Rushcliffe Scout News

By Rushcliffe Scouts ⚜ We will once again be holding our annual St George’s Day Parade, after this event was held virtually for the last 2 years due to COVID-19 restrictions.   The parade will take place on Sunday 24th April from 2.30pm and will follow a different route to previous years, starting at Bridgford park and then along the following route: Albert, Priory, Abbey, Davies, Gordon Roads, Central Avenue, Bridgford Road before turning into Bridge field. Please be aware that these roads will temporarily be closed to traffic as the parade passes through. Have a Story? Please email  media@rushcliffescouts.org.uk

By Fiona Burrows - District Commissioner ⚜ I am sorry to announce that Peter Whitehead passed away on Tuesday morning. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. Peter was GSL at 1st Radcliffe-on-Trent Scout Group working diligently to improve and support the group. Most recently this can be seen in the refurbishment of the scout hut which will continue to benefit all the young people in the group for many years to come. It was always a pleasure to speak with him and he will be much missed. We thank him for his service and know that he has brightened the lives of young people during his time in Scouting. Our thoughts and prayers are with Marilyn, Dianne and their family at this time.

By Adam Dearnley - District Media Manager ⚜ 2021 was the year that we got back to camping, back to adventure and back together. Here's to more adventures in 2022! Have a Story? Please email  media@rushcliffescouts.org.uk

By Fiona Burrows - District Commissioner ⚜ 2021 What a year it has been! I wanted to thank you for everything you have been doing to make Scouting fantastic in Rushcliffe! Hopefully you and your families are well and managing to avoid catching Covid. Over the last 12 months we have managed to return to a much more normal scouting programme and all being well this will continue into 2022. I would like to say a big thank you for all your help and support over the past year. You have been amazing putting up with a return to lockdown, technical difficulties, putting up with all the changes put in place and thank you also for all the training undertaken as I know it hasn’t always been easy. I am really hopeful that District Camp will finally be able to happen, St George’s Day no longer a virtual event and a presentation evening is planned for all those who have achieved Top Awards over the last 2 years as well as the many exciting activities organised within your groups over the year. Wishi...

By Fiona Burrows - District Commissioner ⚜ I am delighted to welcome Will Cullen to the role of District Youth Commissioner for Rushcliffe District. Will has been within the scouting movement within West Lancashire and has recently joined as a leader at 1st Sutton Bonnington Scout Troup. He has good experience from assisting within group and district at West Lancashire and plenty of enthusiasm. Will has joined Rushcliffe as he studies at Sutton Bonnington Campus and will be getting in touch with groups over the next few weeks as we start back in the autumn. I hope we can benefit from his experience from within another District as he learns about ourselves here in Rushcliffe. William is contactable via email: dyc.william@rushcliffescouts.org.uk I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Jacob Piechota as he stands down from the DYC role. Jacob has been a brilliant role model during his time as DYC and has continued to encourage all sections to be #YouthShaped as well as shaping...

By M ark Greenhalgh  - Radcliffe Methodist Youth Group ⚜ My name is Mark Greenhalgh and I run a Youth Group at Radcliffe Methodist Church. We have an open DofE Centre and have a 15-seater minibus that we use for expeditions and events. We also hire out the bus to other none for profit organisations. We see the value of using a minibus and so groups can be able to afford it we only charge £40 a day and £20 per half day. We run the bus similar to the way John Green ran The Scout Bus at Bingham. We are members of the Community Transport Association, and the bus is booked in for regular safety checks. The bus is based at Radcliffe-on-Trent, and we are very flexible when people collect and return the bus. We also have two box trailers, one double axle 1400 kg braked trailer and the other a 750kg un-braked trailer.

By Steve Day - County Activity Team ⚜ We have been doing work on the Climbing wall at Hollygate campsite to bring it back into use, this is now complete, and it has had its yearly inspection. So, the next step is to create a large team of instructors that can run sessions or help to run sessions, so that we share the load around the District.  We aim to run the bookings very differently and will have a fixed calendar for the year and a rota of adults to deliver those sessions, very much like we do at Hoveringham.   Those sessions will be bookable on the Notts Scouts Adventure website, some will be evening and some weekend sessions. Generally, they will be 2-hour sessions so the max you will need to commit to at any one time will be 2½ hours.      To kick things off we have a training/assessment night on  Tuesday 24 th  August  2021for adults who want to help with this. We then have two sessions booked on  Saturday 28 th  August , the fir...