Weekly Summary
This week the cubs learnt about navigation and grid references, which will help them with at least one of their activities at the weekend and future camps/hikes.
Next week
Next week is half term, there is no meeting until 30th October.
Events
https://www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/parents/events.php
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.
Poppy Appeal
Date: 10th November, 10:00-17:00
Location: George Lane, Woodford
This is a fund raiser by all sections of the 52nd EFS Scout group (Beaver, Cub and Scout) for the British Legion accompanied by parents/carers/friends – please note that you may have to accompany your own child as we will not have enough leaders to safeguard your Scout (as we need 2 adults per group).
We shall be handing out special Scout Poppy badges to all who participate (at our section meetings after).
Scouts may wear this with pride on their sleeves -sew on the same side as activity and stage badges.
Please do your good deed for the day by helping with the Poppy appeal. Meet between the Boots/M&S shop at the time that you have put down and for the duration.( 1hour, 2 hours etc…) then hand over to the next set of parents/children when they come. Please also be patient and respectful with each other as sometimes journeys may be delayed.
Your Scout will be in FULL SMART UNIFORM at South Woodford public shopping area with your parents/their friends, collecting for the Poppy appeal. You can walk up and down the high street or stay still but will always meet around the boots/M&S area
District Quiz
Please join us for the annual cubs scout quiz, full details below:
Location: Wanstead Scout Hut, 72 Hollybush Hill, London E11 1PE
Date: Friday 16th November, 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Refreshments will be served at half time.
There is a limit of 6 cubs, so first come first served.
Cubs need to be in uniform.
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
