3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group

The Cubs had fun creating their names in wire, fridge magnets and engraved leather with designs.

It has now been 10 years since The George Stanley Hall (the 3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group Headquarters) was opened.

The Hall was officially opened by the Mayor of Richmond, Councillor Maureen Woodriffe and John Nielsen (Group Scout Leader at the time and now Life President of The Group) on 31st January 1998.

Take a look at the copies of the Newspaper pictures and articles from local papers at the time!

See if you can spot anyone you recognise? (Click on the picture for another picture and articles).

Were you in these pictures?

The building and grounds are well maintained and have been developed. As a Group we remain committed to making more improvements and ensuring that we maintain the building and facilities to a high standard.

We have been discussing how we might add a staircase in the lobby and create a new room in the roof space. We are also hoping to improve and refurbish the kitchen. These tasks are on our Group project list which we review and then try to find ways of taking them forward at Group Executive Meetings.

Some pictures of a recent ’swimming up’ ceremony.

The River and Riverbanks are formed by the Beavers and the new Cubs are helped to swim up by a number of Cubs.

It looks like the Beavers swimming up enjoyed it and are looking forward to having even more fun at Cubs!

The Scouts had an interesting and challenging evening and also had some fun whilst tackling the task.

The Task was to get to several bases around the hall, sounds easy enough, but more of a challenge if the whole team all have to use planks (like ski’s) as a means of transport!

Having arrived successfully at each base the teams were then asked to tie as many different knots as they knew.

Checkout the photos!

Please put this date into your diaries . . .

Saturday 8th March 2008

Spring/Easter Fayre at 3rd Hampton Hill Scout Headquarters, The George Stanley Hall, rear of Holly Road Recreation Ground.

Doors Open at 11am.

Funds raised will be going towards our growing Minibus Replacement Fund.

We will have lots of exciting fun activities for all the family!

How good is your aim at the Egg Shy?

Can you decorate the best egg?

Can you hold your nerve in the egg and spoon race?

Check out the craft stalls, books, toys, raffles & games.

Please come and support us and spread the word. Invite all your family and friends to come along.

If you think you might be able to spare some time to on the day to lend a hand please contact any Section Leader. All welcome!

Watch the Web Page and Section Notices for more information.

We look forward to seeing you!

The annual Ready Steady Cook challenge took place with the Guides in December.

The Scout Hall was packed with budding Chefs and Cooks waiting to see what they could conjure up with their ingredients.

Ingredients are ‘won’ and picked by each team in rounds. Each round there is a question with a numeric answer, the team nearest that answer picks first from the table of ingredients. On each round there is a different sort or type of ingredient, meat, starch (pasta, potatoes etc.), veg, etc. plus other additions of spices and herbs.

All the creations were very edible and some were really pretty good! A team of tasters gave marks out of ten for taste and for presentation.

3HH Cubs go back into the Olde World of…

“ROBIN OF THE HOOD” ~ EASTER CAMP

Saturday Ye 5th to Wednesday Ye 9th April 2008

Partake in ye olde activitees with Robin’s merry men and defeat the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham? Sleep in tents, cook on open fires, construct Robin’s hideout in the woods and defend it, design your own coat-of-arms and make bows & arrows with quivers, naturally! Then of course there’s the archery, aerial trekking, grass-sledging, go-karting, hike to Biggin Hill Airport and much more…

No doubt there’ll be some medieval jesters frivolity at the Medieval Banquet! We will have a hut to sleep in on the first night, and where our camp cook will prepare all meals and for creativity and talent if the weather is bad – but here’s to fab weather and lots of free time play in the woods. Cubs love mud, fresh air and freedom, especially when you give them a theme to play with

Cost of the camp is £70, we need a minimum of 24 cubs to make this viable. As a point of note, 3HH scouts will also be camping at the same venue at the same time, though in a remote spot in the depths of the woods – perhaps we should ambush them? Tee-hee!!!

Camp Form

Camp Poster

Cub Leadership team
Wend and Jon

Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme Sessions start again on Tuesday 29th January 2008.

The focus of this term will be training and preparation for both practise and real expeditions in the Spring and Summer.

If you were once a Member of the Group and have any stories or tales to share with us we would love to hear from you!

As we celebrate our 60th Year it would be wonderful to gather together some memories and build a picture of the last 60 years!

It would be great to add some more information and background into our History Section.

Please contact us using the Enquiry Form and get in touch.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Happy New Year to you all, hope you all had great holidays!

Attached is the outline programme for next term at Cubs. We’re planning to be working towards the new Promise Challenge and Emergency Aid Stage 1 Badges and looking at a couple of Activity Badges as well. Don’t forget that you can check out the badges at http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/hqdocs/badges/cub-index.htm and work towards the Activity Badges whenever you want. At some point we’ll be investing our new Cubs too, will get things settled down before we do this though.

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Many thanks to those of you who ordered your Amazon purchases via the 3HH website. As a result of this campaign we have raised a very respectable £104.77 (subject to any refunds due to items being returned).

This is a great achievement in that it is essentially free money for the group, easy to achieve and is no extra work for us.

As a reminder you can continue to place your orders through our Amazon link all through the year and in doing so, continue to generate some much needed extra funding for the group. Just use the search box on the right.

Thanks again.

Happy New Year to all!

Celebrating our Diamond Anniversary 1948 - 2008.

60 Years of Scouting.

2008 is another Milestone and a year of celebration for the Group.

The 3rd Hampton Hill (St James) Scout Group was officially registered in 1948. Take a look at the History Section for a quick summary of the Group History. This year we will be taking a look back but will also be looking to the future once again.

Lets hope that 2008 is another ‘fantastic journey’ for the Group! Welcome aboard!

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Find out how you can change lives at http://www.scouts.org.uk

* 28 Million Members worldwide
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* One of the world’s largest mixed youth organisations
* 100 years old on 1 August 2007
* 21st World Scout Jamboree for 40,000 Scouts from around the world took place in the UK, summer 2007.

Another member of 3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group has been recognised for their achievements and successes:

Alex L has been awarded the Jack Petchey Foundation Achievement Award.

This award has been given based on a recommendation made by the Group detailing Alex’s enthusiasm, sustained attendance, commitment, help and service to others.

Who is Jack Petchey?

Born in 1925 and brought up in the East End of London. He was a Scout and holds the Silver Acorn. He received the OBE in 2004 in recognition of his contribution to young people. He established the Jack Petchey Foundation in 1999 and gives grants to programmes and projects that benefit young people aged 11 – 25.

The Group has received a cheque from the Foundation which will be spend on items and suggestions given by Alex.

Well done Alex!

Just a few more days till the end of 2007. What a memorable year for Scouting and a year of achievements and successes at 3rd Hampton Hill. Numbers are again strong and the annual census Group Membership return in Jan 08 looks like it will give a healthy return - will we go above 150 in 2008?

2008 is the 60th Diamond Celebration Year for the Group. We already have a celebration camp planned for May at Walton Firs and no doubt there will be many other exciting and interesting activies to enjoy throughout the year. Watch these pages for more information and announcements . . . please also come forward and speak with any of the Leadership Team if you have any ideas or suggestions for events or activities to help Celebrate the Diamond Anniversary of The Group.

As always we are looking for additional adult support and help in the Sections which is vital to assist the Section Leaders with providing an active and varied programme. Please speak with your Section Leader early in the New Term and see what help you might be able to provide.

We have plans for a Spring Fayre early in March. We hope you will join us and support us in raising funds for the Group. Funds will be spent on more projects and tasks in 2008 which will continue to improve and maintain the Group Headquarters. We are also speaking with Hampton Hill Junior School about their possible plans to replace the Minibus which we share.

2008 is shaping up to being another busy year for The Group!