Weekly Summary

This week the cubs learned how to make rope out of twine, which is exactly the same process when using vines on their long hikes or camps.

Next week

Next week we are going to the Woodford fire station, details for the location can be found here:

https://goo.gl/maps/f9XuvimhtBK2

This is always a great meeting, cubs will get a tour of the fire station and operate some of the equipment.

Please drop off your cubs at the fire station 6pm and collect them at 7pm.

Events

https://www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/parents/events.php

Fire station visit

Date: 9th October 2108

Time: 18:00 – 19:00

A firestation visit to see the fire engines, operate the equipment including the fire hose, sitting in the truck and wearing protective clothing

Parents are welcome to accompany their cubs. Places are limited so please book early for a free place.

Leaders, please indicate if you are attending too so that we know how many leaders we have.

Location

2 Snakes lane west.

https://goo.gl/maps/87sDYFzeeek

Understand about:

• What to do in the event of a fire
• How fires start
• How to call emergency services
• Parents to drop off and pick up at fire station and not at scout hut.

Please call your leader in case of any emergency we will contact you via group sms/text likewise

Please walk, take a bus or car share if you can.

Autumn Camp

Date: 19-21 October

Location: Tolmers Activity Centre – https://goo.gl/maps/f44kFvudDD32

An exciting family weekend for Beavers, Cubs and Scouts, we encourage parents to come along and see what fun we have on camp and during our meetings.

We really need more adult helpers, so please do join in the experience.

The activities have been confirmed as the following:

• Rifle shooting
• Indoor climbing
• High ropes
• Gladiator
• Fire lighting

The site is Tolmers Activity Centre, we have book a hut that sleeps up to 34 people.  Parents and carers are welcome to stay, as long as they are DBS checked.  Due to the layout of the accommodation, parents/carers will not be able to sleep in a room with their cubs.

The cost is £15/per person for the entire weekend, this covers the food whilst the 52nd EFS group will cover the costs for camping and activities.  Parents/carers staying for the weekend will also be charged £15/each.

The address is:

Tolmers Activity Centre
Tolmers Road
Cuffley
Herts
EN6 4JS 

A map for the location is here: https://goo.gl/maps/e58N6sdSpEH2

This will be an indoor camp for Cubs, Beavers and Scouts.

Requests

Parents, please volunteer to help on the rota. https://www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/parents/programme.php

We have not had any volunteers for the last couple of weeks, which makes it very difficult for us to plan the meetings.  The 52nd group is run by volunteers and we really need help of parents on the night.  If we don’t get volunteers we will start to nominate parents for each week.

Please also note that once you have booked for an externally paid event, if you do not notify us in time, you are obliged to pay for it. As a matter of courtesy we hope that you can understand why we request this and how it affects spaces, leaders required to attend and the potential damage to our reputation. Please respect this and let us know via OSM.

All bookings MUST be made via OSM and payments should be automated as it saves us much time in administration.We may be requesting an additional charge for any manual payments in the future.

Yours in Scouting

52nd EFS leaders