Hampshire Scout News December 2014

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Children in Need

1st Itchen South Scout Group

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Children in Need

1st Itchen South Scout Group

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Adam’s Bit

World War 1 Projects

JOTA /JOTI October 2014

Boy-hero A Belated Thank You!

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Toys for smiles Bursledon Brickwork Sleepover just like the olden days!

1st Hart Plain PALS Battalion

GREEN Blue Peter Badge

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Liphook’s Stirling Explorers win the top prize at the Scout National Rifle and Pistol Championships.

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Milestones & Memories

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Hampshire Scout

& QSA news

Howdy

welcome to the December’s edition of HSN.

U Got news For Us? Do you have a story or success that you’d like to share? Help us to highlight and celebrate your achievements in growth, inclusively, youth shaped and community – email us your team’s successes along with any photos to: county.office@Scouts-hants. org.uk, please keep emails less than 30mb, if they are bigger we can share our Dropbox link with you, please get in touch.

About Us Hampshire Scouts provides adventurous activities and personal development opportunities for over 17,500 young people aged 6-25, promoting the physical, intellectual, social and spiritual well-being of the individual, helping them achieve their full potential.

In Scouting, we believe that young people develop most when they are ‘learning by doing,’ when they are given responsibility, work in teams, take acceptable risks and think for themselves.

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The Adventure Begins...

Last month I was invited to go down to the opening of a new Scout Group, in the Oakridge area of Basingstoke.

Overshadowed by a tower block, the area is now being regenerated with new housing and increased open spaces.

Inside the Methodist Church Hall was the new Pack, with eight incredibly enthusiastic Cubs, new leaders recruited from the parents, and a strong team from the District to help the Cub Pack get started.

Every Cub’s family was there to see them getting invested, plus the community support worker from the Methodist Church underlining the great support they were providing as well for the new Scout Group.

There used to be a Scout Group at Oakridge, and the stock of red and gold neckerchiefs had been kept in reserve for this new dawn.

I had the chance to chat briefly with the new Cubs, and as I talked about what Scouting can offer in terms of camping, firelighting, and expeditions, their eyes widened in anticipation of their future adventures.

One of the new leaders talked about how he had been a Scout Leader at university some years ago, and how pleased he was when his daughter came home from school keen to join the new Cub Pack.

It had taken a year or so to prepare for this moment, with lots of hard work by a collaboration between the County Development Officer, the District, and the Methodist Church.

This is what #Scouting4All looks like.

Real, community-based Scouting, taking place on a rainy Friday evening, and offering fresh new activities to young people.

And now the adventure begins for eight more young people and four adult volunteers‌

Adam

County Commissioner Hampshire Scouting

Hampshire Scout

Caving Club

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Programme Updates More than 12,000 members told us what they would like to see in an updated Programme. The results are in and with your help we have refreshed the Programme to make sure that what we provide reflects the needs of today’s young people and the communities in which they live.

Section leaders will have received a hard copy in the post and additional copies can be downloaded from scouts.org.uk/programmeupdates. Most of the detail on this page refers specifically to the 6-18 sections. Further detailed information about changes to the Scout Network (18-25) will follow over the next few months.

The full roll-out will commence from early 2015. The refreshed Programme doesn’t mean that you will have to stop and change your current Programme in January; there will be a long transition period through 2015.

Detailed badge requirements will be available in early 2015 once all resources are set in place.

Brand refresh To coincide with the launch of the revised Programme we have also refreshed the five section brands. The revised brands are now more clearly part of a single family and will make their grand entrance in January.

This work has been done in close consultation with young people and adults in the Movement; further details are available in the Dec/Jan issue of Scouting magazine. Guidelines and artwork will be available at scouts.org.uk/brand in early 2015.

Hampshire Bushcraft & Survival

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The key to the logistics and event communication of many highly successful Scouting occasions.

For more information: Spearhead@scouts-hants.org.uk

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World War 1 Project undertaken by Groups within the County Thank you very much for the recent submissions for the Hampshire WW1 Badge and congratulations to all of you for some excellent projects. Here are a few of those we have received in November.

Playing 1914 Children’s Games Well Done to the 100th Elvetham Scout Group who proved that you don’t need to have 100 years of history as a Scout Group to participate in the WW1 commemoration badge. The Group is only 6 years old and so could not research their own history. Instead the Cubs chose to find out about and re-enact what children of their age would have done in the war. They sent messages using semaphore, played typical games and visited the Royal logistics Corps Museum. To complete the activity they made badges and sold them, just as children of the war did, raising £66 which was donated to Cancer Research and then helped to sell poppies for the Royal British Legion before attending the local Remembrance Sunday Parade.

Badges made by the Cubs to raise funds 6 December 2014

For the past 2 years, in the lead up to Remembrance Sunday, the 7th Itchen South Scouts have been researching names on the local War memorial and their findings have now become an integral part of the annual Service.

This year they extended their activities and received a WW1 themed talk from the local history society, looked at some medals and a death penny and discussed how these had been earned, learnt about Cornwell VC and cooked a WW1 ‘trench meal’ amongst many other activities. They are now planning a trip to visit the Trenches and war graves in France next year.

Pinnacle Explorer Unit (Portsmouth) spent an evening at the local museum where they learnt about what the Portsmouth people did during the war and what women did as well as finding out about a Soldiers life in the Trenches and the life of an airman.

The 1st Aldershot Scout Group and Pioneer Explorers held their annual Group camp with a WW1 theme where they learnt about many aspects of life in the trenches including the basic rations the soldiers enjoyed (or not) and casualty handling and treatment in a Field Hospital.

And finally, a very big BRAVO to Cadnam River Beaver Colony No 2. Their WW1 adventure started with a tea party for veterans from WW2 and the Falklands War during which the Beavers asked questions and found out about going to War, what the servicemen did and how long they were away. Then, after raising funds including receiving a grant from the Radio Solent Community Chest, the Colony along with parents and invited guests including other members of the Group and the Rainbows and Brownies enjoyed a visit to the new WW1 galleries at the Imperial War Museum before walking by HMS BELFAST, crossing Tower Bridge and viewing the sea of poppies display at the Tower of London. One Beaver was proudly invested by the Tower in full public view.

At the IWM they learnt about the life in the trenches through interactive boards, uniforms to dress in, pressing out medals and walking through a section trench. They also had opportunity to see the many other exhibits at the museum, including real tanks, guns, missiles and artefacts to do with espionage. The museum is free and they recommend a visit.

Once home all the Beavers made scrap books of their visit and what they had learnt about WW1.

The WW1 team congratulate all who have completed a project and earned their WW1 badge. The range of activities has been many and most worthwhile in helping our young people understand the significance of Remembrance Sunday and the sacrifices made by all in WW1. This is the final article in this series but hopefully you will continue to undertake projects on WW1 as part of your continuing Scouting programme.

Lt. Col. (Retired) David Griffiths Hampshire County WW1 Group Note from Martin Rudd, Chair Hampshire WW1 Group - I want to thank everyone in the Hampshire Scouts WW1 Group for the work they has carried out in 2014 to initiate and support ideas for local Scouting to use this WW1 Centenary year. We have been greatly rewarded by the enthusiasm of Groups and Sections all over Hampshire, in some wonderful, detailed and thought provoking projects carried out locally. We were of course also very pleased that Hampshire Scouts yet again filled Winchester Cathedral on Friday 9th May for our WW1 Service of Reconciliation & Peace with all the additional displays and bands in The Outer Close. We will be back in 2016 to think about WW1 midway - keep those badges!

Group Members – Laura Betteridge, Andrew Snow, Ollie Murray, Ray Noice, Ron Dear, David Griffths, Dave Pannell.

Well done team and Hampshire!

Hampshire Scout Mountaineering Team

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Boy-hero

From left, Brian Durrant, his father Peter Durrant, 89, and Pauline McKay. Picture: Malcolm Wells (143130-5371)

GENERATIONS of a family gathered to remember a boy-hero who dived into chilly waters to save a baby’s life.

Percy Durrant was an 11-year-old Scout in Gosport when he saw a pram rolling along the old pontoon into the harbour and almost-certain death for the baby boy 100 years ago yesterday.

He jumped in, got the baby out and handed him to the boy’s mother.

His brave actions saved the child – and earned him a bravery award from Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouts.

Speaking at the remembrance service held at Falkland Gardens, Percy’s son Peter Durrant, 89, of Victory Court, said: “I’ve always been proud of my dad”.

‘He never spoke about it – a picture was on the wall and he just said “I got that when I was a boy Scout, I jumped into the harbour and got a boy out” The ceremony was planned after Peter’s son Brian Durrant, 60, of Coach Hill, Titchfield, carried out research into the rescue this year.

Standing close to where the pram shot into the water, Brian told family members of the brave feat – carried out in weather conditions similar to those yesterday.

Brian said: “It’s a marvellous achievement to have someone in the family who has done something as brave as that.”

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‘To actually dive into the harbour is no mean feat.’

He added it was common for young children to play in the mud at the harbour and his grandfather would have been confident in the water – although Percy did get a clip round the ear from his dad for getting his clothes wet.

His actions earned him sixpence a year from the child’s grateful mother, whose name was Mrs Turner.

Percy, who died aged 51, did not speak of the day to his children but a medal of merit award, given to him in February 1915 and signed by Baden-Powell, marks his astonishing achievement.

Youngsters from 6th Gosport Scout Group – the same group Percy was in – attended the remembrance service and were inspired by the tale.

Aaron Hazzard, 10, a pupil at Bedenham Primary School, said: ‘Percy is a local hero. I wish I could be that brave.’

Percy’s grandaughter Pauline McKay, 64, from Fareham added: ‘You look at the children around here and you think at that age to do that it was brilliant. He must have been very brave. A lot of people would stand there and think about it for a while but he just jumped.’

Was it your dad or grandad who was saved from the harbour by Mr Durrant? If you know, please call the Newsdesk on (023) 9262 2118.

by Ben Fishwick ben.fishwick@thenews.co.uk Article taken from: www.portsmouth.co.uk

Beavers decended on Paultons Park On Saturday 8th November Beaver Scouts, their Leaders and families decended on Paultons Park, over 3700 of us in total, and what a day it was!

Despite the dreadful weather there were huge smiley faces wherever you looked, with everyone having a great time.

This year was a special year for Paultons and the Beavers as this was the 10th successive year this event has taken place. To celebrate there was cake and entertainment in the Party tent, and a Big Brother style diary area for Beavers to tell us about their day - thanks to Nikki the Magiclady and her team and our own Ray Noyce for all their help.

Of course our very own Chip was there, along with a VIP visitor - BBCs Pudsey Bear came along to help us raise some money for Children in Need.

It was also a sad day as this was the last event that Teresa Ginn (who has been ACC Beavers for over 11 years) will be organising for the Beavers in her current role, and I would like say what an absolutely fantastic job she has done. However she is taking on an exciting new role and we all wish her the very best for the future.

So here’s looking to next year.....

Wendy Turner Deputy ACC Beaver Scouts www.hampshirescouts.org.uk

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Hi I would like to tell you about our new explorer pack at Headley that was just an idea in June with lots of scouts having left and not gone on to other packs due to having gone through with all their friends right from beavers till scouts. we as adults felt that we could carry on our close knit group and rope in parents to become leaders and take the teenagers further. we have 12 on roll and 4 adult helpers with the young people keen to give us the ideas about what they wanted from the group, things from driver training to longer, harder camps. We began in September. So far we have succeeded in a night hike which by all accounts was an interesting experience, to this term having a bake off using camping stoves and more shooting practice. We have been approached by other packs to work alongside and share ideas and experience which will help us meet new people and make explorers more fun.

Thank you Lara Balchin-Murray

A Belated Thank You

We would like to send a “Thank You” message out to those members who have sent nametapes and badges to the Heritage Collection since they attended H0014. As part of our display we showed the nametapes and District and Group badges we have recorded and many of you noticed that we were missing some of your badges and during the last few weeks a steady stream of nametapes and badges have been arriving at County Office with the aim of filling some of the spaces. For this we are most grateful.

Since HQ gave the job of recording badges to Counties rather than themselves, it has actually been harder to keep track of them than before. If any badge is to be worn on uniform, which includes nekkers, a copy of the badge should be sent to County Office and the design should be approved by the County Commissioner before manufacture. We have been working very hard to make sure we have an example of all Group Badges as we have been asked to produce a booklet about them and it is no good doing it if the records are incomplete. We know of a few groups who have a badge which is not in the records. They are:

1st NFS Barton Sea Scouts

4th Itchen South (Netley) “Sir Harry Crichton’s Own” 4th Andover (The Clatfords) 22nd Andover (25th Anniversary) 7th Southampton (Bassett) 75 years If anyone can send us an example of these badges we would be very grateful. We did collect a lot of nametapes as a result of the camp but we are still missing an awful lot and as we go round the County to various meetings we will be on the look out for missing items.

Have a great Christmas and New Year and remember the cold, wet winter months are a good time to get out those Camp Blankets and sew on all the badges you have obtained from various events during the year.

The Heritage Team Richard Spearing www.hampshirescouts.org.uk

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Can you put a smile on the face of a refugee child in Jordan?

Za’atariand Azraq Refugee Camps in Jordan shelter more than 200,000 Syrian refugees of which over 90,000 are children Last year as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations, the National Scout and Guide Fellowship UK collected nearly half a ton of toys in 161 boxes for refugee children aged 4 - 10 years who have been forced from their homes in Syria.

This year the collection will be repeated with International Scout Active Support taking the Scouting lead in the “Toys for Smiles “ project collecting toys for the Syrian refugee children in the Al - Za’atari and Azraq Refugee Camps Jordan.

Partners: The partners for this project are: • International Scout Active Support Unit – Berkshire Scout Enterprises Ltd (BSEL) • United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) • Aviation Without Borders (AWB) with a grant from the ISTAT Foundation • GIST You can help by collecting good quality used toys, (listed below) for these children Suitable toys: Bats – rounders, cricket, table tennis Balls • Tennis and other similar size Footballs and similar balls •Skipping ropes • Lego and other building modelling type blocks Plastic toys • dolls • Dominos, chess, checkers, snakes and ladders and other board games Crayons, colouring books • Paper, pencils • Cars, lorries, tractors etc. • Jigsaws Building bricks, plastic shapes • Cut out animals • Frisbie • Kites • Animals - farm or zoo Spinning Tops • Hoola hoops Unsuitable toys: No: Soft, fabric, stuffed or cuddly toys (for reasons of hygiene), war games, toy guns or battery operated toys.

Details of how to package the toys and toy collection points will be available in the new year. We are hoping to send out the toys in February 2015.

To meet the cost of transportation of the toys from the UK to Jordan, we ask for a small donation of £5 per box.

This will help go to meet the full cost of transportation.

Further information will be available in the next edition of HSN or if you have any questions contact Tim or Margaret Ellis, on 01252 409269 or email tim.j.ellis@ntlworld.com.

Information about last year’s collection can be found at www.unhcr.org.uk/news-and-views/news-list/newsdetail/article/uk-toys-bring-smiles-to-syrian-refugee-children.html 12 December 2014

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Bursledon Brickwork Sleepover The year of adventure began early for the Cubs of 10th Fareham Uplands Cub Pack with a sleepover at Bursledon Brickwork Museum.

On a bright sunny morning in November, we arrived at Bursledon Brickworks. The dust from the bricks gripping hard on our shoes as we walked along. We were shown to the room where we could leave our kit, it had a concrete floor which we thought would be hard to sleep on.

When we were all together, we had a tour of the museum where we learnt about the history of bricks and how hard it was to work at the Brickworks.

We learnt that children as young as 13 worked in the Brickworks earning very little money. The tour ended in the education room where we made our own bricks.

Then we ate our packed lunches before designing and building lego houses and trying to make the tallest, self-supporting cocktail stick and marshmallow towers. We then had some free-time in the adventure park and hands-on section of the museum.

We had spaghetti bolognese for tea. After which we played some games until a story-teller arrived.

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First he took us on a torch-light tour of the museum which some of us found really scary!! We then had a selection of ghost stories before it was time for hot chocolate and bed.

In the morning, we had cereal and bacon sandwiches for breakfast. We went to the education room again where we each had a large block of clay and made a home for an insect. After an hour or so when we had all finished, the leaders picked the best three to be fired. We had great fun smashing up all the others and putting the clay back in the large barrel.

It was then time to go home so we went back to our room to collect all our kit and wait for our parents to arrive.

We were the first Cubs to ever have a sleepover at Bursledon Brickworks but, because it went so well, they have said they would be happy for others to do the same thing – we will definitely be going again.

Dawn Mansfield Akela, 10th Fareham Uplands Cub Pack

1st Hart Plain PALS Battalion

WW1 Scout Camp Friday night, the 1st Hart Plain PALS Battalion, made up of 26 battle ready Scouts, marched from Wickham to the Scout Army Barracks at Lyons Copse campsite.

Barracks were set up in the main hall with the luxury of camp beds and two separate bunk houses. The commanding officers carried out a troop inspection first thing. The Troop carried out a good kit inspection.

The Troop carried out many interesting activities which included, gun supply run, drill practice, first aid training, rifle shooting and semaphore. The camp was themed on the Great War to remember those who fought in it and for the scouts to learn from it. The Troop all made trench cake, using an actual recipe used back then, it was really tasty. They also tried Hard Tack biscuits which were really hard!

In the evening the Red Cross delivered vital food parcels filled with many goodies all themed to that era. The Troop had a great sing song, singing some of the favourites of the time which was great fun.

Throughout the camp, many stories were read to the troop. Accounts of what it was like for people who were in the Great War. On Sunday, the Troop marched back to Wickham and visited the war memorial to pay their respects and had a minute’s silence. The Troop then marched into Wickham. The commanding officers were very proud of them all, the training paid off.

Callum was Scout of the Weekend and Harry scored the most points in the rifle shooting. Finally the troop did a final salute and were dismissed.

All in all it was a successful, interesting and fun camp. It took a lot of time and support to make this camp the success it was and to that end we, the commanding officers, would like to thank all those involved with the camp.

Tris Emmett, Assitant Scout Leader

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JOTA /JOTI October 2014

Jamboree on the Air, on the Internet? We had never heard of it before, let alone arrange it. What was it all about again? Oh yes, an entire weekend with Scouts and Guides all over the world having the opportunity to communicate with each other. Was it worth it? Definitely! Did the Scouts have fun? Oh, Yes! Would we do it again? With certainty.

The Leaders arrived at the Cricket camp on the Friday afternoon to set camp before dark closed in, along with the local Radio club to set-up their ‘rig’. We had a leaders briefing and confirmed the plan (along with a few adjustments). We spend most of the night sorting out the IT suite, before settling down and going on guard duty for the radio ‘rig’.

In the early morning our Scouts arrived. We raised the colours and gave them their safety briefings on the activities. The scouts split up into their sessions which rotated though-out the day; We had sessions running on Morse codes; wiring the ‘keys’, how it worked, why we used it, sending messages etc. We had sessions outdoors covering various other activities including; radio orienteering, semaphore flags and a treasure hunt. We used the Internet PC suite where Scouts chatted online or used Skype with Webcams to talk to troops around the world.

Then we also had the radio, where our Radio Hams explained how radios all worked, talked about Q-codes/Jcodes and then had them locating stations and talking to other Radio Hams/Scouts around the world.

We stopped in the evening, eventually managed to get the Altar fires alight in the rain (a few scouts even managed to cook their meal on the fires). We lowered the colours and ran a few wide games in the dark before having hot chocolate and settling for bed under canvas for the night.

The Sunday morning was much the same. We stopped at lunch time and then broke camp (luckily there had been no more rain since the torrential downpour in the night, which had allowed the tents to dry).

We followed up our activities at our next troop meeting and managed to complete both the Communicators badge and the Global challenge badge. We had chatted (using both Internet and Radio) with Scouts/Guides from the UK, from Europe, Canada, South America, Africa, India, Russia, Japan (the list goes on). The scouts had a great time and learnt lots, having never heard of the JOTA/JOTI just weeks before, this evolved to being a great success.

I’d like to thank ‘Cookie’ from the Cricket Camp; along with Liz Jones & friends (our Radio Hams) for giving up their time and helping us make this possible.

Yours in Scouting David Broomfield (Navs) Assistant Scout Leader - 31st Itchen North ‘Amazon’ Sea Scouts 16 December 2014

just like the olden days!

In the summer my troop 10th Farnborough attended H0014 and while we were there we visited the Hampshire Scout heritage exhibition. We were all very impressed and decided that we would like to run an old style camp of our own, so on the last Friday of October half term 13 scouts and 6 leaders loaded up our trek cart with as much kit as we could fit on and walked the 4½ miles from our base at Samuel Cody school to the scout camp site at Runways End. When we arrived we had lunch and then pitched three old style patrol tents. We made a camp gadget table for each patrol and cooked all weekend on open fires. We based our menu on food from the 1950’s including stew and dumplings.

In the evening on the Saturday we had a camp fire where we cooked twists and toasted marshmallows. On Sunday morning after we had breakfast we had to pack up all of our kit in the pouring rain.

We had a very enjoyable camp.

Abbie Anderson

The event is on the 28th Feb 2015, open to all Scouts, Explorers, Network and Leaders from across the county and UK. More information on the run can be found at:

www.monopoly-run.co.uk hAMPSHIRE SCOUT ARCHERY CLUB

www.hsac.org.uk

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Children in Need

1st Itchen South Scout Group

1st Itchen South Scout Group held a fun evening to raise money for Children in Need on Wednesday 12th November. The Beavers, Cubs & Scouts were all given sponsor forms and on them it said they were fundraising by dressing up as superheroes or having crazy hair and doing different things with their hair. This was a competition judged by Chris Walker.

The evening was for all the children and parents. There was great atmosphere and plenty of people to join in with the variety of games that were organised. We had name the teddy, pick a straw, guess the number of sweets in a jar, lucky dip, icing biscuits, treasure island, face painting, splat the rat and refreshments. We held a raffle with a variety of prizes that we also asked the parents if they had anything suitable. The BBC came along and filmed the evening and were on BBC South Today. On Friday 14th November a group of us travelled to Newbury to appear on the live show for Children In Need programme which was exciting. At the time of writing this we have raised ÂŁ670 and still have some more money to be handed in. It was a great evening enjoyed by everyone despite the rain.

Esther Seal 1st Itchen South

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Blue Peter Badges

3rd Romsey Scout Group

There was great excitement last Thursday as the postman arrived at the homes of Beavers, Cubs & Scouts from 3rd Romsey Scout Group. In the post were letters for members of 3rd Romsey who had taken part in the Himalayan Balsam pulling and attached to these letters were GREEN Blue Peter Badges.

We have helped Catherine Chatters of the Hampshire & Isle of White Trust to clear balsam at Newtown in the New Forest and at the Blackwater River at Ower. The Scouts & Cubs braved very wet weather last year and the newest Beaver members of the Group joined them in blazing sunshine & stinging nettles this year to help clear this very invasive plant. The Scouts & Cubs learnt a great deal from the evening and Catherine explained to them the invasiveness of this plant and how it can clog our waterways. They also did a report for the Scout website and for the local village magazines and the local paper explaining the importance of this work and what they had learnt. To gain the Blue Peter Badge each Beaver, Cub & Scout had to write a letter or article or draw a picture explaining what activity they had undertaken and how it had benefited the environment and what they had learnt.

It was only on receiving their badges that the Beavers, Cubs & Scouts worked out that they can now apply for a Blue Peter Card and gain free entry (with a paying adult) to many attractions throughout the UK - an added bonus!

Congratulations to all of you!

Sarah Beaman 3rd Romsey Scout Leader - Ashanti Troop www.hampshirescouts.org.uk

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Calling All Explorer Scouts

KUDU NIGHT HIKE

When:

Overnight 14th - 15th February 2015 Start times from 7 - 9pm

Where:

North Andover

Age range:

Three different levels to cover all Explorers Scouts

Team Size:

4-6

Registration Closes:

18th January 2015

For further inforamtion please visit:

www.hampshirescouting.org.uk youth-progamme/explorer-scouts

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7th Fairtrade cooking competition Fair trade fortnight is held every year during the last week of February and first week of March. Products with the fair trade mark generate extra income for the producers which is generally used to pay for their children to go to school. So by buying fair trade products, you are helping others to help themselves.

Hampshire Scouting have marked this occasion for the past 6 six years with a fair trade cooking competition. The challenge is to source such products for a 3 course meal and prepare and cook such a meal and serve to 4 guests on Saturday 28th February in the food preparation rooms of Cranborne College, Basingstoke. Entries are invited from teams of 4 Scouts, Guides or mixed, aged 11 to17, which is restricted to 7 entries.

To enter or get further information contact Rayner Mayer, Global Adviser, Tel: 01252 873564 email: rayner@sciotech.demon.co.uk Space only available for 7 teams so don’t delay , enter today.

Hampshire Scout Rifle Club 2015 County Airgun Competition - Comprising Air Rifle & Air Pistol.

Next year’s competition will be held at the Hiltingbury Scout Headquarters on Sunday 1st March.

Entry is restricted to members of Scout Troops, Explorer & Network Units and to adult leaders of all sections within Hampshire Scout County.

Please note the date and look out for entry details on HSRC website.

www.scouts-shoot.org.uk/hsrc www.hampshirescouts.org.uk

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Tanzania 2017 Leader Recruitment Now Open!

Hampshire County Scouts plan to take a group of 160 - 200 Explorer aged Scouts to Tanzania in the Summer of 2017.

We are now looking for around 30 - 40 Leaders to help run the 8 - 10 Expedition Teams.

We are holding open information sessions in Totton and Basingstoke on 31st January 2015. Leader applications close on 28th February.

For further information please check out:

www.int-scout.org.uk Or contact Julian Sore on mob: 077 8996 6440 email: macawleader@hotmail.com If you have ever wanted to take part in an International Experience, leading young people on an experience of a lifetime, please take a look!

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up your communications by using some The Print Centre Smarten of our new templates on the Scout Print Centre CD and DVD labels, festive posters, Supporting Local including bunting, Facebook banners, infographics and Communications certificates. Log in to get started:

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Milestones & Memories

Two old Scouting friends are ‘deadly’ rivals when it comes to Geocaching. Mike Dawson and Steve Callaghan are Leaders in north Hampshire and passionate advocates of the pursuit of geocaching. They have spent the last couple of years trying to be top of their leader board for the number of caches found but they decided to call a truce and find cache number one thousand together.

For their 1000th cache they visited the Guildford to Horsham Extreme Series to attempt Cache #3 which is graded a 5/5 (www.geocaching. com - GC23Z06). It was a rather wet and soggy Sunday which didn’t dampen the spirit of the small group that accompanied them to make

their attempt. To retrieve the cache was not to be undertaken lightly as it required the use of climbing equipment and a good knowledge of abseiling techniques. With the abseiling rope correctly placed and a safety line attached Mike abseiled down to the cache and found it hidden in a pipe. Once they had signed the log and replaced it in its hiding place Mike returned to ‘terra firma’. So what happened next? With a thousand done they of course headed off to 1001!

The outdoor adventure game of Geocaching, Geocaching is a fun sport that combines being physically active and challenging the geocachers mind. It joins a cool

technology with the thrill of finding a hidden box of mystery prizes – no wonder Scouts find it irresistible.

There are a wide and varied range of challenges in geocaching and they are all rated according to difficulty both for terrain and locating the cache. The higher the number the greater the difficulty so a 1/1 would describe an easy walk combined with an easy find of the cache.

The requirements of the Scout Geocaching Activity Badge can be found here http://members.scouts. org.uk/supportresources/4211/ geocaching-activity-badge and information on the activity of geocaching can be found here www.geocaching.com

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The spring of 2015 has opportunities for members to gain adventurous activity permits in a range of water activities (maximum B2 water classification). These include opportunities for young people to gain personal & leadership activity permits.

Practical Assessment Days Pulling - 25 April 2015 - 25th Southampton Sea Scouts HQ - The assessment will only allow applicants to gain a maximum of B2 water classification if suitable. PLEASE CHECK THE ASSESSMENT CRITERIA TO SEE IF YOU HAVE THE SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE BEFORE SIGNING UP. Click here for the leadership permit assessment criteria and here for the personal permit assessment criteria. Check all the rules & guidance on this activity on the A-Z directory. For those outside of Hampshire the cost per person is £15, there is no charge for Hampshire members. Closing date for bookings is 11 April 2015.

Kayaking/Canoeing - 10 May 2015 - 25th Southampton Sea Scouts HQ - The assessment will only allow applicants to gain a maximum of B2 water classification (Open Inland & River - Canoeing) if suitable. PLEASE CHECK THE ASSESSMENT CRITERIA TO SEE IF YOU HAVE THE SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE BEFORE SIGNING UP. Click here for the kayaking leadership permit assessment criteria and here for the personal permit assessment criteria. For the canoeing leadership permit assessment criteria click here and for the personal permit click here. Check all the rules & guidance on this activity on the A-Z directory - Canoeing; Kayaking. For those outside of Hampshire the cost per person is £15, there is no charge for Hampshire members. Closing date for bookings is 26 April 2015.

Dinghy Sailing - 25 April 2015 - 25th Southampton Sea Scouts HQ - Please note this course is only to lead one boat, if you wish to lead multiple boats then please contact an assessor directly. The assessment will only allow applicants to gain a maximum of B2 water classification if suitable. PLEASE CHECK THE ASSESSMENT CRITERIA TO SEE IF YOU HAVE THE SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE BEFORE SIGNING UP. Click here for the leadership permit assessment criteria and here for the personal permit assessment criteria. Check all the rules & guidance on this activity on the A-Z directory. For those outside of Hampshire the cost per person is £25, there is no charge for Hampshire members. Closing date for bookings is 11 April 2015.

Rafting - 9 May 2015 (afternoon only) - Lakeside, Eastleigh Lakes. The assessment will only allow applicants to gain a maximum of B2 water classification if suitable. PLEASE CHECK THE ASSESSMENT CRITERIA TO SEE IF YOU HAVE THE SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE BEFORE SIGNING UP. Click here for the leadership permit assessment criteria and here for the personal permit assessment criteria. Check all the rules & guidance on this activity on the A-Z directory. For those outside of Hampshire the cost per person is £15, there is no charge for Hampshire members. Closing date for bookings is 25 April 2015.

Powerboating - 11 April 2015 - Hamble Sea Scouts HQ, Mercury Marina, Satchell Lane, Hamble, Southampton. The assessment will only allow applicants to gain a maximum of B2 water classification if suitable. PLEASE CHECK THE ASSESSMENT CRITERIA TO SEE IF YOU HAVE THE SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE BEFORE SIGNING UP. Click here for the leadership permit assessment criteria and here for the personal permit assessment criteria. Check all the rules & guidance on this activity on the A-Z directory. For those outside of Hampshire the cost per person is £30, there is no charge for Hampshire members. Closing date for bookings is 28 March 2015.

Please bring your boating kit and a packed lunch (except rafting), refreshments will be provided throughout the day. If you wish to bring your own kayak on the kayak assessment day then please do so.

To book yourself on an assessment day please fully complete the below application form in Word and email to Joan Veal at joan.veal@isdsc.org.uk by the booking date specified, please do not turn up at the assessment day with your completed form as you will not be able to take part. Please also send an up to date copy of your logbook to Joan. Any questions regarding the assessments, please contact Joan on the above email address or telephone 01489 782804. The below completed medical form and payment (if applicable) should be brought with you to the assessment day.

Prior to the practical assessment it is encouraged to refresh your knowledge on the Scout rules and the theory elements of the assessment. You can do this using the online package we’ve created, please click here.

Water Permit Assessment Application Form (Enable Macros before completing form within Word): www.hampshirescouting.org.uk/water-activity-permit-assessment-days-2015/ 24 December 2014

Activity Leadership Courses 2015 Sat Feb 14-15, 2015 All day - NSRA Rifle Shooting YPS Tutor Course Where: Woodhouse Park Scout Activity Centre, Woodhouse Park, Fernhill, South Gloucestershire BS32 4LX. Description: £115 per person Email: woodhouse.sac@scouts.org.uk Tel: 01454 613 006 Mon Feb 16-21, 2015 All day - Water Sports Academy Where: Great Tower Scout Activity Centre, Birks Rd, Newby Bridge, Windermere, Cumbria LA23 3PQ. Description: £175 per person Email: greattower.sac@scouts.org.uk Tel: 01539 531 279 Sat Feb 21-22, 2015 All day - Archery GB Instructor Award Where: Youlbury Scout Activity Centre, Boars Hill, Oxford OX1 5HD. Description: £190 per person. Email: youlbury.sac@scouts.org.uk Tel: 01865 326 264 Fri Feb 27-Mar 1, 2015 All day - Cty Act NSRA Rifle Shooting YPS Tutor Course Where: Ferny Crofts Scout Activity Centre, Beaulieu Rd, Beaulieu, Brockenhurst SO42 7YQ. Description: £140 per person (food included) Ferny Crofts E: manager@fernycrofts.org.uk T: 023 8084 5092 Fri Feb 27-Mar 1, 2015 All day - Hill & Mountain Skills Course/Hillwalking Activity Permit Training or Assessment Where: Yr Hafod Scout Activity Centre, Snowdonia.

Description: £70 per person for training £80 per person for assessment Email: yr-hafod.sac@scouts.org.uk Tel: 0845 519 6114 Sat Feb 28-Mar 7, 2015 All day - Cty Act HSMT Winter Mountaineering Skills Week Where: Scotland, UK Description: This week will cater for three target audiences – 1) those that are experienced Winter mountaineers 2) Scout leaders who wish to be assessed for their terrain 1 and/or 2 Winter Scouting authorizations and 3) four (4) places are available on this week for novices i:e those who want to gain experience in Winter conditions having already gained a good Summer mountain walking experience. Further information on course requirements, costs and the application form can be found on the www.hsmt.org.uk/winter2015.htm Sat Feb 28, 2015 All day - Rafting Activity Permit Training & Assessment Where: Great Tower Scout Activity Centre, Birks Rd, Newby Bridge, Windermere, Cumbria LA23 3PQ. Description: £30 per person Email: greattower.sac@scouts.org.uk Tel: 01539 531 279 Sat Mar 14-15, 2015 All day - Climbing (Walls & Towers) Activity Permit Training Where: Great Tower Scout Activity Centre, Birks Rd, Newby Bridge, Windermere, Cumbria LA23 3PQ. Description: £70 per person Email: greattower.sac@scouts.org.uk Tel: 01539 531 279 Sat Mar 14-15, 2015 All day - RYA Powerboat Level 2 Where: Hawkhirst Scout Activity Centre, Northumberland.

Description: £85 per person Email: hawkhirst.sac@scouts.org.uk Tel: 01434 250 217

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November 2014

Hampshire Scout

& QSA news

Welcome to the November DofE and QSA e-news. Please join our news. Please join our new Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/hsdofe/ to keep up to date. Email us your stories & questions to Mike Baxter, Assistant County Commissioner for DofE & QSA on dofe@scouts-hants.org.uk

Well Done

Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Janine Fergus, Sam Tyler & James Heasman (Andover).

Queen’s Scout Award Heather Porter (Southampton), Robert Vine (Fareham East) & James Heasman (Andover).

e-

Upgrade

EDofE (http://www.dofe.org/en/content/cms/leaders/edofe/) is being upgraded over the weekend of 28 – 30 Nov. Improvements will include better navigation, less pop ups, easier timescale selection for participants and those who are inactive will become active when they login.

More info see the

(www.dofe.org/en/content/cms/leaders/dofe-magazine/).

Training

We are running our annual DofE Leader training weekend from 6-8 February 2015 at Ferny Crofts. This will cover Getting Started, Expedition Supervisor, Expedition Skills plus the Expedition Assessor course. More information see www.hsdofe.org. For other courses see www.scouts.org.uk/events.

Thank You!

Our Youth Leadership Volunteers Ollie & Tilly have again organised awards for DofE leaders and this year a new award for participants too. A thank-you and outstanding service award are available, judged by a team of young people: http://goo.gl/fUKJx1 & adults: http://goo. gl/UFXZzQ. You can submit your nomination for an adult or young person who have done something to help you or others. More information at www.hsdofe.org.

Gold Award Presentation Open Gold/QSA Expeditions

Our bi-annual Open Gold/QSA expedition takes place in 2015 from 11- 15 April and 27 – 31 August in Dartmoor. You can find out more information and book at place at www.tiny.cc/opengold2015. There are several other opportunities available to join an expedition with various groups and open centres – please contact us for more information dofe@scouts-hants.org.uk.

Opportunities Well done to the 17 Explorer and Network Scouts who attended the Gold Award Presentation at St James’ Palace on 15th October. The names of the recipients appear on the DofE Hall of Fame: http://goo.gl/bl1GES. Also congratulations to Cogy (Fareham East/County) and Pat Savage (NFW) who were invited as VIPs in recognition of their outstanding support to DofE in Hampshire Scouting.

- All people wanting to start their QSA must register at www.scouts.org.uk/qsa.

- Nights away completed as a leader can now be counted towards the total.

- The presentation needs to be given at the end of all the challenges before the award is approved.

- When complete approval needs to be given the ACC Explorers: acc.es@scouts-hants.org.uk for those under 18 and by Mike Baxter: dofe@scoutshants.org.uk for all Network completions.

- To find out more and download our Quick Guide, visit our QSA pages: http://goo.gl/xkw4hf

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Liphook’s Stirling Explorers win the top prize at the Scout National Rifle and Pistol Championships The Connaught Shield is one of Scouting’s oldest trophies, first presented in 1911. It is now shot for at the National Scout Rifle and Pistol Championships every October and is won by the best overall team in the Championships.

This year it was won by Max Stevens, Ben Tinegate-Smith and Jonathan Sainsbury of the (Liphook) Stirling Explorers. Competition is fierce- more than 70 teams entered for the Competition’s most prestigious trophy and Liphook’s team showed great discipline and marksmanship to with the best aggregate score across the whole Championship. It’s the first time the trophy has been won by Liphook and more than 12 years since it has been won by a team from Hampshire.

All three of the boys are delighted to have won and it as it capped a great weekend for the Liphook squad who also had top 3 positions in pistol (Jonathan Sainsbury) and in Advanced Field Target (Eoghan MacLeod and Dom Gwilliam) who were 1st and 2nd respectively.

Shooting is a popular activity in Liphook Scouts. It is safe, open to all and encourages concentration, responsibility and a skill development. For the dedicated, there is progression to the Scout National Squad or the Great Britain or England junior squads and many of our members choose shooting as a DofE skill. However, those who want come along and enjoy shooting just for the fun are equally welcome. Every year we run the ‘Liphook Postal’ competition which is open to Scouts, Explorers and helpers. There are competitions in rifle, sporter rifle and pistol and the emphasis is very much on developing and encouraging skill and participation. We understand that Scouts are Scouts and that there will be the odd late card etc, so if you fancy entering as a group or individually we would be pleased to hear from you. Email sainsbury.david@gmail.com for further details.

David Sainsbury

28 December 2014