Recognising the Commitment

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 to see a A Chief Scout’s Commendation for Good Service given to the Group Treasurer. A Group Treasurer is one of those mythical things that appears when money is needed or is required to be collected!

Seriously, a Group Treasurer is worth their weight in gold. It means that the Leaders don’t have to worry about keeping the Group’s finances in order. And, for example, it means that the Leaders do not have access to the bank account (like in our case).

Our Treasurer has been in the position for seven years now and we’re really lucky to have him. He was recently awarded his 5 years service award, but to get the Chief Scout’s Commendation for Good Service is very impressive. Like our DC said last night, its great when uniformed adults get these awards, but even more special when a non uniformed member gets one. They too show their commitment to Scouting, but in different ways to the uniformed members, and rightly deserve to be honoured for their work!

2 Replies to “Recognising the Commitment”

  1. Mmm, some people don’t think that awards, or even badges, is modern enough for scouting or in any context… They are a great pat on the shoulder and there should indeed be more of pats on the shoulder, to the scouts as well as the leaders as well as to the parents and other volonteers. Awards are great, but all the more important is the every-day thank-yous and appriciative smiles. It is so easy to forget to appriciate enough, not to take for granted, and to tell others that “so-and-so is such a great asset, don’t know what we’d do without so-and-so” and forget to tell so-and-so themselves!
    So I’m going to tell YOU that I really appriciate your blog and the time you put in it, for all our sakes, and that it is lovely to be able to follow your scouting life in this way.
    Thanks!
    Lotta

  2. As my Mum says ‘it doesn’t take any effort to say thank you!’
    And thanks for your kind words – I’m all embarrassed now :$

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