LAUDERDALE Scout Group have teamed up with Wooplaw Wood to celebrate Scout Community week.

They volunteered to help establish a quiet campsite, secreted in the younger deciduous trees at the community woodland.

The Group turned out in numbers to help with 64 young people and adults reporting for duty.

Firstly the site had to be cleared of fallen branches and twigs, a small amount of pruning lower branches was next, the nettles and long grass were strimed back and raked away, a new open fire circle was established and its inaugural fire lit .

The nearby burn was cleared of debris and stones to prevent flooding in another part of the woodland.

Next willow twigs were carefully cut from an existing willow feature in the woodland and these twigs were planted to form a willow wall surrounding the camping area, which in time will grow into a windbreak and a defining boundary for the camping area.

The newly created campsite was used to invest four new Scouts into the movement.

Group Scout Leader Andrew Beaumont said: “Hopefully the site will be used in the near future by some of our group and members of the public, but in the mean time we can all look back on Scout Community Week 2014 as a job well done.” And he added: “A big thank you to Dave Donnelly and Bob Fleet from Wooplaw community woodland for their time and sharing their skills with the young people and adults of Lauderdale Scout Group.”