Fundraising

Scout Group Treasure Hunt - Saturday 28th June 2008

A huge thanks to Chris B for producing, yet again, one of his fiendish treasure hunts on Saturday night.

It was a pleasant warm evening as car loads of supporters and friends of the Group crawled (in cars!!) down the lanes of Holderness taking in such sites as Mappleton, Long Riston, Catwick and Siggelsthorne.....Why is it I kept on recalling scenes from the film The Wicca man as we drove around?!

As far as treasure hunts go, I am of the "Blow this, I'm giving up on this clue, let's settle for not coming last" School - however some of my co-travellers had clearly got the bit between their teeth and so I had visions of a torchlight return to the hq to be met by jeers and a few scraps of food left, but with all questions answered...But no - as it happened we were first back and there was enough food for several camps (NB if you are coming on any camps in the near future you will be sampling the delights of Phil's Chilly!)

The food was great so thanks to all who helped out. As far as winners and losers were concerned.....I could say there were none, however as Clem has been striving for 10 years to win the event (and far be it from me to level any charges at him for removing clues or changing signs over the years in his quest for hunt glory!), at long last that certain monkey has been removed form his back. So well done for just edging Colin and Laura into 2nd. Well done also to Ian and Cath for bringing their brood on the event and there is justice as Ian won a nice bottle of scotch for first prize in the raffle.

General Fundraising

Should you have any Bric-a-brac, Tombola or Raffle prizes, sweets/chocolate, unwanted toys, etc. We would be grateful for all donations. Bring them to the Scout HQ on Monday or Thursday evenings.

In previous years some of our fundraising has been doubled, due to parents being able to obtain “match funding“ from their employers ---are any of you able to arrange this for us in the future?

Over recent years the Roof Appeal fundraising has been very successful and the HQ has recently been re-roofed. It is hoped that access for the disabled will be improved and a new Explorer room be created in the foreseeable future (Funding permitting).

Further information will be available nearer the events!

Please support your “Kids” by giving a little --- be it time, money or unwanted items and then of course come on the day and BUY!

Other Fundraising

The roof fundraising was a ongoing project. In addition to this we need to raise at least £1000 every year just to cover the electricity, lease payments and council tax alone. Last year the annual spend came to £4000! So we can never afford to take our eye off the ball. Thankfully we were able to replace our kayaks via a superb grant from the Humber and Wolds Rural Community Council.

We are also hoping to create another Explorer room that can be fitted out with bunks. Sheila got the fundraising off to a fine start by donating money from her 50th birthday bash but we need to keep it moving along now.

We are also holding a massive table top sale at the Scout HQ on Saturday 4th November 2006, so come along and support your local scout group!

So..........If anyone who is reading this feels they would like to help an active scout group to keep going by making a small financial contribution it would be very very welcome.