3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group

Attached is some essential information for the forthcoming Scouts Water Weekend camp. This camp will be held at the Thames Young Mariners Centre, Riverside Drive, Ham TW10 7RX.

Scouts will need to arrive at the TYM centre at the above address for 1800 hrs on Friday 15th May 2009. You’ll need to make sure that you have had your evening meal before you arrive at the camp on that evening. Please arrange to get picked up from the TYM centre at approx 1615 hrs on Sunday 17th May 2009.

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3HH’s Scouts decided to have a crack at some some pulling (aka rowing). We were generously hosted by the Scouts up the road at 1st Hampton’s boathouse one Saturday morning in early May.

At the end of this session – coupled with some theory and rope work that we’d already nailed one evening – we were delighted to have covered off all the requirements for us to be able to earn the “Pulling” activity badge.

Well done folks!

Please find attached this term’s Beaver programme.

The winter sports evening is now full, but there are a couple of spaces left on the pirate sleepover – just let me know if you would like a space. Also this term is “Twickeree” which is a large camp held at Marble Hill Park. Beavers will be invited to attend on the Saturday 20th June.

I will send more details soon. Cheers Jane

On Saturday 23rd May 2009 ShelterBox is inviting Scouts from around the country to take on the challenge of the ShelterBox Scavenger Hunt. This is a day out in London, accompanied by CRB’d 3HH adults, where we’ll meet lots of other Scouts and have heaps of fun discovering stuff in the City. We’ll also use this day out towards our Global Challenge badge.

There’s no cost to attend other than getting a one day travel card for the train.

All the info you need is in the attached information file. But if you’d like to come please let me know soonest so that I can register some teams; either fill in the form or better still just drop me an email.

As always, if you have any questions please just shout.

Regards Simon

Hi Cubs

Here’s the outline programme for the Summer Term.

Please note the request to bring in a plastic bottle on Monday 11th and Wednesday 13th May and as always, if any parents out there can occasionally spare a couple of hours then please do let us know.

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Hi all, please see attached the invitation letter for Scout summer camp 2009.

For a change we’re joining a week long activity based camp where the Scouts get to choose from a wide range of traditional and new adventurous activities on a daily basis along with evening entertainment; sounds exciting!

The cost of £180 is a very rough estimate at the moment and bearing in mind the current financial climate our intention is to drive this down as far as possible, possibly even shaving £20 off the final cost.

Numbers attending will be capped based on the number of adults/leaders volunteering for the week and transport, so get your deposits in early. If anyone wants to attend but is prohibited by current conditions on the basis of cost, please do let us know as soon as possible as we can apply to district for a grant.

Paul F

Attached is the 3HH Scouts summer term programme. It’s stuffed full of fantastic activities yet again which should keep us all very busy. Heaps of your ideas and suggestions have been incorporated wherever possible … and those that haven’t fitted into this term are safely tucked away ready for the Autumn.

We’re be working towards completing out Pulling (aka rowing) activity badge, Global Challenge badge and our Emergency Aid stage 3. But more than that, there are a ton of other cracking activities organised.

By the end of all of that we’ll be more than ready for that Summer holiday come the end of term. So don’t forget to mark your diaries for Summer Camp 25 July – 1 August and please get your forms in soonest!

Scout Leadership Team

Twickeree (19-20 June 2009) is the District’s triennial weekend camp (‘District Jamboree’) where all groups in Richmond District camp en masse in Marble Hill Park in a massive advert for Scouting.

All Sections at 3HH take part in this camping event (including Beavers who can visit). It would be great to have a really big turnout. We encourage all members of the Group to attend and families to come and visit on both days! Please see attached invite letter and return your responses to your Section Leader as soon as possible.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

We’re delighted to confirm that we have been able to arrange a half day’s boating / pulling session at the 1st Hampton Hill boathouse on the morning of 9 May 2009.

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Hi Everyone

First night back will be this Wednesday, please note that we may be meeting on the Rec as there are one or two tents (seventeen actually!) drying out in the hut from Scout camp and it’s very important we get these dry as we’ll be using in a few weeks time for CubJam…

Anyway, we’ve got a busy term lined up, CubJam in May, Twickeree in June plus lots of exciting stuff for Wednesday nights.

Final reminder, this Sunday – 26th April – St George’s Day parade. If you can make it then we’re meeting on Richmond Green at 10:40 with pick up from Orleans School Hall at 12:45 to 13:00 approx. If any adults out there have a thing for fluorescent yellow and would like to assist with marshalling on the day then please do let me know, vests will be supplied!

Cheers everyone, Jon

The Annual St. Georges Day Parade and Service is on Sunday 26th April 2009.

This is the annual event where all the Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers and Adults of Richmond Upon Thames Scout District come together to parade through Richmond and then Renew their Scout Promise. Therefore everyone from 3rd Hampton Hill is expected to attend in full smart uniform please. Thanks.

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Another fanstastic success for 3HH at the recent Richmond Upon Thames District shooting competition.

Our newest adult leader within the Scout section, Paul C, has comfortably won the “Adult” category with a superb 124 points out of 150. Within the “Under 12″ category, James R achieved the best place from the 3HH contingent by coming 5th overall in the District with a score of 106 out of 150.

The detailed scoring and overall results are available here.

Final reminder for Church Parade this Sunday (Mothering Sunday – don’t forget to make your cards!). Please remember that the start time will be 10:00 on this occasion, the finish time should be about 11:00 to 11:15 approx. Full uniform, ironed scarfs and smart shoes please, only the smartest folks will be able to be part of the colour party.

The Sunday School group will be serving breakfasts from 08:45 to raise money for the Lent appeal (funding for safe water supplies in Angola and Mozambique). Everyone has been invited to this, so do come along if you can, I believe it will be along the lines of cereal, croissants, toast, bacon butties, juice, tea and coffee, that sort of thing.

A quick post to say how well all the Scouts did at last weekend’s Night Hike event. This was our biggest ever entry with 28 Scouts forming 5 teams… by far and away the biggest contingent there.

The Scouts should feel particularly proud that of the 41 teams entered from across South West London, just 30 made it around the course – including every single one of ours. This is a great achievement especially since we had a large number of Scouts in our teams who have only joined us fairly recently.

While we didn’t come away with any trophies this time, it served as an outstanding building block for the future with lots of new skills and practice now under our belts.

Also a massive thanks to those who came along and helped make the the event happen. Without adults standing around on frozen check points ensuring everyone is safely accounted for, ferrying Scouts to and from the campsite, or getting up with the sparrows to make a million bacon sandwiches none of this would have been possible. Thank you.

3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group (3HH) and Hampton Hill Junior School (HHJS) celebrated the delivery of their brand new Peugeot Boxer 17-seater minibus, which they jointly own.

The Scout Group’s Leaders and parents, and the School’s Parents’ Association, have worked very hard over the past few years with various fundraising events, with a view to buying a newer, second-hand minibus to replace their ageing L-registered one. But when the Scout Group successfully applied to Hampton Fuel Allotment Charity for a grant to add to the monies raised, they realised that they would be able to buy a brand new one, complete with wheelchair access, and with their own specifications for carrying luggage on camping excursions and school trips. 3HH then searched for just the right vehicle, consulting with the School all the way along.

3HH Group Scout Leader Richard Moody said:

“It’s fantastic. I know that Bill Jerman, Head Teacher at HHJS, joins me in thanking all those involved. We’re very grateful to the Hampton Fuel Allotment Charity for the financial support they have given to us. Sharing the minibus with the School is a brilliant use of resources. We share the purchase and running costs. The School use it during the school day, and we use it after school, at weekends and holidays. It’s a great partnership.”

Calling all members of 3HH Scout Group . . .

What are you doing this weekend? Can you spare us an hour?

We will be conducting a ‘Spring Clean’ this coming weekend Sat 7 and Sun 8 March 2009. It would be great if we could have some ‘helping hands!’

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Dear Scouts. Many thanks to those of you who returned your forms asking for places on either the Thames Young Mariner Water Weekend Camp or County Night Hike Competition.

We’re really looking forward to these events which are always masses of fun. I’ll write to those who have places with the camp info, kit list etc as soon as I can.

Sorry to say that all the places for these camps are now full. If you would like to put your name on the reserve list on a first come, first served basis please let us know. Otherwise there is always next year…

After telling us they wanted more involvement in the Troop programme planning, the Talons had a crack at thinking up some future activities tonight. Some top notch ideas were suggested.

Why not click on the picture below to see what sort of things they thought of?

Of course, some of these ideas might be tricker than others to incorporate into the programme – but we’ll do our best!

We are collecting Sainsburys vouchers for the Active Kids Scheme. There is a collecting box at the Scout HQ. Please bring all your vouchers and pop them into the box. We hope to be able to buy lots of new games stuff for the whole group to use and enjoy!

Many Thanks.