Community & Green Fair

About a month ago I was sent an email by our DC telling me about a Community & Green Fair that was to be held at our local high school, which incidentally was my old school. We were asked to do a stall to promote Scouting.

The DC sent the email to the other two Groups in the immediate area and the Local Explorer Group, so we organised a stall and arranged to man it.

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We got there yesterday, set up and then waited for the crowds – which didn’t come! We got the feeling it wasn’t well publicised and the fact that it was throwing down with rain didn’t exactly help!

There were some great displays of belly dancing and a group doing Chinese Dragon dancing which helped to pass the time!

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However, despite the fact we didn’t see many people, there were kids from the school there and we had a chat with them and drummed up some interest. We also spoke to the school’s new Head and some of the teachers and got some good contacts there.

So although we didn’t recruit hundreds of kids for all three Groups and Explorers, if we encouraged at least one young person to join, then we succeeded. It’s on again today, although I’m not going, so it will be interesting to see how it goes on.