2025 residential weekend will take place on 6th September 2025 – this session is compulsory for anyone booking the October 2025 course
- This course is free to Surrey Scouts Leaders. £30 for all others
Please contact Pauline Lewer with any queries: pauline.lewer@surrey-scouts.org.uk