Dear Parents and Carers, A big hello from me, for the first time during this lockdown period and since we stopped meeting face to face 11 weeks ago! I have been asked to send out this weeks’ update due to commitments Craig has with his County Scouting role and Work, leaving him a bit short on time. I thought that this week would be a good opportunity to reflect on the faultless effort that is being put in by the leaders to ensure Scouting is still available to our Young People.  As well as all of the amazing entries that have been made to the website of the work that your young people have been doing at home. We have […]

Dear parents and carers. Hello again. Thank you everyone who joined in with the AGM, either live or voting beforehand. I’m sorry for the technical hitch that made the Facebook Live stream unwatchable (and the YouTube stream didn’t start at all!). I worked out what I was doing wrong – basically trying to do everything from one computer when it needed three to use the various bits of software properly. Anyway, enough of my geekiness! As I mentioned at the AGM, 11th Folkestone was awarded the Growth Award by the County Commissioner for 2019 as we showed the greatest amount of growth in the District. We must be doing something right to have so many young people and their families […]

Dear parents & carers Another week passes and things are beginning to change! Unfortunately, the situation with Scouts hasn’t changed – still no face to face meetings. Still, everything seems to be ticking along with some great activities going on and plenty of fantastic photos of our members taking part: I’ve seen some lovely cakes and VE day celebrations. I hope you all enjoyed the day and got to know the neighbours – one of the real positives coming out of this awful situation is you get to know your neighbours far better than ever before! The AGM is tomorrow – 12th May, 6.30pm. Please do join us using the Teams Live event and take a look at the annual […]

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 […]