Author Archive: Ann-Marie Vinnicombe

2021/22 SASU Events

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Date Time Event  Cost  Venue
Tue 09/11/2021 7pm Skittles and Supper £12.00 The Jolly Farmer, Alton
Sun 14/11/2021 10am Farnham Town Centre Remembrance Parade £0.00 Castle Street, Farnham
Fri 03/12/2021 7pm Christmas Meal £15.00 3rd HQ, Daniel Hall, Farnham
Sat 01/01/2022 No Meeting
Mon 07/02/2022 7:30pm Scouting in the Falkland Islands with Fish and Chips Cost of food Garners Field, Tilford
Wed 16/03/2022 7:30pm Quiz £0.00 Garners Field, Tilford
Thu 19/05/2022 6:30pm Tour of Space2grow, Farnham Space2grow, Farnham
Thu 16/06/2022 7:30pm BBQ, Archery and Shooting £0.00 Garners Field, Tilford
Mon 11/07/2022 7pm District AGM £0.00 Garners Field, Tilford

SASU Christmas Meal

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Thank you to the Summit Network Team for putting on a fantastic Christmas meal for the Scout Active Support unit on Friday 3rd December 2021;

Thanks – Eleanor, George, Jenny, Aiden, Gemma, Matt, Harry, Neil and Simon.

We had a great time;

Remembrance 2021 – Farnham District Scouts

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Hale, Bourne, Elstead, Rowledge and Wrecclesham (2nd, 5th, 7th, 8th, 12th)

 

 

Central Farnham (3rd, 4th, 5th, 11th, Explorers, Network and SASU)

 

     

  

    

Garners Field Farnham Scouts

Garners Field – Archery, All Weather Shelter and Climbing Wall.

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A lot of work has happened on the Archery Range, the All-Purpose Shelter and Climbing Wall at Garners Field.

Archery

Thank you to Kristal Derrick (Hampshire Scouts Assessor) for helping to finalise the design, Ray Deare (Monday Crew) for creating the range design including organising materials and putting it together with the help of the Monday Crew – oh and getting a grant to help pay for this and the shelter improvements, Gary Thain (Warden) for organising the bows, arrows and targets.

The range is a Come and Try It range and governed by the Archery GB rules in regard to set up/equipment.  The range can be booked via the Campsite booking form; 1.5 hour session is £25 including borrowing equipment (£10 with your own equipment.)

Check if available: https://farnhamscouting.com/website/Campsite/archery-range-bookings/archery-range-booking-calendar/

You must has a Scout Permit holder to run the session; if your Group does not have one please contact me and I can e-mail District Permit holder to see if they are available.

Please see current permit holders including from our recent course held at Garners Field. – https://farnhamscouting.com/website/archery-course/

All Purpose Shelter

The shelter is used for shooting activities; as such it has now been refitted to ensure this is safer and there is less damage to the structure.

Thank you to Hamish and Kim White for co-ordinating the requirements and doing the work on the refit.

 

The shelter must be booked via the Campsite Booking form and costs £10 per 1.5hr session; there is no District fire arms however Tongham Hogshots and 5th Farnham (Bourne) do have fire arms and we have a number of NRSA qualified leaders across the District – please ask.

Climbing Wall

Our climbing wall has been inspected and is now in line with the relevant standards.

Thank you to Neil Peerman (DNSC/GSL/Exec), Bill Weller (GSL/Exec), Philip German (Warden) and Gary Thain (Warden) for their hard making repairs, pulling together the necessary paperwork and co-ordinating work done to get the wall pass the inspection.

The wall will re-open in the new year once all equipment has been review and renewed as appropriate and safe.

The wall must be booked via the Campsite booking form.

 

 

Garners Field Campsite Booking: https://farnhamscouting.com/website/Campsite/campsite-booking-2019/

 

Archery Course

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Thank you to Kristal Derrick,  Bob Miles and Jeremy Burden from Hampshire Scout Archery for coming to Garners Field on 6th/7th November 2021 to train 17 leaders to be able to run archery sessions.

     

Well done to the following for achieve their archery permit;

Ann-Marie Vinnicombe – District

Matt Larkin – District

Danielle Amies – District

Davis Clements – District

Liz Larkin – 2nd Farnham (Hale)

Ellie Rees – 3rd Farnham

James Rogers – 3rd Farnham

Steve Rattan – 4th Farnham (Tongham)

Daryl Waterman – 4th Farnham (Tongham)

Diego Colombo – 5th Farnham (Bourne)

George Cowdry – 5th Farnham (Bourne)

Debbie Ollerenshaw – 7th Farnham (Elstead)

Laura Dando – – 7th Farnham (Elstead)

Marc Harry – 7th Farnham (Elstead)

Richard Thorpe – 7th Farnham (Elstead)

Adam Chamber – 12th Farnham (Wrecclesham)

James Barrow – 2nd Bentley

 

Existing Archery Permit Holders:

Gary Thain District
Eleanor Hughes District
Annie Armfield District
Dave Cocker 4th Farnham (Tongham)
Gloria Barnard 5th Farnham (Bourne)
Gulfer Budden 5th Farnham (Bourne)
Angela Cowdry 5th Farnham (Bourne)
Ian Edwards 5th Farnham (Bourne)
David Fennell 5th Farnham (Bourne)
Oscar Gutierrez Martinez 5th Farnham (Bourne)
Ed Hill 5th Farnham (Bourne)
Dan Josty 5th Farnham (Bourne)
Judith Parish 5th Farnham (Bourne)
Stephen Parish 5th Farnham (Bourne)
Martine Trebucq 5th Farnham (Bourne)
Guy Elliot 11th Farnham (St Andrews & St.James)
Farnham Scout Shop

Farnham District Scout Shop seeking Volunteers

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Farnham Scout Shop seeking Volunteers

The Farnham District Scout shop (located at Daniel Hall, Farnham) supplies Scouting uniform and accessories for all ages and in the process makes a small profit that is passed on to promote local scouting.

Such is made possible by Volunteers who help keep the Shop open throughout the year on Thursday evenings 6 – 8pm and Saturday mornings 9.30 – Noon.  Please note the Shop closes during the Easter, Summer and Christmas school holidays.

More Shop details including photos can be found online at: https://farnhamscouting.com/website/ourshop/

We have reached a stage where we urgently need additional volunteer staff to help maintain our service.

Our Volunteers work in pairs, are given on the spot training and typically only commit to one or at most two sessions per month with full flexibility possible.

Through interaction with fellow volunteers and customers (be they parents, youngsters or Leaders) it is generally agreed that time spent ‘behind the counter’ can be both rewarding and sociable.

If you are 18 years or older and able to offer a few of hours each month/each term to help at a Shop session of your choice i.e. Thursday evening or Saturday morning, would you please contact Roy (Shop Manager) either by email: scoutshop@farnhamscouting.com or home phone: 01428-607848 (any time) to learn more. No prior scouting knowledge or shop experience is required although if you decide to join the team you will be asked to be DBS checked as required by Scouting HQ’s safeguarding programme.

Please give the above your serious consideration and if at all interested, make contact.

Kind regards.

Roy  Tubbs

Scout Shop Manager

 scoutshop@farnhamscouting.com

The Appointments Advisory Committee (AAC)

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The Appointments Advisory Committee (AAC)
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The Appointments Advisory Committee’s main function is to assist with the process of appointing and welcoming volunteers into the Scouts by advising on their suitability.

Their purpose is to:

Welcome the new volunteers to the Scouts.
Ensure that new volunteers are aware and accept the values, policies and promise of the Scouts.
Support volunteers to understand the requirements of their role.
Check that the new volunteer knows where to go for support and who to ask if they need some help.

The Farnham District AAC meets as often is needed welcoming up to 3 new volunteers in a session arranged around the committee and the volunteers.

I like to thank Jane Twitchin who has been our Appointments Secretary for the last 4 years and for agreeing to train up her replacements.

We have decided to split the role to share the load (we are open to variants)

Appointments Secretary
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Keep track of appointments email account

New candidates – welcome email and advise of appointments committee

Get reference checks, follow up GSL etc once approved

Appointments Coordinator
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Set up appointment panels; book room.

Set up appointments with candidates, ring round, follow up

Follow up on role changes and determine if appointments panel needed

If you are interested, able to help, full training will be given, please get in touch – without this role we can not successfully bring in much needed new volunteers into the District.

Regards,

Ann-Marie

Ann-Marie Vinnicombe
District Commissioner
Farnham District Scout Council

T: +44 (0)7410381071 | E: dc@farnhamscouting.com | W: https://www.farnhamscouting.com

Unsung Hero Award for ‘little joker’ Alfie Lamport 

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Unsung Hero Award for ‘little joker’ Alfie Lamport

Chief Scout’s Unsung Heroes 2021 announced | News | Scouts

Alfie Lamport, aged 7 and a member of 11th Farnham Beavers Group has won a Chief Scouting Unsung Hero Award 2021 for telling daily jokes and making people smile throughout COVID-19 and especially during lockdown.

The Chief Scout’s Unsung Heroes Award is an annual scheme that recognises 20 Scouts aged 6-24 who have shown Scout values, courage, kindness and a ‘never give up spirit’. Scouts received over 300 nominations this year and Alfie Lamport was handpicked by Chief Scout, Bear Grylls to receive an award at The Bear Grylls Adventure, indoor and outdoor activity centre at The NEC Birmingham on 8 October 2021.

Alfie started telling daily jokes back in May 2020 for Mental Health Awareness Week and in doing so raised funds for Mind, however he didn’t stop there. Keen to keep on making people laugh he continued telling jokes every Friday with his #FabFriday jokes throughout the summer. He then, dressed as an elf, told daily #ChristmasCrackers throughout Advent and raised funds for his school, Badshot Lea Village Infant School. He now shares his humour on radio, every Friday on BBC Radio Surrey and in total has raised nearly a thousand pounds for charity just from telling jokes.

Austin Tolkien, 11th Farnham Beavers Group Leader said: “Alfie fully deserves this award and is an inspiration to others. The pandemic hasn’t been easy for any of us but Alfie’s dedication and enthusiasm to keep making people smile is never ending.”

Gemma Ball, Headteacher at Badshot Lea Village Infant School said: “Alfie is quite simply a little star! We are so proud of him and all his efforts to simply try and make people laugh and feel good by just telling one liners!”

Alfie Lamport said: “I was so shocked to win this award and to get to meet Chief Scout, Bear Grylls was amazing. I love telling my jokes and hope I can continue to brighten up everyone’s day by telling lots more.”

To hear Alfie’s jokes, you can search for ‘Alfie Lamport’ on YouTube https://youtu.be/6rvcIaxYdtYor listen to them live every Friday from 6pm on Joe Talbots show on BBC Radio Surrey.

Chief Scout’s Unsung Heroes 2021 announced | News | Scouts

Cub Scout and Beaver Scout Fun Day Thank you

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So, on Saturday 2nd October 2021 160 Cub Scouts descended on Garners Field followed by 85 Beaver Scouts on Sunday 3rd October 2021 all in the name of FUN.

Mission Successful – even with the most horrible weather, the Cubs love it, pillow fighting in the rain is a sight to see.  Both days we had happy, happy children. (some a bit wet…0

Behind every fun day there is a team of dedicated but now exhausted volunteers who have been planning, building, co-operating and running activities, setting up, maintaining and clearing up.

Nicky Clements, ADC Cub Scouts planned the Cubs day with help from Amanda Morgan, District Cub Leader  and ran the day with her site team, Davis Clements, Ollie Morgan and Gary Thain providing the template for the Beaver Day. Thank you without your help the weekend would not have happened.

Thank you Gill Snedden who not only catered for volunteers on Saturday, with leftovers for Sunday but also an evening ‘BBQ’ for the Cubs,

Every Pack and every Colony provided an activity run by leaders and any volunteers they could muster – again planning and work before the event as well as setup and clear way.   I know the 12th(Wrecclesham) were building the runway throughout the weekday evenings to get it ready in time.

Across the weekend we also had;

Tongham Hotshots running shooting

A raft of permit holders running Rafting

District Archery permit holders running Archery

The newly trained Tomahawk team teaching 6 to 10.5 year old to throw metal ‘angels’ and axes.

SASU members also supported bases, oversaw the assault course and generally filled in some gaps.

(Every activity has a Risk Assessment)

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you

Yours in Scouting

Ann-Marie