2009 February Foolishness
This is a Regional Scout Network activity weekend at Hebden Hey Scout Centre. Cost is £35 - includes food, accommodation and activities. ...
Global Programme Support
Save the world education project with free sessions available to groups...
Project Lindisfarne
The geographical area from Berwick to Felton has a proud Scouting history. In the course of the century of Scouting, most centres of population have enjoyed a Scouting presence. Over the years, shifting population patterns and demographic changes have caused a marked decrease in the number of local communities which benefit from Scouting. Project Lindisfarne seeks to redress this.
As part of the Northumberland County Scouts Development Plan, Project Lindisfarne will re-activate Scouting in this area, currently covered by North Northumberland and Mid-Northumberland Districts.
At the end of a three year period, Project Lindisfarne, supported by Northumberland County Scouts, will:
- Develop an effective District Support Structure
- Build on existing strengths of current District Structures
- Ensure District Executive Committees are fit for purpose and properly resourced
- Develop and strengthen District infrastructure both human and physical
- Expand existing groups and sections
- Strengthen adult support, both uniformed and administrative
- Recruit young people
- Enhance the activity programme
- Encourage achievement at all levels
- Provide Scouting for all young people who wish to participate
- Re-open closed groups
- Identify those areas where Scouting once operated
- Determine viability according to age and demographics
- Recruit and train adults in both leadership and support roles
- Recruit young people
- Deliver an exciting programme
- Introduce and develop Scouting in places where it is not yet present
- Identify local communities of young people as potential recruits
- Identify, recruit and train adults for both leadership and support roles
- Recruit young people
- Deliver an exciting programme
- Develop Scouting through the Extended Services through Schools Initiative
- Identify First, Middle and High Schools in areas where Scouting does not have a presence
- Negotiate a partnership with Head Teachers and School Governors to enable Scout sections to be established according to the appropriate age range
- Identify, recruit and retain adults for both leadership and support roles
- Recruit young people
- Deliver an exciting programme
We are delighted to report that the project is now up and running! The newly appointed Development Officer is Andrew Teasdale. We?ll let Andrew introduce himself?..
I would like to introduce myself prior to meeting the groups and districts in person. I am twenty three years old and currently live in Morpeth. I returned to Northumberland in 2006 after graduating with a history degree from Lancaster University. Since university I have been employed as a Museum Assistant at Woodhorn Colliery Museum. I have been Scouting since the age of six and I am currently a Scout Leader in Morpeth.
As part of my role I will be working in close partnership with existing groups and district committees on growing and developing Scouting.There is a particularly exciting opportunity to develop Scouting through the Extended Schools Initiative which will bring Scouting to new areas within both districts. In the next months I plan to develop a policy which will incorporate an achievable method for recruiting adults for both uniformed and non-uniformed roles. I look forward to meeting all the sections, the steering group, and the executive committees for each group and districts. If anyone has any questions or queries then please contact me at the Project Lindisfarne office, Croft House, Waterloo Road, Blyth NE24 1BY, telephone 01670 540404 or by email at projectlindisfarne@northumberlandscouts.org.uk