2011 Census
The yearly census of all Scouts in the UK is now complete and while the national results don’t get released for a while yet, locally the figures are looking good.
For my Group we actually have one less member than last year, but I’m not too worried for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the previous four years all showed some significant growth and secondly, having seen the Beavers and Cubs on Friday, it does look like we’ve had a fair number of Beavers and Cubs join us since the figures were taken in mid December.
It’s also worth noting that the figures in our District are also up for the fifth year running. It will be interesting to see what the figures are for the other 2 Districts local to us and also the figures for the County.
However, using the highly unscientific method of guesswork(!), I am fairly certain that the number of Scouts both locally and nationally will be up again.
I’d be interested to hear how numbers in my reader’s Groups, Districts and Counties are doing this year. Indeed, I’m interested to hear how the numbers of Scouts are going in everyone’s own little corner of the world, no matter where you are! Please leave me your comments!
Congratulations for keeping the good numbers up!
Would you mind sending some of those Scouts my way? We could use some more in this community.
Keep up the great work! The Scouts would not be there if there was not a great program for them.
I would loan you a few Steve, but I think they might find the round trip each meeting a bit much. Hope you can get more scouts for your Troop soon!