Otley Scouts

Beaver had lots of fun over the Christmas holidays! He even met Father Christmas!!

Happy New Year to you all. I hope you had an enjoyable Christmas and New Year break. A quick note about Cubs for the start of 2012.

Cub Meetings

Cub meetings will resume this evening, Thursday 5th January, at the usual time of 6:45 until 8:15pm.

A few dates for your diaries in the run up to Christmas:

This week's Cub meeting

There is a Cub meeting tomorrow night. At the Scout hut starting at 6:45, finishing at 8:15.

Christmas Good Turn

The Cubs will be taking part in their annual good turn with a visit to Spring Garden's residential home on Monday 19th December. Please meet at the Scout hut for the usual time of 6:45pm. The Cubs will be walking to Spring Gardens so please ensure your child is suitably dressed and wearing hat and gloves. Cubs will need to be wearing their uniforms.

We will finish at the usual time of 8:15pm. Please arrange to collect your child from Spring Gardens which is at the following address:

Westbourne Grove, Otley, Leeds, LS21 3LJ  map

Just a quick reminder that there is no Cub meeting tomorrow night (Thursday 8th Dec) due to Group Camp this weekend. It should hopefully give everyone a bit more time to get ready for the weekend away.

Group Camp reminders

As a reminder, we're meeting at the Scout hut at 6:15pm on Friday. Cubs need to have their evening meal before they arrive. Make sure they have good strong footwear (I'd strongly suggest either walking boots or wellington boots) as it will be very wet under foot with all the rain we've had this week. We'll be going off paths so we're bound to encounter some particularly muddy spots.

Also, hats and gloves will be essential for this weekend given the recent fall in temperature. Please make sure your child has plenty of warm clothing on for the walk on Friday.

Any questions, please let me know.

One of the Guys the Beavers made about to be burnt!

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Working Party - thank you

I forgot to thank all those parents and Cubs who came to the working party on Saturday to help decorate the new Chevin Community Centre. We were very grateful for all your help with the decorating effort. The building is really taking shape and looks fantastic after the work that was done on Saturday.

Pre-launch evening

From next week, the two meeting rooms in the new building will be in use for our weekly Cub meetings.

I write news of a couple of events planned for the new extension to the Scout building taking place this month.

Working party

The Cubs have recently started using some of the areas in the new extension, with Thursday's meeting having a number of groups preparing displays for the pre-launch evening later this month (see below). As work has advanced quickly on the internal fitting out of the building, we're now at a stage where we need to paint all the walls and ceilings before the final plumbing and electrical fittings are put in place.

The theme of tonight's meeting was morse code! Everyone learnt how to write and read in morse code, but most importantly how to send the s.o.s signal! Next week we will be finishing our canvas paintings.