3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group

Quasar next week 29th June, the invitations have gone out. If you haven’t had one and feel you deserve one because you’ve been to Church Parade or attended St George’s Day this year, then please call me urgently. Equally if you haven’t received an invitation but have been prevented from attending Church etc for sporting or other reasons, please let me know. Please note the letter carefully as Quasar were most unhelpful and would only let us play games back to back, therefore half the troop will play early and half late. Own transport direct to site please, non uniform.

Great Parent Scout Cookout – don’t forget this is planned for our final evening on Friday 13th July, a fantastic evening and my favourite event of the year. I hope you’ve got your teams together and joined forces with parents and Scouts as appropriate. The information was emailed out however if you need paper copies please let me know.

Centenary Summer Camp – the final £50 instalment is now due, preferably before the end of term. Apologies that we were unable to bring the final amount down, but one of our intended fund raising opportunities failed to materialise. It is really important that every Scout has an item of 3HH logo’d group wear to assist identification of our members when we’re out amongst the tens of thousands of Scouts from around the world at the Jamboree site. Please see any leader to purchase items as necessary. Please also return the health forms ASAP. Especially if your Scout has any specific dietary needs as our catering crew are organising the menu imminently. Addition to kit list, a bivvi bag!

Finally, the MacDonald’s treat for our 5-a-side footy teams is on Friday 6th July at 7pm at the HQ. If you haven’t yet let me know what you’d like please do so ASAP!

Regards Paul

Don’t forget Sarah and Jo’s Art competition which closes on 8th June. Finished art work will be strung up for display and will also festoon our gate at Centenary Camp so we want as many entries as possible please to ensure all of 3HH are represented at this camp. We are also looking for Scout assistance for an hour or so over the weekend to help run the refreshments and if anyone can bring cakes to sell, we’d appreciate it. Don’t forget the Art event at our HQ on the weekend of 9/10th May.

Centenary Bring a Friend will be on Friday 15th June – however at 3HH we hardly need anyone to bring friends so we’re having a ‘bring an adult’ evening. The Scouts will be running a SuperScout evening for you, a round robin mad evening of activities from shooting to golf, an obstacle course to mental challenges. Every Scout must bring at least one adult, but no more than two! Please come along and join in the fun and games as we don’t want to disappoint our Scouts who will then earn the ‘bring-a-friend’ badge for their Centenary Scarf.

Friday 29th June – outing for those who’ve attended Church Parade this year or St George’s Day Parade. If you don’t receive an invitation letter than it means we don’t have a record of you attending the relevant parades. As mentioned I am aware that some Scouts have sporting or other commitments and so if this is the case and they’d like to come please let me know ASAP.

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Just a short newsletter this time as we’re all such busy people this year and we’ll start with……

Congratulations to our 12 and over 5-a-side football team who ran out champions at last week’s tournament and commiserations to the 12 and unders who lost painfully on penalties in their final. Maccy D’s will follow!

My thanks to the turn out of 21 Scouts at this year’s St. George’s Day Parade, good considering the lack of info we had from district and late arrival of same. An excellent event all the same and I will long remember the huge procession winding it’s way through to Marble Hill Park; Scouting dying? Not in Richmond it ain’t!!

Don’t forget this Sunday 6th May - Church Parade 9.15am Park Rd, Hampton Hill. If you want to come to our outing whatever it be on 29th June, you need to be there if you haven’t made Church Parade or St Georges Day yet this year! Please note there will be no Parade on 3rd June due to half term so this is your only chance!!

Next week 11th May we’ll be holding a bike rodeo organised by Giles Bowell. By definition this means you need to bring your bike, so please ensure your bike is in good condition and that you come with helmet etc as we’re probably going into the Park.

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!! PLEASE HELP!!

Date: Sunday 29th April – 9am to 1pm or 1pm to 5pm
Event - Walkorun funday, a 2.5k and 5k race with loads of other activities, inflatables and stalls etc
Where: Claremont Fan Court School, Esher.
Who: Scout, Adults, cubs and beavers very welcome if with adults
Why: They will give us a donation towards our centenary year costs. The more volunteers we can offer the more money we get!
What do I have to do: help run the different stalls and activities, man the water stations during the run.
How long for: You do not have to commit to the whole day but a minimum of 4 hour stints please.

As you all know we are asking you for a lot more money this year than we usually do, this is a fantastic opportunity to reduce our costs. Please, please come and help.

• Easter Camp is going ahead and still open for people to join.

• Summer Centenary Camp - we need the first £50 instalment before we break up for Easter please

• Summer Centenary Camp - is still open for people to join but will close during the Easter break. Please get any last minute applications in ASAP.

• Summer Centenary Camp fund raiser at Claremont School - see below - please let me know if you and your Scout can help on this fund raiser to help us lower the price of camp for all. It’s on the same day as……

• 5-a-side footy - I currently don’t have enough Scouts to field a 12 and under team!! 12 and over team is OK. Closing date for entries is this Friday, so get ‘em in now.

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Truly into the swing of the new term and 2007 and here’s the second newsletter already. Firstly, dates for the next few weeks: next week Friday 9th March is a modified re-run of our Bushy Park orienteering challenge. As last time, please meet at the SHAEF Gate at 7:30pm opposite Shaef Way, Sandy Lane Teddington with a pick up at 9:30pm at the same location. As usual, we will go in all but foul weather so please ensure your Scout is suitably dressed and comes with torch and pencil. Please note the following week is a challenge evening against the Guides on Tuesday 13th March at 7.15pm at St James Church Hall, Park Rd Hampton Hill. Full uniform please and don’t forget a coat.

Fire station visit – I have a large number of ‘fire-safety’ badges available but as yet not a single Scout to give them to. Unusually the Scouts have had virtually nothing to do to attain this badge as the fire-fighters did such an excellent job when we visited. There is one requirement though and that is to provide the address of someone who would benefit form a visit from the fire service to assess their home form a safety point of view. This will ideally be an elderly, infirm or otherwise relevant member of the public, perhaps a neighbour relative or friend. Return of this form will be rewarded with the badge.

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He did it! He has managed to succesfully win a place to go to the World Jamboree 2007, the centenary celebrations.

Well, here we are at the start of the most exciting year in Scouting ever! I apologise in advance for the number of letters, general bits of paper and what have you accompanying this letter; it’s an indication of the humongous year we have ahead!

In the programme you’ll see a lot of ‘100’ based activities, some just at our HQ, a large number at district level, one or two at county level and this year a whole host of national events.

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2007 is an exciting year for everyone as we will be celebrating 100 years of scouting. A World Jamboree is being held to celebrate the occasion. It will be a mammoth explosion of all things scouty. 3HH will be there - Andy W has successfully negotiated his way through the selection process, and some of our leaders are sharing their knowledge as part of the service team. Those not able to go to this Jamboree will not be left at home. We will be joining the district for our own party.

No, not the scouts .. the tents!

Thanks to Sheila L’s hard work the group have won the huge sum of £4353 to help pay for some of the canvas the section leaders have been crying out for. It was courtesy of the Lottery’s ‘Award for All’ programme.

Yet another cracking summer camp event for the 3HH scouts. There were boat loads of activities to be tried as the photos below show!…

We were all there, joining in the activities. The scout leaders threw themselves into the spirit and dressed up for the occasion.

The Beavers enjoyed a ‘military’ evening when they are lucky to have a soldier visit the colony. They learnt all about the camouflage uniform, how heavy the rucksack was and what the field rations tasted like. Yum Yum - more vacuum packed chocolate pudding please!…

Over 50 families camped this year and despite the rain everyone managed to have a go at most of the activities. Another cracking success for the 3HH group.