The random thoughts of a Group Scout Leader in the UK
Posted in Scouts on Sep 1st, 2010
In my last post I talked a bit about Escouts and the forums they provide. As well as the forums, until recently, they also provided free hosting for UK Scouting websites. This has been of enormous benefit to many Groups around the country who have been able to set up a sit without any cost.
Posted in Scouts on Aug 19th, 2010
One of the things that always impresses me about Scouting is the generosity of everyone who is involved. From the parent who is part of the cooking team at a Cub camp to the Leaders and so on. But it’s the stuff that people do which is ‘above and beyond’ that is always the most [...]
If you live in the US, you’ll know who he is, but if you live anywhere else, like me, you’ll probably say ‘Who?’. He is a TV host who hosts a show called Dirty Jobs, amongst others, and is someone who is promoting the importance on the ‘blue collar trades’ and the fact that there [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jul 30th, 2010
Back in March, the UK Government released some previously classified files about the relationship between Scouting and the Hitler Youth (Hitler-Jugend). As usual the media made a big fuss about, well nothing really. There wasn’t a link between the two organisations and the WOSM put out a rather good press release explaining it all (read [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jul 23rd, 2010
Well all the schools have broken up for the summer holidays and the pupils / students and MOST of the staff (only 4 weeks until MY holidays – but that’s a rant I don’t want to go into here!) now have six weeks off. The summer holidays bring an interesting dilemma for Scout Groups and [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jul 12th, 2010
At the Family Camp we held back in May, as well as taking a load of still pictures – see here, I managed to take some video with my little hand held Flip Video camera. I’ve finally got round to editing it all together and you can see the short version below (YouTube is limited [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jul 6th, 2010
Last night was my Group’s Annual General Meeting. As well as the ‘formal’ stuff, awards were given out. It was pleasing to see three Beavers get their Chief Scouts Bronze Award and the Cub of the Year Award presented (we really need to have Beaver and Scout awards as well!). But it was also pleasing [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jun 23rd, 2010
It’s pleasing to know that one of my ex Scouts will be representing his Country, County, District, Explorer Unit and Scout Group at next year’s World Scout Jamboree in Sweden (no pressure then!). To attend this exciting event is going to cost him about £2100 or $3145 or kr24,375. Now this is quite a lot [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jun 15th, 2010
Whenever you write a post on a blog or an article on a website, you want people to read it and hope that they find it interesting. Recently there has been a post on here that has proved to be quite popular. But not for the reason I would have expected! Last year I wrote [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jun 7th, 2010
Another video message from the Chief Scout, this time thanking the adult volunteers.
Last week I ‘attended’ an online course on internet safety for parents (previously mentioned here), which was set up by the Scout Association, but run by Microsoft. Ok, so I’ll get my grumbles out of the way first. It was held at either 13.30 or 17.00 in the afternoon on a Tuesday, which is not [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jun 2nd, 2010
On the weekend of 28th – 30th May the Group held its second Family Camp (our first was for our Centenary in 2008). This time we stayed at Barnswood Scout Camp, which is near to Rudyard Lake. Everyone arrived on the Friday evening (the majority of families having put their tents up the previous nights) [...]
Posted in Day to Day Stuff, Scouts on May 24th, 2010
In April 2006 I started this blog as a bit of an experiment to see what all this blogging stuff was about. Since then I have managed to write 500 posts which I’m quite impressed at! Back then it was very general, but now it’s just about Scouting. I’m also quite pleased about the podcast [...]
One of the items on my weekly update email from the Scout Association caught my eye this weekend. The SA in association with Microsoft are running an online training session on internet safety for young people. This is aimed at Leaders who can then pass it onto parents so they are aware of the dangers [...]
Posted in Scouts on May 11th, 2010
I came across this video of Scouts of the 2nd Kenton Scout Group, North West London, who set up a help bureau in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War. It’s really fascinating to watch. Enjoy!
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