G O V T A C E H T R E I R COU mer 2012
5 Sum tter Issue 11 e sl w e N a re The A
Area Annual Awards Nominations
Cub Scout Chief Scout's Silver Award Presentation Evening
This year's Presentation Evening will be held on Thursday, 25 October at ScoutBase, Pontcanna.
It's that time of year again when nominations are
required for Scouts, Explorer Scouts and members of Scout Network who, with your support, have achieved: The Chief Scout's Gold Award The Chief Scout's Platinum Award The Chief Scout's Diamond Award The Queen's Scout Award and the GOLD Duke of Endinburgh Award only. The Presentation Evening, which will be hosted by the City and County of Cardiff, will be held on Tuesday 11th September at the County Hall, Atlantic Wharf, Cardiff. However, it is essential that we receive details of Award recipients by Friday 24th August 2012 at the very latest. PLEASE NOTE it will not be possible to accept any names after this date, so please act now so as not to disappoint the young people who have worked hard for their Awards. Please forward nominations - Name, Address, Telephone number, E-mail address, Scout Group/Unit and the Recipient's Award - to the Area Scout Office as soon as possible. You can phone 02920 210 119 or email the area office office@catvog.org, but if using the answer phone please speak clearly. REMEMBER this information must be received by Friday 24th August 2012.
Further details, including confirmation of time, registration forms etc, will be available in September and will be e mailed to you. They will also be on the website. If you do not have access to the internet then please telephone and I will put all the information in the post to you. Last year 54 Cub Scouts earned the Award and attended the Presentation Evening. Let's try and beat that record this year. Each Cub Scout will be able to bring one parent along, plus one Leader per Pack. There will be some fun and games before the presentations and light refreshments will be served afterwards! Each Cub Scout will receive a Silver Award Certificate. Sue Ryan - cubs@catvog.org
Beaver & Cub Leaders Day
The Beaver and Cub Leaders ABC Day will now take place on Saturday 10th November 2012 (not Saturday 22nd September as previously advertised). The event will still be run at Richard Gwyn School in Barry. Further details available inside this issue. For further details contact either AAC Cubs - Sue Ryan - cubs@catvog.org AAC Beavers - Sue Woodberry - beavers@catvog.org
New member invested and oldest member rewarded Sunday, 22nd April, at the St.Georges Day Service organised by the 1st
Dinas Powys Scout Group Claire Foxwell, Beaver Scout Leader was invested as the newest Leader in the Group and Nick Phillips, Assistant Group Scout Leader, was Awarded the Silver Acorn for his many years of Service to Scouting. The Silver Acorn is awarded for over 20 years of especially distinguished Service and Nick has completed over 38 Years with the movement. We congratulate Nick on his award and welcome Claire into the movement, with the hope that she will enjoy her Scouting and will be with us for many years to come.
29th Cardiff Pack achieve The Welsh Cub Scout Award Congratulations to the 29th Cardiff (Kestrel) Pack who have
recently completed the ScoutsWales Welsh Cub Scout Award. I went along to their Pack meeting when it was celebrations all round! A number of Cubs were going up to the Troop and the programme for the evening was based on their choice of games. When they were all worn out (or so we thought!) it was time to sit down and wait for the presentations to take place. First of all a number of new Cubs were invested by Akela (Marilyn Hendrickson) and this was followed by the presentation of a number of Activity Badges. It was then my turn to present the ScoutsWales Cub Scout Award. The Award is based on Wales and included craft (they made Love Spoons), Cooking (Welsh Rarebit), making Welsh emblems and lots more - a really good Award to raise the Cubs’ awareness of all things Welsh! Sue Ryan - cubs@catvog.org
Assistant Chief Commissioner (Events)
Come join us at the Hub for Coffee & Cake!
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Rev. Martin
Friday, 28 September 2012
Martin has been in scouting for 27 years. His service has largely been in Carmarthenshire where he has held the posts of AAC (Cubs), Area Chairman and County Chaplain working his scouting round a busy life with the police force, army and church.
Cancer is the toughest fight any of us will ever face. Macmillan is here to make sure no one has to go through it alone. Whatever we raise, we will be helping to improve the lives of people affected by cancer across the UK.
I am sure you will join me in congratulating him and welcome Martin to his new role.
So please spread the word and put the date in your diary!
Jill Gloster - Chief Commissioner Scouts Wales
If you would like to donate some cakes/biscuits or a raffle prize then please contact Sue Ryan on 2065 3969 or e mail me at scoutshop@catvog.org
Spain will be appointed Assistant Chief Commissioner (Events), as from Wednesday 6th June, 2012.
at The Hub, Maitland Street from 10 am until 12 noon.
1st Penmark with Porthkerry Big Welsh Coastal Walk 1st Penmark with Porthkerry Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Fourovus
Explorer Scouts and their Leaders, took up the challenge to take part in the Big Welsh Coastal walk. Having returned from an action packed Group camp at Miskin Mill Scout Village over the weekend, we walked from our Hall in Rhoose to the path near Rhoose Point. The Cubs and Beavers then walked the section of path to Fontygary. The Scouts and Explorers walked the section of path to Porthkerry Park and back. We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, although following the rather wet weather we have had recently many of the boots were rather muddy!
Cub 5-a-side Competition NSRA YPS Course Master at Arms
Yet another successful NSRA YPS Course has been held over the past year with over 6 Groups/Units taking part in the CO2 Pnumatic Postal Shoot and over 15 Groups/Units taking part in the Springer Postal Shoot. The following Groups were awarded Gold Silver and Bronze:
The recent Cub Scout Five a Side Competition took place at Cogan Leisure Centre where 55 Cubs made up 10 teams from all the Cub Scout Packs in Penarth and District.
All the cub scouts played their hearts out and the eventual winning team was from the 94th Penarth Cub Scout Pack who were unbeaten in all their six games. The team from 1st Dinas Powys Cub Scout Pack were runners ups. Thanks go to all the Leaders and members of the Penarth and District Active Support. This Unit is made up of adults who are willing to assist on an occasional basis, enabling more events/tasks to take place. There are a number of tasks that members of the Active Support Unit can get involved with, from assisting at events, looking at Grants for the District, and more. Some Tasks may only take a few hours!
BARRY SCOUT FETE CANCELLED
CO2 Pnumatic Postal Shoot: Under 12 Scouts: 1st St Mellons and 1st Radyr Under 14 Scouts: 1st Radyr Explorers: 1st Radyr and Capital ESU Springer Postal Shoot: Under 12 Scouts: 1st St Athan, 62nd Cardiff and 94th Penarth Under 14 Scouts: 2nd/4th Barry, 1st Cowbridge and 1st Llanishen Explorers: Les Pugh's Own ESU and Phoenix (E&S) ESU Well Done and Congratulations to all who took part and remember this sport is for everyone. We run taster sessions for Scouts and Explorers around the Area so if you are interested please get in touch and keep an eye on the website for dates / venues of upcoming courses. Contact: Richie Phillips - shooting@catvog.org Tel: 01446 748 688
Due to the appalling weather, the 59th Annual Scout & Guide Fete,
which has been a major event in Barry since 1934, was cancelled for the first time in its history on Saturday 7th July. Organisers were forced to disappoint hundreds of Scouts and Guides because Romilly Park was underwater, not only making it impossible to erect tents and stalls, but slippery and dangerous underfoot, particularly for the main area event of horse drawn chariot racing. Jane Hutt, AM said that it was a shame that the event was cancelled after all the hard work of those involved.
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Entry for the lucky draw are to be returned to your local Scout / Guide hall by Sept 22nd for the draw to take place on Sat 7th Oct.
Area Patrol Camp Weekend 2012
The weekend of the 20-22 April
this year saw the second Area Patrol Camp Weekend take place at Miskin. Patrols from Afon, Barry, Penarth and Vale Districts attended the camp where the theme was leadership, teamwork and working together as Patrols. One of the objectives of this weekend is to provide Patrols with the opportunity to camp as Patrols with as much or as little assistance as they need from a core team of adult leaders. This year we encouraged traditional Patrol camping environment including an inspection. Despite of the young age of many of the Scouts, including many first time campers, the core team members were impressed by their response to the challenges that were put their way. The activities involved a lot of team work as a Patrol and as a camp. These ranged from pioneering challenges to sending messages in semaphore. Highlight was the postman’s walk across the river Ely not for the faint hearted. The orienteering and archery made up a Saturday afternoon where the weather was kind for us. All captured in, shall we say, each Patrol’s individual way as each Patrol on Friday evening had been given a digital camera to keep a photo log of their camp.
The ready steady cook competition took place on the Saturday evening. Each Patrol was allocated a staff member as their guest judge and in a close competition 15th Penarth took the spoils. The evening saw a lively campfire with a couple of scouts showing the art of campfire is far from dying. The opening of the Miskin Odeon was the last event of the Saturday and as the Patrol’ drifted back to camp staff were thankfully in for a quiet night.
The heavy rain over night gave way to a fine morning and enabled the patrols to cook and clear breakfast before the camp held its own St George’s day Scout’s Own. Parading from the Delta field to the Mill courtyard the sight pulled a few second looks from early dog walkers. The Patrol’s had a short time following this to prepare for the final inspection which by then they knew would be included in the competition for overall best Patrol on camp. The weather then hit us big time but didn’t dampen spirits as we enter in the Bear’s Den. The courtyard became the Miskin Bow Drill factory. It was quite a sight with all staff and scouts whittling away and bowing for dear life. The whole experience made for an interesting risk assessment but not one plaster was called for, phew!
Olympic and Jubilee commemorative badge
The weather after lunch became a little kinder and we were able to have the closing ceremony and awards in the courtyard joined by a good number of parents and leaders. The presentation of camp awards saw all Patrols receive something but for their overall approach to the weekend the Patrol from 1st Penarth became the first Patrol to earn the Best Overall Patrol at camp trophy. As the Patrols left the core team were left to reflect on successful camp and plan for next year where the theme will be woodcraft.
My thanks to all the leaders in the core team who made the weekend possible with their support and enthusiasm and to our all female Explorer Scout Service Team from the Fourovus ESU. Finally to the leaders, parents and Scouts who supported and I hope enjoyed the camp and will hopefully encourage a few more to join us next year.
A special commemorative badge for participants in 57th
Barry Annual Scout and Guide Fete has been produced. Special themes included the 2012 Olympics and The Queen's Jubilee. Brightly coloured in regal purple with crown and Olympic symbols, together with Guide and Scout emblems. Rare conjunction of events, not to be repeated. Contact: Richard Thomas - chair@catvog.org
Ty Hafan Children's Hospice
All Wales Cub Fun Day 2013 As many of you will be aware the All Wales Cub Fun Day is
Ty Hafan Scout Group continues to grow and be a
vital part of Ty Hafan Children's Hospice. Over the last year the group has continued to bring scouting to children who may not have the opportunity to experience it elsewhere. The group meets every other Wednesday at Ty Hafan and provides a traditional Scouting programme to the children (and adults) staying at or visiting the hospice and like every group, Ty Hafan Scout Group is reliant on support from a number of adults, both uniformed and non-uniformed. We are extremely grateful to those who have supported the group over the last year, in particular - Cathie Steele, Group Scout Leader, Steve Barkley, Guy Triffit, and Lesley Bryan (Section Assistants), David Gerrard, Group Chair, Ruth Weltch, Group Secretary, Sandra Dimistrescu, Group Treasurer, Nader Khundakji, Ty Hafan Volunteer and a special thanks to the Ty Hafan Staff, especially the care team, who join in the activities regardless of what we put them through. Ty Hafan Scout Group does not charge subscriptions and neither is funding provided by Ty Hafan Children's Hospice (although they do provide the building and storage space). Therefore the Scout Group has to fundraise for itself to keep afloat and is extrememly grateful to the Scout Groups across Wales who have held fundraising events and donated money to Ty Hafan Scout Group. If you can spare an hour on a Wednesday once a fortnight and want to add to your scouting challenge , then please contact us. You can find us on the web http://www.catvog.org/sections/tyhafan or email tyhafan@catvog.org
one of the pinnacle events in the ScoutsWales calendar and generally only occurs once during a young person’s time as a Cub Scout. The next Cub Fun Day will be held on Saturday 15th June 2013. This is a year earlier than many would have expected and has been done to allow a full three years planning for the following Fun Day which will coincide with the Centenary of Cub Scouts in 2016. The event will cost £6 for Cubs and £3 for Leader’s and Helper’s; this includes all activities on the day and the event badge. We anticipate the booking system to open in late January. Planning for the event is well under way and we have opened a Facebook Group to enable comments and suggestions to be made to the organising team. We are also currently running a poll in this group to choose the theme for the event. Anybody can join the Facebook Group. Once we have a significant number of votes we will officially announce the theme and launch the badge design competition. http://www.facebook.com/groups/Allwalescubfunday2013 Outline information is currently available from the Scouts Wales website: http://www.scoutswales.org.uk/cubs/funday Additional information will be included here, along with any relevant documents when they are available, so please do check back regularly. If you have any questions or ideas, please do not hesitate to contact the planning team, either through the ScoutsWales office or directly. Best Regards Christian Reed All Wales Cub Fun Day Planning Team
BOOKING OPENS 17 SEPTEMBER
A huge welcome back to the Cardiff Scout and Guide Gang Show who entertain audiences of all ages with their unique style of song, dance and acting through wonderfully crafted storylines. Come follow the escapades in this brand new adventure as over 120 talented South Wales youngsters fall into many adventures after discovering a Magic Walking Stick.
Wed 14 - Sat 17 November Wed - Fri 7.15pm; Sat 3.00pm
Where will the Stick transport them to next? Will they ever get back home? And more importantly who is Psychedelia Smith?
http://www.newtheatrecardiff.co.uk/
11th Barry Cub Section Summer Camp 2012 On the Friday morning (15th June) Akela, Chill and myself (Hathi) loaded up the trailer and made their way to Miskin to start setting up the tents and dining shelters.
The weather did not want to help us though. Every 40 minutes we would suddenly have a heavy downpour and we would all go running for shelter or coats (depending on how brave we were feeling) In between these downpours we managed to get the tents up. Cubs were due to Arrive at 5pm with the Scouts (who were visiting for the evening) were due to arrive around 7pm with our special visitors from Australia. Luckily enough the weather did improve slightly, it stopped raining! Unfortunately because of the weather we were running a little behind with dinner so some of the Exec members and Parent reps came to the rescue and basically helped sort out the evening meal of Chicken Curry and Rice or Burger and Beans. Our visitors from down under were introduced to every one and were presented with some 11th Barry Goodies, T-shirts, neckers badges etc.
They in turn presented the leaders, cubs and scouts with various goodies from scouting Australia. Well Saturday was not much better weather wise. It was raining when we got up and rained most of the day. After breakfast the cubs were told that they were lost in the "outback" and had to survive. First up there was a plane crash and the cubs had to find the survivors. We split them up into the Wallabies and Kookaburras. Well they found the survivors hiding in shelters around the site and had to rescue them. The cubs treated their injuries, making splints etc.. using things lying around the site. On returning to camp they were set their next task, finding Lunch. Baloo had hidden around the site 12 yellow cards and 12 green cards with various ingredients. The Cubs, in their teams had to find the cards. The plan was for the cubs to cook what they found for lunch but because of the rain Akela and Raksha made lunch whilst the rest of us went with the cubs.
After tea that evening we had a campfire sing along with the a group of Brownies from Cardiff. The wood was too wet for an actual fire but that did not stop us. The Brownie and Cub Leaders took it in turns singing different songs. Now the cubs have since complained that i have just two volumes when singing. Off and stupidly loud. I don't know what they mean by this but it took 2 weeks to get my voice back. Later that evening, just to be different, it rained some more so the cubs retired to the dining shelter for some hot chocolate before going to bed. Sunday morning was glorious. The sun was shining and there was not a cloud in the sky. 4pm came very quickly and the cubs were all collected and taken home. No one was left for us to ebay this year!! The leaders could at last think about going home, after they had gone back to the hall and unloaded the trailer. Hathi
Awards, Badges and Challenges
Area Scout Shop The Scout Shop will close on 21 July and will remain closed throughout the Summer holiday. It will re-open on Saturday 8th September 2012 Thanks go to our happy band of 'volunteers' who have helped make the shop such a success. Thanks also to all the Groups that have supported the Shop - your reward will come when you get your cheque for 10% of whatever your Group has spent (except on some publications) during the year.
When our Beavers reach the age when they transfer to Cubs many Beaver Leaders shed a tear (sometimes joy! and sometimes sorrow !) that they are losing one of their members. We always hope that they will settle into the Cub Scout Pack but records show that this is not always the case. None of us like going into the unknown so it is up to us to make that transfer as enjoyable and exciting as possible. There are plenty of ideas which encourage the Beaver and Cub Scout Sections to work together - Partnership Awards, the Moving On Award and the Joining In Awards. In addition to these there are numerous other Badges and Challenges. The hardest part of including these badges in the programme is the recording - keeping track of who has done what! It is such a shame that our young people are missing out because we are often too busy but , in fairness, don't we all love badges - just like the kids. So why not put 10 November in your diary NOW and we will send you more information in September. We hope to exchange good practice as far as programme ideas and recording are concerned Wouldn't it be great if every Beaver Scout and Cub Scout achieved the Chief Scout's Bronze and Silver Awards? It would be challenging, but enjoyable, to work with another Section or Group and to talk to other Leaders in your Group so that the young people get their Joining In badges! We hope you will join us in November for an informative day which will be FUN for everyone. The cost will be £5.00 and this will include all refreshments and lunch together with handouts etc. Go on put that date in your diary NOW! Sue Ryan - scouts@catvog.org Sue Woodberry - beavers@catvog.org
We look forward to seeing you over the coming months but remember that if you are having a Parents evening and would like us to bring uniforms along, then please contact me.
Hot off the press: Printed Belt £2.50 This Beaver Printed Belt is a fun belt decorated with the Beaver's logo.
i.SCOUT Women's Jogging Bottoms £25.00 The i.SCOUT fleece jogging bottoms are great for casual wear or for sleeping in when at camp.
Sue Ryan: scoutshop@catvog.org / 029 2065 3969
15% discount* For all Scouts Whatever you get up to outdoors, having the right kit can make all the difference. Cotswold staff are highly trained to make sure you get exactly what you need for all your Scouting adventures. This honest advice and expertise is just one of the reasons that they are recommended by The Scout Association. All Scouts are entitled to 15% discount at Cotswold Outdoors on production of a leaders appointment card or Scouts scarf/necker. We have teamed up with the Cardiff City store to offer the chance of winning a Berghaus Torridon rucksack, with an RRP £80. To be in a with a chance of winning, answer the question below and email it to the Area Communications Team comms@catvog.org by Saturday 8th September. The competition question is: What is the literal translation of the German word 'Berghaus'? After the closing deadline, store manager Antony Lloyd will randomly select a winner who replied with the correct answer. Cotswold Outdoor Cardiff City 11 Wharton Street, Cardiff, CF10 1AG Tel: 02920 399 796 Web: http://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com
The biggest event in 5 years for
Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan Scouts is coming to St Fagans National History Museum on SUNDAY 7th OCTOBER 2012.
Afon Explorers at the Sun Run
Urban Adventure is a Funday for everyone in Scouting and will run from 10.30-4pm. The cost is £7.50.
There will be plenty of Fun, Challenging and Adventurous activites on
offer. From Climbing and Bouldering Walls, to Arts and Craft, circus skills, slack line, smoothie bike, team challenges – holey pipe, walking planks, bomb disposal, buzz off. Japanese earthquake challenge, unicycling, rope making, target Frisbee, stilt walking, treasure hunt, compass challenge to name a few. All activities will be open for Beavers to Network and at some point in the day we may have a Bear in the Air with our Chief Scout Bear Grylls a possible guest during the day. Put the date in your diary and make sure your whole group knows about it from the youngest member, leaders, parent helpers and exec members. Bookings are open and will close on 22nd September. See www.catvog.org / urbanadventure@catvog.org for details.
Barry District Cubs and Beavers’ tent bonanza
Over 30 Explorers and leaders from
Vale and Afon districts took part in the annual overnight hiking challenge events which form the centre piece of the "Sun Run" weekend. This annual event, organised by Gloucestershire Scouts saw 1500 Explorers, leaders and Girl Guiding Senior Section meet up for a muddy but sociable weekend of music, inflatables, fairground rides, and the walks themselves. Despite horrendous weather conditions, 5 teams of Explorers from CATVOG completed the 13 mile "Moon Run" with Afon Phoenix/Celts squeezing in at 4:11 ahead of Atlas and Vale Explorers, both at 4:12. However, CATVOG's fastest team was the Vale leaders team (Kevin, Ian and Wyn) who stormed home in 3 hours 13, overtaking many teams of half their combined age! Special mention should also go to the 3 Explorers from Afon; Edd, Joe and Sam who completed the gruelling 26 mile "Sun Run" in 8 hours 23 minutes getting into camp just before dawn broke.
A group of Cubs and Beavers’ from Barry District who meet in Rhoose, recently received a special donation from Aberthaw Power Station. The group were able to buy six new tents ready for their camping trips.
So, who is up for the Sun Run challenge in 2013?? Rachel Haigh Afon District
Submission deadline for the Autumn Courier is: Sunday 18th November 2012 Editor: Gareth Johns c/o The Hub CATVOG Scouts Maitland Street Gabalfa, CF14 3JU e-mail: comms@catvog.org