Rushcliffe Scout News

By Fiona Burrows (District Commissioner) and Andrew Peters (District Restart Champion) We’ve now had quite a number of risk assessments for face to face scouting approved. It’s really good to see that meetings are happening again in so many places. The District restart team  is available to provide support and answer any questions you have and can be contacted at  rafacetoface@rushcliffescouts.org.uk .   The risk assessment process is just the start. It defines how your meetings will run and how the venues will be used. We need to do what we can to ensure the safety of our young people and our leaders as we return to face to face meetings. We have made a promise to parents and carers that we will run out meetings in a way which follows the Scout Association guidelines that informed our risk assessment process, and they may already be anxious about the return.  We know that the new “rule of 6” doesn’t apply to Scout meetings but many members of the public won’t. We ar...

By Tim Kirby - District Chairman One of the pleasures of my role in Scouting is sitting on the Appointments sub-committee. There we talk to potential Leaders, currently via Zoom, who are all asked the same 12 questions. The people we are interviewing have a wealth of different experiences and they offer their time for a variety of different reasons, but all come with enthusiasm for the opportunity to work and spend time with our Young People. But what difference does Scouting make to the lives of those Young people? What makes us more than just a Youth Club? One young lady at her Appointments interview summed it up exactly for me. Fairly fresh out of Uni, to one question she replied, “I love cooking and entertaining, when I’m at Uni, for my friends there and when I’m home, for my friends who were Explorers with me a few years ago. The difference is that when we’ve finished eating, the friends from Explorers immediately clear the table, wash up and tidy the kitchen with me. We work as a...