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Please
remember to come down and help with sorting for the Jumble Sale on
Monday, Wednesday or Friday evening next week (7:00-9:00). All
families are asked to help – many hands make light work!
We also need lots of people to
commit to helping on the day of the sale – Saturday 26th
September – setting up from 9:00 and selling the jumble from 10:30
and helping with the clearing up from 1pm.
The sale is over and everything is cleared up by the early
afternoon.
If you can help please phone our
Jumble Organiser, Deirdre Edwards, on 01923 771626 (but if you
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Beavers and Cubs next week |
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There will be no Cubs
Meeting on Wednesday 23rd September. Cubs Sixers and Seconders
meeting 19:00 - 19:30 only.
Beavers on Thursday 24th
September will be meeting as usual and heading off for a boat trip on
the Pride of Batchworth. |
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ShipShape Days |
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Keith Wall, Group
Chairman, writes…
To be able to provide a
balanced programme for the young people in our Scout Group we have to
maintain an HQ suitable for many uses and in good condition. To help
with this the Executive Committee organizes ShipShape Days when parents
are invited to come and help out with various jobs to look after our
building and the surrounding areas. This ranges from changing light
bulbs to decorating, from routine weeding to chopping down trees (and
making coffee to keep everyone happy!).
Our next ShipShape Day
will be on the morning of Saturday 7th November from 9:00
a.m. – please put the date in your diary. We will be compiling a list of
jobs which need doing nearer the time, and it’s often helpful if people
can bring tools or other equipment.
Come along, make
friends, have fun and help your children. |
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Batchworth Sea Scout Summer Expedition 2009 |
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This Summer we
organised two Summer Expedition offshore sailing activities - one
predominantly for Scouts and one for Explorers.
The Scouts
planned to sail from Lymington to Brixham with the Explorers
carrying out the return journey with a detour to Guernsey.
To read the full
story, please click
here. It’s a great read!
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Beaver
Scouts meet every Thursday from 6:00 to 7:15 |
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Cub
Scouts meet every Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:00 |
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Scouts
meets every Saturday from 2:00 to 5:30 |
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Bograts
Explorer Scouts meet every Thursday from 7:30 to 10:00 |
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September |
Saturday |
19th |
Jumble collection and sorting - No Scout meeting |
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Sat-Sun |
19th-20th |
County Cub Night Hike |
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Monday |
21st |
Jumble sorting 7:00-9:00 |
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Wednesday |
23rd |
Jumble sorting 7:00-9:00 - N.B. No Cubs - meeting for Sixers
& Seconders 7:00-7:30. |
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Thursday |
24th |
Beavers - boat trip. |
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Friday |
25th |
Jumble sorting 7:00-9:00 |
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Saturday |
26th |
Jumble sale - setting up from 9:00, sale from 10:30 |
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Saturday |
26th |
Scouts National Dragon Boating Competition, Longridge |
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October |
Saturday |
10th |
Watersmeet - Ricky Society Autumn Fair (including Batchworth
Bric-a-Brac stall) |
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Fri-Sun |
16th-18th |
Explorers Peak Assault |
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Saturday |
24th |
all day Recruitment Event in Watford |
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Wednesday |
28th |
Half term - no Cub meeting |
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Thursday |
29th |
Half term - no Beaver meeting |
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November |
Tuesday |
3rd |
Leader's Meeting at HQ - 8:00 p.m. |
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Saturday |
7th |
ShipShape Day at HQ from 9:00 a.m. |
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Sunday |
8th |
Remembrance Parade (a.m.) - all members should attend |
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Monday |
9th |
Executive Committee meeting at HQ - 8:00 p.m. |
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Fri-Sun |
13th-15th |
Scouts Green Beret Challenge |
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December |
Saturday |
12th |
Christmas Party |
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Sunday |
13th |
District outing to Rickmansworth Pantomime - Snow White |
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Saturday |
26th |
No Scout Meeting |
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January
2010 |
Monday |
11th |
Executive Committee meeting at HQ - 8:00 p.m. |
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HMS Cumberland |
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We are very proud to be
one of just 101 Royal Navy Recognised groups of Sea Scouts.
The scheme was started to recognise
the contribution of Sea Scouts as coastal lookouts and messengers
during the First World War. As part of this scheme we are
affiliated to HMS Cumberland, a Type-22 Frigate, currently on
service in the Gulf of Aden.
In each edition of e-BatchWord we will
try to bring you the latest news from HMS Cumberland – there’s lots
more information on their web site
here.
We’re planning to develop our links
with the ship, and possibly visit her when she’s next back in port. |
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20th
July 2009
FROM PIRATES TO SMUGGLERS: HMS
CUMBERLAND STRIKES A ‘JUST BLOW’
HMS
Cumberland has again lived up to her motto ‘Justitia Tenax – Tenacious
of Justice’ by returning to the Gulf region and seizing 12.4 tonnes of
cannabis resin being smuggled in a dhow. Patrolling the so called ‘Hash
Highway’, as part of Combined Task Force (CTF) 150, she successfully
intercepted this, her first seizure of narcotics this deployment.
Cumberland and coalition forces had been covertly tracking a small cargo
dhow over night, operating along the shipping lanes in the Gulf of
Aden. At first light the ship launched both of her Pacific 24 sea boats
into high seas, with a Royal Marine boarding team, to investigate the
dhow’s intent. With Cumberland’s gun crews providing guard, the heavily
armed boats made their way through difficult waters towards the dhow.
Following a brief exchange of words between the dhow and ship, the sea
boats approached the cargo vessel, which was also moving significantly
in the high sea state, to take it under control and board with specially
trained Royal Navy personnel to conduct formal State verification and
ensure that her official documentation was in order. During these
checks a number of factors made the Navy team suspicious, which led to
the decision for an in-depth search of the boat. It was during this
search that a secret compartment was found, containing large bales of
narcotic material, later identified as cannabis resin and sufficient to
make over 35 million ‘spliffs’. |
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The
newsletter is designed primarily for group leaders and members' families and we
hope it will be of interest to old friends and supporters too. If you
would rather not receive it, please reply to this address - batchword@yahoo.co.uk - with the
word "REMOVE" in the subject line. If you would like a copy sent to an
additional email address, or know of someone else who would like to receive it,
please email us at batchword@yahoo.co.uk with the
subject line "ADD TO LIST". Printouts of the newsletter will be
available at Batchworth HQ for those without email access.
Batchworth
Sea Scouts
(2nd Rickmansworth & Chorleywood Sea Scout Group No.
2007)
Headquarters
at Riverside Drive, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, WD3 1JE Charity Number
302621
Website:
www.batchworth.org
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