Peak Post Issue 6

y 30th July
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Jess Critchlow for
gaining their Chief Scout
Gold Award and
Dawn Taylor for her
Queen’s Guide Award
Please sponsor ‘Dave’ from the 15th Matlock Scouts who is
riding 100 miles on the 2nd August for Children with Cancer UK.
To donate please visit:
www.virginmoneygiving.com/davidreuss
or go to R06 on the Romans sub camp.
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Food for Thought.
When the lady from ‘Brakes’ arrived to
supervise the staff catering food delivery
she was amazed by the restaurant she
found in a field! Rikki’s Diner seats 300
people, and in the kitchen 8 chefs work
non-stop preparing food from 6am to
9:30pm. The kitchen team are making
525 meals for hungry staff three times a
day, including 19 children’s meals and 85
individually prepared meals for those
with special diets.
Work Hard, Play Hard.
The 50/50 opportunity; working half the
time and be able to enjoy the activities the
other time, is part of the 14-17 work
experience that is happening around
Peak. With full time and part time work
experience available for the campers, the
jobs can vary from; site safety, to retail
opportunities, to assisting the 60+
different activities.
Everyone taking part are unpaid
volunteers who love camping and helping
around Peak. The 533 volunteers are
respected and classed as part of the onsite
staff team, whether they work full time or
they are 50/50.
As a reward for the hard work of the
14-17 year old volunteers have been
given special activities which are specific
for them, including segways, hovercraft,
clay pigeon shooting, and reverse steer
tractors. They have even been given a
designated sub-camp, The Vikings.
Although not all of the 14-17 year olds are
camping on the sub-camp they can still
enjoy all of the activities and evening
entertainment.
We went out and visited some of the
specific activities and areas to speak to
some of the 50/50’s. They enjoy
experiencing helping people have fun on
camp and also being able to enjoy the
activities themselves. The evening
entertainment is a popular one, with
everyone enjoying it as they are separate
from the main stage. It has it’s own
mocktail bar, and music being played by
bands coming in to perform in the
evenings.
As well as great activities the sub-camp is
putting on a job fair, Thursday evening
between 5pm and 7pm.
Corporate
businesses such as Toyota, Rolls Royce
and Network Rail will be visiting as well as
many more.
Overall the 14-17 work experience has
been a great success with positive reviews
all round.
Peak DVD’s
The official Peak 2015 souvenir
DVD is now on sale for mail order
from Photo Sales for only £5 each.
Beyond the kitchen there are the dry
stores, the fridge-freezer lorry, the waste
bins and water tanks. And then there’s
‘Jocular Jackie’, the dishwasher in the
wash-up cabin who has 1500 plates to
wash each day!
Each day more than 7,000 tea bags will be
used and 3,000 pieces of fruit served by
the team who are making staff catering
happen.
If you are mad enough to join this team,
even if it’s only for a few hours, please
come and see them in staff catering and
they’ll put you to work! It’s all good fun as
you’ll soon find out when you hear the
laughter coming from the kitchen.
Live music
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The crowd were thoroughly
excited and the atmosphere
was electric and all were
entertained with a variety of
musical styles. Peak 2015
were amazed by all the bands
and
the
talent
they
demonstrated. Well done to
all who played.
Ella Juster
STRIPPED
Stripped are an
acapella trio from
Derbyshire. They formed at
Peak 2010, and now the girls
have 27 years of musical
experience between them.
According to the girls,
they’re here for 3 things.
Fun, food and
friendship.
Ella Juster is a
singer/ukulele player who
is fairly new to the musical
game. She listened to music for
years prior to her musical career
and had a passion what she heard,
so she decided to make her
own. Music is what makes
her happy and that’s
what continues to
inspire her.
Global Awareness Zone
The Global Awareness Zone is an area to learn about
global and international themes with a twist. It
encourages young people to think differently about
situations and issues throughout the globe in a fun and
creative way.
There is a different theme every day, yesterday’s being
the environment where the young people learnt about
the life cycle of a mosquito by decorating a biscuit,
Fairtrade cotton production and finding landmines.
Every day there is a new theme with exciting activities
to explore. The main aim is to get Scouts and Guides
achieving global badges on site, showing that you don’t
need to go to the travel the world to complete it.
As part of their international theme they are
renovating any unwanted tools for use by the
organisation “Tools for Self Reliance”. They are
volunteers who collect, renovate and ship sets of tools
to developing countries to enable local people to work
together to develop skills and building projects. In the
marquee they will be receiving tools so that they can
clean, sharpen, and bring them back to working
condition.
There is also a chance for you to get involved with the
Japan in a Box program, which aims to get everyone
involved in the Jamboree experience. With many other
international activities, displays and fundraisers
you’re sure to have learnt a lot about the globe without
even realizing it.
By Amy Booth
ParaSight
Black Cats &
Magpies
Radio
Last night Peak 2015 was
rocked by five new bands,
STRIPPED, Ella Juster, Barnie
Rubblz, Black Cats & Magpies
and ParaSight. Full details of
the line-up is below.
ParaSight are a classic rock
band who have been together
for two years. Each of them have
played music from a young age and
through a school band program,
they found each other and
each other’s love of music.
Black Cats & Magpies are an
alternative rock band from
Ripley. Through countless friends
of friends, they all found that they
enjoyed playing music. They said
that ‘If you don’t enjoy what
you’re doing, then there’s
not point doing it.
Barnie
Rubblz
Barnie Rubblz are brothers.
Not metaphorically, literally.
Ranging for 11-15, each member
of the family plays a different
instrument. They have been
together for 2 years as a
band, but much longer
as a family.
Australian Surprise.
If a Woodbead could bead would a Woodbead bead wood? That
question was answered today as Wendy from 1st Inkersall Scouts
was visited by the Australian State Commissioner of Victoria, who
can come all the way to Peak 2015.
The leader had no idea about the award, apart from she was told to
put on her uniform. Michael, the Australian commissioner, described
the Woodbead award as ‘one of the highest honours to present in the
scouting organisation, along with giving young leaders awards’
Woodbeads are an internationally recognized award in scouting, that
show ‘leadership, integrity and commitment’ in Michael’s opinion
‘They’re not given to just anyone’.
Wendy excelled in her advanced Leader training, and her adoration
for Scouting continues to inspire many every day.
By Benjamin Margett
Lewis Taylor, of the 1st and 4th Spalding Explorers, is running the
Peak camp radio station directly from his tent this year! After
attending camps in the past which had their own radio stations,
Lewis emailed the organisers to ask if there would be one at Peak.
However he was disappointed to find that there would not be a camp
radio. Lewis took this as a challenge, and decided he would build and
run his very own camp radio! He recycled parts from old pieces of
equipment, and used these to build all the gear needed to run his
station. Please tune in on 105.2FM to ‘liven up your camp with
non-stop music from then and now’. To have a shout-out put on the
radio, please find Lewis on Imperial China sub camp.
Tavern Quiz.
The Peak Tavern music quiz raised £204
on Monday night. The two joint winning
teams decided to donate the money to
the ‘twin a toilet’ charity, in response to
the 1st New Mills Scouts plea for help.
Well done to the staff and leaders at
Peak- you have bought 3 and a half
toilets!
Thank you! There will be another charity
quiz on Thursday night in the Peak
Tavern, so please turn up and have a go.
World Record Attempt
One aim of the entertainment team this week was to break as many world records as
possible. On Tuesday night campers gathered around a campfire at centre stage,
ready to break the world record of the most people singing a nursery rhyme in round.
500 campers sang ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’-breaking the previous world record of
by at least 200 people.
Later this week they are also hoping to break the record for the most people wearing
at least two neon items whilst doing the superman dance, and the most people in one
area wearing a onesie. So head to centre stage in your costumes if you’d like to help
Peak camp become a multiple world record holder!
Sailability.
After a 30 minute journey with beautiful views,
campers arrive at Carsington Reservoir for a
sailing experience.
Every Wednesday since 2000, Carsington has
hosted Sailability, a club for disabled members
of all ages.
Special boats are used, which are steered with a
simple joystick and are unsinkable, according to
the club’s founder, Keith Stubbs.
He said that he could teach anyone to sail in just
20 minutes and was thrilled Scouts and Guides
could take part.
Holly Crossett of 1st Starkhomes Guides sailed
for the first time with Sailabillity today. She
said: “It was a great experience because I didn’t
think I’d be able to do it!
“It wasn’t easy to steer the boats but you got
used to it. I’d definitely go again next Peak.”
Amongst the other first time sailors today were
Ella, Abby and Courtney, camping in the Ice Age
sub camp. They were equipped with wet suits,
life jackets and helmets and were excited but
worried about the cold water!
Despite Abby claiming the experience was
scary, all returned with smiles on their faces.
By Naomi Taylor