With all the excitement of Star Wars day, I didn’t get around to wishing you a happy May the fourth, so please accept a ‘hello’ from me on Revenge of the Fifth day instead! Sci-Fi references over, it’s a quick update this week. Firstly, this time next week we’ll be gearing up for the 2020 Annual General meeting. All registered members of the Group will be getting an email (hopefully this evening) inviting you along officially and providing the paperwork and links to the voting form. This is a legal requirement for all charities and I do urge everyone to take part in the process of holding our Executive Committee to account and electing the members of the Executive Committee […]

Dear parents & carers I hope everyone had a good St George’s day? I don’t think we’ve ever had a Scouting celebration of St George’s Day that has lasted so long – from Thursday to Sunday. All very exciting stuff. It was great to see so many of our members and other Scouts from across the District, County and country showing off their uniform to the world, celebrating the fantastic efforts of our key workers and renewing their promise on Thursday evening. If you managed to attend the Kent Scouts virtual St George’s Day parade on Sunday, I hope you caught the efforts of 11th Folkestone. Our Pass it on video featured, as did the fantastic junk modelling picture from […]

Annual St. George’s Day Awards 2020 Chief Scout’s 5 Years Service Award I am very pleased to announce the Chief Scout’s 5 Years Service Award has been presented to: Sarah Marshall – TrusteePete Woodsford – Scout Section Assistant and Trustee I’d like to pass on the Chief Scout’s thanks, adding my own and the thanks of the whole Group for the amazing work they do. Thank you and here’s to another five years!  

Dear parents and carers It’s Monday! Hope you are all well and staying safe as the lock down continues. A promise this week – this will be a much shorter message, although I still think it very important to keep in touch and thank you once again for all the positive comments the team and I have received over this time. This is update number six. Six weeks since all this began! Firstly, I finished last week with a little plug for the Annual General Meeting on 12th May. We’re now ready to make the formal notification that our Annual General Meeting, required by law, will be held at 6.30pm on Tuesday 12th May 2020. It will be held live […]