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Cubs Celebrating 100 Years West Lancashire Scouts Annual Report CUBS CELEBRATING 100 YEARS 2016 www.westlancsscouts.org.uk Our President Our President Once again my congratulations to the young people Page 2 and the many volunteers of West Lancs Scouts for all the great achievements recorded in this report. I am very proud to be your President. Your achievements certainly make it easy for me to promote the virtues of Chairman’s Scouting wherever I can throughout the County. Foreword When I accepted the invitation to become President I did so because I saw Scouting not only as a Movement with great importance for young people but also because I saw it as a flexible and forward West Lancs, very well led. I would like to thinking Movement. Those impressions have been pay my own tribute to Carl Hankinson as he re-enforced during my term of office. The Movement completes his term in office. It has been an has a great history, evidenced this year by the Cub enormous pleasure to work with him and see Scout’s centenary celebrations. What a great pleasure his inspirational leadership in action. I am sure his it was to attend the day out at Blackpool Pleasure energies will not be lost to West Lancs and I wish Beach and see so many Cubs thoroughly enjoying Steve Morton every success in taking over the themselves. mantle of County Commissioner. But it has also kept itself relevant. Listening to the This year marks the end of my own five years activities and achievements of so many individuals appointment as President but I have indicated at the Gold and Platinum and Diamond Award my willingness to serve a second term and, if the Ceremonies reflects that. It is also sustained by County so wishes, I look forward to working with great companionship as witnessed for example Steve to help ensure Carl’s legacy is carried on. at the Founder’s Feast celebration. It is also in Gail Stanley MBE, JP, DL County President Chairman’s Foreword When I was first induced into volunteering to help in Scouting, I was told my task was only to chair four meetings a year of the County Executive. Like many volunteers I soon found out there was a good bit more involved than what “was said on the tin”. Writing the introduction to the Annual Report though is one of the small extras which over the years has brought a good deal of pleasure. It really is inspiring to read each year of the achievements in West Lancs and to reflect on the enormous benefits and pleasure the brought to so many young people and on the numbers tremendous efforts made by so many volunteers who camping, the range of activities are prepared to do that bit extra. on offer through skilled volunteers and the largest international programme ever in West Lancs are The growth of the County for a twelfth successive all reported and speak volumes for the excitement year features strongly in the report and rightly so, available from the Scouting programme. it is a great achievement. It is right to congratulate the leadership in the Districts at all levels which 2016 has also been memorable as the Centenary has helped to achieve this along with the excellent for Cub Scouts. Along with the many local events, support from the County Development Officers. The the great Cub Day Out at Blackpool Pleasure Beach efforts put into recruiting and enthusing volunteers deserves a special mention. It reflected well on West cannot be under-estimated. To me though, the Lancs to be seen to be taking such a lead in the numbers are only important in that they show that Region and great thanks are due to the Cub Scout we have a product, a programme of adventurous Section Leadership and to the host District Blackpool activities, which is attractive to young people and for for setting things up with the Pleasure Beach and that congratulations to all the Leaders guiding and for the enormous efforts which went into the delivering that programme. The success in increasing organisation of the day. Page 3 Part over the past ten years. I have been of the enormously impressed by the way he has County’s commitment to worked and his achievements. It was his the programme available for young people is vision which led to the project to produce a strategic its ambition to have the camp site resource at plan for West Lancs which set out what was needed Waddecar comparable with the best Scout camp to implement the Scout Association’s 2018 Vision. It sites in the Country. This year has seen another was his skill to involve his Team in such a way that significant step in getting the infrastructure right the resulting plan was not just his but owned by with an extremely well managed project to provide the County as a vision of what was needed. I think a new toilet block. This brings the investment by this report reflects the progress made in each of the the County in Waddecar close to £1m. Delivering key areas including growth, youth shaped, diversity the next stages of the ambitious plans for Waddecar and involvement in the community, One of his great are going to be even more challenging but this is a attributes is his encyclopaedic knowledge of people sound start. I have heard the comment that the new within the County. In a volunteer movement people facilities are not themselves going to increase the are always going to move on and Carl’s skill has site usage. However in an enthusiastic report from been to find the appointments to maintain a strong a local headmaster after using the site for a school management team. Thus while it is tempting to talk camp for the first time, the quality of the toilet block of the end of an era, I feel that the strength of the facilities were one of the first things mentioned. From team, the improvements in governance and the plans another group, a Liverpool teenager visiting the being implemented are, together, Carl’s legacy. With site for the first time was overheard saying that the that legacy, we will instead be talking with Steve facilities in the block were “well good”. Morton of building on an era and that is a great tribute to Carl. The Scouting Museum at Waddecar enhances the standing of the site and we have to reflect with great Finally I would reflect that one of the other extras of sadness this year on the passing of Ron Loomes. being County Chair is being asked to preside over Those of us with relatively short memories in West the increasingly frequent Chief Scout’s Gold Award Lancs were reminded at his funeral of the service ceremonies. It is a great tribute to the achievements given to Scouting by Ron over many years. But it of our young people and their Leaders that these was his cheerful and helpful presence at the museum ceremonies are needed so frequently. We usually each week that many of us will remember him by. use these occasions to suggest that the Gold Award He is a great loss and our deepest sympathies are could lead on to greater things. Shortly before sitting extended to his brother Michael. down to write this introduction I was presented with an example of how true this can be. Joe Clarke Of course 2016 is going to be remembered as the had to the surprise of many won Olympic gold in year in which Carl Hankinson completed his tenure canoeing. It was reported that his involvement in as County Commissioner. The report rightly contains canoeing began through being a Scout. Here is to a tribute to Carl and gives a good account of his the continuation of the adventure and to many more achievements. My own summary is to say that Carl Gold Awards wherever they may lead. combined excellent management skills with a great enthusiasm for Scouting and the combination of the Mike Simpson two has brought enormous benefits to West Lancs County Chairman Page 4 we’ll never sustain or grow our membership. I’m County therefore particularly pleased to record how much effort we’ve invested into the youth programme Commissioner’s refresh. This welcomed update of our youth programme is the most significant for 15yrs. Our Report programme remains a progressive one and looks to ensure more Scouting is outdoors, and young I’ve never been prouder of the range and quality people develop their leadership skills. Our own of achievements in our County than over the ‘Commissioners Challenge’ was themed around past 12 months. It’s been a year of change ‘outdoors’ and over 4,000 took part in it. Our and challenges and yet we’ve come through County Nights Away competition was won by it stronger, and in better shape to serve our Preston District and the total number of nights community in Lancashire. away increased by 35% compared with the year Our annual membership census can be a nerve- before. racking time as it is a proxy for the quality of what Added to this is the most varied overseas we do; we know young people expedition programme we’ve offered, with more vote with their young people travelling overseas in summer feet and 2015 and that’s now been trumped by our 2016 thus unless summer programme. Social media is the source of our offer is commentary, videos and images uploaded from attractive, Japan, Mongolia, Nepal, Austria, the Alps, The they leave Picos Mountains, Canada, Hungary and Poland.
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