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Programme Ideas





This is the initial rough draft of a document which aims to provide as big a list as possible of programme ideas.  It has been compiled from a number of sources (OUSGG archives, programmes from my old Venture Scout Unit, things sent to OUSGG by SSAGO and the Venture Scout section at HQ, and a few other bits and bobs).  It is not finished (and never will be!), but now is as good a time as any for it to appear (since people keep asking for it?).  A revised, expanded and tidier version will replace this copy before the Autumn of 1998.  Eventually, this page will contain links to other sources of programme ideas on the Web as I find them.

At the moment, the list is divided into some general sections, under which activities have been rather arbitrarily assigned a place.  Many activities could appear under more than one section (and some do) and no explanations are provided for the more unusually titled entries - I've added them to this list pretty much as they appeared in the sources I copied them from (including spelling!).

If anyone looking at this has any ideas / lists of ideas / links they think could be usefully added to this page, I'd really appreciate it if you'd drop me a line (cseward@jesus.ox.ac.uk) and let me know about them.  Thanks.

Otherwise, I hope it's of some use!

Chris Seward,   April 1998.

Contents



Sports/Outdoor Activities/Games
Crafts
Challenges
Social
Cultural
Skills
Visits
Fundraising
Debates
Service
Guest Speakers
Miscellaneous entries
 
 

Sports/OutdoorActivities/Games


 
Abseiling
Aeroball
Aerobics
Aikido
Air-gun shooting
Air-pistol shooting
Air sports
All-terrain vehicles
American football
Angling (course, sea, game)
Archery
Assault course
Athletics
BB gun shooting
Backpacking
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Bench Ball
Billiards
Bivouacking
Board games
Boating
Bobsleigh
Body building
Bouldering
Bowling
Bowls
Boxing
Bridge jumping
Bridge swinging
Camping (in unusual places?)
Canal boating
Canoeing
Canoe polo
Caving
Caving ladder climbing (indoors?)
Chair basketball
Clay pigeon shooting
Climbing (indoor/outdoor)
Cricket
Croquet
Crossbow shooting
Cross-country running
Cruising
Cycling
Cyclo-cross
Cyclo-orienteering
Cycle rally
Darts
Diving
Dry-slope skiing
Equestrian event
Expeditions
Fencing
Fitness training
Fishing
Football (5-a-side?)
Flying
Gliding
Go-karting
Golf
Hand Ball
Hang-gliding
Hiking/Hillwalking
Hockey
Horse riding
Hostelling
Hotelling
Hot-air ballooning
Hula-hooping
Ice hockey
Ice karting
Ice skating
Incident hike
Initiative hike
Inter-unit district sports events
Island survival
Jet skiing
Judo
Ju-jitsu
Karate
Karting
Kayaking
Keep-fit/popmobility
Lacrosse
Lawn tennis
Leap-frog
Life saving
Lightweight camping
Long distance walking
Marshall arts
Microlighting
Motor cycling
Mountain biking
Mountaineering
Murder ball
Netball
Night hikes
Operation Drop-off (blind-drop hike)
Noughts & crosses
Orienteering
Paintballing
Parachuting
Parascending
Pentathlon
Physical training
Pioneering
Pitch & putt
Polo
Pony trekking
Pool
Potholing
Power boating
Punting
Racket ball
Rafting
Rambling
Rifle shooting
Rock climbing
Roller hockey
Roller skating
Rounders
Rowing
Rugby (-7s) (union/league)
Sand yachting
Sailing
Shooting
Show jumping
Skiing
Ski-surfing
Skittles
Snooker
Snorkelling
Snow skiing
Softball
Speedway
Squash
Stock car racing
Sub-aqua
Surfing
Survival
Swimming
Table tennis
Tennis
Ten-pin bowling
Toboganing
Touch rugby
Trail driving
Triathlon
Trampolining
Twister
Volleyball
Water activities
Water skiing
Weight training
White water rafting
Wide games
Windsurfing
Wrestling
Yachting
Youth hostelling

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Crafts


 
Aeroplane building
Art
Astronomy
Backwards cooking
Badge making
Basket weaving
Batik dying
Beekeeping
Beer brewing
Bell ringing
Boat building
Branding
Brass rubbing
Cake making
Candle making
Canoe building
Casualty makeup
Cloth dying
Clothes making
Easter egg making
Enamelling
Facial art
Fancy dress
Flora & fauna
Flower arranging
Flower pressing
Forestry
Friendship band making
Furniture making
Glass work
Hair cutting
Homemade toffee/fudge
Horology
Ice sculpture
Jewellery designing
Jigsaw making
Kart construction
Kirigami (paper cutting)
Kite making
Knitting
Macrame
Marquetry
Match-stick models
Model aircraft
Musical instrument making
Origami
Painting
Palaeontology
Paper weight making
Perfume making
Photography (leading to an exhibition)
Potpourri making
Pottery
Printing (eg Christmas cards)
Production line (to make. eg a simple cupboard, a wooden rack, furniture for a dolls house)
Pyromania
Quilling
Raft construction
Revamping old clothes
Screen printing
Sewing
Sketching
Soap carving
Stamps
Stone painting
Sweet making
Tie-dying
Toffee making
Toy making
Upholstery
Video making
Wine making
Wood carving
 

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Challenges


 
A-to-Z treasure hunt
Banger racing
Blindfold meeting
Build a bike (blindfolded), and ride it.
Challenge Anneka
Challenge evening (Each team challenges the others)
Climb round the HQ without touching the floor
Competition hikes (or canoeing)
Cooking on a limited budget (eg 4 people, £3)
Co-operative games
Crystal maze
Elections
Fire lighting in different situations
Fitness
Generation game
Girls challenge the boys
Great egg race
Handicapped sports
Inverted human pyramid
Jelly Race
Jousting
Krypton Factor
Lawn-mower racing
Most items in a matchbox
Paper bridges
Paper/straw towers
Photo identification challenge
Pictionary
Puzzles
Quizzes
Raft race
Role playing
Role reversal
Safari
Scavenger hunt
Start with £2 from Unit funds, then increase it's value (by legal methods)
Talent competition
Tent pitch (in the dark/blindfolded)
The world has been flooded to a depth of 10ft - live, cook etc in a tree above this height for 24hours
Treasure hunt (foot, car, bike)
Trivial pursuits
University Challenge
 

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Social


 
Ball
Barbecue
Barn dance
Beach combing
Beach party
Beer & skittles
Beetle drive
Blind date
Bonfire night
Burns' night
Campfire
Carol singing
Chocolate tasting
Concerts
Conference
Children's party
Chip survey
Christmas meal
Christmas party
Cinema
Clubbing
Cracker-eating competition
Day trips
Desert island disks
Dinner parties
Disco
Drinking
Exchange visit
Form a band
Fireworks night
Ghost walk
Guy Fawkes' night
Halloween games
House decorating
Joint activities with Ranger Guides
Juggling
Laser Quest
Leisure centre
Meal out
Midsummer madness
Murder mystery
Nightclubbing
Non-alcoholic drinks  evening
Pancake evening
Party games
Pen friends
Pizza party
Pot-luck supper
Pub crawl
Punting
Quiz night
Reading festival
Safari supper
Sauna
Silly games
SSAGO Rally
St.Valentine's party
Suncentre
Toga/Pyjama party
Trip to the moon
Trivial Pursuits evening
Video party
Visit other Units
Walk to a pub
 

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Cultural


 
Acting
Amateur dramatics
American evening
Archeology
Ballet
Ballroom dancing
Belly dancing
Carol singing
Charades
Chartity collection
Chess
Chinese cookery
Cheese & wine night
Christmas play
Church
Conservation
Continental costume
Dancing
Drama
Debates
Eating out
Exchange visit
Feast from seven continents
Five minute talk by each person on what they do outside the Group
Flower arranging
Folk dancing
Foreign cooking/art/music/theatre
Footpath survey
French food/customs
Gang show
Gear factories
Hoe-down
Horoscopes
International evening
International visits
Interviews
Japan
Jazz
Mock trial
Music night
Palaeontology
Pantomimes
Posh cooking
Puddings of the world
Record/CD/tape evening
Review plays
Role-playing
Teddy bears' picnic
Theatre visit
Third World living
Scottish dancing
Stamps
Vegetarian cooking
Get a mother/grandmother to teach everyone the Waltz
Weekend in London/Edinburgh/Manchester…
Wine making
Wine/cheese/fruit tasting
World feast
Yoga
 

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Skills


 
Amateur radio
Backpacking techniques
Birdwatching
Botany
Candle dipping
Counselling skills
Car maintenance
Carving
Casualty simulation/makeup
Compass work
Computing
CV writing
DIY
Driving
Electrical maintenance
Ecology
Electronics
Engineering
Equipment making  (eg: canoes, a dinghy, tents, radios)
First aid
Fitness
Gadget making
Gardening
Gear maintenance
Grid references
Go-kart construction
Home finance
Insurance
Jargon
Knot tying
Languages
Lashing
Lightweight cooking
Map work
Match making
Magazine/newsletter production
Mock interviews/interview techniques
Mountain leadership
Mountain safety
Navigation
Photography
Public speaking
Radio making
Self defence
Skinning rabbits
Survival techniques
Tent making
Welding
Woodwork
 

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Visits


 
Aquarium
Bodliean Library archives
Brewery
Church bell tower
Coal/Slate mine
Courts
Dairy
Environmental
Factories/Industry
Fire/Ambulance/Police station
Hospitals (eg Casualty department)
Hospital radio
Library
Local Council meeting
Model club
Motor racing events
Museums/Art galleries
Newspaper office
Post Office sorting centre
Power station
Radio/TV stations
RAF base
Railways
Royal Observer Corps
Scouting/Guiding museum
 

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Fundraising


 
100 Club
Apply to local charities
Babysitting
Bath-push
Beetle drive
Bingo
"Bob-a-job" week
Car boot sale
Carol singing
Car wash
Cheese & wine evening
Christmas card service (Stamp & Deliver)
Christmas catalogue
Coffee morning
Coffee/punch/sherry & mince pie evening
Collections at supermarkets
Crazy supper
Deliver telephone directories
Disco
Dog walking
Donkey derby
Duck race
Football cards
Gang Show
Hot pot supper
Italian evening
Jumble sale
Leaflet distribution
Paper/stamps/foil/scrap metal/cans/bottles recycling
Penny mile
Plant sale
Quiz night
Raffle
Sell bottle gardens
Shoe cleaning
Slave auction
Sponsored sedan chair carry
Sponsored services (eg decorating, gardening)
Sponsored swim
"Spud Hut" at bonfire nights etc
Square/barn dance
Table-top sale
Treasure hunt
Trolley push
Tupperware (etc) parties
Unit show
Whist drive
 

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Debates


 
Abortion
Adult literacy
AIDS
Alcohol
Arms race/contol
Baden-Powell
Bloodsports
Capital punishment
Car theft punishment
The "cashless society"
Censorship
Child abuse
Child poverty
Civil defence
Civil liberties
CND
Consumerism
Contraception
Court/legal system
Crime
Cruelty to animals
Cultural deprivation
Disability
Drink
Drugs
EC/NATO
Environment
Equal rights
Euthanasia
Family planning
Famine
Game sports
Gay rights
Green issues
Health education
Illness
Income tax
Inverted debates
Justice
Law & order
Marriage
Nightclub age constraints
Nuclear power
Nuclear weapons
Old age
Parental roles
Politics
Pollution
Punishment for sexual crimes
Race relations
Racism
Relationships
Religion
Sex
Smoking
Tattoos
Terrorism
Third World
Trade Unions
Unemployment
Vandalism
Vegetarianism
 
Remember afterwards: if you formulate a conclusion write a letter and hopefully get a reply - Chief Constable, Royalty, Prime Minister, Local Authority, MP, Chief Scout, Mayor, Foreign Embassy…
 

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Service


 
Charity collection
Church cleaning
Clear a polluted pond
Community service (eg: clear a path)
Conservation
Deaf
Elderly
Footpath survey
Giving
Handyman
Help with Packs/Troops/Colonies etc
Help at District/Area/County events
Help with play schemes
Help with Rainbows/Brownies/Guides
Home help
NSPCC
Recycling
Regular visits to old people's/children's/handicapped people's homes
Special needs
Special projects (eg "Operation Chaingang")
Third World aid
Tree planting
Voluntary work at local hospitals/daycentres
Work in a hospice
Youth club
 

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Guest Speakers


 
AA or RAC
Accountant
Age Concern
Aid agencies
AIDS hotline
Alcoholic agencies
Amnesty International
Animal rights rep.
Armed forces
Assurance agent
Banker
Basics etc
Beautician
Buddhism
Building Societies
Careers office
Casualties Union
Christian Aid
Christian soldier
Citizens Advice Bureau
CND
Coast Guard
Comparative religions
Conservation
Counselling bodies
Councillors
DHSS
Doctor
Drugs squad
Editor of local paper
Emergency services
Financial consultant
Foreign Embassy rep.
Foreigner living locally
Friends of the Earth
Green Party
Greenpeace
Hair stylist
Hinduism
Home security firm
Insurance agent
Job Centre
Judaism
Lawyer
Leisure Centre manager
Local Councillor
Magistrate
Marriage Guidance Counsellor
MEP
Midwife
Minister
Missionary
Mountain Rescue
Mortgage consultant
MP
National Trust
Nurse
OXFAM
Red Cross
RSPCA
Samaritans
Social Services (Home help etc)
Solicitor/Barrister
St.John's Ambulance
Trade Unions
UN
UNICEF
Vet
WRVS-Meals on Wheels
Youth Officer
 

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Miscellaneous entries


 
They'll find a home when I get round to tidying this thing up…
 
Agriculture
Award Scheme
ABTA
Arts Centre/Council
Aviation
Bring a friend evening
Any activity - blindfolded
Balloon Debate
British Youth Council
BCU
Clothes
Church Parade
Carry a ladder
DofE
Development
Dwyle Flonking
Futtock Nadgering
European Travel
Elections
Electricity
Effluent
Examiners (badges)
Executive Training
Explorer belt
Field Studies
Inland waterways
International activities
Investitures
Jamboree
Media relations
Promise & Law
Queen’s Scout Award
Recruitment
Resources
Exec. meetings
Scouting Magazine
RLSS
RN
Round Table
Self image
Shelter
Tourism
Unite
Venture Scout Award
VSO
Inter-Unit activities
 "Any Questions" event (invite the public)

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