{"id":825,"date":"2009-06-19T23:18:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T22:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=825"},"modified":"2012-02-03T09:12:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T09:12:24","slug":"beavers-cubs-sponsored-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Beavers &amp; Cubs Sponsored Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">The Beavers and Cubs have spent this evening walking round <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk\/page\/westport-lake\" target=\"_blank\">Westport Lake<\/a> to raise money for the animal charity the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdsa.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">PDSA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Of course, there was a bit of concern doing this today in light of the tragedy on Tuesday, where a Beaver drowned in a river. We were walking by a lake on one side and a canal on the other (in some places). <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">However, we had the correct amount of Leaders and a number of the parents said they would join in as well. We have a standard risk assessment for walking and so we had all the safety areas covered.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">No matter how much you plan, things can go wrong and it can be a case of \u2018there but for the Grace of God, go I\u2019. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/100_3739Large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"100_3739 (Large)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"100_3739 (Large)\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/100_3739Large_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The Beavers walked around the larger lake and then the small one and then played some games while the Cubs walked around the large lake four times. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We\u2019re not sure how much money the Beavers and Cubs raised yet, but we\u2019re sure they have raised a considerable amount. It is nice to think that we have been raising money for a charity other than ourselves. I believe the Beavers and Cubs chose the charity themselves.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We all had a great evening out.<\/p>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:393,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk\\\/page\\\/westport-lake&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk\\\/page\\\/westport-lake&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:394,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pdsa.org.uk&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260320212345\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.pdsa.org.uk\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-18 17:21:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-22 05:35:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-25 16:50:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-10-25T16:50:16+00:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beavers and Cubs have spent this evening walking round Westport Lake to raise money for the animal charity the PDSA. Of course, there was a bit of concern doing this today in light of the tragedy on Tuesday, where a Beaver drowned in a river. We were walking by a lake on one side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-dj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}