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Good Morning
Welcome to the 1st Wokingham (St. Paul´s) Scout Group Web Site on this fine Tuesday morning.
Latest News
- Wokingham Scouts & Tesco, see below
Wokingham Scouts & Tesco
Tesco have had many more requests for home shopping deliveries as well as Click
and Collect during the Coronavirus outbreak. They wish to be able to expand
the number of delivery slots and click and collect slots but have a problem
of not enough storage space to store the additional customer orders they
are picking.
Wokingham Scouts were asked if they could help. Keith, the District Quartermaster
worked with Tesco to find a solution.
Sunday 19th April saw a group of six scouters erect a large marquee on the
car park of the Tesco´s Wokingham store. Thanks to Graham, Keith and Zac of
1st Wokingham, Roger from Wokingham District Exec and Harry and Lewis from
Wokingham Explorers.
The tent will be joined by a refrigerated container to meet the new storage needs.
For the curious, we used Tesco green plastic crates full of brick pavers
as tents pegs due to the tent being pitched on tarmac.
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Coronavirus Announcement
Dear Parents / Carers,
Following yesterdays announcement from the Government recommending that all
non-essential social gatherings be cancelled until further notice, we have
received guidance from the UK Chief Commissioner for Scouts confirming that
all scout meetings and activities should be suspended from today. We had a
meeting of the 1st Wokingham Executive Committee last night and we have decided
to follow that guidance for the well-being and protection for all adults and
children in our group and therefore tonight´s sectional meetings and all
further meetings and activities will be suspended until further notice. It is
with great sadness that we have had to make this decision but I trust that you
agree that it is the correct way forward under the current circumstances.
The Executive Committee will be liaising over the forthcoming weeks (and months
if necessary) with the hope that we can re-commence scouting activities as soon
as possible. With that in mind, we are not "cancelling" Family Camp
(scheduled for 5-7 June) at this stage and indeed our plan is to re-schedule
it rather than cancel it if indeed it is not possible for it to go ahead in June.
In the meantime, please stay safe and, in the spirit of scouting, let´s all
work together as a community to assist and support everyone, both in our scouting
community but also in the wider community, in whatever way we can during these
difficult times. In fact, I´d like to set the young people in our group a
challenge to come up with some wonderful ideas for supporting their community and
to put them into action. The young person with the best idea from each section
(Beavers, Cubs, Scouts) will win a prize which will be awarded when we are able
to re-commence our weekly meetings. Time to get creative...! Please send your
ideas (and photos etc.) to the sectional Leaders.
Best wishes
Karen, GSL
Lions Challenge Badge
Southwell & District Lions worked with Southwell Scouts to create a Life Skills
Challenge Badge.
As part of the Lions aim to work more with the youth of Southwell they were able
to join with the scouts to initiate a new Challenge Badge. The aim was to enable
all ages within the scouting movement to gain the Lions Challenge Badge in order
to develop skills for their future lives. The badge is staged and covers Beavers,
Cubs and Scouts.
After this successful pilot in Southwell, Wokingham Lions invited 1st Wokingham
to take up the challenge which we did.
Pictures of the Beavers receiving their badges can be seen here
Events
We are a charity which organises events throughout the year to raise money for our group to spend on repairs, equipment and such like. To see what events and activities are happening, where and when take a look at the events calendar.
Our next group event is the Wokingham May Fayre held on Friday 8th May. More details nearer the day.
The group now has a Facebook page that has been set up as a closed group
so only members of the group will be able to access it. We will put
reminders of events and useful information on it but the bulk of
information will stay on the web site (www.firstwokingham.org.uk) .
If you would like to access the Facebook page then please email
[email protected] and we will arrange for an invite to be sent to you.
Previous Updates
- Coronavirus announcement, see below
- Wokingham Lions President Lyn Baily presents the "Lions Challenge Badge" to our Beavers, see Lions Challenge for pictures.
- Updated Spring Term dates have been supplied see Term Dates
- Detailed spring term programme for Scouts, see Scouts
- Spring Term dates have been supplied see Term Dates
- Provisional dates for each session of the Scouts spring term have been supplied, see Scouts
- Detailed spring term programme for Beavers and Cubs, see Beavers and Cubs