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December-Jan-2014-Scotland.Pdf December/January 2015 BRITISH ScoutingSCOUTING OVERSEAS Inspirational Groups around the world ADVENTURE FOR EVERYONE A trip abroad for all abilities 5 STUNNING SENSORY EXCURSIONS Visits for everyone to enjoy How Scouting is making itself accessible to each and every person who wants to join Join, share and get involved at Scouts Scouting Editors Scotland Lee Griffiths, Vicky Milnes and Kevin Yeates Scouting Scotland Editor Scouting for all Headquarters Addie Dinsmore With thanks to… BBC Countryfile Magazine, The experiences you can have through Scouting are amazing Alan Burnham, Jon Challicom, Caroline Gunning, and life-changing. And they should be available to every single Eddie James, Rebecca Lupton, Brook McAllister, Steve O’Brien, Phil Packer, Pippa, Filip Parulski, young person. Making sure there are no barriers to taking part Michael Randle, Kate Reid, Graham Rothery, in Scouting is something I am passionate about. In this issue, we Emma Saunders, Anna Scrivenger, Michael Shanks, Jenny Steven, Pete Stillman, Laura look at how Scouting really is open to all. Thorner, Roland Turner, Kerie Wallace, Anna Volunteers are doing incredible work to make sure that Weekes, Dan Woodhouse Cover Image Jon Challicom Scouting includes everyone. On page 24 we visit 1st Bournville, a The national magazine of The Scout Group that welcomes young people with additional needs, young Association ISSN 0036 – 9489 © 2015 The Scout Association carers and young people in care. The leaders work hard so that Registered Charity Numbers: SC038437 and 306101 (England and Wales) young people have the best possible experience of Scouting. There Published by The Scout Association, are so many Groups doing similar things, whether they meet in Gilwell Park, Chingford, London E4 7QW Tel: 0845 300 1818 Fax: 020 8433 7103 hospitals, schools or their local HQ. Email: [email protected] For example, a Group in Glasgow made an exciting Website: scouts.org.uk/magazine In association with international experience available to young people with Scouts Scotland, Registered Scottish Charity No. disabilities. On page 36 they tell us how they made it SC017511, affiliated to The Scout Association (UK). Scottish Scout HQ, Fordell Firs, happen and share their tips for Hillend, Dunfermline, Fife KY11 7HQ Tel: 01383 419073 making international trips Website: scouts.scot accessible. We also find Please send all contributions to: out what it means to be [email protected] inclusive from inspiring Please note that the views expressed by members and contributors in the magazine are not necessarily those of volunteers all over the UK The Scout Association. on page 31. These include Scouting Scotland is produced by Immediate Media Branded a Group that’s ensuring Content, 9th Floor, Tower House, Scouting welcomes young Fairfax Street, Bristol BS1 3BN Editor Alex Drew people from the Polish Art Editor James Daniel Designer Dean Purnell community. Project Manager Celia Beale Volunteers and young Director of Immediate Media Branded Content Julie Williams people from all walks of life can get involved in ADVERTISING Advertising Manager Jamie Bolton Scouting and this makes us a Email: [email protected] fantastic, diverse Movement. Tel: 0117 314 7356 We might have diferences It is important to note the differing structures of UK Scouting in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. but what we all share – and what brings However, for ease of reading this supplement refers to all us together – is our commitment to the variations of ‘County’-level groupings simply as County. greatest youth Movement on the planet. You can read Scouting magazine and Get Active! online at scouts.org.uk/magazine. 116,700 average UK circulation of Scouting (1 Jan–31 Dec 2013) © Immediate Media Branded Content. Printed in the UK by William Gibbons. All rights reserved. Unauthorised reproduction in whole or part is prohibited without written permission. Every effort has been made to secure permission for copyright material. In the event of any material being used inadvertently, or where Bear Grylls it proved impossible to trace the copyright owner, acknowledgement will be made in a future issue. Chief Scout PEFC/16-33-795 This magazine can be recycled, for We are proud to say Scouting is PEFC use in newspapers and packaging. certified. For more information go to Please remove any gifts, samples or pefc.co.uk. Promoting sustainable wrapping and dispose of it at your forest management. local collection point. Scouts Scotland Headquarters SCOUTING 3 The inclusion issue Every issue we ask three readers to UP FRONT share their thoughts 9 News on the subjects we The latest Scout happenings cover. If you fancy Housekeeping joining our reader 15 panel for an issue, email More Compass developments [email protected]. 19 What’s on COVER uk to sign up. And keep an eye out Key dates for your 2015 diary STORY for our handy reader panel stamp 21 Mailbox throughout the magazine. 24 Your letters, emails, tweets, posts and pictures We asked our readers… How can leaders ensure that FEATURES their Groups are open to all? 24 ‘It’s about what you COVER THE KNOWLEDGE Graham Coulson, can do, not what STORY Specialist Adviser you can’t do’ Volunteer The Group Scout 47 Leader is the key. Good 1st Bournville are determined Michael Randle tells us personal support from that everyone should enjoy why being blind won’t a Group Scout Leader, the best of Scouting stop him Scouting coupled with quality 31 What does being inclusive 49 Advice training – both internal mean to you? and external – will lead to adults and leaders Your inclusion queries having a better understanding and less of UK Scouting volunteers share answered, plus this edition’s a ‘fear of the unknown’. It will make them their thoughts ‘big issue’ question more comfortable when working across the 36 Adventure for all 52 Health additional-needs spectrum. Find out how Glasgow Challenge stigma by Disabled Scouts planned Kay Hill, discussing mental health Specialist Adviser a trip to the Netherlands with your Group Have a whole group 43 Out there 54 Walk committed to it; think British Scouting Overseas A four-mile walk near Kirkby about the image you Stephen in Cumbria and five portray in publicity – if we only sell ourselves REGULARS sensory excursions you’ll love on action/adventure, 6 Wayne’s word 59 Food does this put off people with disabilities or This issue’s message from Try our camp canapés this those who think they might not be able to the UK Chief Commissioner party season afford to join in? 66 Last word 60 Games Scouting ambassador, Phil Sharn Race, More festive brain teasers Specialist Adviser Packer, tells us what inspires him than ever before! Through planning for inclusion and diversity. Look at who isn’t in the room and ask some simple questions when working up your development plans. Note down your answers and work them into your plan. If you don’t have the answers, don’t worry – there is a wealth of support available to help you develop open and inclusive DOWNLOAD THE Scouting. Contact the Information Centre or BLIPPAR APP TO THEN WHEN FILL YOUR BLIPP email [email protected]. YOUR SMARTPHONE YOU SEE THIS SCREEN WITH TO LIFE! OR TABLET SIGN… THE IMAGE… 4 SCOUTING December/January 2015 A youth-shaped Movement This issue, UK Chief Commissioner Wayne Bulpitt is even more excited than usual about the future model of Scouting ’m feeling excited – I know, I often am – but this is for an even bigger, better reason than usual. Over the past month or so I’ve begun to fully Iappreciate, even more than before, the unlimited potential of a Movement shaped by young people in partnership with adults. On page 9 you can learn about our amazing UK Youth Commissioner, Hannah Kentish, and her two deputies, Jagz Bharth and Jay Thompson, Hannah Kentish, 21, selected from 105 applicants and has been appointed to The Scout Association’s from 19 shortlisted for interview. Just senior leadership team meeting these young adults, listening to their Scouting stories and ambitions is so inspiring and working with Hannah and her team for a short time ‘Our job is to IN THE DIARY gives me even greater confidence for Here’s where Wayne will the future. And yes, I appreciate there ofer guidance, be in the coming weeks… will be challenges as we test our own January 2015 comfort zones. but not with a 9 Northern Ireland awards Meanwhile, our Community Impact 9–10 UKCC Team meetings Group, which also had over 100 casting vote.’ 24 Operations Committee applications, has been meeting with 31 Activity Centres workshop the best from the 70 leading charities (and votes) being members under the that showed an interest in partnering age of 25, and the balance being those February 2015 1 with Scouting to deliver community of us with a few more years behind us. Romford District 7–8 impact projects across the UK. They’ve Our job is to offer guidance, advice and Youth Shaped Scouting conference managed to select six, but more about support as members of the groups, but 27/28 Merseyside County that another day. not with a golden or casting vote. What has made me particularly As we develop such models, just excited for our future are the processes imagine the potential locally to capture ASK WAYNE we followed. Both the UK Youth the energy and enthusiasm our young Wayne can answer your queries Commissioner search group and the people have to make a difference, at escouts.org.uk/forum (click on Community Impact Group are youth and how they value a little help and Forum, then Question Time). led, with over 75% of the membership support along the way.
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