Investitures

An important part of all Scout Groups is investing new members.

Several times, recently, I have been down to Lynx Troop to witness Leaders and Scouts making their promise and being invested. The GSL has invested the Leaders and the Scout Leader the Scouts. Above is a typical moment during this ceremony.

Well done all.

Lynx effect

The promised newspaper article

In the news....again

What would you think if you saw this billboard outside a local shop?

Would you be surprised? Would you think anything of it? Would you buy the newspaper to find out what it was all about?

Well for us it was the icing on the cake. We knew that a short article about Lynx, our new Scout Troop was to be featured this week. We did not however realise that is was such a headline article and would be posted up around town.

I will put a copy of the article on the Blog next week once the paper is no longer for sale.

New Scout Troop is launched!

On Wednesday the new 3rd Ware Lynx  Scout Troop was launched! A fantastic evening was spent getting to know each other and finding out how to use the many different types of stoves that one comes across at Scout camp. The GSL and I went to visit them and see how they were getting on.

A centenary after our formation 3rd Ware are still going strong; we are fortunate that the Group has always been full enough to provide continuous Scouting in Ware for over 100 years.

In 2007 as part of our celebrations, for the centenary of Scouting, we opened a second Beaver colony. River Ash joined River Lea and both colonies are now always full. They feed into our two Cub packs. This year, to celebrate 100 years of 3rd Ware, we have opened a second Scout Troop.

I went to join in with the fun and to meet the founding Scouts and the Leaders. Some of the Leaders have moved from our Friday Troop bringing with them years of experience, but we also have several brand new and enthusiastic Leaders who jumped at the chance to share this adventure. Thank you to them all.

It was great that so many young people wanted to be Scouts at 3rd Ware but was becoming a problem for us because we would soon not be able to offer them all places. It is thanks to already established Leaders and Scouts (and their families) who were prepared to be flexible and swap nights, as well as the new recruits, that we are now able to ensure all those who express an interest in joining our Troops can now be offered a place (for now!).

We look forward to them becoming an established and important part of 3rd Ware.