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Want to help Beaver Scouts have fun?

Our Beaver colony is hugely popular. We are currently full and have a waiting list of applicants. We need additional adults to help in running the activities. We are looking for fun loving, energetic, creative thinkers to work with our team to provide fun, adventure and new challenges for the young people who attend the sessions.

Beaver Scouts are boys and girls aged between six and eight and wear distinctive turquoise sweatshirts. Our Beavers only meet during term time on Thursdays 6-7:15pm and enjoy many varied activities with an emphasis on the outdoors, water activities and having fun! Beaver Scouts enjoy working towards badges, and several are about to achieve the Chief Scout's Bronze award which is the highest award a Beaver Scout can gain.

Beaver Scout Leaders and helpers come in all shapes and sizes and from all backgrounds. No previous experience in Scouting is necessary as full training and support will be provided. You don't have to be a Beaver Scout parent either. If you are able to help please contact Jane Spur on jane.spurr@kcl.ac.uk or 01923 776936.

Grand Jumble Sale - Saturday 26th March 2011 - Volunteers Needed

Please remember to come down and help with sorting for the Jumble Sale on Monday (21 March), Wednesday (23 March) or Friday (25 March) between 7:00-9:00pm.

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 March – 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.

May Fair 2011 - Saturday 14th May 2011

This year the Ricky Week May Fair will take place on Saturday 14th May 2011. All entries for the parade should assemble on the southern side of the High Street between the railway bridge and Joan of Arc School at 12:30. The Judging starts at 12:45 and the Parade starts at 13:30.

Batchworth Sea Scouts will be at the Bury organising the Mar Fair. We need help with setting up the stalls, manning them and help with clearing up afterwards. Additionally, we need help making cakes for the tea tent – Sponge cakes, chocolate cakes and fairy cakes. If you are able to help, please contact Keith on batchworth.chairman@ntlworld.com or Simon on SimonTheobald@compuserve.com.

Cubs Football

On Saturday, 5th March, the Batchworth Cub pack football team competed along with five other packs in the Rickmansworth and Chorleywood District Cubs 1 day league cup competition in Chorleywood.

The competition was extremely close such that a winning team could not be found through points or goal difference and had to be decided by the team that scored the most goals during the day. 6th Rickmansworth won the Cup with Batchworth gaining a very respectable 3rd place.

Batchworth never conceded a single goal in the competition making the end result so very close.

Many thanks goes to Cub Parent Mr Gavin Murray for managing the team.

Cubs Swimming Gala

The annual County Cubs Swimming Gala was held at Westminster Lodge in St Albans on Sat 5th February 2011.

Teams from across Hertfordshire took part. Cubs swam heats in Front Crawl, Breaststroke and Backstroke. Our Cubs put in a strong performance.

In particular, Amrit did so well that she has been asked to represent District in the Hertfordshire County Swimming Gala in April.

District St George's Day celebration - Sunday 8th May

The annual district St George's Day celebration will be held on the afternoon of Sunday 8th May at Rickmansworth School - all members are expected to attend - Beavers, Cubs, Scouts & Explorers.

Please be at the school, in full smartly presented uniform, by 2-40pm for a 3-00pm start. The entrance to the site is at the top of Scots Hill as you drive in you will be directed by marshals where to park. For those dropping off their children a one way system will be in operation. Groups will assemble on the Tennis Courts by the entrance unless it is raining in which case please make your way into the School Hall.

The celebration is planned to end with the dismissal by approx 4-00pm. There will be a retiring collection taken on the way out of the hall. Please remind your young people to bring a small contribution

Laptop Needed

Scouting needs a laptop simply to run Powerpoint presentations. If you has an old laptop capable of running Powerpoint presentations please contact Simon SimonTheobald@compuserve.com.

HMS Cumberland Arrived In Malta

HMS Cumberland, a Royal Navy type 22 Frigate affiliated with Batchworth Sea Scouts, arrived alongside in Malta on 28/02/11 carrying 218 passengers including 51 British nationals who were evacuated from Libya.

Sailors from Plymouth say they are ‘proud and humbled’ to have helped with the Libya evacuations.

Dave Bridle from Keyham looked after a mother and daughter who had fled Benghazi after gunfire rattled close to their home.

Dan Matlin from Stoke in Plymouth said the sea conditions during the rescue were often as bad as his time serving in the Falklands War.

Devonport-based HMS Cumberland delivered more than 400 British and foreign nationals to safety in Malta on two mercy missions from Libya over the weekend.

Read more here.

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