1st Blackwater Valley B-P Scout Group
On Saturday night, our 2023 quiz league kicked off! It was a close match, but somehow Tukker’s Tigers turned it around in the second half to snatch it from the Williams. Well done all teams!
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II promised her lifetime in service to her country and the Commonwealth and was true to her word; eternally loyal and committed she was a shining example to all who hold responsibility and authority in countries and communities all around the world.
It is with sadness that we receive the news of her death this day and our thoughts are with her family and friends who have a personal loss which will colour their lives forever.
However, she shall not be missed but rather will remain the true Monarch that she became, for that can never change for she truly fulfilled. She grew with generations about the Globe and will always be ‘our’ Queen.
Thank you your Majesty for your selfless service and endearing and enduring example. We salute you.
Yours in Scouting,
1st Blackwater Valley B-P Scout Group
Dear Parents/Guardians,
I am excited to invite all Scouts and Seniors to an afternoon of theatre at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, on Saturday 26th November 2022.
We will attend the matinee performance of ‘An Inspector Calls’ starting at 14:30. The group will arrange transport to and from the theatre, picking up and dropping off at the Scout hut. I will confirm times nearer the day.
The theatre has kindly offered us a discount, bringing stall ticket prices down to £35.50.
I cannot stress enough the incredible value for money of this production and it has been touring on and off since 1992, winning a handful of awards along the way. The play offers a gripping insight into our daily decisions and challenges the audience to examine their conscience.
On a personal note, I saw this production for the first time at Scout age at Woking Theatre and it was fundamental in my decision to work in professional theatre as a career. The production values match that of any London West End show, mainly because of this production originally performing at the National Theatre before going on tour. It is very rare that you can access theatre of this class locally and at this cost.
The theatre is confident this production will sell out (it does at every venue) and cannot reserve tickets for very long. All monies need to be paid in full by the 25th May 2022.
After a two year hiatus due to COVID-19, members of Pioneer & Mountford Troops are invited to Camp “Ada”, a nine day summer camp in East Horsley – parish of the mathematician and first computer programmer, Lady Ada Lovelace.
Thank you to all those who supported our Bonfire Night celebrations this year.
Another year and another great event organised by Frimley Park Hospital. We have a long affiliation with the fundraiser supplying sustenance to the runners at their time of need.
During this period, we are keeping our Scout Hut useable and doing maintenance work on “Mildred” our Scout Group coach. Our Minibus Long John Silver has had work done and passed the MOT in February 2021.
We are also pushing fund raising for re-building our Scout Hut and would ask everybody to pass on the links below to everyone you can think of by email or social media. We only need £10 from forty thousand people! With a population the size of the UK, we must surely be able to crack that?
Check out our Go Fund Me Here!
Our Association is rearranging leader training and regulatory requirements to ensure that 1st Aid, outdoor skills and DBS checks are kept valid and current so that all our Groups can get back to regular weekly meetings at the first opportunity.
Dear Parents,
We are now in March 2021 and all meetings of Leaders and Scouts have been by video conference for some time now. The C-19 vaccine roll out is now in progress and we have some intimation of when we might be able to get back to normal meetings. Schools have started back but our leaders have agreed to to see what impact that has on transmission rates before compounding the situation further.
We are one small Scout Group, but it takes many wheels and cogs to make a well-balanced society and our Scout Group is one of those. The leaders and friends of the Group believe that and will do everything we can to bring our bit of normality back as effectively as possible.
I will keep you updated if there is any change to this and I hope that everyone around the world can look forward to a more settled future as soon as possible.
Kind regards,
Richard
Group Scout Master
On the 22nd of January 2021, our Group took the decision to become an independent Traditional Scout Group. We are now registered with the Charity Commission as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).
After over twenty years of enjoyable membership with the Baden-Powell Scouts Association (BPSA) circumstances dictated that the interests of our Group are better served by becoming independent.
Nothing changes with our Scout programme or activities, but we now have clarity regarding ownership of assets and management control of our future.
Due to COVID restrictions preventing a full parade, the group held its own Remembrance service at the memorial in Ash inline with current guidance. A core group of leaders attended, representing each section.
At 11am on 1st November, the leaders held a minute silence before the following poem was read out:
The Soldier
by Rupert BrookeIf I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by rivers, blest by suns of home.And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under and English heaven.
After this, we concluded with the words of Remembrance:
Kohima Epitaph
by John Maxwell EdmundsWhen you go home, tell them of us and say,
For their tomorrow, we gave our today.We shall remember them.
