The random thoughts of a Group Scout Leader in the UK
Posted in Scouts on Jul 14th, 2009
I got another update on the 1st Gilwell Scout Group / Troop 1 Gilwell website today – The website for Members of the 1st Gilwell Park Scout Group is almost ready after a very long wait. There will be a testing period at the beginning of August which we will be sharing with you. After [...]
As anyone who reads these pages regularly will know, I find the combination of the internet and international Scouting most fascinating (hello USA, Canada, Sweden, South Africa, Bradwell(!) and anyone from any other location who happens to be passing by!) and I have gained may new friends because of it. So I’m quite interested by [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jul 12th, 2009
I was talking to a colleague at work the other day and he brought up the subject of Scouting. He had seen us at our Annual General Meeting as we had hired my School’s sports hall and he uses part of it to run his fitness business. He was telling me that he was very [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jul 12th, 2009
Bear was invested as Chief Scout at Gilwell 24 yesterday. Best wishes to him and lets see what the next 5 years bring! UPDATE: Just found out that Bear is on Twitter!
Scout Groups who own their own buildings have been hit with a new charge from the water regulator OFWAT and the water companies. They will now be charged for the disposal of rain water which runs into the drains and sewers on their premises. Some Groups, it would appear, are now being charged over £500 [...]
I was sorting through some stuff at my parents house last night with a view of chucking some of it out (told you I am a hoarder!), when I came across some stuff I’d done for a qualification in greengrocery when I worked at Asda. One of the things I had to do was to [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jul 4th, 2009
Bet that got your attention! The reason for this is that today my Group got a cheque from Her Majesty’s Customs and Revenue (the taxman!) as part of their Gift Aid scheme. Gift Aid is a scheme for charities which means that for every £1 given to the charity, the charity can claim back [...]
I must admit that I’m a bit of a hoarder (ask my parents & my wife!) and I hate to throw anything away. This is a bit of a family trait to be honest. My Grandparents were all born in the early part of the 20th Century and were never what you’d call ‘rich’. My [...]
Just a quick reminder that any podcast I do is available through iTunes, so please take a look and have a listen! And now the question. If a review or a rating is left on iTunes do you get any notification? The reason I wonder about this aloud is that as I access iTunes through [...]
Podcast number 12. On this one I talk a bit about some of the stuff the Group has done over the last month and then about the Group Annual General Meeting.
Posted in Scouts on Jun 26th, 2009
Here are a few photo’s from my Group’s AGM last night. The rest can be seen here in the Group’s photo gallery. One of the things we have to do is to elect a Group Executive Committee and each of the committee members got given a hat to show who they are and what jobs [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jun 26th, 2009
Tonight we held the Group’s AGM and I’m going to do a podcast about AGMs soon. But one of the things we did was give out some awards. The first, and most important, was the Cub of the Year Award. This is given every year to one of the older Cubs who will be moving [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jun 24th, 2009
I’ve just come across an excellent site called Scouting Resources. This site is run by an Assistant Cub Leader from North East London and has LOADS of useful information and resources on it (hence the name). And while it has a UK slant, there is lots of stuff on there which will be of use [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jun 23rd, 2009
Yesterday was Father’s Day. To be honest, I’ve often thought that it was nothing more than a ‘Hallmark Holiday’! This is because it doesn’t seem to have any historical context, unlike Mother’s Day, which is based on the Christian Church’s Mothering Sunday (at least in the UK). However, although I’m not a father myself (ok, [...]
Posted in Scouts on Jun 21st, 2009
I’m in the process of sorting out some of my photographs so they are better organised and backed up in more then one place, which is always a sensible precaution. Doing this, I’ve come across some of the oldest digital photos I have of the Scout Group, so I’ve put them into our Gallery. Some [...]
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