The photo selected this week shows Taceham Explorers snow boarding in Switzerland - wow!
Did you know that 2005 is the Year of the Volunteer? Check out the new entries to the ResourceBase which are concerned with Volunteer Week and the Year of the Volunteer. There are a lot of resources which Leaders, Groups and Districts can connect with including ideas, recruitment, resources, awards and publicity. A collection of the resources are available here.
All adult volunteers in Berkshire deserve the best support and deserve to be valued by young people, their parents and above all by all the other Adult Volunteer. Valuing Adult Volunteers is key element of the Plan for the County. Key to achieving this is to ensure that every Adult Volunteer across Berkshire has an annual review. More
The three Reading Districts (East Reading, Pang Valley and Reading Central) have announced plans to produce a Reading-wide Gang Show in 2007 as part of the celebrations which look to build on the first one hundred years of Scouting. more
15 Cubs and Scouts from Taceham Hundred and Kennet District were presented with the Chief Scouts Challenge Silver Award, which they won whilst in the Cubs Scout Section. Congratulations to all the young people. See the photos and story on the Cub Scout pages
We have received the sad news that Dr Frank Barry Smith OBE died on 23 February. Barry was for many years Cub Scout Leader with 2nd Bracknell with many associations with the South East Berkshire District and the County Training Team more
Comic Relief is coming up fast - it is Friday 11 th March. It’s only just over three weeks to go until the big event. Check out the special Scout page on the Red Nose Website. more
Do you make use of any spam filtering software for your emails at home? If so we would be like to hear from you as we are currently preparing a help page on how to solve the unwanted email problem. Let us know what you use and how well it works. Email the Web Team at webteam@berkshirescouts.org.uk
As part of the preparations for sharing the great events taking place in 2007 and beyond, a new website has been launched www.berkshirescouts2007.org.uk. Please let the web team know of links you would like made to your own web site or of stories and events related to 2007.
Next weeks 3 different modules in the Adult Training & Support Programme.
1 March Adult Training Module
23 Safety for Managers and Supporters
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2 March Adult Training Module
5 Fundamental Values (
Western Area )
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5 March Adult Training Module
25 Assessing Learning (
Western Area )
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It was announced today that Miss Sue Kidd will be the next County Commissioner for Girlguiding Royal Berkshire as from May 15th 2005. more
The Big Kickabout
With only three months to go until the big day, more stars are confirming their attendance at The Big Kickabout on 22nd May. Lee from ex boy-band 911 will be playing on the celebrity team and we have a CBBC film crew from XChange filming on the day!
Gary Lineker has also endorsed the event: “I loved scoring goals for England. Why not come along to the Big Kickabout for a fun day and watch teams score some goals to help children with cancer. You never know - if you put in enough practice you could be the next England goal scorer!”
The early bird discount, where you save £1 on the £9.99 full ticket price, is available for one more week – until 4.45pm on 28th February. Ensure you don’t miss out on the best seats by calling 0870 112 1967. More information can be found at www.scouts.org.uk/bigkickabout
2005 Orchestral course
Orchestral Percussionist required to join the 2005 Orchestral course in Co Durham from 24 -31st July 2005. The cost for the full week is £285.00 which includes professional tuition, full board and sports activities.
70 Scout & Guide Members (minimum Grade 5) have now been selected for the 2005 Symphony Orchestra. Public Concerts will be given at the end of the course on Friday and Saturday at venues in the area. See http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/direct/events/nsgso.htm for more details.
The course is designed to improve orchestral skills rather than teaching music. There are three trainee percussionists in the percussion section as well.
If you feel you (or someone you know in Scouting) can fit the bill and they are between 14 and 25 years of age, we shall be delighted to hear from you.
Contact the Organiser, Derek Jackson
e-mail: djnsgso@yahoo.co.uk or Tel: 0118 934 1939
Scouts on CBBC
If you get a chance check out CBBC 07.30 to 08.00 every day this week. Daniel and Ellie, two Scout leaders from North London show how to go camping Scouting style. The show is repeated 13.00 to 13.30 each day. Their exploits will appear on the web sites as downloads - Check out the web site for further details http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/xchange/index.shtml
24th March module 23 training session for GSLs and Commissioners
In response to demand by Scouters for more courses covering single modules, the Gilwell Park Training Team will be running a training session on module 23 ‘Safety for Managers and Supporters’ at Baden Powell House on the evening of the 24th of March. This training session will run from 6pm until approximately 9pm at BP House in South Kensington, Central London. The session is hoped to be convenient to access for those living or working in London, or those travelling in by public transport. Module 23 Safety for Managers and Supporters covers specific roles, responsibilities and systems for ensuring safe Scouting. Also covered is risk assessment, activity authorisation, insurance and accident
reporting. To apply for this evening, please by email Brigitte Hurlock at Brigitte.Hurlock@scout.org.uk or call on 0208 433 7126 by 15 th March.
Book early for Gilwell Reunion and save money
We are pleased to announce that the 79th Gilwell Reunion will be held over the weekend 2/3/4 September 2005 at Gilwell Park. The theme for this year's event is ‘Hollywood’; so make sure that you are part of the star-studded line-up! To make your booking click on this link…..
http://www.sbuk.org.uk/info.centre/catalog.php?cat=238
National St George’s Day Parade - 24th April 2005
The national parade by Queen’s Scouts will take place at Windsor Castle on the 24th April. We are very fortunate this year to be able to offer 300 spectator tickets for members of the Movement to be able to watch the parade from inside the Castle grounds.
Tickets (maximum of 10 tickets per request) will be issued on a first come, first served basis. Applications need to be made by EMAIL only.
Please Email your request to the Information Centre at info.centre@scout.org.uk giving us your name, full postal address, daytime telephone number and number of tickets required.
This week sees the second edition of the new format to the Berkshire Scouts News Service. The weekly emails are now sent in HTML format which should provide an easier to read message as the various email viewers should handle them in a standard way
If the message appears to be a bit gobbly gook in your email viewer then sorry we probably have a little more to learn despite extensive testing. Please let the web team know so we can fine tune the layout. It would be a great help if you indicated what email viewer you are using and what you can see. You may find it helpful to install a more recent version of your email viewer. This message is also available on the website so you can see what it should look like www.berkshirescouts.org.uk/newsservice
Thats all for this week - lets make it even better fun, friendship and adventure next week
The Web Team
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