Scouts/Explorers Five a Side

On Saturday 28th November.
It was the turn of the Scouts and Explorers to have their five a side football competition.

There were 6 troops and 4 units taking part.
The whole evening was filled with good and exciting games.

The final results were as follows.

Scouts - 13th Rosyth beat the 66th Aberdour in the final.
Explorers - 48th Dalgety Bay beat the 13th Rosyth in the final.


Full Results Click Link Below

Full 5 a Side Results


Congratulations to all.

Scouts Safety Competition.

On Thursday 26th Nov.
5 troops met at the 46th Cowdenbeath scout hall for the District Scout Safety Competition.

The event was run in good spirits and the results were very close.

5th Place - 48th Donibristle - 104.5
4th Place - 46th Cowdenbeath - 108.0
3rd Place - 13th Rosyth - 108.5
2nd Place - 48th St Davids - 109.0
1st Place - 41st Rosyth - 109.5

Well done to the 41st but also to all that took part and made it an enjoyable night.

Cubs Challenge Badge

Following on from the beaver challenge badge.
SHQ has produced a simular badge for the Cubs.


For information on the badge please click the link below.

CUBS Challenge Badge

77th scouts are Back!!

We have a new Scout Group In the Disrtict.
It is the

77th Fife (Kelty Church) Scout Group

They currently are going to be running Beavers and Cubs.
They are to meet on a Wednesday night at the following:

Meeting Place: Scout Hall
Main Street
Kelty

The Neckie that they are wearing is Purple with Gold Border.

If you are intrested in helping out with the new group then please contact them.

Cubs Five a Side

On Saturday 21st November.
It was the Cubs Five a Side Football Compertition,

For further details and results click the link below

Cubs Five a Side!!

Beavers Scottish Challenge Badge

In 2007, a new Challenge badge was released exclusively for Scotland – The Scottish Beaver Challenge Award. This compliments the existing award scheme and can earned by completing two challenges from each of the 5 sections. Download the badge criteria from the list below. Badges are available from Scottish Headquarters, for a cost of 30p each.

Beavers Scottish Challenge Badge Link

UK Chief Commissioner News

General Briefing November 2009
As promised at the National Conference, I am writing to update you on a number of items and to provide a progress report for others. I hope you find it useful.


National Conference

You will shortly be receiving through your Chief Commissioner/Regional Commissioner (England) a summary of the more operational suggestions made in the various workshops and discussion groups, along with a summary of what we are doing about them.

With regards to Vision 2018, the output from the conference will be considered by the Board of Trustees on 28 November and shared with you following that.


Chief Scout visits – May 2010

Just a reminder that we will be considering Bear’s visit programme for the weekend 29-31 May 2010 in early December in order that appropriate plans can be made, so I would therefore ask that you have all visit requests for that weekend to emailed to Anne Brown no later than 30 November please.


Youth Data

We have previously advised you that we would launch a campaign to encourage use of the membership system for the collection of youth data, by promoting the benefits this will bring to Section and Unit Leaders. After initial testing of the system however we have concluded that it is not sufficiently robust for a full-scale launch and have therefore asked that the IT infrastructure be reviewed. It is likely that this will result in the launch of the youth data software being delayed until late in Quarter two 2010.


Want to Join Enquiries

Year to date we've had 38,159 enquiries centrally compared to 29,125 for the same period in 2008. Taking away the extra 1200 adults that signed up through the join the adventure campaign, this is still a 30% increase in total enquiries.

September is always our busiest month and this September there has been a 54% increase in total enquiries (3703 in 2008 and 5704 in 2009) and a 78% increase in the number of volunteer enquirers (403 in 2008 and 718 in 2009).

Please continue to work with your District Commissioners to ensure that every one of these enquiries receives an appropriate response locally, and if necessary adults are added to a list of people who have offered their services and can be approached if an appropriate opportunity arises in due course.


Information Centre

I am pleased to advise you that the Information Centre opening hours will be extended to 8am to 7pm Mon-Fri and 9am to 12pm Sat with effect from the beginning of December.


Project YOU

You may recall previous briefings regarding Project YOU which started in London last year involving the Metropolitan Police and many other uniformed youth organisations. Since then the project has evolved and been co-ordinated by the Prince’s Trust alongside the police service and extended to Wales (where it is known as Young Dragons, and now known in London as Youth United). I am aware that Scotland and at least 2 English Counties have received informal contact from their Lord Lieutenants and I would ask that before you progress any such discussions you first advise Derek or myself of the enquiry.

We are keen to first demonstrate some practical benefits from the initiatives in London and Wales before extending across the UK and, furthermore, to do so in a coordinated manner rather than have more than a 100 variations of the project! Your assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated.


World Events

World Scout Moot, Kenya, 2010 - we have a good contingent going but still some slots available for 18 - 25 year olds to join the group.

World Scout Jamboree, Sweden - there was a great Unit Leaders Conference a month ago where lots of information was shared about the event. IST applications have opened and as expected there is significant demand for the 500 places. Those that will be invited to the selection days (to be held early 2010) will receive notification at the end of November, following consultation with Regional and County/Area Commissioners.


Project Updates

We have recently undertaken mid-year reviews on a number of projects being undertaken by the Programme and Adult Support Teams in particular and I thought that you might appreciate a brief update on a few of the more salient ones from your perspective.

Executive Committee Support: Adult Support have developed a pilot training workshop aimed at Executive support and are presently a creating a training package that can be used and adapted nationally and locally. The project is on target for January 2010. In addition, supporting the Group Secretary/Treasurer/Chairman/Supporter resources are in the course of being rewritten, with two of the books expected to be completed in April 2010 and the remaining two by October 2010.

GSL Resources: Updating the Keys to Success for GSLs publication is scheduled for completion by March 2010 and will be done in conjunction with the Management and Leadership working group.

Student Recruitment: Three projects aimed at recruiting students and young leaders though University based pilots have been conducted with a report on findings and recommendations expected by March 2010. The delay is to ensure that the project is value for money when recruiting Leaders by seeing how people become Leaders from this initiative.

Adult Training Scheme: Review of the Wood Badge route through training is being undertaken and the initial phase is on target to be completed at the end of Qtr 1 2010. Ongoing review of modules covering 1, 16, 30, 13/21, 14/15, 6 and 19 is being undertaken on a phased basis to be completed by April 2010.

Taking The Lead: Taking the Lead (available for the Scout, Explorer Scout and Scout Network Sections) has been completed and advertised and can be downloaded from scouts.org.uk

Section Supporters Toolkit: Work on the Tool Kit for ACCs, CSNCs, DESCs and ADCs is ongoing, with the resource presently in the design stage.

Programme Resources: The teams are on schedule to produce Programmes Plus II, games books for the Beaver Scout, Cub Scout and Scout Sections and a Scout Craft book by March 2010.

Young Leaders Scheme: On schedule to produce Young Leader Essentials Plus and a ‘Keys to Success’ type resource, to help DCs and DESCs to implement the Young Leader’s Scheme by March 2010.

I hope that you find the forgoing of help and any feedback you can offer on this or any other aspect of our internal communications would be greatly appreciated.

Yours sincerely

Wayne Bulpitt
UK Chief Commissioner

Following a year long consultation process and six month trial in three Counties, we are delighted to inform you of the improvements to the Home Contact System. The updated system is known as InTouch and will be replacing Home Contact between now and 1st September 2010.

InTouch is designed to give much more flexibility to Leaders in putting together the most effective and useful system of communications for all events and activities they run, including recognising the different communication methods that are available. The main difference is that there will no longer be a ‘Home Contact’ required to sit at home next to the phone for all events, although it is still possible to use a third party to manage communications if this is deemed the most sensible way by the Leader in charge.

Full details of InTouch can be found at In Touch This webpage is available for all to view as of now, but has currently only been publicised to Commissioners and Group Scout Leaders. This will also be communicated to County Training Managers shortly due to the effect this will have on training new Leaders. It will then be widely publicised to the Movement in Scouting+ at the end of November, and in the December / January Scouting magazine. Each District Commissioner (and County Commissioner for County units such as Networks and Scout Active Support Units) can then decide when their District will move over to InTouch between now and 1st September 2010. There is a presentation available on the webpage to help launch this locally if required.

We hope that InTouch is as popular with your Leaders as it has been with the Leaders in the trial Counties and proves to be a useful tool in helping them ease the pressures in running events and activities within Scouting.

October Movements

Once again here is what i have been up to in October.

It has been a very quiet month with the schools being off for two weeks but i still managed to visit:
The 13th Rosyth Cubs who were staying over in their hall after spending the day up in Dundee.
They actually collected their own DNA.

I was invited to the 48th Dalgety Bay AGM where 4 explorer scouts were awarded their Chief Scout Platinum Award.

I visited the District Explorers Halloween party which was held alongside the Dalgety Bay Ranger Guides.
2 Explorers got presented with their Chief Scout Platinum Award on the night as well.

I visited the 68th Inverkeithing Cubs who were hosting the new leaders from the 77th Kelty.
The pack was having their Halloween party and they even got me to eat doughnuts with treacle of a string(the taste is still in my mouth)
On the same night i visited the 46th Cowdenbeath explorers who were hosting irish venture scouts for the week,
I presented the 3rd party that did the Explorer belt in Ireland during the summer.

Finally i visited the 48th Dalgety Bay Cubs when they were doing their cycle camp.

Discounted Events 2010

Scouts get better than discounted Group rates - book for your winter day out or start planning for 2010 now!


Merlin Entertainments owns and operates 20 of the UK’s top attractions – something for everyone, and all with something new to discover:


•The Merlin Entertainments London Eye
•Madame Tussauds (See below for our VERY SPECIAL WINTER OFFER)
•SEA LIFE London Aquarium
•The Dungeons – London, York and Edinburgh
•Chessington World of Adventures
•LEGOLAND®Windsor
•THORPE PARK
•Warwick Castle
•The Alton Towers Resort
•SEA LIFE Centres & Sanctuaries
There is still time to visit our Theme Parks before they close for winter, and don’t forget that our London attractions, Warwick Castle, SEA LIFE Centres and Sanctuaries and the York and Edinburgh Dungeons are open all year round.


Madame Tussauds special offer


To take us in to winter Madame Tussauds are offering Scouts Groups and their families a very Special Offer:

Groups of 15 or more*

Adults (16+yrs) £12.50
Children (4-15) years £12.50

1 FREE ticket for every 15 tickets purchased.

More information on special Scout rates and the terms and conditions are available at Merlin's Group Fundays website.

We welcome your feedback – If you have any questions or require further assistance you can email Merlin's Group Fundays.