News and Events

Start clearing your wardrobes – it’s time for another Bag2School collection.

Collection date – Wed 24th February, 9am.

Saturday 9th January 2016

As always, we welcome as much help as possible but as we will be distributing flyers with our 2016 dates at the same time as collecting papers this week, a few extra hands would be enormously helpful.

Any scouts or parents who could possibly spare an hour or two will be rewarded with tea and cake!

Flyers with 2016 collection dates will be available in the entrance porch from next week. Please help yourself and do please encourage friends and neighbours to leave their papers out for us too. A list of the streets we collect from can also be found in the porch.

Papers can also be brought to the hut at any other time and left by the skip. We have placed boxes under the shelter of the skip for you to put your papers in so there is no need to use your expensive carrier bags!

A huge thank you to the parents, scouts and even a few little beavers who gave up their Saturday morning to help us with our paper collecting and tidy up at the scout hut today.

We kept them all extremely busy – driving, stacking papers, mowing, strimming, trimming, raking and generally tidying up. We hope you’ll agree they did an excellent job and the grounds now look very neat and presentable again.

Our younger members were offered a taste of real sea scout life down at the river yesterday. The lingering mist didn’t seem to dampen their spirits and any nerves soon vanished once they were out on the water having fun.

The Beavers were all able to take a boat trip and some also had a go at learning to row themselves.

The Cubs got a bit more adventurous, heading out in kayaks and canoes either on their own or in pairs.

With the sun finally out later in the day, the cubs learnt why eskimos love their boats and showed off their teamwork and balancing skills. We are very grateful once again to all our leaders and instructors for organising and running this fantastic day and giving up their time to offer this opportunity to the children.

Over 150 beavers, cubs, scouts, parents and friends spent a fabulous Sunday afternoon together for our family day and barbecue at Snowball last weekend.
Our leaders provided an exciting selection of games and activities to keep the children happy and a busy team of parent volunteers did a wonderful job preparing, cooking, serving and clearing up the barbecue.

Here are just a few of the lovely comments we’ve received from parents after the event.

An amazing day, thanks to everyone who organised it. It was great seeing both children and adults all having an enjoyable time.

Great event, great food.

My children really enjoyed themselves, especially the tug of war!

Thank you to everyone involved who helped to make the day such a great success.

1. Group AGM – Tue 14th July 7.30pm at the scout hut, Green Lane

Please do try and come along to this meeting if you possibly can – we expect it to last around 30 minutes to 1 hour at most. Group members are also very welcome to attend and can even bring their parents along too!

Whilst there are some formal and legal requirements that must be dealt with during this meeting it is also an opportunity to find out what the Group and our young people have been up to over the last year and to meet and get to know the Leaders, Committee and other parents. You will shortly be receiving an email from the Group Treasurer containing various reports, accounts and other information summarising the Group’s year. Please take the time to read these documents even if you are unable to attend the meeting so that you can appreciate all that the Group has acheived this year and how our children have benefitted.

2. Volunteer support brainstorming session

Immediately after the AGM, for anyone who is able to stay on and join the discussion, we will be looking at all the tasks that the Group needs to cover to be able to run well and doing some brainstorming to work out how we find and recruit volunteers to help with these tasks. Everyone is welcome to attend – the more ideas the better!

3. Children’s University

The Group has recently registered as a ‘Learning Destination’ with the York branch of the Children’s University scheme, enabling our members to use time spent working towards badges as credit towards their CU Passport. Information about this can now be found on our website in the section Things to Know / Children’s University.

4. Scout news

Reports and photos from the recent HMS Bristol trip and York Canoe Race can both be found in the Scout News section of our website.

5. Marquee help needed

We have another date that one of our marquees has been hired out (a bonus for Group funds!) and we will need a few volunteers to help put it up and take it down. If you are able to help with this please send an email to support@yorkseascouts.org.uk or speak directly to Peter Swann. Thu 16th July 7pm and Sunday 19th July 10am – meet at the Scout Hut at those times in both cases.

Finally, thank you very much to everyone who turned out to help put up marquees for the Apollo festival only to find we had been let down by the organisers and they only required 1 of our 3 marquees. Still it was our largest one they needed and the many hands made the job so much quicker and easier. Thank you.