AGM2022-Squirrels Report

Welcome Section Reports Squirrels Beavers Cubs Scouts Explorers The charity Minutes of the 2021 AGM Structure & governance Objectives & activities Committee Accounts YAY! Our first year of squirrels has been a massive success! The squirrels have enjoyed a range of activities throughout our year, and we have met some very strong characters along the way. It’s been a big year for our section and it’s been a massive learning experience for our leaders. This year has been jam packed with investitures, activities and adventure, and we have enjoyed every minute of it! Most of our evenings have been based on different books, we’ve made stickmen, super-potatoes and even gone on our very own bear hunt! We enjoyed swishing through […]

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Census 2022 and Gift Aid

Dear parents and carers Welcome back to another term of Scouting. We’re really pleased, as I’m sure you are, that we are still meeting face to face and (touch wood!) everything seems to be going well and we’re all keeping safe. I’m writing a little later than usual for the start of a new term as I wanted my termly update to coincide with this term’s biggest administrative task (or is that ‘nightmare’!). 31st January is the annual census of UK Scouts. This is where we re-register the Scout Group as an official member Group of UK Scouts and record the number of individual members we have, which in turn determines the insurance requirements, etc. From this, we are then […]

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GSL Blog – Termly Update #2

Copy of email sent to all members contact 1 in Parent Portal Dear parents and carers I hope you’ve had a great summer, despite the cooler temperatures and are raring to go with the new term. We certainly are here at 11th Folkestone Scouts! I’ve got a few important updates to share with you, so here goes. Getting everyone back together safely: We’re really pleased that nearly all restrictions have been removed with regard to face to face Scouting. We’ve reviewed the risk assessment for getting everyone back together safely and can now relax some of the processes. You will no longer get an email invitation to each meeting and you will no longer need to sign up each week. Please […]

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We’re nearly back!

Copy of email sent to all members contact 1 in Parent Portal Dear parents and carers I hope you’ve had a great summer, despite the cooler temperatures and are raring to go with the new term. We certainly are here at 11th Folkestone Scouts! I’ve got a few important updates to share with you, so here goes. Getting everyone back together safely: We’re really pleased that nearly all restrictions have been removed with regard to face to face Scouting. We’ve reviewed the risk assessment for getting everyone back together safely and can now relax some of the processes. You will no longer get an email invitation to each meeting and you will no longer need to sign up each week. Please […]

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