An Odd Request

When I got home from work tonight I saw there was a message on our answer machine. Before listening to it, I thought it would probably be my Mum telling me something before she and Dad went away for the weekend. But no, it was our Cub Leader asking me to ring her ASAP. As Group Scout Leader that kind of request always sets the alarm bells ringing!

So I rang her and she told me she’d had a phone call regarding the Scientist Badge we’d run with the Cubs back in January (see here). We had been approached by a company in conjunction with a housing scheme (you’ll see why I’m being a bit vague in a minute) to do the Scientist badge. They would provide all the stuff needed and we would have a few photos taken for some publicity. Good deal we thought, so it went ahead.

The phone call was to tell us that one of the companies had withdrawn its sponsorship of the scheme and we were to stop using the names of the company and the housing scheme and any of their photos in any publicity material we had. The odd thing is, the company who had withdrawn their sponsorship was never mentioned to us!

The only publicity we had done was on the Group’s web site, so I removed the names of the other company and the housing association just to be sure. We never got any of the official photos, just the ones I took and they are staying put as they are mine! We also found out a story about it was in the local newspaper (although none of us noticed!), but the story is still on their website, with all names intact, for all to see.

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Ahh well, at least 25 Cubs were able to earn the badge!