People able to look after and account for the groups money.  Please channel your offer of help via your section leader.

Congratulations to Scout Leader Graham, on being awarded the 'Sandhurst Community Youth Award'.  This will be presented at the Sandhurst 2012 Civic Service and Awards Ceremony in February.

Thank you to the (small) mums & dads army who have cleared the Scout compound of leaves.  Also to those brave fellows who climbed ladders to clean gutters and gullies.  Watch out for requests for more work later in the season!

Anyone interested in joining 3rd Sandhurst when they are Guard of Honour at the football game on Sat 19th November at the Madjeski Stadium?  Tickets are £20 adult, £7.50 child and £15 cons.

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
A well deserved three cheers to eveyone who helped at the Donkey Derby to run the coconut shy and the hoopla game. We made an impressive £398.72
That's enough for one new patrol tent.  Thank you all very much indeed.

 Help Needed

Help is needed to run a Coconut Shy and Hoopla Stall at this years Sandhurst Donkey Derby on 31/05/2010. Contact your leader to offer your services or email  info@3rdsandhurst.org.uk

Calling all parents of members of 3^rd Sandhurst Beavers, Cubs and Scouts

 

There is work to be done to ensure the Scout Hut and the compound is in a safe and suitable state to allow the youngsters to fully enjoy all that Scouting has to offer.  Arrangements are in hand with a team of volunteers to have the interior of the building redecorated, which is brilliant.  That leaves much still to do outside in readiness for the coming outdoor season.  To this end I am calling upon willing adult volunteers, who I am now calling Dad’s Army (and Mum’s can join in too), to get as much done as possible on

 Sunday February 28^th, between 10am and 1pm.

 The essential outside jobs are:

• Clear all the collected rubbish, debris and unwanted undergrowth from the ground
• Remove all rubbish from the compound, ie take to the tip
• Restack the woodpile and brick pile
• Clear the leaves and branches from the building roof and clear the gullleys
• Clean out the gutters
• Relocate the gas cage to a safe situation
• Clean the windows

 For all the above we need manpower equipped with garden tools and gloves (BRING YOUR OWN)

The nature of this work and the tools required make it an adults only task, hence “Dads’s Army”.

 It is outdoor jobs only since work on preparing for redecoration is likely to be taking place inside on this workday.  

Howard Heyd will be coordinating this Work Morning and I expect to hear from him that plenty of help turned up.

Yours in Scouting

     Brenda

        As a result of Bracknell being twinned with Leverkusen, near Cologne, Germany, a firm link has now been made with the Leverkusen Scouts.  This is happening through 3^rd Sandhurst since Freddie has combined his own interests in the Twinning Association and his Scout Group! The first International Meeting in the process of arranging joint camps and other activities was recently successfully undertaken by a team from 3^rd Sandhurst, Richard Price and Peter Forbes.

        Eleven Leverkusen Scout and Cub leaders from the Orion Group came for a three day visit in October, camping at Earleywood in their black tent.  On arrival they where treated to a traditional English Fish and Chip supper.  For their troop night 3^rd Sandhurst Scouts joined with the Germans and worked together to build a good sized campfire and shared songs around it. Maybe not the most ambitious programme in the world but it more than achieved the aim of bringing the two groups together.  The main event for the meeting was a guided minibus tour of Bracknell and the surrounding area, hosted by Leaders and supporters from 3^rd Sandhurst. The tour included Runways End Campsite, Horseshoe Lake, 3^rd Sandhurst HQ and the many attractions Bracknell has to offer. The day and, indeed the visit, was rounded off with a meal together before we waved Auf Wiedersehn to our new friends.

       As a result of our meeting a date has been set for a party of Scouts to come from Leverkusen to camp at Earleywood at the beginning of the summer holidays. The aim is to have Scouts from 3^rd Sandhurst and District camp with them for a few days sharing Scouting activities. Hopefully 2011 will see a trip to Leverkusen for our Scouts.

Sprechen Sie Deutsch?  Time to brush up the language skill!

Visit the Leverkusen Scouts websites:

               1 -   http://leverkusener-pfadfinderei.de/     to see their pictures click on Bildergalerie or  <http://leverkusener-pfadfinderei.de/page10.php>

               2 -   http://www.stamm-orion.de/

               3 -   http://www.pfadfinder-leverkusen.de/

                4 - Photos from Earleywood

3^rd Sandhurst were well represented at this years Parent and Child Camp held once again at Earleywood.  The theme of the camp was let’s Go Enviro-mental, which lead to the sub theme of Saving the Rain Forest for us.  The Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and their Dad’s (and a Mum) all worked together at all the camp challenges. A magnificent Environmental House was built and equiped with environmentally friendly gadgets.  The Trading Post competition stretched imaginations and even culinary skills, requiring a cake to be baked.  Camp decorated biscuits representing Planet Earth where the culmination of a very tasty banquet.  Dressing up as trees and singing at the campfire was all part of the weekend which earned the contingent a whole host of certificates and prizes, plus a plaque for being the Overall Competition Winners.  Well done to all who took part!

See the photos via the Photo page.