GSL's Message June 2011

I was very pleased to see so many people attending our recent annual review and AGM. I hope you found the evening infomative and reports and videos from this are available via the Notices page. Also new to the website is the Downloads page which is featuring direction maps and common forms and will be added to over the coming months. Welcome to all the new executive members, I am sure you will help the Group go from strength to strength and allow the leaders to focus on running activites for children and increase fundraising to keep the cost of these events competitive.

Congratulations to Cubs and Scouts for retaining all the District Swimming gala trophies and good luck to the Beavers who will be competing to retain theirs next month. Also well done to our first teams on the ScubtreX events who managed 2nd and 6th out of 19 and put in a very commendable performance.

I was please to have so many people support all the events we have run such as the social evening in February and the Group Gang Show in April. Both were extremely successful and everyone really seemed to enjoy themselves.

All sections have been very busy in recent months with everyone attending the District St George's Camp at Caldicot Castle which was a glorious weekend. The Beavers have been to the Panto, a District Sleepover, Pets at Home, Fourteen Locks Canal Centre and had a talk on international Scouting. The Cubs have taken part in the District Wellie walk, competed in ScubtreX and been on a Parent and Cub camp to Botany Bay. The Scouts have been keeping fit, supported the Cubs at ScubtreX and just returned from a week camp on Brownsea Island, the birthplace of Scouting! Find out about all these activities and more in the latest copy of our Newsletter via the newsletter page of this site.

The Sainsbury Voucher Scheme has now finished but we are still collecting in all the vouchers - please get these to a leader by the end of June!

Finally, we are appealing for parents to help with the fundraising committee which you can dip in and out of as you have time - even if you only feel you can support one event. If you feel you can help the group please see any leader for more information.

I hope to see all of you at the Group Barbecue on 19th July of which more information will be released soon!

Yours in scouting,

Elaine Burrill

Group Scout Leader