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Skills & Guides

First Aid

Basic First Aid

First Aid (stage 3) Session Briefing

First Aid Games

First Aid Quiz

St John’s Ambulance (links to YouTube videos)

Primary Survey

CPR on an Adult

Recovery Position

Severe Bleeds

Burns & Scalds

Heat Exhaustion

Heat Stroke

Asthma Attack

Shock

Map Reading & Compass Skills

OS Map Reading Made Easy

OS Compass Bearings

Scout Skills Map Reading Factsheet

25K Map Symbols Flashcards

Scout Skills Orienteering Factsheet

Camping

Rucksack Guide

Scouts Skills – Pack a Rucksack


Tents – Essentials

Expedition Skills

Expedition Challenge kit list

How to pack a rucksack

How to pack a day bag

Expedition hacks

Cooking

Backwoods Cooking

The Disaster Cookbook

Countryside Code

The Countryside Code

Countryside Code Quiz


Countryside Code – Shredded Challenge Game

Survival

Survival Badge Evening Programme

Sleeping Warm

Preventing Hypothermia

Scouts Survival Skills Factsheets:

Knives

Penknife Safety

Survival First Aid

Fires

Signals

Hygiene

Survival Kit

Shelters

Hygiene In The Bush: How To Stay Clean (video)

Animated Knots

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