Category: Uncategorized

	NAME		SCORE		TROOP		TEAM
1st	Mathew Harman		301		2nd		2nd	922
2nd	Toby Budd		279		1th		29th	885
3rd	Adam Hedges		273		22nd		26th	693
4th	Ellie Bugbee		255		29th
5th	Peter Rahlff		248		2nd		13th B	656
6th	Fynnley Starink		238		29th		25th	612
7th	Ameer Akbar		231		25th		1th	412
8th	James Webb		229		13th B		22nd	338
9th	Rhys Barton		225		26th
10th	Coner Mattingley		220		13th B		7th	0
11th	Georgie Ray		218		29th		9th	0
12th	Ben Edwards		207		13th B		11th	0
13th	Sam Momber		202		2nd		14th	0
14th	William Hadley		200		26th
15th	Stafan Radford		198		25th
16th	Jakob Vronsky		183		25th
17th	Max Slanik		179		26th
18th	Mathew Bailey		178		13th A
19th	Ellie Sinclair		174		29th
20th	Ethan Long		171		2nd
21st	Kieran Edwards		133		1th
22nd	Callum Thomas		89		26th
23rd	Pharrel Van Addison		65		22nd
24th	Alexander Kingswell		61		13th A
25th	Patric Haynes		55		13th A
	TEAM
	One	Two	Three	Four	Total
1th	279	133			412
2nd	202	171	301	248	922
7th					0
9th					0
11th					0
13th A	55	61	178		294
13th B	220	229	207		656
14th					0
22nd	273	65			338
25th	231	198	183		612
26th	200	225	179	89	693
29th	255	218	238	174	885

 

The Closing date for applications or nominations is midday, 30 June, 2014

STRONG winds forced a group of Sea Scouts to cut short a sponsored row.

They had been hoping to complete a 15-mile journey from St Denys, Southampton, to Buckler’s Hard in a 21ft boat.

But they had to abandon the voyage on safety grounds after wind speeds increased as they approached Lepe.

Paul Renouf, head of the 13th Southampton Sea Scouts, said: “We were three miles short of our target when we had to call it off.

“But everyone was dead chuffed that we managed to get as far as we did.”

A total of 17 people took part in the row, which involved crew changes at the Itchen Bridge andHamble.

The Sea Scouts were raising funds for a new boat trailer but also hope to make a donation to Wessex Heartbeat.

TO BE HELD AT THE BROOK HOUSE MASONIC CENTRE ON SATURDAY JUNE 21ST 2014  BROOK LANE BOTLEY SO30 2ER  

Dear Scout Leaders.  

To celebrate the strong links between the members of the Hampshire and I.O.W. Freemasons and the Scouting movement the Members of the Brook House Masonic Centre extend a warm invitation to the Southampton, Itchen and surrounding Scout Groups to participate in a general knowledge quiz.

To take part an entry fee of £6 per team will apply and cash prizes will be awarded to the winning team and runners up. The teams will consist of 6 members commencing from the age of 11 yrs. The quiz will start at 1.30.p.m finishing approximately at 4.00.pm. Family and friends are most welcome to support their team and are welcome to view the Centre which will open at 10 a.m. Light refreshments will be available.  

Please return the team application form to: ginofanti@live.co.uk Please send postal applications to the Centre, addressed “Scouts Quiz”. Payment may be made on the day. For any further enquires please telephone: 01489 783612 The closing date is 14th June 2014.  

 Yours sincerely   

Gino Fanti 

Event co-ordinator. 

 

The summer has finally arrived we have some light evenings and we can at last get the young people out and about on a section nights. Enjoy the summer term.

District Camp 2014

Well what a great District camp I thoroughly enjoyed myself and I hope you had a great time too. The weather was very kind to us and Lyons Copse proved to be an excellent camp site. A big thank you to Ian who worked so hard making sure everything went as planned.

I did not see any young people lost for things to do and I hope that the additional activities that we had brought to the site helped that to happen and it also enabled you the leaders to have a bit of easier time,

Thanks to all the groups for the effort they put into the sites and the space theme you were all remarkable.

We are starting to think about where to go in 2016 so any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

St Georges Day

At 10am on the day I was sat in my car with the rain pouring down on Guildhall Square at 11.30am it stopped dried up and we had a wonderful parade. The event really gave us a good opportunity to be seen in the centre of the City shouting load about Southampton Scouting. We were very lucky!!

 

Thanks go to Chris Davis and Active Support for helping on the day. The Mayor of Southampton was very pleased to be invited.

 

Thank you to those that came and joined in with the event.

 

District Six a Side Football Tournament

 

This year we held the district competition at Test Park and were very much helped by the wonderful Students from Solent University. They ran the whole event for us and it was a great event very smoothly run. Sadly the attendance from the Scout and Explorer sections was low and I hope that next year many more groups will join in on what is a competition but more importantly just good fun.

 

Wilverley District Camp Site Improvements 

The substantial investment in Wilverley continues thanks to the district exec and the wilverley sub committee. We have now a fully regulated fire evacuation and emergency light system along side the new generator. We are also next week improving the drainage on site three which for many years is far to wet for full used throughout the year. These improvements along side the good work of Arthur Jonathan Steve and Graham and Charlie gives us a camp site that we can all be proud of. Our next improvement is to refurbish the cottage kitchen when funding becomes available.

Please support the camp site maintenance weekends they are a vital part of us maintaining the site. Don’t forget if you help you get points to camp for free.

 

This year’s Membership Annual Census

This year’s census tells us that for the first time for many years we have over 800 children and adults in our scouting district. That is wonderful but we need to get many more involved. Of course to enable us to grow we need more Adults as leaders and more Parents on the group exec committees supporting our groups and raising funds.

I Challenge you all. I would like many more Parents to be asked to get involved the more we have the more fun it would be for us. I challenge all of you to ask one person to get involved. I often get told that Parents would help if they were asked.

 

Scout Association Compass Membership System Data.

When we migrate to Compass later this year, all existing adult records on the membership system will  be transferred into Compass. Are your details correct on the system?

If you are registered as a user on the membership system, why not log in and check if your details are correct in the “My details” window. Check the following:

 

• Is your name spelt correctly?

• Are your address and phone number correct?

• Is your e-mail address correct?

• Are your roles correct?

• Is your Default Location set to the District/Group/Section of your main Scouting role?

• Are all your activity permits recorded correctly?

 

If you are not registered as a user on the membership system, we need to be told urgently

 

If everyone quickly checks their own records then when we transfer them into Compass they will be correct and you will be able to access all the appropriate features for your role.

 

( Please Contact Lyn Westerman Appointment Secretary if anything is wrong)

 

 

District Web Site

If you have looked at the district web site in the last week you will see that we are making a substantial amount of changes. The main one being that the district diary is now on the home page. Mike and Nico look forward to you sending them lots of information about up coming events and remember to shout load and tell us how the event went afterwards. Be very proud!! Everyone loves a good news story. Please send all your articles to Mike by the 25^th of every month.

 

Minibuses

The district now has two district permits these are held by me. Every group that uses a minibus from time to time must get the “section 19” permit from HQ. One certificate for each minibus being used. Information here: http://members.scouts.org.uk/supportresources/3413/minibus-permits?moduleID=10&cat=55,400

 

District Diary and Directory 2014

Graham has completed the task of producing this year’s directory which is now available in hard copy. We can also send you an electronic version for you to keep. Please make sure you notify Graham of any changes to your details such as a move of house and changes to your contact numbers and email addresses.

 

I now look forward to attending all the groups AGM’s over the coming few weeks. again remember this is great opportunity to get those Parents involved don’t let anyone out of the room without signing up to a job no matter how small that may be. The more the merrier!!

If anyone wishes to talk to me and clarify anything, I am always pleased for you to contact me by email or by phone or in person just ask away.

Yours in Scouting,

Colin Floyd,

Southampton City’s District Commissioner

Mob Tel 07770364711 or colin.floyd@ntlworld.com