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Welcome to the May 2018 edition of Hampshire Scouts News
4. St George’s Day Awards 2018
6. Changes to the Good Service Awards 8. Skills Day - Bramshill Cubs 12. Master Chef - 1st Aldershot Scouts 13. What it means to be homeless - 3rd Romsey Scouts 14. Hot Shots - Bramshill 15. Fair Traded Products 16. Dinosaur Hunt - 1st FSM Cubs 18. Hampshire Scouts calendar 19. Malawi 2019 Expedition 20. Gosport Scouts Kayaking Courses & Taster Events About Us
Hampshire Scouts provides adventurous activities and personal development opportunities for over 18,500 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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St George’s Day Awards 2018 Silver Wolf Margaret Patrick District Deputy Commissioner, Eastleigh, District Appoinments Secretary, Eastleigh, Committee Member, Eastleigh, County Local Training Manager Richard Spearing District Scout Active Support Member, City of Portsmouth, County Assistant Commissioner
Bar to the Silver Acorn Timothy Evans District Scout Active Support Member, District Appointment Certificate Recipient, District Appointments Secretary, New Forest North
Silver Acorn Colin Brooks District Scout Active Support Member, District Scouter, Winchester Gavin Clark Assistant Group Scout Leader, Worting St. Thomas, Basingstoke West, County Assessor, County Training Adviser John Forster Scout Active Support Member, 1st Emsworth, Havant
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Silver Acorn David Goldfinch District Scout Active Support Member, District Appointments Advisery Committee Member, City of Portsmouth Barry Green Group Executive Committee Member, 4th Eastleigh, District Scout Active Support Member, Eastleigh And District Margaret Howell District Administrator, Eastleigh And District Richard Lambert Section Leader, 5th Farnborough, District Asst Commissioner, Blackwater Valley, County Training Adviser George Longhurst District Scout Active Support Manager, Southampton City Paul O’Beirne County Appointments Chair, County Appointments Secretary, County Secretary, County Training Adviser Elizabeth Snocken Section Leader, 1st West Leigh, Havant, County Training Adviser Alan Snocken Assistant Section Leader, Group Scout Leader, 1st West Leigh, Havant, County Training Adviser Eric Williams District Appointments Secretary, District Secretary, Fareham West Nicholas Wisby District Project Manager, Chandlers Ford Thelma Young District Assistant Commissioner, Southampton City, County Scouter, County Executive Committee Member, County Training Adviser
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Changes to the
Good Service Awards
Gilwell have recently published the long-awaited changes to the processes for the Adult Good Service Awards, so to “provide a simpler and quicker process all round”.
The key changes are: • Decision making for some awards will move from a national level to a local level. • Local Awards Advisory Groups can be formed to support the decision making for awards. • Guidance will be created to ensure that decision making is consistent across the UK Scouting. • The St George’s Day 1st September deadline will be removed and replaced with quarterly cut off dates for submission of award decisions and applications for review at a National Level. • A National Awards Advisory Group will be formed to make decisions on awards not decided on locally. You will recall/have read the County Commissioner’s presentation at the Winter Conference on 20th January, and his aspiration linked to the Adult Journey (one of the CC’s four main objectives) to increase the number of nominations made for Good Service Awards for our leaders. Therefore, please take this opportunity to look at the people in your team to identify those who may have earned a nomination. These changes will take place over a series of phases, to ensure the transition is as smooth as possible and the detailed information relating to these changes including key dates can be found at: https://members.scouts.org.uk/supportresources/ Key dates and actions for Hampshire for 2018 are: Phase one: • April: District Commissioners can agree the Commissioners Commendation Award • May - September: Tools & resources to support the changes to the Award process will be developed by Gilwell. Local Awards Advisory Groups to be formed – if needed. • July: Tool provided to inform HQ about Commissioners Commendation Awards to enable them to be added to members records on Compass.
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Phase two: • September: District Commissioners and above will be able to approve Chief Scouts Commendation for Good Service and Award for Merit Awards. County Commissioners and above will be able to approve Bar to the Award for Merit Awards. Phase three: • 30th September: First cut-off date for applications for Silver Acorn, Bar to Silver Acorn, Silver Wolf Awards. Awards dispatched by the end of October for local presentation. • 16th December: Second cut-off date for applications for Silver Acorn, Bar to Silver Acorn, Silver Wolf Awards. Awards dispatched by the end of January for local presentation. Phase four: • January 2019: County Commissioners and above will be able to approve Silver Acorn Awards. From 2019 the schedule of dates for receipt of all Awards at Gilwell will be:
Proposed application/HQ notification cut off dates
31st March* 2019
Awards processed/dispatched
Upload to Compass (60 days after dispatch)
By mid-April
Mid-June
30th June 2019
By mid-July
Mid-September
30th September 2019
By mid-October
Mid-December
16th December* 2019
By mid-January
Mid-March
All Silver Wolf, Bar to Silver Acorn, Silver Acorn, Gallantry, Meritorious Conduct and Cornwell Scout Badge recipients approved during the calendar year (January - December) will be invited to Windsor, A day of Celebration the following year. Please go to the link above to gain the full detail of the changes.
Martin Rudd Deputy County Commissioner Chair, County Awards Advisory Group
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Skills Day Bramshill Cubs
On the 24th of February Cubs from all over Bramshill District gathered at Burrell Lodge Scout Hut to take part in the Annual Cub Skills Day. This covered many skills and gave the participants ample opportunity to tick off things that would go towards both activity and challenge badges. Always a popular event, this year proved no different with a wide range of activities to test the abilities of even the most energetic child (and leader.) The bases were: Countryside Code where the Cubs answered questions to gain points to progress along a huge gaming board. Respect, Protect, Enjoy were the words learned and demonstrated. Maps and basic map skills. Handicrafts where Lego and cardboard combined to make a Winter Olympics theme (these children have amazing imaginations.) Paracord keyrings. Some fantastic 8
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efforts here. Minesweeper game. Finding their way across the minefield meant some fantastic teamwork was seen. Food hygiene, prep and cooking. Cheesy wraps, sausage sizzle ‌ marvellous! Knife skills. Sticks were skilfully whittled. CPR and bandaging. The District Commissioner assisted on this base, showing the Cubs how to revive a person who has stopped breathing. Tomahawks. Mini-hawks were thrown under the vigilant supervision of a K.A.T.T.A. registered leader. This is always a popular base. 8th Bramshill took the Handicraft trophy this year. It was a treble celebration for the 8th as two of the Cubs were presented with their Silver Chief Scout Awards.
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Sleep Tight
Hatch Warren
It’s Christmas sleep-over time for the Hatch Warren Scouts. Inspired by a visit from HSX, and keen to supersize their challenge to “Build an Igloo for you and a friend”, we borrowed Tadley Scout’s HQ and got to work. Since September we had been collecting and washing out over a thousand 4 pint milk cartons which ensured we had enough “blocks” (and that our bones were nice and strong!) The result of 6 hours building time, with the troop working in shifts, was a magnificent 2.8 metre diameter structure. It included a chair, table and decorated entrance arch. We used 400 glue sticks applied with 4 glue guns to hold it all together. Once complete, the chilly hideout was made homely with fairy lights that glowed through the cartons and really showed off the multi-coloured bottle top interior. The
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addition of our troop sign personalised our creation. Sharing our progress on Twitter and Facebook got us some unexpected encouragement and praise, even after our completion at 2am. While the igloo build was the centre piece of our Christmas sleep-over we still managed to find time, and space, to have three craft stations, a games room and a movie on the ceiling! Pizza for dinner, hot chocolate and bacon butties for breakfast kept the tiredness at bay as we collapsed our plastic paradise and started the clean-up and recycling process. The whole 14 hour igloo process can be seen in time lapse below.
We have been amazed, and delighted, with the social media response. We even have had re-tweets or replies from HSX themselves and Scout Ambassadors, Julia Bradbury, Dwayne Fields, Steve Backshall and Alistair Bruce. Even the top man, Chief Scout Bear Grylls used us as an example of the great things that happen in Scouting! Our Scout Leader, Chris Bamber, says that the most impressive thing was the way we applied ourselves in taking up the challenge but mainly in the enthusiasm shown all night when constructing the igloo. He added that he is very pleased to no longer have his kitchen and garage full of milk cartons in various states of cleanliness!
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Master Chef
Two teams of youngsters competed for the crown of ‘1st Aldershot Scouts Master-Chef 2018 ‘ on Friday 9th March. The young people (made up of two teams of 8 Scouts) used their best culinary skills to chop, peel, slice and cook a two-course meal to be judged by four voluntary parents.
The Scouts had been working towards their Chef badge over the preliminary weeks leading up to the event. This included designing menus, learning about food safety and hygiene and different techniques they could use to cook meals. Some alternative menus were suggested and the two patrols started planning away by coming up with suggestions for the meals. The teams started the night by collecting their ingredients (both teams were given the same food but advised they could cook the meal however they please). The junior Master-Chefs began chopping away and preparing the rest of the food (ingredients below): Rice. 500g Minced beef. 500g Red onion 2 Garlic. 1 clove Sweet chilli’s 1 ea of purple / orange Kidney beans. 1 tin
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Parmesan cheese. Small lump enough to grate on finished meal each Tomatoes. 2 per patrol Tomato purée 1 tube. Pancakes were also presented to the parent judges for course number two. The Scouts used flour, eggs and milk to make traditional pancakes in frying pans. Once the meals were complete four parents began judging the cooking and writing down their scores. They enjoyed both courses and rated them on various measures such as taste, texture and presentation. The results were presented the following week with Team A winning by an inch on the main course and Team B closely winning on the dessert. It was a fun night for the two teams involved and all participants earned their ‘Chef’ proficiency badge whilst developing kitchen skills. Nathan Barham 1st Aldershot Scouts Assistant Leader
What it means to be homeless
The 3rd Romsey Scouts were inspired by churches who opened their doors to homeless people over the Christmas period so they asked if they could sleep at the United Reformed Chusrch in Romsey on 9th March to raise money for a charity called ‘It’s your choice’ in Totton. It’s Your Choice offers a safe, free, and confidential support service for all young people, typically aged 12-25. They provide information, advice, guidance, counselling and casework support, delivered through drop-in sessions, outreach work, workshops, and projects or, where necessary, by signposting to other services. They aim to provide young people with the knowledge, skills and information they need to make safe, positive choices on issues which affect their lives. At the heart of all their work with young people is a commitment to be non-judgemental, to show young people respect and to empower them.
The Scouts explored what it means to be homeless and the problems they would face - apart from the obvious ones of staying safe, the health issues, obtaining food, staying warm and dry - they also discussed the reduced life chances homeless people have, the judgemental attitude towards homelessness, problems of applying for jobs with no address, cleaning clothes for interviews and overcoming the stigma of homelessness. They decided a positive way to help homeless people would be to give them a sandwich, soup or even a bottle of water. The Scouts decided a night in the cold church was more welcoming than a night facing the elements, they raised over £90 for It’s Your Choice to help towards their work with young people. Sarah Beaman
3rd Romsey Scout Leader - Ashanti Troop
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HotShot After the success of The Bramshill Hot Shot Archery Tournament we decided to make it an annual event. This year saw entries from across the Bramshill District with competitors of all abilities from the represented Scout Troops. Although this is classed as a competition, the onus is on coming along and having a go, regardless of skill level. We were taken by surprise by a novice archer who clearly had a natural talent. These moments are what make it worth while. Each Scout was given 6 arrows to find their range and get a feel for the equipment. Two ends of arrows for scoring were then shot, giving each a total of 12 possible scoring hits of the target. Archers could compete as individuals or as part of a team. For the team results, the top three scorers from each team were taken. 8th Bramshill Airscouts had two competitors enter not quite making the criteria for a team. However, between the two of them they
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did manage to walk away with an award each as they achieved placing within to top five highest individual scores. Best individual scores: 3rd Bramshill Jack (95 +1 centre gold) 8th Bramshill (Air) Ollie (95) 8th Bramshill (Land) Kieran (89 +2 centre gold) 8th Bramshill (Air) Joseph (85) 4th Bramshill Harriet (84) Team scores: 8th Bramshill (Land) 244 9th Bramshill 203 4th Bramshill 200 7th Bramshill 198 Clearly a victim of its own success, The Bramshill Hot Shot Archery Tournament was asked to run for our Cubs, too. Once again this year we will be running for the Cubs on the 12th and 13th of May where they compete for “The Plate�, currently held by 6th Bramshill Cubs.
Fair Traded Products The outcome of the 2018 Hampshire Fair Trade cooking competition was closer than ever as the teams had to survey what products were available, design a poster illustrating fair trade and prepare a 3 course meal for 4 guests at Cranborne Enterprise College, Basingstoke. The poster that was the most engaging had two hands shaking over a cup of coffee with the message ‘how simple choices for us can change the world for others’. The team with the highest number of points was 100th Elvetham Heath. In a market dominated by multi-nationals, small scale producers face a number of obstacles to getting a fair price for the food they work so hard to grow. So products carrying the fair trade mark not only guarantee a minimum price to producers, but also additional payments for social projects such as sanitation, housing, education and supply of clean water. Though Fairtrade fortnight has passed, products with the fair trade mark are available all year in food shops and so Scouts and their families can make a difference by buying such products. Fair trade activities provide interesting programmes for the global programme zone and can be downloaded from Hants Scout web site and Fair Trade website. Rayner Mayer County International Adviser Hampshire Scouts
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Dinosaur hunt In the midst of the fierce blizzard last Saturday, Jude and Chas took the 1st FSM Cubs went to Kimmeridge. If only we’d had more rock hammers and there hadn’t been a blizzard blowing… maybe we’d have all found a 150 million year old plesiosaur femur or humerus but luckily, we all witnessed Steve Etches dig one up right in front of us!!! The lure of the Jurassic Coast is there and Kimmeridge Bay is the beating heart since Steve Etches MBE collected his first fossil aged five. The Etches Collection is small but pretty impressive and there was a warm welcome from Rachel as we swapped wellies and storm gear for street clothes in the Wolfson Discovery Centre. With our guide George’s help, and the swimming creatures feeding and
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predating overhead, we puzzled together the detective work that allowed the astonishing scene portrayed over head to come to life. We looked at ammonites, some whose big and empty shells became homes for other creatures, coelacanth, the ominous looking plesiosaur and huge sea creatures with different kinds of teeth which determined where they would be in the food chain.
There was a terrible snow blizzard after lunch and it was very cold in the biting wind, but the Cubs of the 1st FSM were intrigued and on fire hunting for their own fossils to take back to the centre to examine under the high powered microscopes which projected onto the wall. It hadn’t been easy getting across the field to the cliffs of Kimmeridge Bay, and the track down to the low tide beach
muddy fossil rocks
was treacherous. Steve Etches is now over 70 and yet he’d come with us, in dreadful weather, leaving the comfort of the wonderful centre built around The Etches Collection. And yes that is him, kneeling as the tide comes in, with rock hammer and chisel, freeing a metre long flipper bone fossil of a creature that has been long gone, which we’d watched swimming that morning in the amazing light screens over the fossil collection. (CGI, of course) “I saw the corner of what looked like an ammonite in a stretch of the slate that is usually covered by sand and I started chipping to free it…” It was clear and unmistaking as it emerged from the rock. “This doesn’t happen every day.” said George as we watched the metre long fossil being exposed, “It looks like it is dis-articulated” That means the rest of
the five metre long, extinct sea creature might not be preserved in one piece. And thanks to George our guide, we knew of the painstaking track that had followed the thousands of fossils collected over 65 years into the story of our past. The story is a big one and the Cubs were fascinated and brave and tough. We collected a lot of fossils on that wind blasted shore, and carted them up the cliff, and cleaned them and examined them whilst being warmed with a great hot chocolate topped with marshmallow which awaited us upon our return to the centre. Then it was back over the mill race at Sandbanks, the ferry bucking wildly and home to Sandle Manor in the snow, loaded with muddy fossil rocks! Chas Cochand District Commissioners New Forest West Scouts
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Hampshire Scouts Calendar Tuesday, 1 May AT: TA (Manager & Supporter) workshop DofE Basingstoke presentation Wednesday, 2 May Winchester and Eastleigh DofE presentation TBC Friday, 4 - 6 May Net North Vs South Paintballing Festival Sunday, 6 May Cty Act: Foundation, Safety & Rescue Training Tuesday, 8 May Cubs Gold Award Presentation Thursday, 10 May AT: Module 10 (First Aid) Andover Saturday, 12 May AT: Modules 17, 18(Hook) Sunday, 12 - 13 May Cty Act: HSMT Hillwalking & Climbing Experience and Training courses AT; Residential Weekend (Ferny Crofts) Thursday, 17 May AT: TMT meeting Friday, 18 - 19 May Sct Expedition Challenge Saturday, 19 May AT: M&S (Meeting the Challenges) AT: Module 10 (First Aid) Alton AT: Module 10 (First Aid) Romsey AT: Modules 14 & 15 (Hook) AT: Safety Training (Romsey) Sunday, 20 May AT: M&S (Achieving Growth) AT: Module 10 (First Aid) Romsey AT: Module 25 (Lyndhurst) County Service of Remembrance Saturday, 2 June BVR: Teddy Bears Picnic - 100 Acres Wood
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Sunday, 3 June AT: Modules 12a & 12b (Hook) Wednesday, 6 June AT: Module 10 (First Aid) Eastleigh Saturday, 9 June AT: M&S (Skills of Management) BVR: Teddy Bears Picnic - Stoke Park Juniors, Eastleigh Sunday, 10 June AT: M&S (Skills of Management) Cty Act: Foundation, Safety & Rescue Training Wednesday, 13 June AT: Module 10 (First Aid) Blackwater Valley Friday, 15 June Cty: WW1 100 years on - Hampshire Young People’s Cathedral Service of Peace and Reconciliation Saturday, 16 June AT: Modules 11 & 19 (Hook) Sunday, 17 June AT: Modules 1, 3 & 6 (Blackwater Valley) Thursday 21 June Hamshire County AGM Sunday, 22 - 24 June Net MAD camp AT: M&S (Achieving Growth) Saturday, 23 June BVR: Teddy Bears Picnic - Walled Garden, Down Grange Friday, 29 June Net/Exp Evolution hike camp Saturday, 30 June Net/Exp Evolution hike camp
Malawi 2019 Expedition July-August 2019 Malawi Expedition 4 weeks approx. ÂŁ2500 In the summer Hampshire Scouting Camping, community projects in schools, adventure, safari Age 16 to 20 at time of travel Explorers and Network Please contact: Jackie Heath
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