Northumberland Scouts

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The Chief Scout Award Presentation will take place on the 1st October 2011 at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle. Wayne Bulpitt will present the certificates, the Bronze and Silver presentation will commence at 2pm and the Gold and above at 3.30 pm.  This event is invitation only however if you have young people being presented you are very welcome along.

Beaver Scouts (Lynn Naisbitt)
Lynn would like the dates of any meetings or events happening in your District/Group in the coming months and she may come along and pay you a visit. To contact her click here

Jo Ward is welcomed on board as the County Beaver Leader to help Lynn deliver support to the Beaver Colonies in the County you will no doubt see her out and about with Lynn.

The Tag Rugby Festival concluded on Saturday 3rd September 2011. Well Done to the 1st Felton Beaver Scout Colony who won the final at Newcastle Falcons.  Congratulations are also in order for the 82nd Newcastle who were worthy runners up. A great day was had by all! Watch this space for the next Festival! For more details of the day click here

Cub Scouts (Michael Munro)

The County Peel Award will take place on Saturday 12th November 2011. This year's competition will be different to previous years. It will follow a predetermined course around Plessey Woods and Cub skills will be tested on route. For more details or any if you have any queries  click here

Scouts (Paul Capstick)

Operation Twilight will take place on Saturday 15th October 2011 and is open for registration the closing date being 30th September 2011. Fore more details click here

The Scout Badge Weekend will take place on the weekend of 21st to 23rd October 2011 - more details click here

Explorer Scouts (Chris Eldridge)

A Young Leader Adult Leaders meeting to agree YL training standards countrywide will be held on Tuesday 4th October 2011 at Eversheds, Central Square South, Orchard Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3XX  For more details click here

It's Grim up t'North Regional Adult Camp takes place 14th to 16th October 2011 for more details click here

Northumberland County Youth Forum will take place on Saturday 5th November 2011.  This will commence at 10 am and run until 4 pm and is being held at The Rising Sun Country Park in Benton.  For more details click here

A Chinese Winter Camp will take place on 27th to 29th January 2012 at Hawkhirst.  There will be warm activities and plenty of Chinese Cultural activities happening.  The cost of the camp will be 20 pounds per head which includes camp fees and activities.

The Chill Out Camp will take place on 30th March 2012 to 1st April 2012 at Hawkhirst at a cost of 20 pounds per head including camp fees and activities.

Contact Chris Eldridge or County Admin to book places on either of these events.

Network
Chris Reay is co-ordinating the County Network at the current time. Over the course of 2012 Chris aims to visit all of the Explorer units in Northumberland to present Network Scouting. More information about how to join Network events contact him by clicking here
To visit the Facebook site click here

Crimea Explorer Belt 2012
28 participants have been selected to take part in next year's County Explorer Belt event taking place in the Ukraine.

Duke of Edinburgh Award (John Brittain)
If you have any involvement with Explorer Scouts or Network would you take some time to complete the survey giving John and his team a guide to the best way to support adult members offering the Duke of Edinburgh programme.   Click here to complete the survey

There are two courses coming up in November for Duke of Edinburgh Award Adult Training.  For more information click here
 
Marralympics 2012 (1st to 5th June 2012)
Marra is back for 2012.  For those of you who have not been to Marra this is our Northumberland County Camp open to all sections with a change of theme each time. Next year we are celebrating the Olympic Games and introducing some changes to the camp. For more details click here

West Yorkshire's Big Camp
This event takes place at the Great Yorkshire Show Ground from 4th to 7th May 2012.  For more details click here

Submission of Award Details
Don't forget to advise County Office of the Awards presented within your Groups.  This results in the young people being mentioned on the County Website Awards page and receiving an invitation to the next Chief Scout Award Presentation in March 2012.  Please make sure that you advise the parents upon presenting the award in your Group that an invitation to the presentation will come out to the young person.  Full names, address, and award presented should be forwarded to info@northumberlandscouts.org.uk