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Please note:
All the projects listed on this site require you to perform a risk assessment for health and safety reasons. If you require more information please contact us.

In 1996, Ron Crabb, the then editor of Scouting magazine, commissioned a series of articles on basic Scouting skills and decided that Troops should be encouraged to rediscover pioneering. The basic idea was to produce a set of instructions for a selection of projects that would aid a Scouter with little or no experience to achieve the successful build of a pioneering structure.

We rummaged through all the books we could lay our hands on, from John Sweet's Scout Pioneering and John Thurman's Fun with Ropes and Spars to line sketches in the old PLs Handbook. We added a few original designs and some sent to us by Scouters around the country after the articles began appearing in the magazine.

The designs and methods described here are not intended to be the only way of doing things.The joy of pioneering is that everything is dependent on the equipment available, the experience of the builder and how you feel on the day.

Feel free to download any information on this site for your own use and the enjoyment of young people but it must not be reproduced for financial gain.