Parish OfficeTHE BEAVER COLONY
10th Harrogate (St Wilfrid's)Walsh's Own Scout Group
Tuesday: 5.45 - 6.45 p.m. In the Church Hall
Beaver Scout News April/May 2010
The Beavers at St Wilfrid's have gone from strength to strength this year. We have been at full capacity for most of the year with some 25 Beavers.
The Beavers have enjoyed a wide and varied programme including a visit to the Fire Station and an evening with a Police Community Support Officer as well as creative challenges such as modelling using dry spaghetti and marshmallows. A particularly jolly evening was had when we switched off all the lights and held an indoor campfire with torches and traditional campfire songs with all the actions.
As well as all the fun, we have attempted to include a more thoughtful element to the activities. On one evening the Beavers devised and performed plays to show their understanding of the fourfold promise they made to do their best, to love God, to be kind and to be helpful. On another we all put up tents before sitting inside them and considering the people in Haiti who had nowhere else to live and whose hold families were living in tents no bigger than the small hike tents we were considering. The beavers were asked to consider a prayer for the people of Haiti at this time and to think about the scouts in Haiti.
Several of the Beavers attended the group camp in October and enjoyed a wide and varied programme of events. As a result of this success we will be organising a sleepover at the Thornthwaite campsite in September.
We have welcomed a new leader in the form of Louise Hartmann, known as Beech to the Beavers, who is returning to scouting having formerly been a cub leader before moving abroad for a period. Louise is already proving a valuable addition to the team and we are very grateful that she has volunteered.
The balanced programme of activities has led to almost all of our leavers acquiring the highest award available to Beaver Scouts, the Chief Scouts Bronze Award and thereafter moving directly into cubs.
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Scout Group News
Group News:
Over the last year, the Scout Group has continued to grow in numbers of both young people and adults and this has been reflected in our annual census report to Headquarters. This resulted in me receiving a letter of congratulations from our County Commissioner for the increase in membership for the second year running.
It was a very busy year for the Group as we celebrated 100 years since the formation of the original 10th Harrogate Scout Troop at Clifton House School. The celebrations took many different forms, including a treasure hunt and hog roast in June when the Group raised over £600 for the Harrogate Young Carer's; the formal Centenary celebration service at St. Wilfrid's which was attended by the Mayor of Harrogate and her consort along with the former Chief Scout, Major-General Michael Walsh and finished with our Group camp in October.
The Scout Group are very thrilled to announce that 3 of our current Scouts, plus an Explorer Scout Young Leader have all been selected from our Group to go to the Jamboree as part of the County's contingent. It is quite an accolade for the Scouts at St. Wilfrid's to have gained four out of the nine places from the District. I am sure that they will have a wonderful time in Sweden in 2011 and will gain a lot from the interaction with Scouts from all nations. Alongside these four, two of our Leaders have been selected to go to the Jamboree as members of the 500 strong UK group to join the International Service Team – these are the adults who become staff members ensuring that the participants gain as much as possible from their experience.