Admittedly a touch belated … but we’re delighted to share the photos from this ever favourite of Scout activities.
Do you think that you might be able to do any better next year?!
The Scouts have been coming up with some proposed names for the new troops. As you can see there was a mix of traditional and more modern options…
Do you have great ideas? If so, please let us know by adding a comment below. It’s simple. 
The Silver Group handed in their reports and gave their presentation from their expedition in the Summer in the New Forest at the Scout HQ last night (Tues 16 Sept). Check out their multimedia slide show here:
The Group reviewed their progress on all Sections of The Award for Silver and Bronze, returned record books and began to draw all Sections to completion.
Hopefully a large number of the Group will have their Record Books signed off ready to recieve their awards sometime in November at a Borough DofE Presentation Evening.
The District Beaver Fun Day is taking place between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday 20th September 2008 at the Walton Firs Scout Camp Site in Cobham.
The theme will be “Olympics” and will cost only £8.50 per Beaver, which is for all of the activities including a souvenir. The Fun Day usually ends with a campfire and a big beaver shout!
If your child would like to come to the District Beaver Funday please fill out the attached form and return it to me by the 12th September.
Hope you are all having great summer holidays, Cheers Jane
(Apologies for not sending this out before the end of term)
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.
** update 22 Sept 2008 ** Crickey! The sponsorship total has crashed through the £650 barrier. That’s an incredible total and many thanks to all those who have provided sponsorship.
Hi all, please find attached the autumn term programme. All information is in the letters so I won’t go into details here except to highlight our Troop split discussion evening (letter attached) for all parents on Friday 26th September where we’ll be serving refreshments with monies raised going to Christian Aid.
For those taking part in the National Scout Air Rifle Championships (practice starting on Thursday 18th September), please find attached the information letter and permission to shoot form required by all.
Dayprowl is on Sunday 5th October and as such there’s very little time to get your application in for this day hike with the focus on fun. We had a lot of interest from the Scouts for this one so please download the form and return ASAP.
The forms for the swimming gala and cooking competition will follow in due course as will information about the Sikh temple visit.
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
The Scouts held their Summer camp deep in the New Forest at the wonderful Ferny Crofts. We got very muddy in the bomb hole, celebrated two birthdays, made a pilgrimage to the home of Scouting on Brownsea to renew our promise, built sandcastles on the beach before munching through fish & chips, and got camouflaged up by soldiers at Beaulieu.
In between we lit the odd fire, climbed very high towers, went for a bike ride, tried using a sextant, cooked over open fires using just aluminium foil instead of pans and learnt to build rafts that then fell to bits… whoops!
A selection of photos have been added - with more to come soon. Just click to see what we got up to.
It was a fast paced and intensive week. We’ve never before run such a large Scout camp: 2 minibuses, 2 transit vans stuffed full of kit, 26 scouts, 2 young leaders, an average of 6 adults per day, and a couple of other children tagging along for the ride. (We also chomped through 592 rashers of bacon, lots of sausages and tons of cake )
Everyone was thoroughly done in by the time we came home. Let’s just say there must have been a fair number of bathrooms in Hampton Hill sporting a new tide mark the night that we came home!
Massive thanks to all the leaders and supporters who came along to make the week possible. Well done on pulling together a first rate camp. But mostly, well done to the Scouts for making the most of the time on camp.
Simon
CTT doesn’t quite remember such an excitable bunch of explorers - to say that all had a great time would be an understatement!! - check out the youtube videos of Apache
Hi all. To avoid that last minute flurry of phone calls over the next couple of days, I’ve summarised all the Scout camp information below.
Top Gear’s The Stig joins Jamie Oliver, Alexa Chung, Ewan McGregor, Ray Mears and several other celebrities in being awarded a Scout badge as part of Scouting’s 101st birthday celebrations.
Their achievements over the last year were judged to reflect the skills and knowledge required to achieve a Scout badge.
Hi Cubs
In 2009 3rd Hampton Hill Cubs are planning on going to CUBJAM. This is a Cubs only Jamboree held every 4 years, this time at the Scouting World Headquarters in Gilwell Park. There will be about 2,000 Cubs on site and the theme for the whole event is “CARNIVAL”. There will be three different carnival sub-camps, Notting Hill, New Orleans and Rio De Janeiro. We’re currently assigned to New Orleans, but this may change.
The dates are Saturday 23rd to Friday 29th May 2009, basically the May half term week.
We’ll be putting out full details of the camp in September, but for anyone wanting to take a sneaky peek, have a look at the CubJam website.
3HH cubs go camping “Hawaiian Style” maxing and relaxing at Chalfont Heights.
36 Cubs, 5 Scouts, 2 Explorers and 14 assorted Leaders and Adults had a wicked 4 nights getting up to all sorts and having loads of fun. That must be a record….???
It’s best said with pictures so check out what the cubs, and assisting scouts, got up to on camp, just click on the picture above. More pics to follow soon!
Remember to wear your camp scarves at the hut next term…
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
