3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group

Our Beaver Scouts need YOU!

We have a fantastic opportunity for some Adults to join in the fun and assist us with the continued running of our two Beaver Scout Colonies on a Friday.

In order to keep running such a fantastic programme we do need some additional help and support. We are actively seeking two Assistant Beaver Scout Leaders to provide valuable support to our Beaver Scout Leader.

What would you be doing?

• Helping at the Beaver Colony meetings each week (Fridays); setting up activities, running games and helping the Beavers to have fun (living up to their motto of ‘Fun and Friends’).
• Helping to plan each terms programme
• Occasionally taking responsibility for an activity: for example buying the ingredients for a cooking evening.

We need your help and support and it is vital that we recruit two Assistant Beaver Scout Leaders ready to help run the Beaver Colonies in January 2009.

if you are interested, please take a look at the attached letter.

Thank You.

Rich
Group Scout Leader

We are actively seeking a new booking secretary to manage hall bookings at 3rd Hampton Hill. This is a vital role for the group and we need to fill this post before the end of the year.

The outgoing booking secretary has drafted a role description and is standing by to help with a handover. Please view the attached role description and speak with any section leader or send an enquiry if you might be interested.

We look forward to hearing from you. Thanks.

Rich M
Group Scout Leader

3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group have now had a 3rd successful nomination and award from the Jack Petchey Foundation.

In the Young Person (aged 11-25) category Tom B has been given this award for his commitment, service and achievements at 3rd Hampton Hill. Tom continues to support the Group in the role of Young Leader and will shortly be helping to run the newly established 2nd Scout Troop which will begin meeting this Tuesday. Congratulations and well done Tom!

As part of the award 3HH have received a cheque for £300 from the Foundation. Part of the nomination process involves a suggestion from the nominee on how this money will be spent by the Group. Tom has asked that this money be used to help purchase some smaller lighweight/hiking type tents which can be used for weekend camps and for any overnight hikes. Thanks Tom.

Are you looking for something new which is challenging and rewarding? Adults in Scouting are from all walks of life. Yet the one thing they share is the enjoyment of helping young people reach their potential. We are actively seeking adult help and support. . .

You may feel that you have no skills to offer Scouting - but everyone has something to give. Doing things such as making squash and organising games means the Leader has more time to spend with the young people. Do you have any hobbies and interests that you could share?

Scouting would not exist without the skills and enthusiasum of thousands of adult helpers. Whether you can spare 2 hours per week or a day, a month, we need additional leaders, instructors, adminstrators and many other supporters who share our aim of making life better for young people.

Volunteering in Scouting is fun and rewarding. You will have the chance to learn new skills, rediscover adventure, make new friends, spend more time with your child if they are a Scout and give something back to your community. Our adult volunteers make Scouting happen. Could you be one of them? As a Group we have a number of opportunities to join in the fun. Come and join the adventure.

You don’t necessarily need any prior experience or knowledge. We can offer training, induction and ongoing support and you can get a real sense of achievement, reward and enjoy the fun.

We would love to hear from you . . . just get in touch via the enquiry form.

Do you ever shop on-line with Amazon - perhaps you’ve even started your Xmas shop already?

If so, you could really help us by earning money for our Scout group by accessing the Amazon.co.uk website via the special link in the sidebar menu to the right.

No catches - it’s free money for the group!

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Some months ago (back in July), 3HH celebrated its 60th birthday.

We’ve finally managed to publish some photos of the party!

If anyone else has any pics of this great day we would love to have copies so we can publish them here! Please pass them to us on suitable media via any Section Leader - Thanks.

Alex L, Duncan L and Wend W were all honoured, along with others from the Greater London South West Scout County, for their contribution to Youth Leadership and their achievements in Scouting by the Jack Petchey Foundation.

Each have been awarded with grants that will be directed to Scouting benefits in the local area. See also the post from earlier in the year which gives some more details and background. Well done to you all!

Sheila L - Scout parent and member of the 3HH Scout Group Executive Committee - recently wrote an article for the St. James church magazine explaining all about 3HH’s 60 year anniversary.

Sheila reflected on 3HH’s growth over those 60 years, as well as sharing a touching account of her experiences watching her son in the group.

If you’d like to read the article, please click here for the PDF file and turn to page 7. Many thanks for the write up Sheila.

Together with a bunch of other certifiable scout leaders, 3HH represented the Richmond Upon Thames RUT Scout District in this year’s Great River Race held on Saturday 13 September.

We covered a monstrous 22 miles from Ham to Greenwich in a traditional Viking longboat, carrying the Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham as our passenger. The whole thing took a very respectable 4 hours and 7 minutes (we’d expected nearer 5 hours if we were to be honest with ourselves); all the more impressive since we had the largest and heaviest boat in the event!

The Race was simply a stunning spectacle: hundreds of boats of all shapes and sizes, powered only by oars, raced from Ham to Greenwich, through the City, dodging commercial river traffic and tidal turbulence all the way. You can click on the photo above to see more of the day’s action.

As well as the most incredible personal achievement (I am after all far from being a super-fit athlete ) and huge amounts of fun, I was delighted to raise nearly £500 for the local Scout district. And across the team as a whole, the figure will be a couple of thousand.

But it’s not too late to show some last minute support, you can still donate online through justgiving.com using the donate button.

Many thanks once again for your hugely generous sponsorship and shouts of encouragement, Simon

** update 16 Sept 2008 ** The fund raising total is now well over £500 and that’s just awesome. Thanks masses to all those who showed support to get the total this far.

BT like many companies runs a scheme called Community Champions which seeks to recognise and reward those in their employ who volunteer their time freely for the benefit of their community. I have been fortunate in a recent application to the scheme in being awarded £500 towards our plans to open up the loft at our HQ.

This year we have also benefited from large contributions from Barclays, Thomson Reuters and BP in similar schemes or matched giving and all this just by applying to those schemes.

If your company has a similar scheme that you as a volunteer for our Group can apply to or if your company has a community sponsorship fund of any sort then please do consider making an application on behalf of the group (we can offer help when completing any forms or paperwork).

Funds of this sort ease the pressure on the group to fund raise, or to increase subs etc and give us the opportunity to both improve our facilities and increase our resources as we seek to replace our minibus and open up the loft space.

Please do speak to any of the team if you can help and a big thanks to BT for the £500

Hello All and Welcome back!

Hope you all had fantastic holidays!

Both Cubs and Scouts had great Summer Camps - take at look at the posts and pictures to see what they got up to. I would also like to take this opportunity to say a very Big Thanks to everyone in the Leadership Team and the Group Exec at 3rd Hampton Hill for their continued hard work and support.

As the Sections prepare to return the Group faces the challenge of starting up a Second Scout Troop. Plans are being finalised and more information will be available later this month.

We are already looking ahead and planning future Events and a full programme of activities for all Sections.

We continue to need additional adult help and support; particularly at both Beaver Colonies (to assist and support Jane our Beaver Scout Leader) and also at Scouts to bolster the Scout Team which will shortly begin running a second Scout Troop on a Tuesday. The recruitment of adult help continues to be our top priority.

I look forward to seeing you all soon.

Kindest regards,

Rich M
Group Scout Leader

Hello All,

A quick note from me (Rich - Group Scout Leader) to say Thanks to All the Leadership Team and Group Executive Committee for another Great Term of Activity and ‘Scouting’ adventure!

Thanks also to All members of the Group for another happy and very enjoyable Term.

As I write this the Cubs are enjoying their Camp at Chalfont and they will be joined overnight by the Beavers for a Sleepover. The Scouts are looking forward to their Camp in the New Forest at Ferny Crofts in August.

I would like to wish you all happy holidays and a fantastic summer!

We look forward to seeing you all in September.

Kindest regards,

Rich M
Group Scout Leader
3HH

Following the awesome Borough Camp held at Walton Firs in Cobham we have posted some photos of the event. Just click on the image to see the whole collection.

All of the 3HH contingent had an amazing time - with climbing ropes using Prussic loops laid on as our activity for everyone at the camp to try out.

Also while not trying to be too competitive about these things, 3HH Cubs were thrilled to win the Borough Football competition with some daring displays of skill. Well done guys!

3HH performed really strongly in a bunch of other events as well and came close to hoisting many more winners medals. Shame guys but all the best for next time!

Please join us on Sat 12 July any time from 3pm - 8pm for our 60th Year Celebration BBQ!

Venue : 3HH Scout HQ, The George Stanley Hall, The Triangle, rear of Holly Road Recreation Ground, School Road Avenue, Hampton Hill.

There will be food and a special celebration cake - as well as games and entertainment. Hope to see you there!

We’re delighted to invite all members, friends and cohorts of 3HH to our 60 year celebratory birthday event on Saturday 12 July 2008 between 3pm - 8pm!

The format of the day will be very relaxed allowing you to come and go as you please:

Venue: 3HH Scout HQ and Games/Activities on the Recreation Ground

Food: 3HH will supply burgers, bangers and veggie stuff with buns / rolls plus salad and condiments. We’ll also be cutting up a monster celebration cake at about 6pm if you’d like to stick around.

Drinks: 3HH will lay on some soft drinks. Please feel free if you’d like to bring along your own bottles of adult juice (within reason ). We will not be running a bar on the day.

Entertainment: We’ll be organising tons of stuff to keep you occupied on the day - or you could just choose to hang out and chill if you like! It’s your call. There will be the usual giant games such as jenga, chess, connect 4 and twister - as well as the typical scout classics. For those of you feeling slightly more energetic there will most likely be a bouncy castle, some mini golf and a few rounds of softball / quick cricket etc.

The event is not a fund raiser and we won’t be charging for anything. But we will put out a donations box in the event you want to contribute something to cover the costs. We’d just love to see you on the day to say thanks for all of your help and support, and to look forward to the next 60 years of fun and adventure.

Please remember that the day is simply about having a bit of fun and celebrating what an awesome group we are. Look forward to seeing you on the day!

3HH Leadership Team