Parent Representatives

We are now fortunate to have parent representatives for all the sections. The parent representatives are a vital link between the leadership team and all our parents. Not only do they encourage your support and provide information on events where you can get involved but they also provide a mechanism of feeding your ideas into the leadership team. The idea being that the leaders can then concentrate on delivering exciting and fun activities to the Scouts week to week.

Our Parent Representatives are:

Claire Perera

Beavers Parent Representatives

clperera@aol.com

Helen Webb

Cubs Parent Representatives

hwebbhome@gmail.com

Sally Marriott

Scouts Parent Representatives

marriott140@btinternet.com

Please help Batchworth become even more successful by giving Claire, Helen and Sally all the help and support you can.

Vacancies

We’re on the lookout for a Quartermaster to look after our equipment required for non water activities.

The Quartermaster job description can be found here.

If you’d like to get involved and are able to help please contact Simon on simontheobald@compuserve.com or 07850 337903.

Scouts cook up a storm

Following our own selection event, the Scout Troop recently entered two teams into the District Cooking Competition. Appropriately enough, this year’s theme was the ‘Queens Jubilee’, inspiring menus with plenty of coronation chicken and cucumber sandwiches! This is the first of several events during 2012 that will help to commemorate the anniversary of Elizabeth’s crowning in 1952. Both team’s performed very well and we bought home 2nd and 3rd place certificates.

Batchworth renews alliance with BLYM

Batchworth Sea Scouts enjoy a long running partnership with the Bury Lake Young Mariners (BLYM) sailing club based at the Rickmansworth Aquadrome. The sections make use of the great facilities provided by BLYM and any member of Batchworth can do the same in their own time if they are pre-registered. This includes general sailing sessions on Saturdays, Wednesday evenings, Bank Holidays and Summer Holidays. To pre-register for this opportunity, please email BMTaunt@hotmail.com, subject ‘BLYM sailing’.

BLYM also run RYA accredited training courses throughout the year, with beginner and intermediate programmes during School Holidays which are ideal for our youth members. I would highly recommend that anyone wishing to get into or improve their sailing check out the latest information at www.blym.org.uk.

Your HQ needs you!

There is always a long list of ongoing maintenance jobs to keep the Scout HQ in a decent state for our Scouts / meetings. As you can see from the current list here, the jobs range from regular tidying and cleaning to more meaty projects. We may never get to all of them, but the more of these jobs we can do ourselves, the better - paying people to do them would mean either more fundraising or higher subs.

Our next Shipshape Day is on 4th Feb and we'll get through as many jobs as we can in the morning. We therefore really need as many helpers as possible - the past few Shipshape Days have been poorly attended and it's been hard even to keep the cleaning / tidying ticking over. We'll provide tea / coffee biscuits and although it might not sound fun, there's usually a good atmosphere, plenty of chat and a great sense of satisfaction at the end. The more, the merrier is certainly true for Shipshape Days.

Please sign up on this spreadsheet here for an hour (more if you can, but even an hour is much appreciated).

Many thanks for your support in helping to maintain Batchworth's fantastic facilities for our children.