3rd Hampton Hill Scout Group

All the Sections have enjoyed yet another fantastic and varied programme. There have also been successes and achievements in District, County and National Events – well done all. As well as personal awards and recognition for service and commitment. 2008 has been a great and very memorable year for the Group and we continue to live up to our Motto of ‘Moving On, Moving Up!’ Just take a trawl back through some of the earlier web posts to see how much we have achieved this term and for the whole year.

I would like to say a very Big THANKS to ALL The Section Leadership Teams, Group Executive Committee and everyone that has supported us both this term and for the year. Everyone at 3rd Hampton Hill are volunteers who freely give up their time to help Young People enjoy Scouting and develop skills for life.

Our two highest priorities for early in the New Year are the recruitment of Assistant Beaver Scout Leaders and a Booking Secretary.

Planning is underway for a couple of big camps next year: CubJam in May at Gilwell Park and Twickeree at Marble Hill Park in June. We are also in the early stages of planning an International Trip in 2011! There is an initial interest sign up sheet posted up at the Scout HQ.

May I take this opportunity to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy, prosperous and healthy 2009. I am certain that 2009 will be another fantastic year for Scouting at 3rd Hampton Hill.

I look forward to seeing you all in the New Year. Kindest regards and very best wishes.

Yours in Scouting and friendship

Rich M
Group Scout Leader

Hi Everyone

That’s it now until September, I hope you all enjoyed the summer term as much as we did.

THANK YOU as well to all the people that have helped out over the last year at all the events and camps we’ve had. From running teams at district events and supporting us on camps, to simply bringing your Cubs down to the hut every week on time and smartly turned out, it all adds up to give an AMAZING result.

We would also like to recognise and say a big THANK YOU to Rich Moody, our Group Scout Leader. For those that don’t know, he’s the guy that keeps us all on track (and occasionally keeps us in line!), looks after our interests within the district and the county and does a HUGE amount of co-ordination and organisation behind the scenes on our behalf.

We’ll be saying cheerio to some of our Cubs over the summer, THANK YOU for all your energy and enthusiasm. We wish you all the best with Scouts.

Summer campers – will see you all on Saturday 26th.

First nights back in the Autumn will be Monday 15th and Wednesday September 17th for games, new Sixers & Seconders and hopefully welcoming some new Beavers. See you all then.

Cheers all, have the most BRILLIANT holidays!!

Jon and Wend
Akelas, Snowdon and Nevis Cubs

Hi Everyone

First of all I must say that there was a top turn out last night with everyone looking good. Full uniforms all round, jumpers AND scarves! Well done!! Congratulations as well to Jacob and the rest of his team who did the best in the “Match Relay” and also had the best scores in all the cycling quizzes. Top effort!

Just a couple of things to mention. In the paperwork you took home last night there were some important forms:

1) Cycling Donation Form. This is in support of Shooting Star following the excellent visit we had last term by Dr Jean when she gave a show on her Nile expedition. It would be great to raise some money as a thank you and for the work that they do at the Shooting Star. Even £1 per cub would raise £50, so lets see if we can do that as a minimum! (Don’t forget to Gift Aid it too.)

2) Subs. As usual, please can we get these returned as soon as possible. A reminder that for the Beavers that have made the swim up there is the additional Section payment as well.

3) Highway code. These booklets are for information only, we’re in no way doing anything like the Cycling Proficiency award that many of you will do later in school and there’s no test or anything like that. But take a look at them anyway, there’s a lot of good stuff in there about safe cycling and road safety.

Finally – SUMMER CAMP – the list is up in the hut for anyone wanting to go. Please do note that there are only 40 spaces available so I would recommend getting your name down sooner rather than later. We’ll get the information out soon about cost etc, but it should be in the normal range of £70 to £80 per cub. (But like everyone else we get hit by the higher cost of food these days!) The dates are Saturday 26th July to Wednesday 30th July.

And on the subject of camps, check out the link for the 2009 CUBJAM, 2,500 Cubs descending on Gilwell Park for 6 nights for a MEGA CARNIVAL. 3HH have registered to go and this will probably be the only big camp we have next year, we hope you’ll want to come too!!

Hope you all have brilliant half term holidays. Cheers Jon

PS – Date for the diary Sunday April 26th 2009 – St George’s Day Parade in Richmond……!!!

Dear Beaver Parents,

Here is the revised summer program for Beavers this term. I have had to cancel the meeting on Friday 4th of July as I am away, and all the Cub and Scout leadership will be on Borough Camp. If you had signed up to help on that evening maybe you could help on another evening?

You may also notice that the last evening is invitation only. I thought that it would be a good idea to reward the Beavers who achieved one or more of the following: attending St Georges Day Parade, attending a Church parade or having a parent who volunteered to help. If you have any difficulties with this then please contact me or see me on a Friday evening.

Regards Jane

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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December issue of Focus -the Greater London South West County newsletter.

Messages from the County Commissioner and a summing up of a successful year.

Focus can also be read online at:

http://www.glswscouts.org.uk/newsletters/focus-2007-12

or printed from the PDF version (344KBytes) at:

http://www.glswscouts.org.uk/newsletters/pdf/focus-2007-12.pdf

Hi Everyone – I hope all the various schools have now broken up and you’re all officially on hols.

This message is just to say a couple of things. First of all, a big thank you to everyone for last term and for your support as we handed over Snowdon pack from Belinda to me. Secondly, a huge well done to all our Cubs with various successes and achievements shown by the nember of badges we handed out. In particular those that gained their Chief Scout Silver Awards – the pinnacle of Cub Scout awards and a real demonstration to the Scouts of what they are getting – make sure these are sewn on to your Scout shirts when you move up in September!!

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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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• 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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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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