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Your Scout Network Team Adrian Wray, UK Adviser (Scout Network)

Welcome

Emma Saunders, Programme and Development Adviser

Moot memories

The Scout Association, Gilwell Park, Chingford, London E4 7QW Contributions to: programme@scouts.org.uk ADVERTISING Richard Ellacott richard.ellacott@thinkpublishing.co.uk Tel: 020 8962 1258 Contributors: Emily Armitage, Jon Bell Photography: Matt Addison, Paul Ellinson, Paul Kubalek For ease of reading, this supplement refers to all variations of ‘county’ groupings simply as County.

You can read all the section supplements, and the main magazine, online at www.scouts.org.uk/magazine

ALL IN With a main programme for each month from now to next September, Join-in-Jamboree is the perfect way to plot your international programme throughout the Jamboree year.

With Swedish programmes, community projects and global development work all included, your Network can use the resource to get some of the Jamboree atmosphere going wherever you are.

Welcome to this shorter issue of Network. We’ve reduced the page count so that we can fit a bumper Join-in-Jamboree booklet into your packet this month.

But don’t let that stop you enjoying the articles we’ve lovingly prepared, crafted and designed

With the World Scout Jamboree coming round every four years, it’s a Scouting festival that every UK Member can get involved with, and Join-inJamboree is designed to provide inspiration for Network programmes that fit in with the key Jamboree themes. Make sure you take a good look at yours now, and start planning for the year ahead.

Triple moot We’ve taken an international theme ourselves this issue, with a look back at the incredible World Scout Moot in Kenya, which made history for so many reasons. There’s also a breakdown of other international opportunities you can sign up for.

News review We’ve been reviewing the kinds of stories you’d like to see in Network, based on your feedback in the magazine survey. We’re planning more programme ideas, more local stories and more input from Network members. If you’d like to be involved in putting the supplement together, get in touch with the editorial team at scouting.magazine@scouts.org.uk.

Help us out by putting ‘Scout Network supplement’ in the subject line.

Contents 4 News Work on the next World Jamboree, reach an apex and get spiritual in our news section, plus the latest products from Scout Shops

6 Masks, giraffes and barrels of laughs A collection of pictures from the 13th World Scout Moot in Kenya

10 Multiple moots and more International opportunities that are missing just one thing... you!

LIGHTBULB MOMENT If you want to have your say on a range of key Scouting issues, Inspire is the event for you. Inspire is a series of events for 14-25 year olds across England. You can find out more about them and how to get involved at www.scouts.org.uk/inspire

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Calling Sweden – Volunteer abroad

It is not just through Join-in-Jamboree that you can experience the essence of what is happening in Sweden next year The Scout Association is teaming up with its Swedish counterparts to offer a unique six month volunteering opportunity with the organisers of the World Scout Jamboree, based in Stockholm.

We are looking for bright and enthusiastic applicants currently aged between 20 and 25. You must relish the chance to spend six months living in Sweden working directly with the Jamboree organisers. The Jamboree will take place in the summer of 2011 and will see 32,000 young people gather together from upwards of 150 countries to celebrate international Scouting and Guiding at its best. You will make a direct and significant contribution to this life changing event.

The placement will begin on 4 March 2011 and end after the Jamboree in August 2011. This will be a particularly exciting time in the build up to and climax of the biggest Scouting event in the world. By volunteering you will be given a monthly living allowance, flights and accommodation in central Stockholm. You will also be given the opportunity to attend the Jamboree itself in 2011 and see the fruits of your labours.

Applicants will need to be happy to undertake a range of tasks on behalf of the Jamboree organisers, from supporting local Units in Sweden to help planning preparations for the event. You will need to be open to new experiences and comfortable living in another country for a prolonged period of time.

What are you waiting for?

Go to www.scouts.org.uk/evoss and apply online. The closing date is 5pm on Friday 3 December 2010. If you have any questions, please contact Patrick Rooke on 020 8498 5451 or email international@scouts.org.uk 4

Faith and awareness events for December/ January December 1 World AIDS Day 2 International Day for the Abolition of Slavery 2-9 Hanukah (Jewish) 3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities 5 International Volunteer Day 7 Al-Hura New Year’s Day (Muslim) 8 Bodhi Day - Rohatsu (Buddhist) 10 International Human Rights Day 16 Ashura (Muslim) 25 Christmas Day (Christian)

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January 2011 1 New Year’s Day 4 World Braille Day 5 Birthday of Guru Gobindh Singh (Sikh) 6 Epiphany (Christian) 7 Christmas (Orthodox Christian) 16 World Religion Day (Baha’i) 19-21 Mahayana New Year (Buddhist) 20 Tu B’shvat (Jewish) 27 Holocaust Memorial Day

SPIRIT LEVEL

For more help with getting spiritual development activities in your Unit Programme visit www.scouts.org.uk/faith

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Post Moot activities including an ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro

Masks, giraffes and barrels of laughs th Moot made Scouting history as This summer, the 13 World Scout Event ever to be held on African Kenya hosted the first World Youth es do the talking soil. We thought we’d let the pictur

ony, Excitement at the opening cerem dent which was attended by the Presi of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki

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World Scout Moot Kenya

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le, learning f Scouting is about meeting peop vering more from them, making friends and disco ld Scout Wor ’s about ourselves, then this summer best very the ngst Moot in Kenya has to rank amo r. of what our Movement can offe travelled to Africa, The 123 people from the UK, who for an adventure tries coun 67 joined 1,500 others from very and disco The ver. fore that will live with them ction of colle rse dive a such with challenge of living t colourful individuals in one of the world’s mos inspire and engage. environments is an experience to p learnt traditional As part of their experience the grou king mountains, thta crafts, ate local food, climbed brea at rugby. They ns ralia Aust kissed giraffes and beat the an in cook s, buse for also learnt how to wait appreciate and e danc rd swo a do international team, the world more than ever before. but in very few The pictures speak for themselves, e, never forget it; for words, to all those who were ther ada, make it you. those who weren’t, next time, in Can

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At a Giraffe sanctuary, making friends

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World Scout Moot Kenya

Visiting traditional dwellings in Nairobi

Moot at Register for the 14th World Scout ww w.scouts.org.uk/canada2013

the Aussies The British and Irish Lions gave final score 19-17 a thrashing on the rugby field,

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Multiple moots and more

t was Kenya you may be feeling left After the awesome adventure tha t m. Here are four opportunities tha glu l fee to son rea no t’s tha but , out ure may whet your appetite for the fut

Oz Moot 2010/2011 – Let your hair down (under) Emily Armitage has been to more moots than she has weddings, and has this to say about why you should moot it up down under to usher in 2011

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he term moot was first used in a Scouting context by Baden-Powell in 1926, in a letter to Percy Bancock Neville. It came to mean a gathering of Rover Scouts and the term is still used today to describe meetings involving Scouts from the oldest sections. In fact, it could be argued that every time you camp with Network you are in fact attending a moot.

Globally, moots have huge significance and the recent World Scout Moot in Africa is an important 10

example of this. However, my moot focus has become Australia where I will be leading a group of Scout Network members from the UK at the 18th National Australian Rover Moot (aka Oz Moot). This event will take place over 13 days from 30 December 2010 at Woodhouse Activity Centre in Adelaide. Oz Moot promises fun and adventure with a choice of activities ranging from a gourmet tour of local vineyards to cage diving with sharks.

If that tickles your fancy, there is still time to sign up, but you have to be quick. You have until 15 November 2010 to commit. If you’d like to find out more or are interested in joining our trip you can contact me at enla_est89@yahoo.co.uk or visit www.ozmoot.com

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International opportunities

Serbia 2011 – Explore the extraordinary

Finland 2012 – Roverway your way

Explorer Belt in Serbia. The Serbia and Montenegro Network have spaces on their 2011 expedition, open to Network members anywhere in the UK. To discover the arable plains and rolling countryside and register your interest, contact Chris Noble (polish_chris@btconnect. com) and find out more at www.samnet.org.uk

For younger Network members, 2012 offers you the chance to travel to Finland for Roverway, Europe’s premier Scouting gathering. Aimed at teams aged between 16 and 22 why not start your international Scouting journey with the Finnish?

More information is likely in the first half of next year, but Contingent Leaders will be recruited in the coming months. For more information, register at www.scouts.org.uk/finland2012

Canada Moot, the most likely to feature moose

Oh Canada – Make 2013 your year The next World Scout Moot will take place in Canada in 2013. That may seem like a long way off, but plans are already underway to make this event bigger and better than anything that has come before. Every country in the world will be invited to send a contingent and if this summer’s event in Kenya is anything to go by, this is one not to be missed!

If you would like to get involved, in any capacity, now is the time to register your interest.

Visit www.scouts.org.uk/canada2013

The moomin, one of Finland’s finest exports

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