Welcome to the website for Solar Explorer Scout Unit

If you’re 14 to 18 and want to enjoy Scouting you can do so by joining Explorer Scouting. As an Explorer Scout you get to take part in all the usual great Scouting activities such as kayaking, climbing, orienteering… as well as work on projects helping to support your local community.

The Unit is Leader led, with as much participation in decision making by young people as possible. Explorer Scouts have no structured groupings like patrols, as you find in Beavers, Cubs or Scouts.

 At Solar ESU we spend a lot of our time camping, on average we have 12 – 15 camps each year. Each year we go to the Malvern Challenge and Sun Run – Activies camps where young people can take part in a range of activies, including fair ground rides, watching the live acts, a 13 mile night hike or just relaxing and listen to music of our portable music station. On a normal camp you will find us making fires, shooting at archery targets, playing with Wing Sligs (catapults that fire water bombs). We have camps where the main activty is  canoeing or where we practice out ‘back to basic’ skills and cook on open fires.