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Congratulations to...
* HSX on a fantastic weekend including an adventure race across the New Forest, a sumptuous dinner, and a Forum packed with plans for expeditions to Cambodia, Patagonia and Antarctica. To find out more about what Hampshire Scout Expeditions do, visit http://hsx.org.uk
* 1st Warsash on achieving their 50th anniversary, celebrated with an awesome Mexican dinner and invited guests including Wayne Bulpitt, former member and UK Chief Commissioner.
* The Youth Programme team on their Xmas Cracker quiz and dinner with 20 guests, celebrating a great 2015 and with plans for an amazing 2016.
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County Office
The county Office will be closed for the Christmas Holidays from Monday 21st December to Monday January 4th 2016. Merry Christmas to everyone from all at County Office. 🎅
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Save the date
The 2015 County Review and AGM will be held on Thursday 23rd June 2016 at The Ashburton Hall in Winchester.
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Postal Shooting Competition
The Liphook Scout Shooting Club are offering their range of postal shooting competitions (air rifle & air pistol at 6 yards and 10 metres) again this winter.
See here for the Word form or here for a .pdf version.
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CALLING ALL GSLS
Due to popular demand a GSL management workshop will take place on the 12th March 2016 – venue to be confirmed but likely to be central to the county.
This is a pilot and will be restricted to the first 40 applicants (Although priority will be given to ensure at least one from each district). If we are oversubscribed we will run a second one in the autumn.
More details will be released early in the new year but save the date. If you require more information contact Donna Kerrigan on donna.kerrigan@btinternet.com
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First Aid Course - 2 day
A two day first aid course (known as a full first aid course) is required for people who want to teach First Response or those holding a Terrain 2 permit. We are looking at running a course for up to 12 people, the cost of which would be around £98 per person. If you are interested, please let me know and if we have enough interest we will look at holding a course during
Q1 next year.
Mike Baxter - hsdofe@hotmail.com - 07979 334679
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Fancy Learning Archery
for Scout members over 10.
6 week course, date for 2016 1st - 7th march, 6th June - 11th July and 3rd Oct - 7th Nov.
Only £30 in Southampton, Monday evenings 6:30pm - 8:15pm.
For more details please see attached form.
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Adult Training Update
HQ Training Updates
Now training updates are coming through in Scouting Plus we will be publishing updates to Adult Training on the County website for easy reference. These updates can be downloaded in pdf format via the the link on the TA and LTM pages.
Module 10 (First Aid)
New dates for M10 have now been added for 2016 and can be found on the calendar on the District Adult Training page.
Module 36 (Special Needs)
A date for M36 has been added to the County Adult Training page. It will be run on Saturday 5th March 2016 at Shedfield.
This module aims to provide information, support and resources for those working with young people with special needs.
To book a place on any of the County Adult Training Modules download an Adult Training form or use the on-line booking form. For District run Modules please email the District contact shown.
Gene Burgoyne
County Training Administrator (Courses)
Email: Training Admin
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District and Cluster information on the County Website
http://www.hampshirescouting.org.uk/local-scouting/districts
Do take a look around your Hampshire County Scout website and tell us what you need to find there. The search function really does work well and please send us any information that is missing. You may even like to join the communications team who add the posts or manage the technical side of the site.
contact acc.comms@scouts-hants.org.uk
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County Development Board Meeting and Forum – January 11th 2016
The next County Development Board meeting and Forum will take place on Monday 11th January at the Worthies Sports and Social Club, Winchester.
If you are involved in development work for your District/Group or interested to hear an update on the County projects then please join us. You will be able to contribute by sharing what is going on in your area and hear ideas from others around the County. One topic of discussion will the recent Demos report into ‘Learning by Doing’ and how this might impact on local scouting: http://www.demos.co.uk/project/learning-by-doing/.
We will be meeting will start at 7.30pm. Loader Close, Lovedon Lane, Kings Worthy, Winchester, Hants SO23 7NJ
Please confirm your attendance: vanessa.slawson@scouts-hants.org.uk
Vanessa Slawson
County Development Officer
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