A note from Ian Banks, Group Chairman

A Very Happy and Healthy and, we trust - for you and the Group, - a Prosperous New Year!

Now, trusting that you had a good Christmas Break and that you and your children had plenty of new clothes and toys, we have the perfect opportunity for you to dispose of all the old and no longer used or required items of clothing, toys and unwanted Christmas gifts.

We speak, of course, of our ever-popular GRAND RUMMAGE SALE! This is also the opportunity to have an early ‘Spring Clean’ and sort out all the items you have at home or in the garage, shed or attic THAT YOU NO ALSO LONGER WANT TO USE. and then just think of the amount of extra room you will have!

Thanks to you and yours, we did exceptionally well at our last SALE at which we had a goodly number of people who attended and, as they had a lot to buy, gave us a lot of their money - in total  £565 - which was put to VERY good use for the benefit of all the children in the Group.

So, please start now and see just what you can start sending down to the HQ.

Some ‘content’ has already arrived  but we do need a lot more - particularly clothing and linens etc - so by bringing some of the items listed here down to the Hall each week, you will help to increase the quantity of

• Men’s, ladies and children’s clothing and shoes


• Handbags of all shapes and sizes


• Ÿ Linen, curtains, fabrics and the like


• Ÿ Toys, games, books (but not magazines), records, cassette tapes, CD’s, DVD’s


• Ÿ General bric-a-brac including china, glass, jewellery, garden tools, lamps, wooden bits, pots and pans, plates, old radios, portable TVs, kettles, teas-maids, cases, vases, etc., etc.

Please start bringing any of these items NOW for storage prior to sorting and displaying on Thursday 24^th March and then sold from 10.30 am on Saturday 26^th March.

This is your ideal opportunity for a good ‘clear-out’, giving you at home the benefit of more space and the Scout Group the benefit of essential extra funding - in 12 years over £7500 has been raised!

I promise you, any contribution you make is valuable and most worthwhile

Ian Banks,  Group Chairman.

P.S.  If you able or would enjoy to help with the sorting and/or selling, please do give Gwyn Lloyd,  the event organizer, a call on (0121) 373 1295.

Winter Camp

 

On the 18th and 19th December we braved the cold, the ice, and THE SNOW, for our first Explorer and winter camp.

On Saturday we set off from the hut to Kinver, when we arrived we found the whole site covered in snow and a HUGE hill to carry all the kit up. Our next tasks were to get the tents up and to start to find fire wood and to get the fire going. with everything ready at camp our thoughts turned to food (as always) so we walked into the town  and found a shop to get everything we needed for a perfect Christmas dinner except they didn't have any CARROTS. So we headed back and got cooking, eventually everything was ready to be served everyone crowded round the dutch oven anticipating to find a perfectly cooked turkey when opened we found the complete opposite it wasn't just over cooked it had been destroyed, luckily everything else was cooked perfectly especially the cake. After dinner we sat round the fire for a while and then retired to the tens for a well deserved sleep.

After a very cold nights sleep we woke to find everything frozen from the ketchup and the milk to the gas. we managed to make a small fire but nowhere near big enough for breakfast so Skip did some negotiating with the group in the hut and they let us use their ovens to make breakfast, me and Rahul were given the responsibility to cook the breakfast while Tom, Reece, kisian and Jason were left to start putting away the tents, after breakfast we were officially invested into the group. Then we took on the task of getting all the kit down and into the minibus luckily we were going downhill this time . with now everything packed and ready all that was left to do was to get back home.

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winter camp 2010