Manchester South District Scouts

Minutes from District Leaders Meeting, 06/04/2006

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Present

Brian Royle, 2/77th
Anne Barclay, 23rd
Neil Bishop, ADC (International)
Emma Thomson, 23rd
Ted Harris, Local training manager
Ian Carey, District Commissioner
Sue Bullied, 2/88th
Keith Hampson, 2/88th
Alan Robinson, 2/88th
Rhys Beynon, District ESU
Helen Hampson, 2/88th
Mike Ney, ADC (Scouts)
Ian Mellor, 306th
David Fielding, 370th
Paul Holroyd, 370th
Mike Thompstone, 370th
Jonathan Handby, 370th
Helen Hallworth, 370th and ADC (Beavers)
Mark Kennedy, ADC (Water)
Angela Featherstone, 123rd
Harold Thomas, 2/241st
Shane Nolan, 2/241st
Chris Dunn, 2/88th
Ben Bowen, District ESU and 2/88th
Sandra Lancashire, 2/249th

Apologies

Unfortunately apologies were not minuted.

News from the Beaver section

Attempts had been made to contact the ADC, but no replies were received.
It was presumed there were no forthcoming county activities
The ADC said that there was a plan to organise a sleep-over to tie in with the Giant Sleep-Over.

News from the Cub section

Five-a-site football tournament planned for the end of May (date TBC)
District camp planned for 7-9th July
No news from county
Jungle book performance: last booking date is 24th April

There then followed a general conversation about the groups in the district

There are 10 packs that are running in the district, plus three whose status were unsure
Ted Harris said that there is an on-going effort to sort out which leaders were still warranted and which weren’t. The records from HQ and County were very out of date, even if the district records were up to date. Many old warrants have been cancelled since Christmas. An updated list of leaders is in progress.

News from the Scout section

The ADC reminded everyone of the Scouting Sunrise planned for 1st August 200*7*
The orienteering competition planned for 23rd April has now been postponed, until possibly 7th May. Emma Thompson has a copy of the map of the course.

News from the Explorer unit

Currently has 18 members from 3 groups
Its leader, Rhys Beynon, is keen to establish links with the remainder of the groups in the district
4 members went to the county selection for the 2007 Jamboree. There were 74 places and 82 people turned up, so the chances look good.
The DESC is proving difficult to get hold of.

News from the County Network

No news

News from the ADC (International)

Neil Bishop has taken on this role in the district
He attended the county jamboree selection weekend, and said it was a great success, and the results will be published in due course.
He offered to investigate Jamboree options for people interested in joining the service team. Keith Hampson said that the cost had fallen to

** Â£550 for over 25 for the international service team ** Â£450 for under 25 for the international service team ** Â£15/day for the off-site service team, i.e. land or water-based activities requiring skilled instructors.

Anyone can join the IST, and suitably qualified people can join the OST. Keith has raised a query with HQ regarding the payment of the non-refundable deposit in the case of being allocated a duty that the applicant does not want to carry out.

Neil is going to proivde more information regarding international scouting.

Warrants and Training

There were no takers for the recently offered Getting Started course. Ted reminded everyone that he is only free to train one weekend in 5, all day Thursdays or certain evenings during the week.
County were impressed with the nights away course that was recently run. The only comments back from the participants was that not everyone had, or was aware of the nights away folder from HQ. Ted said that this folder was now half price on the outdoors website.

Appointments Committee

Ted is looking to schedule the next committee after the warrants review has finished. Faling that, a date after the Easter Holidays will be arranged.

Activities

News from the County Meeting

Applicants for the Jamboree need to get their deposit to County Office by 7th April
Home Hospitality: 12 places are needed in each District to accommodate scouts before and after the Jamboree. Families with Scouts can take on Scouts; Households without scouts can accommodate leaders only.
County 2007 Scout Camp is planned for 25th-28th May 2007. There will be four patrols: bulls, ravens, curlews and wolves, named after the original four patrols on the Brownsea Island camp B-P organised 100 years ago.
- One person is required from each district to be a rep on the sub-camp. The Manchester South sub-camp is Curlew.
- The camp is still looking for a wow factor, so send any ideas you have to Keith.
A few weekends are available for field warden duties at Linnet Clough.
The part-time cleaning position at the Clough is still vacant. It consists of 10-15 hours per week, over minimum wage, for the summer months.
The Clough also requires assistance running the shop on weekday evenings.
There is a Thanksgiving Service in October 2007 at Manchester Cathedral
There is artificial climbing wall training on the first two Thursdays in May (Â£5 per session)
There is also a climbing on rock workshop on 23rd July (Â£5 per session)
There is a basic hill navigation workshop for leaders on 22nd June at County Office and an all-day session on the fells on 25th June (Â£5 per session).
Contact Keith to book

Mark Kennedy introduced himself as the ADC (Water).

He is running sessions every Monday and Thursday at Trafford Water Park 18.30 til 20.30 for Scouts, Â£3.50 each
He is qualified to train scouts and leaders up to BCU 2 star
He is also qualified to test canoes
There are more details on the county activities website.
He added that he is also available for camps.

County Leaders’ Weekend

Flyer is coming out shortly
To be held 14th-16th July at the Clough
All activities there will be available for leaders to try
No scouts on site, but leaders’ own children are welcome
It will be possible to go as a district.

Badges

It was noted that the guidelines for the District Badge Competition still had not been issued.

News from the DC

Alan Robinson raised concern about the lack of direction and contact from the DC
Ian Carey said he has spent a lot of time chasing people up which has not been easy.
Rhys Beynon added that the lack of minutes from the previous meetings is poor.
Ian has visited all of the old Wythenshawe groups as well as 4 of the old South Manchester groups
A discussion about the use of email then followed. It was decided that
- Anne Barclay will contact the groups that were not present tonight and find out why.
- Ian Carey is going to create and maintain a list of group contacts for all the groups in the district. Each group should have a nominated contact who can receive notices by email and distribute them to the rest of their group.

AOB

St George’s Day

It was agreed that it was too late to organise one this year.
The district team will look into organising one for 2007.

2007 Celebrations

Please send your ideas to the DC(district commissioner)

Finances

It was mentioned that the District had not paid capitation to County yet due to accounting problems
Ian Carey said there were two cheques issued under the old Whythenshawe district account that had not been cashed yet, which were holding things up.
Ian, when specifically asked by Neil Bishop and Emma Thompson whether the two outstanding cheques would be now be cancelled, stated in open forum that they would now be cancelled and re-issued from the new account. He stated that the groups in question had been given a deadline on 31 March to cash the cheques (which had now expired) and therefore new cheques would have to be issued.

Next meeting

Will follow the AGM, scheduled for 29th June venue TBC.

10 April, 09:12 PM by Patrick Cherry

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