## **Section Annual Reports 2022** The 2021/22 year has been one where normality is starting to return, with regular face to face meetings, hopefully Zoom sessions are a thing of the Past!! ## **Section Summaries** ## **Rainbow Report for AGM 2022** We have 16 young members, 5 of whom will be started with us this term. We currently have 4 adult leaders. Our 3 eldest girls are moved up to Brownies in this September. And we have one more due to move up in the very near future. Over the past year we have settled back into face-to-face meetings and have been working on several different Skills builders and UMA’s Some of the girls have completed some of their Interest badges On 2[nd] August, 7 of the girls went to Junior Poacher and had a wonderful day. On the weekend of 27[th] /28[th] August 9 girls and 5 Leaders went for a Sleepover at Parva House and again we all had a wonderful time, playing games and earning our first Rainbow Sleepover badge as well as completing a Magical Kingdoms Challenge badge. Leanne, one of our leaders completed her Going Away License. We are looking forward to another fun filled year. ## Tracy Coster ## **First Saxilby Brownie Annual Report 2022** Once last year’s restrictions were lifted, our numbers have soared and we are now slightly over capacity with 19 at the beginning of term. However, there are a couple of Brownies who will be 10 at the beginning of term and are progressing onto Guides. We have a small waiting list. A number of our Brownies are now coming from Skellingthorpe Rainbows. Over the last year we have had Brownies achieving the Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards, as well as many Programme and Challenge badges. We have had trips out to go climbing and canoeing. Sixteen went to Junior Poacher, which was greatly enjoyed and they are looking forward to the next one. At the end of September, we shall be going on our first proper Pack Holiday for the first time since before lockdown. This is to Walesby and is in conjunction with Third Saxilby Brownies who are also at capacity with a waiting list. Our leadership team continues to be enthusiastic and innovative. Thank you to them all. Sally Smith - Brownie Leader **Beaver Section AGM report 2022** Beavers have had an exciting year with lots of activities and achievements. We currently have 29 Beavers, however 5 will soon be moving up to cubs, so we will be back to our usual 24. There are currently 6 on the waiting list who are old enough to start and a further 4 that will be of age by Christmas, We have a great team of leaders including an invaluable assistant leader, 2 wonderful sectional assistants and a fantastic young leader. We also have several parent helpers who are always keen to help when asked with section nights, events and camps and we are very grateful to them for all they do. We started last autumn with an exciting visit to Birchwood leisure for some climbing followed by a very enjoyable pumpkin party organised by the district. Our young leader, Caterpillar, helped all the beavers achieve their musician stage 1 badge. We also completed our experiment badge and worked towards our skills challenge badge. In the new year one of our young leaders, Bambi, turned 18 and became one of our sectional assistants but not before completing her Chief Scouts Platinum Award – well done Bambi! During this term we undertook our community impact badge, again led by Caterpillar, who is working towards his gold D of E, after having completed both his Platinum and Diamond Awards – well done Caterpillar!! We made and put up mindfulness messages around the village which were very well received. We also had a hugely enjoyable visit to Stow Minster- very surprisingly ending with relay races through the nave! Several Beavers took part in the district organised operation goodwill around Lincoln to raise funds for the community larder. At the start of the Easter holidays lots of our beavers took part in a joint sleepover with the cubs at Sudbrooke. This was the first overnight event since lockdown restrictions were lifted, so a big challenge for Beavers. They all seemed to really enjoy themselves and it reminded us of how much we all had missed it. Our summer term started with lots of preparation for the jubilee and our upcoming camp and working towards our Outdoors and adventure challenge badges. Our camp was very well attended by beavers and a huge success, very much enjoyed by everyone. The behaviour of every beaver was fantastic, and their enthusiasm was wonderful to see. Our last event of the summer was a visit to Junior Poacher, with so many activities available on the day it was hard to fit them all in but we did our best. Having such a busy year and with all of our beavers taking part in everything on offer, 7 of them have achieved their Chief Scouts Bronze award. This is the highest award a Beaver can get, it takes a lot of effort on their behalf, as well as a great deal of parental support and we are very proud of all of them for their achievement. We are now looking forward to another busy year full of adventure. Debbie Johnson - Rabbit ## **AGM Cub Section Report. 2022** With this term’s intake from both waiting list and Beaver Colony there are 22 girls and boys on the Cub register. These are supported by an experienced team of trained leaders in addition to two Explorer Young Leaders and invaluable parent helpers. We welcome more. Following the Scout participation in the Glasgow climate conference and the challenge from Chief Scout Bear Grylls that all members should make a ‘Promise to the Planet’ the Pack have continued with this theme throughout the programme. Bird boxes were created, eight being placed in the Saxilby Community wood, twelve trees were planted at Lincoln District campsite, Sudbrooke Park, which also added to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee ‘green canopy’. Our Explorer Young Leaders actively encouraged the Pack to complete their Environmental Conservation badge, (including helping with the group paper collection), this being part of their Platinum Chief Scout Award as Explorer Scouts. Looking forward, their next project is on an International theme. Throughout the year Cubs have added seedlings to develop a bug garden at the front of the HQ, planting night scented stock and nicotiana to attract moths and their predators, with mixed results as adjusting to nature’s forces limited success, suggesting a drought garden may be more productive!!! November saw ‘Chiller’ back-a day of adventurous activities at Walesby Forest Campsite organised by Lincolnshire County Scouts and this year we are about to book up again able to add a sleepover this year. April-Outdoor Challenge activities with Beavers and Cubs joining for a sleepover plus Scouts camping at Sudbrooke-great to be back to the freedom of traditional residential activities and outdoor adventure. May:-Cubs and Beavers took part in the worldwide ‘Jamboree on the Trail’ hiking for Saxilby HQ to Skellingthorpe-’Daisy Made’ for a well earned ice cream. Preparation for the Platinum Jubilee celebrations involved a design competition for the special mug, rafting at the Saxilby water festival and entertaining almost a hundred retired residents of Saxilby with a celebration lunch at the HQ. Summer activities followed with kayaking sessions, thanks to Stuart and his team, athletics and a ‘taster’ visit to the International Scout and Guide camp-Poacher 2022- for special activities for junior members at Lincolnshire Showground. Coming up immediately is the reinstated Saxilby Garden Show for the younger members and their families to be a part of this weekend 17[th] September. With such a varied programme and enthusiasm from members achievement has been high both with activity badges and Challenge Awards, which, with all seven complete, the top award for Cubs -Silver Chief Scout’s Award. This year has seen a record number of these achieved, always presented by a District Scouter and followed up at a special District celebration events usually held February and November. Well done to Scouters who have been receiving awards both for long service and completion of further training-a good team, always looking to grow. A BIG ‘Thank you’ goes to all Leaders, junior members, parents and the community of Saxilby for positive contribution and support in Scouting. Frances Mellor ## **1st Saxilby Guides Report 2022** September 2021 brought the return to what might be called normality. Just with many more risk assessment and a lot of cleaning. To begin it was a challenge to work out what we could do within Covid restrictions, but as time has passed and restrictions have been removed, as with all life, it has become easier. We have been running the normal Guiding program, involving Skills Builders, Badges and unit meeting activities. We generally have 10-12 Guides attending regularly with 4 adult leaders and 2 Young leaders. We took part in the Parliament week activities, and enjoyed a debate between patrols. We discussed saving the planet vs solving world poverty. With the skills the girls showed we have a chance of doing both. We visited the fire station to discover what one of our leaders gets up to with her day job. And had the opportunity to give her a good soaking with the fire hose. The activity day at Walesby was enjoyed by both Guides and Rangers. During the summer term we achieved the camp skills builder level 4 and have been developing our fire lighting and camp cooking skills. We went to Poacher and camped with some other units in the Division. Covid has restricted the amount of camping we have done recently, however the girls looked after their equipment and more importantly each other really well. We are very proud of what they achieved. There are photos of them at the front of the end of camp entertainment, very much enjoying themselves. Because of the way Guiding’s program works, it takes quite a commitment to unit activities to complete the Gold award. We hope to enable the older girls to complete this in the coming year. ## Rachel Wheelwright ## **Ranger unit report 2022** This year has seen us return to meeting face to face though at times we had to wear masks indoors as the guidance for Covid changed. A lot of our older Rangers moved on this year and have formed the first Inspire group in our Girlguiding County. This has left us with a small unit of four young members and three leaders. We have been busy completing badges including explore level 5, innovate level 4, Influence level 5, Be Well level 5 which includes first aid skills and the volunteering interest badge. Activities have included a wide range, including lighting fires and Backwoods cooking, baking, jubilee activities and volunteering at the events in the village. Thinking day activities and lots of tent pitching. An activity day at Walesby saw us join the guides taking part in kayaking, water slide, axe throwing, climbing and shooting. We joined 6 other units from our Division to camp at Poacher. Hopefully going forward we will be able to grow our unit again, but in the meantime we will be doing some joint events with the Inspire group and other local Ranger units. We are also looking forward to planning a camp and a sleepover soon. ## Sue Wheelwright ## **Scout Section Report 2022** 28 scouts on the books (8 more than last year AND FULL!), with 4 at-age scouts on the waiting list. - 2 warranted leaders [Stuart and Laura]. - Brian, Jamie, Glyn, Jason and Tommy as Section Assistants or (not so) occasional helpers! Jo and Stephen have, as always, been a great help with the kayaking sessions. plus an explorer scout as our young leader. So we are well blessed for leaders during troop nights, please don’t think that we wouldn’t welcome anyone through the doors with a real interest in the outdoors though! We have seen one scout achieve their Chief Scouts Gold award this year: and she together with the 3 gold award scouts from last year, all had their awards presented at the official ceremony at Priory Witham School in Lincoln. It gives me great pride to add that they’ve all gone on to enrol as Explorer Scouts, along with 2 other Scouts– the biggest move of Scouts to Explorers that I’ve seen since 2005!! ## Achievements: - After last year’s AGM we managed to squeeze-in a day trip to PGL Caythorpe before the summer holidays – partially making up for not having our annual weekend away in March! - We launched into the autumn term with some good planning and code of conduct sessions. - We had a day of SUPing on the lake in Hykeham – got to try out individual paddle boards and the large one that we could all get on at once! - Went on the Lincoln ghost walk – took pictures of creepy orbs on our phones! Had an amazing scout-led campfire. - We had Scouts supporting both of the remembrance services, at the Rec. and at the Church. - On our annual Operation Goodwill effort, around the village, we collected a total of 2865 items of food, although the total was slightly down from last year, we did also collect items for the Nomad Trust shoe box appeal and we ended up taking 31 full shoe boxes (6 more than last year!) over to them for Christmas! – Well done and thanks to all of the scouts, leaders and parents that contributed (not to mention the people of Saxilby!) - Due to popular demand our first half term after Christmas was crammed with wide games, each one conceived and delivered by one of the patrols. - After half term we learnt safe cooking skills, both on gas cookers and on fires and obviously put those skills to good use! - 20(!) scouts attended the space centre in Leicester for a sleepover, or better referred to as an ‘over’! - We re-started our annual weekend of adventure – at the Kingswood Dearne Valley Centre (near Doncaster). - We had 3 scouts at the Mothers Day Service. - And we finished the term with an evening at the Arcade Warehouse – a most popular destination (for _some_ of the leaders too!) - Apart from building a monkey bridge and testing-out the Aerial Runway trial build (for Poacher)(!) the summer term was focussed on team challenges, athletics and water sports: - Team challenge 1 was to construct a pioneering structure to get the whole team off the ground, Team challenge 2, later on in the term, was a race to build a raft and to get from one side of the canal to the other and back! All of the scouts had chance to try out their athletics skills, for their athletics badge/s. All of the scouts had at least one rafting and one canoeing/ kayaking session (squeezed-in around their athletics commitments!). - On our last night, with about a week and a half to go, we launched into Poacher 2022! We took 23 scouts from Saxilby and joined with 2 scouts and 2 leaders from The Levels Group (Somerset). It was a week of massive achievement at all levels, from managing home sickness and living with each other for a week(!), to completing the Poacher Challenges and trying out all of the adventurous activities [not to mention the finest aerial runway to have ever graced the hallowed turf of the showground!] Plan for 2022/23: Keep up/ expand our nights away, Maintain our numbers ~28. - Catch up on expeditions?! Finalise our next two-three Gold Awards **Our photos are available in the Scouts closed Facebook group and I’m hoping to show a selection in the scout hut after the meeting.** Stuart Mellor ## **Mavericks Explorer Unit Report 2022** - 1.We currently have 14 regular members of Mavericks, a number which has been fairly constant throughout the year. - 2.We have 2 leaders; Jo (ESL) and Keith (AESL). - 3.We are about to present 2 Explorers with their Chief Scout's Platinum Award and 1 with their Chief Scout's Diamond Award. A fantastic achievement for both of them; they should be very proud of themselves, as we are of them too! - 4.We ran a successful Bronze and Silver DofE Expedition last October with several Explorers now well on their way to completing their awards. Most Explorers have also completed their Paddle Sports and Nautical Skills Stage 3 and First Aid Stages. - 5.Amongst other things we've been to archery, caving, climbing and bell-ringing this year and next year hope to run the Snowsports Staged Badge and complete the Survival Badge. We attended Poacher 2022 as part of the Lincoln Explorers Contingent, took part in Jambowlree 2021 and will be competing in Rabbit Run in October. Jo Lee ## **GSL’s bit** So that completes the section reports and well done to everyone!! It is good to see that all sections are growing and are back enjoying a full range of activities again. Please take time to look at the photo’s and presentations displayed in the Main Hall Everyone is now welcome to join us for refreshments including Burgers and hot dogs ## **Neil Mellor GSL** CHARIIY COMMISSIO FOR tNfjLAND ANO WAIt 241h Lln£oln l84xllbyl S¢tsut Receipts and pa ments accounts CC16a For lh& yiiod Irom 31103rio22 Section A Receipts and payments Reslrictgd fundB fun lundg Tol41 lunds Laslyear lo Itsp￿e•r￿l￿ tolhq nBar•BtE to thp warqsle IDlh• n•JrMt£ A1 Rocol subs .4•0 23D Lthlfv¥' thnilw rthWL4th¢0m t¢ 317 144 di aao k￿rt Uillnl- i1uth￿￿￿fv Su A,QDO eoo 1,240 rncoTp79 A3 Payippiil 30D 731 niiej IM4• loc￿￿11M￿b In9Uillh¢o Hn Infliib￿hrn￿nI Pr￿1￿. ¢c•l• Cththdqrnii1 fjiild AGM 10.1 670 27 27 127 2Jq 8t2 Nwmiilpmgni 2.390 2ty UTh1[(￿& Pthc 409 hor rotAi pymonl• ,MJ Net of rnc•lptsl(p8ymenl*J AO Cash Ivnds last year end C••h lunds th18 yaar •nd 1.JJ8 16.12? 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