Group Scout Leaders Report

I would like to thank you all for coming today,

Here we are again another year has flown past and we are back to recognise the work done by all the leaders of the group,

our parent helpers that without their effort and time this group wouldn’t be able to provide such a good program for your children.

I will say I am very proud of being GSL for this group as we are very lucky to have hard working leadership who put in varied and interesting programs for our young people.

But, and there will always be a but, we do need more parent helpers. If you have read my letter in our new website we need leaders for at least 3 of our sections,

still looking for helpers at Beavers, Helen has a long list of children waiting to come into scouting but to be able to do this she need your help.

The scout section and the Explorer are the other sections that need adult help, they could put on many more activities for the young people.

But without this help they are limited.

We don’t ask for a lot, a few hours a week or every fortnight. Please see me afterwards for a chat if you are interested.

I would like to congratulate Kelly Griffiths for achieving her Wood beads for finishing her training, John Wood for 30 years in Scouting & Marina Bailey for

achieving her 20 years in Scouting; she was presented with this at St Georges day at the Leas Cliff Hall.

Also, would like to congratulate every Beaver, Cub, Scout and Explorer who this year achieved their chief scout awards , the highest Award in Scouting.

We have a young explorer that will be doing a humanity trip to Ghana next year, Paul Brisley and he needs to raise the money himself

with of course the help of his section and the group, so if you can help by supporting him in his ventures we would appreciate it.

Our new project for the coming year is new lighting outside. We have had a grant from KCC for it so we will start the work very soon.

We have had the electrics of the hut checked and we had the fire brigade came in to do their checks so we are completely compliance now.

The two pieces of fencing on the path have been done so now we are secure all around.

I would like to thank the boot fair committee, Derek Kedwell, Paul White, Stuart Bailey, Teresa Taylor and all explorers and helpers

for the great job they did in fundraising for us last year, without their hard work we wouldn’t have the money for the covering the

Headquarters expenses as this would be hard to find. It will harder this year as we have had to stop the boot fairs at Port Lympne.

They are trying to find other venues but nothing yet. So, if you know of somewhere we could hold a boot fairs please let us know.

Thank you also Mark Hardie, our chairman who has taken the mantel of fundraising with Family Bingo,

which have been a good success, a monthly Bingo, raffle and other things.

The monthly Bingo has become very popular with the local community due to the very generous prize money.

Finally thank you to all the parents for supporting the Group.

I would also like to thank the leadership and helpers for giving up their time to give your children a full and active program.

As you know we are always looking for volunteers who would like to join the Group, the Executive committee or help with the fundraising,

new ideas are always welcome & the maintaining of the hut

Jacquie Wood GSL

Beavers Scout Report

1st Cheriton Beaver Scout Annual Report 13th May 2017

We currently have 21 Beavers, 1 will be linking with the Cubs ready to join at the end of May. We have 15 on the waiting list, 5 of whom will be joining us in May. In the past year we took part in the Remembrance Day service in town, St Georges Day at the Leas Cliff Hall and the British Legion poppy appeal collecting donations in the Bouverie Square Shopping Centre. We have been working on finishing off badges that are close to being completed and on new badges including the Navigator badge, Gardening badge and the Health and Fitness badge. Our Beavers have attended a District Treasure Hunt at Brockhill Country Park and have a District picnic coming up. We had a couple of trips to Seapoint Canoe Centre for Bell Boating sessions and hope to do some more soon. We have had a trip to Pets at Home and a Lego night. Last Christmas our Beavers took part in a concert together with 2nd Sandgate Beavers for the parents. During the last school half term we went on a 3 day trip to Kingswood activity centre to take part in lots of exciting activities. Coming up we have an adventure day at Lower Grange Farm, the Big Night Out sleepover including the camp craft badge, a night exploring and lots of hikes. I would like to say a special thank you to Pip and Emma for all their help and support. Also a big thank you to Paul and Tom for their support as Young Leaders. I am looking forward very much to the next year’s events.

Helen – BSL 1st Cheriton Scout Group