GROUP NEWS January 2017

On behalf of all the Leaders, we hope that you had an enjoyable Christmas and

We Wish You All A Happy New Year. Attached to this month’s PG Tips is an outline of the major events for 2017

Please make a note of the dates that affect you and your child(s).

Christmas Fair Our Christmas Fair is, one of our major fund raising events of the year. Some of the money raised is

used to provide Christmas parcels for the elderly around Pinkneys Green; the rest goes towards the

running cost of the Scout Hall. A big thank you goes to all the parents, friends, Beavers, Cubs and

Scouts who helped at the fair or came along to support us.

Christmas Parcels Some of the money raised at our Christmas Fair is used to purchase parcels

for the local elderly. The parcels were delivered by the Cubs before

Christmas. The Cubs went carol singing and delivered the parcels. Thank you goes to Jane Courtier for

purchasing the contents of the parcels and to Akela and the Cubs for delivering the parcels and organising the

Carol Singing.

Parents – Can you spare 45 Minutes - Once a term We are looking for more parents volunteers to join a Parent Rota to clean the Toilet area and kitchen area and a

quick sweep over the main hall floor, wash the kitchen Mitchell room and toilet floors a couple of times a year.

We need to sort a rota out for this term. If you can spare approx. 45 minutes once a term, time to suit you, please

email cleaning@pgscouts.org.uk for more information

A big thank you goes to all the 25 parents who helped us last year, it was a great help. The cleaning can be done

to suit you.

PG – ONLINE SHOPPING Our online shopping we use easyfunding.

We need your support; it is quite simple to access our online web shop,

enter the address http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/ and “Pinkneys

Green Scouts” as the cause

Short URL straight to page http://www.goo.gl/IFFPVh

If you go via this web site to your normal online shopping site

PG are given a % of the money you spend at no extra cost to

you. We have raised over £1,300 from supporters of PG who have

done this.

Fundraising via Booking.com

Erica Hunter our GSL has used over the years an online hotel booking company called Booking.com. They have just started a

scheme similar to easyfunding that if you book via the link we get 7% which is very good. PG have set up an account, you need to

click on this link https://www.booking.com/index.html?aid=1204870 (Short URL straight to PG Page http://www.goo.gl/izy5oP)

YOUNGSTERS SAFTEY DROPPING OFF TO MEETINGS

PINKNEYS GREEN - Scout Hall Winter Hill Road - Can we remind Parents to operate a

One Way System when dropping off or collecting your son(s) from Beavers on Monday

evenings, Cubs on Wednesday evenings or Scouts on Friday evenings, also please don't turn

your cars around in our neighbours driveways and DON’T PARK or PICK UP where the

WHITE LINES are outside the hall

Please Don’t park in the drive way of Christmas Cottage or Pond House

LITTLEWICK GREEN - Gilchrist Village Hall - can we also remind parents dropping off and picking up

Do not park in Gilchrist Way as this is strictly reserved for residents.

We ask parents to please park a little further down on Jubilee Road or on Coronation Road and walk up; you may need a torch! Please ask your Childs leader if you are not sure.

Thank you for your support in keeping our neighbours Happy.

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Christingle Service Thanks go to all the parents; friends and members of the

Group attended the Christingle Service at our parish church

at St James the Less, Stubbings.

Special thanks go to: Revd. Keith Nicholls for organising

the service. Also to parents who made the Christingles and

to everyone who supplied the mince pies, for the

refreshments afterwards. We had traditional carols as well

as the Christingles.

Christmas Trees Thank you goes Ken Knight & Ali Fyffe for coordinating

the sales and delivery, Ian Miller for collecting the trees

and bringing them to Maidenhead, to the Scouts / Parents

for delivering the Christmas Tree leaflets, plus to everyone who delivered the trees and collected them for recycling and of course to

everyone who purchased a Christmas tree. We sold over 150 trees and raised over £3,200

Used Postage Stamp Reminder, Tarka (Barry Palmer) is collecting used postage stamps.

Please save your postage stamps for us. Then either put them through the Scout Hall letter box, or

drop them off at your child’s section meeting. Thank you goes to everyone who has dropped off stamps to us

BINDING – PG Pantomime Script URGENT We have a binding machine, and are looking for help with Binding this year’s Script. If you can help please email

simon@pgtips.org.uk

Thank You Letter

Christmas Parcel To all the leaders and Members of PG

What a lovely Christmas surprise to receive my

bag of goodies from the PG Cubs.

Thank you to everyone who gave the very

useful cans and packages in for me.

I do hope all the cubs at PG had some exciting

presents to enjoy over Christmas holidays and

you will all have lots of fun at your future

meetings at PG.

Thank you again

Lilia Williams

New Year's Day - Morning Walk The annual PG New Year's Morning Walk took place on Sunday 1st January 2017.

Winter Hill Scouter BoB Weingarth led the walk around the Pinkneys

Green area up to the Mount at long lane. The youngsters, adults and

dogs, managed to stay dry; it was a bit muddy in some parts.

Well done to everyone who managed to get up on New Years day and

take part.

Maidenhead Pantomime – Puss In Boots This year over 100 PG Beavers, Cubs, Scouts (Littlewick & Winter

Hill) plus Young Leaders attended this year’s Maidenhead

Pantomime at the Town Hall to See Jack and the Beanstalk.

Two members of PG were in the cast Rob Harris (WH Akela) at Winter Hill Cubs and Patrick Ashe (PG Young Leader), Akela

played Giant Blunderbore and Patrick played Dozy Den.

The production was put on by Maidenhead Drama Guild. There was cheesy jokes, fabulous attire, and a good old sing-a-long, come to finish with it was a great pantomime to go along and see.

Well done to Rob & Patrick for giving us all a good evening

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BEAVER NEWS Littlewick Colony Back from our half-term break, how could we possibly top our fantastically

fun Halloween party? We had a trip to Alex's house for The police were

called to Littlewick Green on Monday night with flashing lights and sirens

blaring and the beavers had lots of fun! Thanks to Maidenhead police the

beavers were shown and handled lots of essential police equipment including

hand cuffs and safety vests. They were allowed to investigate the police van

following some tough questioning (from the beavers) although some were locked up for a short time. Quite an immersive experience.

LGPG cubs Akela, ran our communications meeting when we learnt about

the coding signals of semaphore and Morse code. The beavers worked in

their lodges to decipher the three different coded messages and those present

will receive their communication badges. •--, •,•-••,•-•• / -••,---,-•,• beavers! Our last meeting was a fantastic Christmas party

organised by Hawkeye. We danced, played musical statues, pass the parcel and danced with balloons. We were also visited by Santa

who gave gifts to all the good children, I'm pleased to say that every beaver received a gift. The Christingle service at Pinkneys, Stubbing's church was lovely, Tom Matthews was the flag bearer representing LG Beaver Scouts.

Sadly we said a fond farewell to Hawkeye (Emma Fielding), our leader for 2016. We had a fantastically interesting year of activities

and we've enjoyed every minute! A huge thank you Emma, for all your hard work, planning and leadership throughout the year, we'll

all miss you greatly. We also said a sad goodbye to Willow (Maureen Fry), our assistant leader who we'd like to thank for her calm nature and support through a very busy year.

At beavers we have a parents rota, so you can sign up to attend a meeting. Or become more involved and join the leadership team,

either way it's lots of fun and very rewarding. Please speak to the leaders at the next meeting if you are able to volunteer your time. We are looking now for a parents liaison and leaders to continue this fun and successful beavers colony.

We wish you all a Happy New Year! PG Littlewick Green Beaver Leaders team

Winter Hill Colony This month the beavers have enjoyed a movie night, with popcorn and squash.

They have also been preparing for Christmas by making peppermint creams with

Tictac and Christmas cards. They have also enjoyed their beaver banquet.,

complete with sausage, mash and beans, cake and ice cream. We would like to

congratulate the yellow lodge on winning this terms prize. We would finally like

to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. Next term we start back on the 11th of January. We can't wait to see what's in store for us next!

Tictac (Tom Beynon)

CUB NEWS Littlewick Pack Our cubs have been out and about this month including our long awaited Heritage centre visit which proved to be an interesting and

educational evening, including piloting the Spitfire simulator! One Wednesday evening, we went carol singing to St Marks Care

home (our phot was in the Maidenhead Advertiser), where we sang to the residents, and gave them some lovely Christmas cards that each of the cubs had made for them, it was a lovely evening, and much appreciated by all! Well done cubs!

This month included a Christingle service for all the Scout group at Stubbings Church, a mention

goes to Chelsea Herbert- Green and Isaac Stevenson for two beautiful readings and flag bearing.

Several of our cubs had a great evening at this years Maidenhead Panto was 'Jack and the

Beanstalk' starring Winter Hill's very own Rob Harris and Patrick Ashe (who were both excellent), a fun evening!

Lastly, Friday 16th December was the district cubs 100th birthday party, made possible by a

donation from our MP Theresa May. It was a fun and enjoyable evening, including outdoor

cooking, circus skills and a disco. During the evening all the cubs present (approx. 180) simultaneously recited the Cub Scout promise with cubs all around the world.

Happy New Year to you all, from us all at Littlewick Cubs!

Kaa (Richard Stevenson)

Winter Hill Pack The last few weeks have been busy as usual. We have had two creative

evenings; one making bridges and the second evening spent making truffles.

The cubs went home with chocolate around their faces as well as in the bags!

Thank you to Matthew Milston for running this popular session again. In

December, cubs visited local elderly friends’ houses and delivered food

parcels. They sang carols and were rewarded with a few treats too. On 14th

December, the cubs joined the beavers, scouts and leaders with the annual trip

to the Maidenhead pantomime. Patrick Ashe and I very much appreciated the

audience participation from them all! A few cubs attended the Christingle

service at Stubbings Church this month, thank you for attending and representing the pack.

The first meeting of the New Year will be on Wednesday 11th January and

will be a ‘New Year’ party. This year’s theme is Super Herowa… boys can come dressed up as their favourite Super Hero and there will be prizes for the best costumes.

On behalf of all the cub leaders; have a great Christmas and we look forward to seeing you in 2017. WH Akela (Rob Harris)

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SCOUT NEWS Swimming Gala – we are STILL looking for Scouts to take part in this years Gala on Saturday 21st January, 5.45pm, you don’t

have to be a fast swimmer to take up if any Scout from either Troop would like to take part, please contact Simon

simon@pgscouts.org.uk

Dick Whittington - Scouts from both Littlewick & Winterhill can take part in this years pantomime. Auditions will be on

Sunday 15th January, 3.00pm. Rehearsals are on Thursday evenings 6.45pm-8.15pm or Sunday's 3.00pm-4.30pm. You MUST be

able to attend all the performances: Friday 17th & Saturday 18th March 2017. We have lots of parts this year including lots of

small parts, for those Scouts who have not been in a PG Pantomime before. If you would like to see a copy of the Script please let

Simon know, also please let Simon simon@pgscouts.org.uk know if you are interested in taking part

Littlewick Troop

we had good fun in the last two meetings of the Winter Term. Firstly we had an evening

of remote control car time trials around a homemade circuit where slow and steady ended

up being the best approach! We then had the annual pantomime trip - many thanks to

Simon for covering for me that night. Thanks also to Freya Livesey who did a reading at the PG Christingle Service.

This term we are pleased to welcome Will Lonsdale and Charlie Shervell to the Troop - Will joins from 9th Maidenhead and Charlie moves up from PG's Winter Hill Cub Pack.

While it is a new term, the same rules apply - please come to meetings in full, tidy top-

half uniform with dark trousers, sew badges on promptly, let me know if you will be

absent and please consider our neighbours by not parking or stopping on the white lines

outside the hall.

LG Scout Leader (David Barnes)

Winterhill Troop

The last part of the autumn term has been very busy, the older Scouts

took part in a backwards weekend, where they skinned and gutted

pheasants, rabbits and pigeons, before preparing an excellent stew,

which they all enjoyed. A big thank you to leaders, Alex Robins and

Jordan Day-Hunt, for organising the event.

We have also had a few busy evenings where Scouts made pizzas and

investigating how alcohol, Drugs and smoking can be bad for you and

what to look for in a healthy diet, also been Swimming in Windsor

and we finished the year off on 30th December with a New Year

Well done to the two PG teams: Ben Almond, Josef Basarab, Archie

Cottington, Niall Parsons, Hayden Paul, Joseph Ruffell, Daniel

Wallace and Simon Wilkosz on coming 2nd and 5th in the District

Quiz. Thank you goes to 13th Maidenhead Scouts for organising the

event

Twenty-five members of Winter Hill Scouts went to Maidenhead

Pantomime Jack and Beanstalk at the Town Hall and watched an

excellent pantomime Patrick Ashe (YL) held it together as Dozy Den

and Rob Harris (WH Akela) was a forceful Giant Blunderbore

Thank you goes to the 15 Scouts and young leaders who helped at our

Christmas Fair to run the Tombola, plus everyone who donated items

Well done to Niall Parsons for carrying the WH Troop Flag at the

Christingle Service at Stubbing and to Simon Wilkosz, James Garitty

and Patrick Flood for doing the readings plus all the other Scouts for

attending the service.

We would

like to

welcome WH

new PLs:

Ben Almond, Patrick Flood, Alex Ratcliff, Pat Russell and Dan Wallace; who

start at the beginning of January, we wish them all the best with their new

role.

All Scouts and Young Leaders have received the annual (2017) Medical &

Personal Detail Forms. Can parents please complete and return these forms to

Scout Hall by 15th January. It is important we get the updated forms, as

medical conditions change, at least one Scout has moved house (without telling us)

We hope to be holding three training weekend, so we can teach the scouts basic

Scouting skills for this year’s camps.

WH Scout Leader Simon Wheeler

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Jan 2017 PG Tips

1 January Group - New Years Morning Walk - 10.30am

15 January Scout - Auditions for Scouts Pantomime Jack and Beanstalk

21 January Cub/Sct - District Swimming Gala – Magnet [Cubs 3pm – Scouts 5.40pm]

27-28 Jan ScoutWH - Training Course (Older Scouts PLs / YLs)

3-4 Feb ScoutWH - Training Course (Part year 9 plus Year 8)

10-12 Feb Group - Build Staging etc. for Pantomime Parents Help required

15 February CubWHLG - Incident Hike (Run by Scouts PL's & APL's )

18-19 Feb ScoutWH - LAN Provisional Date

18 Feb Group - Paint Staging etc. for Pantomime Parents Help required

24-25 Feb ScoutWH - Training Course (Year 6 plus part Year 7)

27 February BeaverWH - "We Entertain " – Beaver meeting run by Scouts

4 March Scout - District Cross Country Competition 11am at PG Hall

4 March Cub - Flag Competition

6 March BeaverLG - "We Entertain " – Beaver meeting run by Scouts

10 March ScoutWH - Swimming Trip (Scouts not in Panto)

17-18 March Group - Scouts Pantomime Dick Whittington

19 March Group - Help Dismantling PG Stage Area – 10.30am Parents Help required

25-26 March ScoutWH - Computer Event at Hall Provisional Date

23 April Group - District St Georges Day Event - All Beavers, Cubs & Scouts

28-30 Apr ScoutWH - Troop Camp

29 Apr Group - Jumble Sale 10.30am

13 May Cub - District Cub Incident Hike – run by PLs

13 May Group - Jumble Sale 10.30am

31 May CubWHLG - Litter Clear PG Triangle (Run by the Scouts)

3-4 June BverWHLG - Beaver Sleepover Provisional Date

16 June Scout - District Orienteering Competition

18 June Group - Summer "Fair On The Green " 12 Noon - 4.00pm

25 June Scouts - District Water Activity Day - Scouts Provisional Date

3 July Beaver WH - Tent Pitching (Run by the Scouts)

7 July Scouts - District Scouts Soap Box Event

10 July Beaver LG - Tent Pitching (Run by the Scouts) Provisional Date

22 Jul - 5 Aug ScoutWH - Summer Camp – Bodmin Moor

8-10 September Cub - Cub Camp Provisional date

15 September Scout - Evening Mystery Trip

16 September Group - Jumble Sale 10.30am

23 September Scout - District Land Activity Event Provisional date

24 September Cub - District Trip to Paulton’s Park

30 September Group - Jumble Sale 10.30am

30 September Scout - District PL's Training Course

8 October Scout - Scouts Cycle Orienteering event 10am - 1pm

16 October BeaverWH - Computer Event (Run by WHScouts)

18 October CubWH - Computer Event (Run by WHScouts)

20-22 October Group - JOTA & JOTI Jamboree's - PG Scout Hall (All Welcome)

25 October CubWHLG - Halloween Party (Run by Scouts)

30 October BeaverWH - Halloween Party (Run by WHScouts)

11 November Scout - District Cooking Competition – Cookham Scout Hall

12 November Group - Remembrance Sunday Parade - 10.35am ALL Beavers Cubs & Scouts

17-18 Nov Scout - District Night Hike - Parents Welcome

24-25 Nov ScoutWH - Older Scout Activity Weekend

1 December ScoutWH - Trip – (Pos Bowling/Swimming ) All Scouts

1 December Scout - District Scout Quiz

3 December Group - Christmas Fair On a Sunday 12 Noon - 3.00pm

10 December Group - Carol (Christingle ) Service 3.50pm at Stubbings Church

13 December Group - Trip to Maidenhead Pantomime

15 December ScoutWH - Troop Dinner Thank You meal for supporters of the WH Troop

29 December ScoutWH - Troop New Year Party 2018

1 January Group - New Years Morning Walk - 10.30am

Check www.pgscouts.org.uk for latest diary Email: info@pgscouts.org.uk Scout Hall Tel: (01628) 771991

2017 Outline Programme

[This is the most important Activity in the Scouting year - puts Scout previous training in to practice]

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