This year promises to be amazing… its our 100th Birthday for starters! Keep an eye out for loads more exciting adventures and skills for life coming soon. All our sections are back in the second week of January: Beavers & Cubs on 8th January Explorers on 9th January and Scouts on 11th January. All usual times. Don’t forget, you can help support Scouting financially in 2019 with no cost to you through our easyfundraising campaign: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/11thfolkestonescouts/
Not long to go until Christmas! Remember to use #easyfundraising when you’re buying your Christmas gifts online. We want to raise as much as possible this year and it couldn’t be easier through #easyfundraising! https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/11thfolkestonescouts/
This year’s Remembrance Day parade and service will be on Sunday 11th November. Meet at the Leas Cliff Hall at 10.30am in full and smart uniform. Dress warmly. This is the one single event that we expect all members to turn out to. Please note the finishing point is left of the Town Hall (the cinema) in Guildhall Street, towards the main road (depending on where we are in the parade order!) – parents are warmly invited to remain with us for the duration of the event – please stand with the general public, not with us in the parade. Information from the District Clothing If the weather is wet then overcoats should be worn. If the weather is dry then it is recommended that layers […]
Continuing our weekly series on getting the most out of My.SCOUT to make Scouting even easier. today: Data Protection Keeping data safe is very important to us. Part of our legal obligations are keeping data up to date as well. My.SCOUT helps us with this greatly by allowing parents and carers to log in to the system at any time and update contact details – including emergency contact details (more on that in a minute) – and permissions. What can you do? Regularly log in and check the personal details section of My.SCOUT. You’ll need to enter your young person’s date of birth just to make sure it’s you. If it doesn’t work, send us an email as the date […]
My.SCOUT is an incredibly useful and time saving tool for the leaders, and we hope it is for you at home as well. This series of posts will share some top tips and hints to help you get the most out of it in bite size installments. today: My.SCOUT or OSM You might hear us talking about My.SCOUT or OSM or Online Scout Manager. It’s all one and the same, but the part that parents use is called My.SCOUT. Whenever we are talking about logging into the system, we’re talking about the parent side – My.SCOUT. You can access your area through the personalised link from any personalised email that is system generated (the monthly direct debit email, any event […]