3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group

As some forewarning, we’re aiming to run a joint event with the 7th Hampton Scouts to earn our Expedition Challenge badge. The dates are Friday 30 October – Sunday 1 November 2009 Saturday 24 – Monday 26 October 2009 which falls at the end beginning of the October half term (please note that these dates now need to be confirmed – watch this space!).

The intention is to have the Scouts walk from the 3HH HQ to the designated camp site about 8 miles away on the Friday, spend the weekend honing their navigation skills, playing games and building / sleeping out in bivvy shelters, and rounding off the weekend with a return hike back to the 3HH HQ on the Sunday.

Should be good and more details in due course!…

Simon

Please click on the photo below to see more of the 2009 AGM and BBQ

Please click on the photo to see more of what the Beavers got up to at Sandown Ski Centre on a Colony trip out!

Just thought to say a huge thanks to all sections for their help with the Sainsbury’s Active Kids voucher scheme again tis year. We’ve collected over 4600 vouchers and have placed an order for:

two large storage cages
giant jenga
a limbo set
4 blindfold goggles
and a target set for bean bags

We also banked 183 vouchers for next year’s scheme. Thanks loads to all the sections for their valuable donations.

Please take a look at the 3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group Reports for the Year 2008-2009. These will be Adopted at our Annual Review on Sat 4 July 2009.

Annual Group Report

3HH-Annual-Report-2008-2009

Annual Group Accounts – 2 Files

3HH-Annual-Accounts-FY2008-2009-(1)

3HH-Annual-Accounts-FY2008-2009-(2)

We have our Annual Celebration and Review Event this coming Saturday 4th July starting at 3pm.

All Welcome! We look forward to seeing you there!

See the earlier post for details.

Well done to Chris, Kieran, Mimi and Will from Claws for their excellent performance at this year’s NPL Water Rocket Competition.

The team’s excellent design and build work resulted in a rocket that flew straight and true and got the Scout firing the launcher only a little wet on take off, well alright soaked! We hit the first zone with our first and third flights and a bullseye with the second one giving flight times of 17, 33 and 18 seconds. Full results and pictures will appear on the NPL website in due course.

The launcher after some years sterling service is now pretty much defunct and a hard time was had getting it through scrutineering this time. Ideally we’d like to take this to summer camp as an activity, so is there a parent out there who could build us a more robust replacement? Full instructions are available from a link on the above website so little or no design work would be needed and if it can’t be built for camp, having one (preferably two so both troops can compete) ready for next years event would be fantastic. Please talk to any of the leaders.

Wow! What a busy weekend! Fantastic! Take a look at the photos to see all the great things that went on.

The ‘Sun’ God shone down on us and provided nearly perfect weather. 3HH were successful in winning the Trophy for the Beaver Scout Challenge – Wall Building and also the English Heritage Twickeree Trophy – awarded this year for the Best Tapestry – well done! A very big thanks to all the adults and young people that made this weekend so much fun and such a success! Brilliant!

Getting out onto the water is fast becoming a real favourite for 3HH’s scouts.

We were delighted to once again join our good friends at the 14th Richmond Boat House for a wonderful evening’s rowing between Richmond and Twickenham. To see more of what we got up to please click here to check out the photos.

Unlike our last adventure out, the sun was shining and the tide reasonably gentle. And the scene was perfectly set for a few impromptu races!

Massive thanks again to Vic, Anna, Roy and Trevor for hosting our visit. We’re already looking forward to our next trip out…

The Twickeree Programme has just been released!

Click on the Link to see the programme and additional information for the weekend.

Please join us at our Scout Group HQ on Saturday 4th July 2009 at 3pm for our Annual Celebration, Group Review and AGM, plus BBQ.

The HQ’s address is The George Stanley Hall, The Triangle, Rear of Holly Road Recreation Ground.

We plan to have some entertainers, plus inflatables and games, plus refreshments and a BBQ – fun for all the family, all welcome!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Please come and join us at Twickeree in Marble Hill Park on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June!

Please drop by and come, say hello and take some refreshments with us.

All are very welcome. We look forward to seeing you there.

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Final reminder for Church Parade this Sunday. Please remember that the start time is 09:15 with the finish time about 10:30.

Full uniform, ironed scarfs and smart shoes please, only the smartest folks will be able to be part of the colour party.

Hi all, as ever our last night of Scouts in July will be the Great Parent Scout Cookout.

It’s one of my favourite Scout evenings and has nothing at all to do with the fact that I’m on the judging panel! This activity takes a while to plan and arrange your teams so here’s the information nice and early to allow you to do just that!

Any questions just ask.

Paul
ASL Talon Troop

Note to self, must remember, no lunch or dinner that day!

Hi CubJammers!!!

Wow – what a week, totally awesome. Our biggest and longest 3HH Cub Camp ever and all under canvas. I don’t know about anyone else, but I was completely shattered….

There are lots of THANK YOU messages to make…

Wend, John, Linda, Fiona, Laura, Sarah, Sara, Christine, Rich, Simon, Paul, Kirstie, Jill, Mark, Jo, Paul and Jenny who all gave up their time for some or all of the camp and in particular to Diana for being our home contact.

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Hi all, please see attached the primary paperwork for NSARC 2009.

This has formerly been an open competition to anyone who has passed the YPS course but due to it’s poularity entries are now restricted to 9 Scouts, 6 Explorers and a limited number of non Range Officer adult entrants, all of whom now MUST be members of the association in one form or another to be able to shoot (there are no restrictions on non-shooting adults). There are no restriction on RO numbers fortunately.

If we get more than 15 Scouts and Explorers wanting to shoot, we’ll have to carry out a selection event. Dates on this are tight to ensure our entry so I’d be happy to receive your (paper) replies ASAP.

Please note this is open to all Explorers listed above, older Scouts who may be Explorers come October and all adults with shooting knowledge and the pre-requisite membership as well of course as Scouts who’ve passed YPS.

Well it was a hotter longer route with a far bigger boxes to carry than we had expected – but what an adventure!

The Scouts were simply terrific under some challenging demands. But we maxed out our mission to raise awareness for Shelterbox and the Scout Association. Our monster big green boxes were dragged all over Westminster, Covent Garden, Fleet Street, Victoria Station, Horseguards Parade … with photos taken wherever we stopped.

Well done to everyone who took part – and congratulations on earning your Global Challenge badge!

A massive thanks to John, Darrell, Suzanne and Kirstie for coming along and making the day possible.

Simon

We now have 17 down for the Scout summer camp but the first closing date is looming as we have to get our numbers and activity forms in to the organisers.

What does this mean? Well quite clearly, I must have your paper slips and deposits in ASAP if you want to come as although there may be latitude to add numbers afterwards, equally the site may not let us if they’re full, so delay at your peril!

Please find attached therefore three forms: one is the summer camp invite letter, the second is the list of activities on offer and the third is the form you MUST return to me ASAP indicating what activities your Scout can enjoy; they’re quite strict, no form, no do! You MUST now send it to me at my home address ASAP so I can collate and send these off on my return from holiday.

Finally, although the camp cost is shown as £180, I’m looking to see if we can drop our costs by up to £20 and the more Scouts we have, the easier this becomes!

Many thanks all,

Paul Fitchett
ASL Talon Troop

Hi all, as last year’s shooting event was sooooo successful we just couldn’t resist running it again. This year’s date is Saturday 13th June, yes very soon indeed!

* UPDATE * 1 JUNE 2009 – For a variety of reasons we have had to take the decision to CANCEL the Shooting Event this year. We hope that we can put this event back into the Calendar for 2010

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Have you applied yet? It is not too late to apply and join in with this massive Camp at Marble Hill Park 19-21st June 2009. Come and join the fun. Planning is now well underway for this Tri-Annual District Camp. This event is open to All Sections at 3HH.

Please contact your Section Leader and also see the Link to the earlier Post for more details and the application Form:

Twickeree Invitation and Details

We look forward to seeing you there.