A steering Group has been set up to specifically look at next year’s celebrations and has decided that it should be a reflection of the past and an encouragement for the future.

There will be some looking back into the past and that’s a testament to our founder, Baden Powell and all those who had the foresight to follow his lead and understand the value based programme that Scouting offered. Not only was that true then but is still true today and so we shall be celebrating the past but also have an eye to the future and be looking forward to the challenges that lie ahead in the 21st Century.

Earlier in the year we asked for design ideas for a badge and logo along with a strap line. There were lots of brilliant and witty strap lines and these will be used in the forthcoming Centenary booklet. There is a winning Badge design but this will be kept under wraps for a while longer.

We asked for a logo and we have one in the form of an outline of a Lion, (the market square lions which are a recognizable local icon).The winning strap line will be incorporated into the Logo and will help to brand the celebrations and will appear on all district correspondence and Centenary event literature. Both the Logo and strap line will be unveiled shortly.

Most Leaders and Supporters have had the initial outline of events which are being planned for next year.

Jon Bugg asked for volunteers for the various Event Leadership teams, and we have had some success in finding people who wish to lead and assist in running an Centenary event but there are still some events which lack enthusiastic people to lead them. Do not be surprised if we start to approach people directly.

The planned community event in October will take the form of a District sponsored walk and we are looking for suggestions as to which Children’s Charity we should support. Please let a member of the steering group have your suggestions. (steering group are Chris Flewitt, Jon Bugg and Tony Ross)

We intend that the primary method of communication will be on the city website and we make no apologies for that. The City has a really good website and we need to make the information accessessable to as many leaders and supporters as we can. For the foreseeable future when there is an update an email will go out to all people on the districts database with a link to the city website, it should then be a simple matter just to click on the link. I would suggest that all Group Scout Leaders ensure that someone (if it’s not them) is able to access the web site and to make sure that the contacts email address is on the District Database. It may be helpful just to pass on the email within their own group to ensure that everyone gets the link to the City website.