DISTRICT NEWSLETTER No 67 - 23-11-2008DISTRICT NEWSLETTER No 67 news article Todmorden Gang Show Auditions on Sunday 23 November at Ferney Lee School, 1400/1700 Burnley and Pendle adults and young people are invited to take part. Full details attached or contact Jon Sayer on 01706 839871 or 07734 454650 Pendle District Beaver and Cub Leaders Meeting on Monday 1 December 2008 at Jane’s at 2030 hrs. Don’t miss this opportunity to have your say on what we are doing. Christmas Experience at Bowley 1 to 5 December 2008 If you have not already booked for this popular annual magical event, please do so before 16 November. For full details, please visit the County website at www.eastlancashirescouts.org.uk Christmas Tree Festival at St Peter’s Church 5 to 14 December 2008. All Burnley Scout Groups are invited to make and donate a small number of tree decorations which need to be given to me no later than Friday 28 November 2008. (They can be brought to St Matthew’s Church Hall between 1900 and 2100 hrs on this date or brought to the District Executive Meeting on Thursday 27 November at St Cuthbert’s) Burnley District Cubs visit to the Pantomime on Friday 9 January 2008 at the Mechanics. Contact Neville Graham on 01282 453593 before 6 December if you wish to reserve seats for your pack Leaders will have noticed in the last issue of Scouting magazine that Beavers “may” move up to Cubs on reaching 7.5 years of age and new members may also join Cubs direct from this age. Please note that section activity rules, e.g. sleepovers, still apply to each section. A Cub aged 7.75 years may attend a Cub camp for its full duration but a Beaver Scout of the same age is limited to the existing duration for Beaver Sleepovers. Please note that the core age ranges remain at 6 to 8 yrs for Beavers and 8 to 10.5 yrs for Cubs. In order to prevent any anomalies arising from this flexibility of ages, I suggest that we try to adhere to these core age ranges wherever possible.
BADGE RECORDS We need to record details of certain key badges so that our Badge Secretaries can submit these to County to support their application for Grants that enable them to continue to provide many of their functions for the Districts. Our Badge Secretary needs the name and address and Scout Group of all young people gaining any Chief Scouts and Queen’s Award, including the Bronze and Silver CSA. These badges will NOT be issued without this information. All Staged Badges will require the young person’s names and Scout Groups for each Staged Badge. All Challenges, Activity and all other badges just require the name of the badge and the number awarded by each Scout Group. As many section leaders hold stocks of various badges, please inform our Badge Secretary when these have been issued and give the appropriate details as specified above. Similarly, all leaders are asked to check their records going back to the April 2008 and submit the appropriate details to their Badge Secretary within the next 6 weeks. CENSUS FORMS AND THE ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTIONS The Census Forms will be issued during December and Groups should be aware of the need to complete their Membership Details and pay the appropriate Membership Subscriptions by the end of January 2009. Details of the Subscriptions will be sent to Group Scout Leaders in the next couple of weeks. It will be appreciated if Groups will begin to bring their records up to date so that this essential process can be completed on time. DEVELOPMENT I am sorry to report that Nick Rae, Beaver Scout Leader at St Stephen’s has resigned due to ill health and I wish to record my thanks to Nick and Sue for their excellent work. Gail Ward has now taken over as BSL at St Stephen’s. I am pleased to report that Jon Marsden has agreed to take over the role of ADC (Scouts) The Salvation Army in Nelson have applied to form a Beaver Colony and Cub Pack from February 2009. Sabden Scout Group has restarted and has been transferred to Clitheroe District by mutual agreement. Andrew Swales has been appointed as the Scout Network Leader for
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