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Gallery: Photos from the 20th Century

As 2020 marks the start of a new decade. We thought it would be nice to look back at some photos of scouts in Southampton in previous decades. Here are over 80 photos of scouting in Southampton from the 50’s to the 70’s.

If you’d like to see more photos from the archives. Check out 2nd Southampton’s Flickr album.

Captions are work in progress

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Poppy Appeal and Remembrance Service

Well folks here we are at the end of two weeks selling poppies. My grateful thanks go to all of the members of Active Support who did a “stint” at our stand in Sainsburys. Also my thanks go to Thelma Young, Kerry Budd, the 7th Cubs, the 26th Cubs, the 29th Cubs, the 11th Group and the 13th Group. You all did a great job. I have a running total of money collected until Friday evening, but I am going to keep you in suspense until I have the full total from British Legion. It will surprise you all !!!Thanks also to those members who joined me at the Cenotaph on Sunday morning and to the members of Network, Siobahn, Bailey and Henry who laid a wreath on behalf of the District. I think we all did a great job in showing Scouting supporting the community. Total amount collected for the Poppy Appeal will be circulated when I have it. Thank you all, George Longhurst.

Update:

Herewith the total collected for the Poppy Appeal, by the District on behalf of The British Legion. £7,869.25p (This includes money collected by the 13th Group at their church parade) My contact at British Legion tells me that this is a record amount collected on that site. Once again WELL DONE to everyone who took part.

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11th Cubs: Helping to save little lives and the environment

Over the last few weeks the 11th cub scouts have been learning about the charity Kicks Counts and how they can use their rubbish to raise money for them.

Kicks Counts is a charity that was set up in 2009 and aims to reduce the stillbirth and neonatal death rate by raising awareness of baby movements.  How important it is to be aware of movement in the womb.

One of the ways the Charity fundraises is by working with Terracyle.

Terracycle is a recycling company that has specialises in recycling typically hard-to-recycle waste. They offer people the opportunity to be collect certain waste and send it to them to be recycled. All products they collect are not recyclable by our regular council bin collection, so any items sent are saved from going into landfill. Terracycle clean and melt the waste into hard plastic that can be remoulded to make new recycled products.

For example: confectionary wrappers, milk bottle tops, biscuit and cake wrappers, dental products, cat food pouches, bread bags, crisp packets, baby food pouches and stamps.

The cubs collected all their items together in the hall.   This all had to be sorted into categories. So each Six was given an item to collect from the pile – some of these had to be flattened out, others had to checked and cleaned.

Once sorted the items had to be bagged up and taken to the collection point in Millbrook.

For more information please go to:

https://www.kickscount.org.uk/Default.aspx

https://www.facebook.com/groups/RecyclingKCSouthHants/about/

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District Archery Competition Results 2019

Well done to everyone who took part in last weekend’s district Archery competition. The results are in:

Cubs

Cubs Highest individual score:

3rd Place: Daniel P – 14th -265pts
2nd Place: Lewis P – 22nd -266pts
1st Place: William G – 29th – 274pts

Cubs Highest team score:

3rd Place: 2nd – 635pts
2nd Place: 1st – 704pts
1st Place: 22nd – 779pts

Scouts

Scouts Highest individual score:

3rd Place: Sophie S – 22nd – 248pts
2nd Place: John C – 2nd – 248pts
1st Place: Rachel L – 22nd – 280pts

Scouts Highest team score:

3rd Place: 29th team B- 578pts
2nd Place: 29th team A – 598pts
1st Place: 22nd – 888pts

Explorers

Explorers Highest individual score:

3rd Place: Sophie L – Phoenix ESU – 229pts
2nd Place: JD N – Kraken ESU – 238pts
1st Place: Theo L – Kraken ESU – 271pts

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Calling all Scouts and Explorers: Target Sprint is back!

Target Sprint is back

Our next Planned Events are:

Saturday 11th May 2019 – Scouting and non-scouting open competition & National Series [49.5mm targets](21st Romsey HQ)
Enter via Eventbrite >> HERE <<

Sunday 12th May 2019 – GB Ranking / Super-League [35mm targets]
Enter via Eventbrite >> HERE <<

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Southampton City District: St George’s Day Awards

It’s the time in the year when we recognise adults in the district that have given outstanding service over the years in differing ways.

A massive congratulations and well done to those listed here for their input and achievements.
These will be presented to the individuals over the coming weeks.

Antony Wilkinson
Chief Scouts Commendation

Elaine Buckland
Chief Scouts Commendation

Iain Redmill
Chief Scouts Commendation

Kris Partridge
Chief Scouts Commendation

Russell Andrews
Chief Scouts Commendation

Veronica Radford
Chief Scouts Commendation

Evelyn Willett
Award Of Merit

Sarah Granger
Award Of Merit

Jane Cook
Bar to Award Of Merit

Nico Chart
Bar to Award Of Merit

Janet Toy
Bar to Award Of Merit

Shaun Cassidy
Bar to Award Of Merit

Future awards nominations will be geld in the Spring and Autumn each yea and the district awards team will consolidate these and process them to County.Details of all the awards can be found here:

https://scouts.org.uk/media/918926/SGD-Roll-of-Honour-2018-FINAL-v10.pdf

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Notice: St Georges Day event 2019 Cancelled

Dear All,

Unfortunately the St Georges Day event for this year, 2019,  has had to be cancelled The district team worked on this for some time following the feedback from the sections but no suitable venue could be found.
Thanks to all those involved in the process this year. We hope that we have something in place for 2020.

David Bowers (DC)

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11th Cub Presented with Lee Budd Award

On a cold night in March, Sue Budd, Kerry Budd and Veronica Radford attended the 11th Pack night to present Finley with the Lee Budd Award for “Outstanding Endeavour”.  This is only the second time this award has been presented as the recipients have to overcome extreme adversity.

He is an outstanding Cub Scout who has persevered and continues to conquer his fears and problems in everyday life.  He enjoys his cub experiences (park nights, outings and camps) and has benefited in many ways from all the new and exciting experiences cubs has offered him during his Scouting Adventure.

Congratulations Finley.

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Scouts Taster Sessions. The Best thing you’ll do in March

We are holding 3 weeks of taster sessions with a view to opening a new Scout troop in Southampton for young people aged 10-14.

Join us between 7 and 9pm on Friday 8th March for the first of 3 sessions at 2nd Southampton Scout Group, Ridding Close, SO15 5PJ.

Contact Anne on 07956 013513 or anne.holdorph@scouts.org.uk to register your child’s place, find out more or if you are interested in volunteering as an adult.

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11th Southampton Annual Quiz Night – March 23rd

23 March 2019 7 pm at HQ

  • Teams of 8 (flexible) Adults £2 Kids 50p
  • Tea, Coffee, soft drinks Cakes, pastries, and biscuits will be available to purchase
  • Bring your own beverages, nibbles! Bring prizes for the raffle!
  • Contact Kris to sign up before 15 March 07512 034 855