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Contents

Welcome to our 2014 review of Hampshire Scouts 04

Chairman’s Report

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Changing Lives

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Beaver Scouts

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Cub Scouts

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Scouts

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Explorer Scouts

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Network Scouts

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Youth Council

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Hampshire Scout Expeditions

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Development

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Duke of Edinburgh & Queen’s Scout Award

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Our Queen’s Scouts

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St. George’s Day Awards 2014

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Ferny Crofts

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Adult Training

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Scout Active Support

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Our Accounts

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.

Get Involved

To join the adventure of Scouting whether as an Adult or Young person then contact us at: www.scouts.org.uk/join e: county.office@scouts-hants.org.uk or t: 023 8084 7847

Photography Acknowledgements

Where we can, we strive to acknowledge the owner or source of pictures used in this publication.

We use them under the terms ‘for Scouting use only’.

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Chairman’s Report

Once again it has been a very exciting year for Hampshire Scouting, as can be seen from the many pictures in this report, with thousands of young people across the County having fun and adventure.

year John Mason decided to stand down as South West Cluster Representative, and we welcomed Sam Martin to the role. As a reward for John’s work at County level in the past he was made a County Vice-President.

Looking back at my previous reports, (is it nearly 6 years?), I have previously commented on the Enthusiasm and Commitment from all our Leaders and Supporters, and it continues to amaze me of the time and energy adult members have for Scouting. A big Thank you once again for your support.

The elected representatives on the County Executive Committee, represent the District Clusters. This ensures the views of the Districts are being heard. Do use the rep. and invite them to events and meetings. They are in post to help.

We continued to hold Executive and Trustee Training across the County, which is still very popular, and for the first time we introduced specialist Chair and Treasurer Sessions. We have also held a “Train the Trainer” session to enable us to undertake more local

The County Executive Committee is a key part of managing the County, and thanks to all the members for their support over the last 12 months. During the

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training for our Trustees.

We welcome Anthony Gosden as our new County Treasurer.

Anthony has quickly got involved in managing the accounting system, and we are very grateful of his input which has taken a lot of work off the other members of the County Management Team.

My personal thanks to Lucie and Jon in the County Office, recently joined by Linda (who has taken on the role of County Bookkeeper), for their support and commitment.

I look forward once again to meeting you all at the various events across the county over the next 12 months.

Peter Moody County Chairman

Changing Lives On the last day of 2014, I stood together with Explorer Scouts from Hampshire and The Gambia as we welcomed in the New Year at Kaira Konko Scout Centre in Soma.

We had travelled most of the day to get there, passing villages along the road, stopping at military checkpoints, and then seeing only fires in the compounds as night fell and the electricity ran out.

And then our jeeps halted in the darkness - and arrived to an amazingly warm welcome from the Kaira Konko Scout Band, the Soma community, and a hundred Scouts and children.

During our time in The Gambia, we would not only help to change the lives of children and families by repainting schools and distributing mosquito nets, but we would ourselves be changed with a new view of the world and greater respect for other cultures.

Scouting is all about changing lives for the better. Changing the lives of young people by offering challenging opportunities that help stretch and develop them.

Changing the lives of adult volunteers by enabling them to be part of a community – a social life with a purpose. And changing the lives of people in the wider world, by giving back through voluntary service which makes a difference.

Adventure continues to be the lifeblood of Scouting, offering young people the opportunities for growth in the gap between your comfort zone and what can be achieved if you really stretch yourself – from camping out overnight for the first time, to Queen’s Scout expeditions.

Last year we also talked about our vision of #Scouting4All, and this year we have started to realise that dream.

Hampshire Scouting grew for the tenth successive year. We have continued to open new Groups and Sections to meet the need for Scouting where we have waiting lists, at the heart of new housing developments, and in areas where Scouting hasn’t yet been established.

We brought the whole of Hampshire Scouting together for

our H0014 Jamboree, packed with activities and new friends, and with an amazing atmosphere on the camping field.

We introduced Scouting activities to Naomi House children’s hospice and to young carers from across Hampshire.

We started a project to help develop the future leaders of Hampshire Scouting, and continued our programme to support our current generation of managers.

And we welcomed the Chief Scout, Bear Grylls, to our County Activity Centre at Ferny Crofts - and on the same weekend, held a service of commemoration and peace to mark 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War. Above all, we left behind our comfort zone in Hampshire Scouting, and started to find out what can be achieved if we really stretch ourselves.

Our adventure has begun.

Adam Jollans County Commissioner

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Hampshire Beavers and their leaders have had another busy year. We kicked off with a Leader Log Chew, where leaders shared ideas for events and activities and had the opportunity to get to know leaders from neighbouring colonies.

The high light of the Beaver calendar as always, was Paultons Park Winter Wonderland, over 2,000 Beavers and their families had fun in the park and visited Santa and his elves in the fantastic grotto.

Our mascot, Chip the Beaver, took a well deserved rest over the winter and returned looking brighter and fluffier than ever, he continues to be popular with the Beavers at every event he attends.

Thompson We look forward to next year with a picnic toAmanda be Assistant County Commissioner Cub Scouts held simultaneously across three venues, a new look Leaders Log Chew, and a visit to Longleat with the Cubs.

Wendy Turner

Assistant County Commissioner Beaver Scouts

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The main Competitions held this year were; County Cub Six-a-side Football, Scrapheap Challenge and the County Chess Competition. The main event of the year attended by hundreds of cubs from across Hampshire was H0014. Cubs camped with their groups for the week and more arrived for A Big Day Out on Wednesday 13th August 2014.

The Survival camp held in October last year was a great success and teams from across Hampshire were set challenges and tasks which gained them points.

The fine weather and an able team of leaders led to a highly successful weekend which it’s hoped will be repeated this year. The weekend was finished off with a Cub Forum led by our Young Leaders and the youth shaped forum helped us to understand changes that could be made in the future.

The cub’s scrapheap challenge was held once again in November and was again a great success thanks to support from the organising leaders and the groups that supported the event.

The County Chess Competition is held every two years and the successful event took place in March 2015. The young people were chosen by their District as their representatives and a high standard was once again evident. The event will be repeated again in 2017.

Our major event for this year was a large Cub presence at H0014. The cubs enjoyed activities including Dragon Boating, It’s a knockout, inflatables, crate stacking and many more. An amazing time was had by all despite the hurricanes best efforts to dampen our spirits.

Here’s to 2015 our “Year of Adventure” and looking to our 100 years celebrations in 2016.

Amanda Thompson

Assistant County Commissioner Cub Scouts

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Expedition Challenge A 2 day hike in the New Forest or 2 days cycling from Ferny Crofts to the Isle of Wight and back. This is an ideal opportunity for Scouts to complete their Expedition Challenge Award supported by a team of leaders from around the County. A significant challenge for most Scouts to navigate the route and keep on track for the 2 days.

Chief Scouts Gold Award Presentation Evening A chance for family and leaders to celebrate with the Award Holders achieving the Chief Scouts Gold Award at a special evening at Thornden Hall. James Ketchell was our special guest who presented the Certificates and shared with the audience his adventures over the last few years.

Patrol Leaders (PL) and Assistant Patrol Leaders (APL) Training Weekends Two weekends each year are dedicated to provide training to around 100 PLs and APLs from across the County. A great opportunity to learn about being a good PL and to have a lot of fun putting it to practice.

Emlyn Camping Competition A rigorous challenge for Patrols who want to demonstrate how good they are weekend camping from cooking to gadgets to planning the programme and menu.

Survival Skills Weekend Cooking all their food on open fires, sleeping in a hand built shelter and learning all the skills to survive in the wild. Learning how to skin a rabbit, cook fish, make camp ovens, be able to carve a wooden spoon to being able to do emergency first aid are all part of completing the Survival Skills Badge. Over a 100 Scouts from around the County team up to complete their badge.

H0014 Jamboree Over 1700 from Hampshire took part in Hampshire’s Big Jamboree in Dorset at Buddens Campsite. Activities included Dragon Boating, zip wire, caving complexes and much more.

A big thank you to all the leaders who supported these activities throughout the year.

Dom Howell

Assistant County Commissioner Scouts

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Explorer Scouts Explorer Scouts are young people who undertake all sorts of adventures from Gliding to 10 day Explorer Belt Expeditions and being a Young Leader to skydiving for charity. The possibilities are endless and 2014 has proved to be another epic year!

Trek Cart Trek Carts were originally used for taking equipment to camp, but these days Hampshire prefers to

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undertake races and challenges with them! Trek Cart 2014 at Cricket Camp saw 12 teams compete in 3 challenges for the title of Trek Cart champions.

The first challenge was a 8 mile run over fences, gates, water and narrow pathways with additional bases and challenges en route.

The second challenge was a 600m sprint including a steep hill and a few tight corners. The final challenge was an assault course including getting the team through a narrow letter box and under a cargo net. While not “carting” participants were able to undertake activities including

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archery, pizza making, tomahawk throwing, slippery slide and a campfire.

Congratulations to Itchen North Scouts, Hobos Explorers and Vulcans Network who won their respective trophies. Thanks must go to Gus Angus who organised the event, Jim, Malc, Clare, Martin and Ali from HEAT as well as the Itchen South, Campsite and Country Park staff who made the event possible.

Young Leader’s Weekends Four very successful Young Leader weekends were held across the county, helping Young

Leaders to complete modules B to J of the Young Leader Scheme as well as two module K First Aid courses. In combination with the local District training this gives the Young Leaders the skills needed for their role. One Explorer commented, “It was excellent to meet lots of other Young Leaders, share ideas, learn new skills and train the Cubs in their First Aid badge. I would recommend it to anyone who is a Young Leader”.

Zombie Camp 30 Explorers attended this new event at Cricket Camp. Each Explorer had two lives, which if they lost turned them into a ZOMBIE to take lives from other Explorers! Challenges included an assault course, climbing, caving, blind trail, bushcraft and producing

defences around their tents to stop a Zombie invasion! Great fun was had by all and thanks to Ali Ross, Gus and the other leaders for making it possible Around the County • Winchester and Portsmouth Explorer Scouts attended the Isle of Wight Revolution – three days packed with exciting activities.

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New Forest North Cerebrum ESU invested Explorers on top of the tallest building in Southampton, the Moresby Tower.

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Liphook Stirling Explorers won the Connaught Shield at the National Rifle Shooting Championship, an

award that has been going since 1911!

• Andover Explorers who completed a challenging 10 day Explorer Belt expedition in Hungary.

• Everyone who participated in Linked In camp and met Bear Grylls at Ferny Crofts – an excellent weekend for bringing all sections together.

Finally, thanks must go to the County Explorer Team: Gus Angus, Clare Webb, Mark Duffy, Jamie Andrews and to Carol Pannell who has led the Explorer Section over the last few years.

Mike Baxter

Assistant County Commissioner Duke of Edinburgh and Queen’s Scout Award

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It’s been another busy year!

Network has grown in size to 239 members that’s an increase of 8% on the previous year’s figures. We have opened 1 new group in Bentley, Rotherfield. This takes us up to 19 network groups in the County.

We have held many events and competitions over the last year including a home made sausage competition, Portsmouth city monopoly run and a raft race. All the events had a great turn out and many of the district networks were represented.

Many of the members achieved their Queen’s Scout Award and Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award after completing expeditions and challenges far and wide.

Many districts have attended national events as Hampshire Network, such as Intence in Bristol, Isle of Wight Revolution and MAD in Essex.

Jon Rowsell

District Network Leader

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Youth

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In 2014 we held two youth conferences, well attended by a new surge of young people coming through. Our aim remains clear and a consistent message is being driven across Hampshire Scouting about involving young people in all decision making processes.

In March 2014 we elected two new Youth Reps: Tom Fisher and Ollie Murray. Tom and Ollie have been instrumental in this role, and successfully led and delivered our October conference, which was held at Cricket Campsite.

One of the highlights of the October conference was the

suggestion of “Youth Council in a Box�, and following the weekend a small group of young people worked to put this resource together. The boxes were successfully delivered at the start of 2015 and have given districts a boost and support in delivering youth involvement work locally. We are also pleased with the passion and commitment of many districts who in 2014 set up and continued to deliver youth involvement development work - including Itchen South and Blackwater Valley. District Youth Councils have remained high on the agenda for 2015, with more

support being offered to implement these.

The youth council remains a strong and embedded element of Hampshire Scouting, and we are pleased that many youth council members have moved on to leadership positions, and also taken on roles as young spokespeople.

Fi Durrant

Assistant County Commissioner Youth Participation

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Hampshire Scout Expeditions

HSX

Looking back on another successful year!

I am proud to be involved in HSX as it continues to try and drive the level of adventure in scouting to new levels.

The Antarctica Expedition continues to gather pace with some exciting training and announcing UK based challenges to help raise funds to support the motor neurone disease association (MNDA); along the way.

The Antarctica team travel all the way to the Arctic Circle for the main training of the year with a two week trip to Norway. Cross Country skiing was a skill they planned to start getting to grips with as part of their development. The team managed to get to grips with hours of physical exercise and managing their food intake. It did help Russ was there to make sure the K factor was involved (something to do with a theoretical calorie intake the HSX way!)

The traditional diary of events kicks off each year with a trip to the Brecon Beacons on a rather damp and cold January weekend.

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It was a good job navigation was high up on the training list as the hill fog gave zero visibility! Combined with some wild camping it made the perfect start to the year.

February saw us take our annual pilgrimage to Scotland and the Cairngorms. You could have been fooled into thinking you were in the Alps rather than Scotland but the weather was fantastic and the views even more stunning.

Winter skills training a plenty and the Antarctica team enjoyed every minute of getting time on the snow.

The team were joined by a Scouting magazine journalist as a feature for a future article, which has come out well in print recently.

Easter, with another HSX tradition saw a team of 28 from across Hampshire Scouting hit the Lake District and Great Tower. The trip still proves to be one of the most

popular of the year attracting all kinds of older HSX members to come and get out on the hill.

A great time to access all types of activities from fell running to multi-pitch climbing for the younger ones and cream teas and bird watching for the support team.

In June we refine our rock climbing skills in the peak district preparing leaders for the Single Pitch Climbing Award (SPA).

After the summer we pick up our training at Ferny Crofts with a September recruitment weekend focusing on expedition skills and getting ready for our next adventure.

October saw HSX with a trip to North Wales and again an opportunity to get on some proper hills and crags. The focus being assessing members for their terrain 2 hill walking permits and preparing for national mountain leader assessments. Those looking forward to a mountain leaders qualification get a great insight into some of the training ground used

by Plas y Benin!

Finally onto December and the Christmas meal! A five course splendour and chance to catch up and reflect on a busy year‌ Also time to propose the next expedition, this time we have plans for 2016, 2017 and beyond.

Since HSX was founded in 1986 they have run over 20 international Expeditions for Hampshire Scouts to over 10 different countries on six of the continents. In 2016 to celebrate 30 years of exploration we are heading to Cambodia.

The expedition aims to continue the HSX tradition of being a life changing experience for all involved and inspiring the next generation of expedition leaders.

Dave King

Assistant County Commissioner HSX

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Our Extended Development Plan 2014 has been another busy year for the development team starting with the continuation of our development project together with implementing the objectives of the project that came about through a £4,000 grant made to us by the Freemason’s Grand Charity.

Our Extended Development Project Our initial three-year Development Project was extended for a further three years with support from the Development Grants Board and the County Executive Committee.

The objectives of the extension project are to: 1) Contribute to the growth of Hampshire Scouting by 2% each year.

2) Reduce our census joining list by 5% / 7% each year 3) Establish a new Group / Section in 3 new building development areas.

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4) Establish a new Group / Section in 3 areas of diversity.

of high deprivation in Hampshire and is in the top 10% of the UK.

Progress during the first year of the extension project has been good with all of our objectives on track. Three of the Districts the project has been working closely with have grown substantially.

Basingstoke East 12.2%, Odiham 10.3%, and Winchester 5.5%.

Interestingly where we work hard to reduce the waiting list we actually generate more demand through our publicity and promotions in schools and recruitment events. The 2015 census shows that Districts with over 100 on their waiting lists are down from 7 to 5 however 3 of those Districts have over 200 young people currently needing places.

Our experience and figures show that we achieve growth when we are being proactive in developing and supporting growth initiatives.

The three Districts mentioned earlier are examples of where proactive development has taken place resulting in substantial growth.

The process that we employ when opening new colonies in particular is a very successful one. It has a formula, which works if followed.

The key message is around flexible volunteering, working in a team of at least 6 adults and starting with a small number of young people (12).

We have also been working hard to establish a new group at the Picket Twenty development in Andover.

A new Cub Pack at Oakridge in Basingstoke East opened in November 2014. This is an area

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The main challenge for our extension project is that we have been intentionally working in the hard to reach areas and as such the demand on time and effort to ensure success has been that much greater. Having said that the satisfaction of achieving is we believe that much greater too.

The introduction of the Hospital

Units and Caterpillar Camps at Naomi House reported on below and kick started with a grant from the Freemasons Grand Charity are excellent examples of this.

The objectives of the Freemasons project were to provide a bespoke scouting unit within Southampton Hospital managed by an Active Support Unit together with other volunteer Leaders. This would then be rolled out to other hospitals in the area including a unit in Naomi House. In addition the project would provide a planned activity day for young carers at Ferny Crofts our National Activity Centre in the New Forest.

Hospital Unit The Hospital Unit has taken a lot of time to arrange but is now up and running with a dedicated unit manager in Southampton General Hospital. The main reason for the delay has been the number of people that have had to be involved in the liaison process together with the need to ensure that the necessary service level agreement, DBS and Health declarations are in place and that the training and Induction of our volunteers has taken place. A dedicated badge and Logo has been produced and purchased.

Tee Shirts and neckerchiefs have also been designed and purchased.

Whilst the negotiations with the hospital were going on the team took the opportunity to visit Great Ormond Street and Guys hospitals to gain from their experience in running similar Scout units.

Naomi House (Caterpillar Camps) The unit at Naomi House started as planned on Tuesday 19th August 2014. The Unit took the form of a Caterpillar Camp, which is a day of outside scouting activities within the centres grounds. The Caterpillar is Naomi House’s logo. Over a dozen young

people and their siblings took part in the activities and all received a certificate and achieved their backwoods-cooking badge. A turquoise scarf with a yellow border was worn during the camp and everyone was allowed to keep his or her scarf. This day was extremely successful and enjoyed by all resulting in 2 to 3 further “Caterpillar Camp Days” being planned for 2015.

Young Carers Activity Day The Activity Day for Young Carers took place as planned on Sunday the 12th October 2014 at Ferny Crofts Activity Centre.

The response from the young carers was very good. On the day 57 young carers and 15 adults attended. These were split into 7 groups, all of which had members from within scouting to provide support. During the day the young carers were able to take part in a wide range of activities including, climbing, archery, canoeing, fire lighting and tent pitching as well as using the go-carts and adventure course at Ferny Crofts.

We were also able to provide them with a hot lunch courtesy of members of the Freemasons Pax Hill Scout Lodge. Those who helped provide the activities on the day were the Ferny Croft crew including the Gold Team, HEAT, Cricket campsite team and members from Southampton City and Romsey Districts. We received a number of thank you comments, one of the feedback comments received from the young carers ‘Everyone running the activities were so friendly, encouraging and made the day so special.’ 7 of the young carers that took part have been put in touch with local Scout Groups with a view to joining.

The aim of the Freemasons project was to engage with groups of young people who traditionally would not be able to take part in scouting activities by virtue of

their circumstances. From that point of view the project has been a success in that it has increased and improved our profile across the young peoples care sector and enabled us to make some valuable contacts for the future. Young people have had the opportunity to experience scouting and therefore our aim of making scouting available to all is being realised. It is difficult to be exact about the numbers that will continue within scouting other than to say that the Naomi House “Caterpillar Camps” will continue as will the young carers activity days. The hospital units have the potential for involving many young people especially as we progress the development of further units in other hospitals.

There is an increasing number of people getting involved in development activities both in the County and Districts, far too many to mention individually, on behalf of all the young people who have benefitted from your support please accept a very well deserved thank you.

The Freemasons Pax Hill Scout Lodge maintains a keen interest in scouting activities within the County, making small grants to a number of local Scout Groups.

The Lodge makes a point of reporting on current scouting activities at its regular lodge meeting and we are very grateful for their support.

If anyone would like any further information about any of our development projects or about development in general please do not hesitate to contact Vanessa Slawson our County Development Officer or myself.

Gordon Brakewell Assistant County Commissioner Development

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Queen’s Scout Award and Duke of Edinburgh’s Award From Dartmoor to Zambia and from Switzerland to Nepal, 24 Hampshire Scouts have hiked, paddled, climbed and sailed hundreds of miles to complete the expedition phase of their Queen’s Scout Award, Scouting’s highest achievement. They have developed new skills ranging from dancing to ice climbing, and from campanology to scuba diving. On the way they have provided hours of voluntary service; helping out at Scouting Groups, in Care Homes and working on environmental improvements. Their final projects included a web site, a report on the impact of tourism on the Lake District, and mapping plane crashes in the Brecon Beacons.

Recognition of young people’s achievements is important and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is one of the most widely recognised, valued by educational establishments and employers alike. The three levels (Bronze, Silver and Gold) and the balanced programme (Volunteering, Skill, Physical, Expedition and Residential) make it a challenge, allowing young people to spend time in new places, meet new people and learn new skills, along with developing their communication, organisational and teamworking skills. And they get memories that will last a lifetime!

The Scout Association awards, culminating in the highest award

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in Scouting, the Queen’s Scout Award are closely linked to the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, with additional challenges of participation in the Scouting programme, camping, environmental awareness, thinking about values and Scouting’s international dimension.

This year has seen an amazing 20 people achieve their Queen’s Scout Award. In addition, we have had nearly 800 people register for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and 153 Bronze, 71 Silver and 21 Gold Awards presented.

Back in September 2013, 26 Queen’s Scouts were presented with their certificates by Alastair Bruce OBE, Hampshire Scouting Ambassador, Sky News’ Royal, Religious & National Events Commentator and Historic Adviser to Downton Abbey. The venue was the Sea City Museum (Old Southampton Law Courts) and the QSA holders stood in the dock while the achievements were read out. Our Scouting Jury then considered this and awarded their certificate to them!

After the presentation Queen’s Scouts and guests were able to wander around the museum and enjoy a buffet. Thanks to everyone who assisted with the evening and Box It for their kind sponsorship.

Thanks must go to all the Explorer Scout Leaders, District Advisers, County Advisers, Assessors and others who support this important part of our work and we look forward to an even more exciting year next year.

Mike Baxter

Assistant County Commissioner Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and Queen’s Scout Award

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Tilly Griffiths Chloe Hinton Heather Grimsey Adam Mori Ismay Latter Patrick Lavery Johanna Walukieicz

Kirsty Bazen Emma Buckett Kirsty Sutherland Elliott Galvin Rebecca Griffiths Thomas Bourner Jessica Allmark

Matthew Cook

Toby Brimson

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Christopher Thomas Lawrence Marinaccio Peter Young Heather Porter Robert Vine James Heasman Sam Davidson Samuel Tyler

Adam Jollans Hampshire Dick Whittington

Meon Valley

BAR TO THE SILVER ACORN

Philip Blosse Hampshire Donald Fern Eastleigh Mandy Hawke Hampshire Tony Parker

New Forest West

Michael Smith Eastleigh SILVER ACORN

Robin Abbott

New Forest South

Colin Andrews

New Forest West

Peter Bench

Basingstoke West

Peter Betteridge Romsey Benjamin Bradley Hampshire David Chadwick

New Forest West

Marion Christmas Hampshire Mary Coyte

Sonia Crabb

Petersfield Meon Valley

Susan Hedges Hampshire David McGregor Hampshire Stephen Moore

Itchen South

Adrian Mori

Itchen South

Lynette Norris

Blackwater Valley

John Stevens Romsey

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Ferny Crofts

Another year of fun and adventure at Ferny Crofts with the team working hard to help yet more young people experience the great outdoors and start their own adventure!

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This was reflected in the business growth with income in 2014 increasing to £490,199. This is an increase of 14% on 2013 and continues the growth seen over the last few years.

What this really means is Ferny Crofts: • Provided over 25,350 young people with a unique and memorable residential experience!

• Delivered over 33,000 fantastic and unforgettable activity sessions!

We endeavour to provide even more opportunities for young people and this has been helped by our tented camps which have grown exponentially. This has meant even more young people have had a memorable camping adventure in the beautiful New Forest! Most have also experienced the fantastic onsite activities and gone home with many a tale to tell and memory to cherish.

We have been successful in our external fund raising and in particular spending the money from The National Park Sustainable Transport Fund. The summer saw us launch our upgraded fleet of mountain bikes and also build a work shop and store, plus new toilet and shower facilities.

Funding was also gratefully received from the Sport England Lottery Fund to assist us with setting up kayaking on site. We are now the proud owners of sit on - top kayaks providing young people with a great introduction to paddle sports on our onsite pond. Other new activities for 2014 included Go-Karting and

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Tomahawk Throwing.

The Open Day on 28th June was dry at Ferny Crofts, but the rest of Hampshire was drenched in heavy rain. Alas all continued at Ferny Crofts and those that braved the weather outside the site were rewarded with a day of fun and exciting activities with friends and family! Well done to the extended Ferny Crofts Team! We really do appreciate all of the support from the many Scout activity teams and groups across Hampshire, with your help we are able to provide a great day for young people and fabulous showcase for Hampshire Scouting.

We have managed to get out and about to a number of major events this year promoting Hampshire Scouting as well as Ferny Crofts at The New Forest Show as well as at the New Forest Head Teachers conference.

In a bid to sustain the increase in business and develop further opportunities for young people Ferny Crofts went through a staff restructure in autumn 2014.

The aim of this was to ensure the Ferny Crofts team has the necessary skills to continue developing the site and its facilities further over the coming years to provide even more opportunities for young people.

Once again we would like to thank all of the staff, volunteers and supporters for all of their hard work and commitment. We look forward to seeing you again soon for more fun and adventure!

Why not visit our facebook page? www.facebook.com/fernycrofts.sac

Donna Neseyif Centre Manager

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Adult Training We continue to recruit to increase the numbers of Training Advisers in each District and the number of Local Training Managers, so that we can offer training delivery support to all new leaders.

In late January 2014 we ran our first Hampshire Future Leaders Weekend. This is where we gained our District’s nominations for any young leaders in the 18-30 age range, who were considered to be potential commissioners, GSL’s or expedition leaders in the next 5/10 years. We had 18 delegates attend and all have been working with mentors and many taken on additional roles since.

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In November 2014 we ran our fourth Hampshire Leadership and Management Residential weekend for DC’s & GSL’s who have been in post for up to 24 months. We have also planned a further weekend over 21st/22nd November 2015 for the same cohort. Hampshire continues to lead in this area of Adult Training and is working with Gilwell to develop further this exciting initiative.

Our wonderful Trainers, as usual, were very supportive of all initiatives including the need to put in place and present at additional Workshops to cater

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for Safeguarding and Executive Training Sessions across the County.

Once again my thanks go to my team and to everyone who supports Adult Training in Hampshire, you all do a great job, particularly as I know that in many cases LTM’s and TA’s in particular, have additional responsibilities elsewhere in Scouting. My thanks also to the County Commissioner and my colleagues in the Core Hampshire Team, who’s comment and advice I always value.

Martin Rudd

Director of Adult Training 2014

Support Looking at the local reports coming to me from the various District Units, they are obviously working hard and doing what they are supposed to do namely, providing Active Support to their districts and this takes the pressure off the Leaders of the various sections and saves them having to provide the man-power to run events like Supper Clubs, Chess, Draughts, Football, Cross Country, Camping Competitions and all the other activities run in the district.

We now only have two County meetings per year. One around Easter and the other in October, where we also host the County Service to remember those in the Movement who have “Gone Home� during the last year. At our last service last year we had twenty five names added into the book.

The names were:

Eddie Aldridge, Alan Board, Sandra Board, Colin Burrans, Melvyn Colson, Martin Cooper, Mike Everett, David Fleming, Josie Garton, Dianne Hall, Les Hall, Tom Hall, Fred Heather, Bill Hyde, Brian Hoare, Ken Mosley, Michael Nobes, John Oakey,

Any member in the County is welcome to the Service as well as family members of those names being recorded and a candle is lit for each name recorded.

The County Quiz this year was won by Itchen North District in a closely fought contest hosted by New Forest West at the 1st Poulner Scout HQ. My thanks go to all members of District Active Support Teams and for the service they give to Scouting in Hampshire.

Arthur Payne, Myrtle Spiller, Peter Thornton, Eric Tysoe, Colin Vaughan, Maisie Willis and Anne Wood.

Richard Spearing

Assistant County Commissioner Scout Active Support

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Our stAccounts

Year to 31 December 2014 Incoming Resources Grants, donations and legacies Membership Fees Investments Activities and Events Ferny Crofts Total

Expended Resources Grants Governance Administration, Support & Development Activities and Events Ferny Crofts Total

Total Funds

2013

105,366 170,038 3,546 368,484 490,199 1,137,633

61,771 162,080 3,118 565,434 422,429 1,214,832

2014 11,131 12,833 172,686 332,502 408,998 938,150

2014

2013 14,760 19,849 180,777 536,298 353,980 1,105,664

2013

Fixed Assets Restricted funds General Funds

1,209,991 24,936 152,358

1,115,017 5,552 156,325

Total

89,485 119,370 138,168 98,773 20,000 10,000 11,309 50,000 10,000 1,934,390

97,248 80,053 120,923 114,789 20,000 10,000 15,000 0 0 1,734,907

Designated Funds: - Legacies - Ferny Crofts Development - Sections & Activities - Development Officer - International Support - Inclusion in Scouting - IT Development - Additional Activity Provision - Future Activity Leader Development

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Our Review - 2014

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