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2024-12-31-accounts

AGM 2025 Agenda

Wednesday 11 June 2025

To Be held at Training ship Orestes (TSO)

Commencing at 19:30

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10[th] Christchurch (Mudeford) Sea Scout Group

Review for the year 2023

PRESIDENT: James Morton

Board of Trustees

TRUSTEES:

Ex-Officio Group Lead Volunteer Brett Jones Chairman Jason Horton Secretary Debbie Bungey Treasurer Sutira Low Elected Trelawny Burt (vice chair) Andrew Saunders Sarah Brace

BANKERS: Lloyds Bank, High Street, Christchurch INDEPENDENT EXAMINER: Susan Divall Charity Number: 302217 Contact Name : Brett Jones Group Lead Volunteer gsl@mudefordscouts.org.uk Tel:07967152738 Website www.mudefordscouts.org.uk

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10[th] Christchurch (Mudeford Sea Scouts) AGM report for the year of 2024

Group Lead Volunteers Report

Mudeford con�nues to thrive and prosper as a Group, thanks to all our Team Volunteers and our amazing Young People.

The year started with a splash as the Scouts and Neptune Explorers took part in the RN swimming Gala in Plymouth, a great weekend with some good results for both teams Our weekly swimming sessions reinstated this year certainly made an impact. Thanks to a generous dona�on from one of our parents, we were able to start swimming lessons at ‘2 Riversmeet’ in November (through to March 2025) so the vast majority of our young people can swim ready for the next water season.

We con�nue to maintain two Beaver Colonies and two Cub Packs, which means a growing Scout Troop, (ideally we should now create two Troops). It also means we con�nually need to recruit more adult volunteers as our wai�ng list just con�nues to grow!

This year Jason, our Chair is standing down. We are grateful for all his support and words of wisdom he has given me and the Trustees over the past 6 years. We hope that he and the family will remain involved with our Mudeford family for years to come.

Our Volunteer teams is always evolving, we would love to see new parents, friend or family join us.

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bills. But like any home we con�nually need to renovate, repair and enhance. We are now having to work on the compound while the toilets, kitchen and main hall floor all need a refresh this year

This is a summary of what our sec�ons have been up to:

Squirrels

2024 has been a good year, a year full of learning, excitement, joy and laughter. We have presented 269 badges and proudly waved goodbye to 14 Squirrels as they ‘jumped across’ to Beavers……our only sadness, that we lost some suppor�ve adult pairs of hands too – we would like to thank each one of you for the �me you have given, it really makes a big difference. I know that Sparkles and the Squirrel Team are very much looking forward to 2025!

Beavers

2024 was a great year for our 2 beaver colonies with our adults working fantas�cally as one happy leadership team and producing a mirrored and exci�ng weekly programme. We are very proud to have con�nued to involve our beavers in shaping their programme through the You shape badge and for many of our Beavers to have achieved their top Bronze awards. We were proud to support our local

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Rotary club with fundraising for less fortunate children through the shoe-box appeal and con�nuing with our links with our local community. We also supported all the District events in 2024 as well as a joint colony You Shape planned Jurassic Camp. Thank you to everyone involved with the group and wider teams and to our fantas�c young leaders.

Cubs

The two sec�ons work in unison and produced a great Cub programme. The Cubs a�ended the District Spring camp and supported all District events They had their own a Fire and Ice Camp. We have been lucky enough to recruit two new lead volunteers into our Tuesday Pack (Kaa and Shere Khan), which has allowed Lisa (Raksha) and Chris (Bagheera) to a�end to their new District roles. The fundraising for food bank has also been very successful and rewarding. Thank you to all for allowing the packs to grow.

Scouts

A�er a successful Royal Navy Gala, we followed this up with sending some of our Scouts for a week of water ac�vi�es with the Royal Navy in Gosport. The young people had a great �me. Some of the rest of the troop were able to a�end the district camp.

We had a great Sailing season but our intended water camp, ended up with more water than we had hoped for!

We supported the ‘mini boat’ project, repairing the li�le boat and making it ready for its next adventure. With the help of Ebb and Flow’ the boat was launched from the Canary islands in December.

Scouts were awarded 260 badges last year including you shaped awards and one Gold Chief Scout Award.

Pete stepped up this year as joint Scout leader, which has helped greatly with the management of a very large scout Troop.

Family Camp

We held another of our very successful Family Camp in June and lots of our families enjoying a great Wild west weekend at Braggers Wood. Thanks to all the support from the Braggers team and the District SAS, as well as our own families.

Neptune

Thanks to Neptune Explorers and their leader’s team, for working with the Group and providing us with the complete package of age ranges from 4 – 18 years! Their con�nued growth and providing exci�ng opportuni�es to the Explorers gives the scouts a focus and something to aspire to.

Our community

The Group con�nues to be supported by our Parish Church. we came together at the ‘Blessing of the Water’ at Mudeford Quay, Remembrance parade and Christmas in Mudeford Wood Community Hall to celebrate Christmas together. We look forward to the new Church rising from the ashes during 2025.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the last year, parents who sign up and travel to events, District leaders who put on great events for us to all come together and to all our Team volunteers and Sec�on Leads, the SBS Unit, SAS unit, Swimming team, Trustees, Young Leaders and Helpers who work so hard on delivering an exci�ng programme for our young people.

Bre� Jones Mudeford Lead Volunteer

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Mudeford Squirrels 2024

2024 was a year of adventure, firsts and fun for the newest section of the Mudeford Sea Scout Group.

During this time, we have been blessed with regular support from a number of our parents, allowing us to comfortably put flesh on the bones of the two year rolling programme we have created. This has enabled our Squirrel Scouts to embrace the badges available, with eight of the Drey earning their Chief Scout’s Acorn Award.

Every week the Squirrels arrive full of enthusiasm, eager to see what’s happening and very keen to engage with the activities we have planned. They look after our mascot, Sparkles, and know she is looking on and will be choosing to go home with Squirrel of the Week!

We have learnt how Scouting began for our Membership Badge and, with some help from Young People in other sections, been able to explore traditional activities, including den building, pitching a tent, packing a daysack, backwoods cooking and campfire customs, as well as finding out where the journey in the movement might lead.

The Squirrels got to know each other by making chatterboxes and also thought about their place in the local and wider communities, creating masks and taking part in a dragon dance for Chinese New Year, finding out about fruit and vegetables and making a collection for the Foodbank for Harvest Festival, celebrating Bonfire Night and taking part in both Remembrance and St George’s Day parades. They visited the Mayor in his parlour and considered what other local superheroes do, before harnessing their own superhero qualities to run a shop selling pre-loved items and

December brought Christmas craft with the Scouting Active Support (SAS) team, the District Squirrel Christmas Party, a Group Carol Service at Mudeford Wood and a rousing performance of Jingle Bells with percussion to end the year!

We have been Space Explorers and also had other adventures on planet Earth too, exploring the gardens at Highcliffe Castle, the woods at Steamer Point, finding out what happens at the Hengistbury Head Outdoor Education Centre and Going Nuts at Braggers Wood with other dreys from the District. There have also been lots of trails to follow, we’ve spotted items in photos at Mudeford Quay, looked for socks on Stanpit Marsh and tried to track down wooden sculptures……………….and the Easter Bunny at Riversmeet. At the end of the summer term we spent a glorious and unforgettable evening at the Splash Park in Christchurch.

There have of course, been creative and experimental messy evenings………..very messy evenings…………. with dough, paint, bubbles, cornflour and water reaching further than any sensible Scouting volunteer could ever imagine, but all tremendous fun.

2024 has been a good year, a year full of learning, excitement, joy and laughter. We have presented 269 badges and proudly waved goodbye to 14 Squirrels as they ‘jumped across’ to Beavers……our only sadness, that we lost some supportive adult pairs of hands too – we would like to thank each and everyone of you for the time you have given, it really makes a big difference.

I know that Sparkles and the Squirrel Team are very much looking forward to 2025!

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Mudeford Beavers Report for the year 2024

Yesterday (5.5.25) we received the following email from one of our Cub parents and I felt it would be a lovely way to start our report for our Beaver section. As volunteers we do find ourselves facing some not so pleasant emails sadly, but this one is a reminder of why we continue to do what we do for our young people.

I was travelling through town with my Beaver last week and he had a quiet moment and then quite out of the blue said, “Do you remember that time we went and played rounders in the forest with the beavers? I loved that.” Thank you both so much for all you do in giving our young people so many precious memories :-)

Mudeford Beavers continues to proudly maintain our 2 colonies with our lovely Beaver team that work hard together to run mirrored programmes each week. The organisation is split amongst us and copied from our previous rolling programmes on Online Scout Manager which help to make our planning much easier.

2024 - We always focus on one challenge badge each term and then our You shape, activity and staged badges around those topics. Last year we gained our World, Outdoor, Skills and Personal Challenge badges as well as loads of activity and staged badges! We also had 13 of our Beavers achieve the top Bronze award.

Some of the highlights were working with our Beavers on the ‘You Shape’ badge to shape their programme around their fantastic ideas for weekly meetings and our joint colony Jurassic and International sleepovers. We continued to do a lot of OUT in scouting enjoying the long summer evenings and even the crisper spring and winter evenings.

Spending an evening at St Lukes Church in Burton meeting our new Reverend Kathy for our faith badge , continuing to look after our lovely Braggers Wood with our planting of geraniums and wild flowers, spending an evening with a local wheelchair rugby team for our disability awareness badge, achieving our money skills, book reader, and cyclist badge, hiking on St Catherines Hill and coming across first aid scenarios for our emergency aid stage 1 badge, Sailing at Hengistbury head and achieving water safety skills, time on the water and our level 1 sailing badge, supported by our Boat support SAS team. Pond dips and litter picks , learning rounders and then playing it at our family picnic at Mill Lawn in Burley towards our sports badge, Working hard to raise money to buy toys for the shoe box appeal to support our local Rotary club raising £345 for our community impact badge, Our computers in the real world hike around Christchurch taking in the Christmas lights as well, for our digital maker badge. Our twelve days of Christmas learning, prop making and performance at our annual Christmas Church service.

We continued to support all District events in 2024 and enjoyed our Beaver Bronze awards night, and Beavers @ Braggers fun mornings for our older Beavers, St Georges Parade and representing our group at Remembrance parades at the Priory and our local church. We also held another epic Family Camp all around the Wild West bringing our families together for fun and friendship.

Thank you to absolutely everyone, including our young leaders in all our Scouting Teams at Group and at District level who work tirelessly to make such a difference for our young people.

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Cubs Annual Report 2024

Mudeford Cubs have had another great year of activities and events.

We have just come back from District Cub Camp, where we were lucky with the weather, and had great fun with the Oscar themed camp with Cubs and Leaders from the rest of the District. We also participated in many of the other District events, (5 a-side football tournament, District Hike, Scrapstore challenge, and district quiz).

This year has seen a change in leadership, as Bagheera ( Chris) and Raksha ( Lisa) have moved into their District Leadership roles, and we have welcomed Michelle( Kaa) and Nikki ( Sherekhan) , into our Tuesday pack, as our main volunteer leads, with support from Michelle ( Ikki) and Sam ( Ferao) . Thursday pack have also been lucky to have Lizzie ( Sahi) and Ollie ( Ziggy) join them. As the year has progressed, we have begun to organise our leadership team and delegated out responsibilities for certain parts of our administration and programme planning. As you can appreciate, it takes time to learn, and we are working well together, to listen to feedback from our young people, our parents and our leaders to ensure we are always adapting and improving. It’s not an easy task! Keego now oversees both packs, all leaders take on responsibility for planning 1 or 2 sessions a term, and Shanti ( Caroline) oversees transitions and Silver Chief Scout awards. Each term, many badges are presented to our Cubs, and these are ordered and sorted by Sam ( Ferao). Bagheera and Raksha continue to support the group by leading specific sessions and planning group camps.

This year has seen , Ben ( Shaw Shaw) and Emily ( Rama) move on from being young leaders to adult leaders. What a great achievement! We are very lucky to have them. We currently have 1 young leader, Harry ( Turtle) , supporting our Tuesday pack and we hope to recruit more young leaders in September. Thank you for all you do, our Cubs love having you at meetings.

The Cubs have been out and about during our normal meeting times doing various activities and visits. Sessions have taught our Cubs about money, disabilities, our local food bank, crazy science experiments, fire safety , photography and finding out more about our local area. We were incredibly proud of our Cubs raising £535 during their Backwards evening. £450 of this was donated to the Christchurch food bank and the rest to our Scout group. We have been making the most of our amazing location, visiting the food bank, the fire station, Hengistbury Head and exploring from Steamer Point to Mudeford Quay.

As well as District Camp, we had our own ‘Fire and Ice’ Camp at Braggers Wood in November. This was filled with great science activities and much fun was had by all.

The majority of our Cubs moving up to Scouts have achieved their Chief Scout Silver award. These are achieved through hard work and more importantly turning up to all the pack nights. Again, well done to them, and we hope you are enjoying Scouts. Of course, the Cubs moving up to Scouts are replaced by enthusiastic Beavers, sometimes they are anxious of the move but our Cub pack always makes them welcome and before long they are joining in as if they’d been here for ages. Our pack continues to stay healthy. Currently, we have 25 Cubs on Tuesday, and 21 Cubs on Thursday.

The leadership team would like to thank ALL the parents that have supported their Cubs and us when we call for extra assistance. With out them it would be a tough job for us. Especially when setting up and unpacking from camps after a long weekend. The leaders are pretty tired but you help us pack away in no time at all.

So finally, here’s to the coming year of Scouting. The fun both Cubs and Leaders have both at the weekly pack nights and District Activities is amazing, so if there are any adults out there that wish to join the fun, please come and join us; even for the short while your Cub is with us. You won’t regret it, plus it enables another 8 cubs to also enjoy the fun.

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Scouts Report for the year 2024

In 2024 Dan stepped down as joint Scout Leader. Pete joined us and stepped up to become joint Scout Leader.

Although this year we saw a number of our Scouts transition to Explorers, as we have two cub packs feeding into 1 Scout troop, our troop has grown in numbers. We now have 39 Scout members.

In addition to Pete and myself as joint leaders we have the support of, and would like to thank our GLV Brett and Sue, our quartermaster Malcolm, 2 additional Team members who regularly support our programme (Tara and David), our SBS Team and the parents who help and support us. So a big thank you to all of you.

With us having such a large troop we will continue to canvas and encourage additional volunteer leaders to join the team, in order to support the Scouts.

We continue to run our land based activites from Tso between September and Easter, then switch to Fridays after Easter for water activities at Hengistbury Head Outdoor Centre.

This year we have focussed on increasing the badgework so that Scouts can achieve their Chief Gold Scout Award. We have issued over 252 badges including a coveted ‘Gold Chief Scout Award’.

This past year we have had another busy programme. Some of the evenings included:

This year our Scouts performed really well at the Swimming Gala and 7-a-side District Football. We attended the St Goerges Day Parade, the District Camp at Braggers Wood, Blessing of the Water. We also had Emlyn Camp and the RN water activities camp.

Our sailing season has started well with Scouts learning the basics – water safety, where to find the equipment, how to rig a boat. Scouts have already experienced sailing on the water, kayaking, canoeing, raft building. We have introduced Logbooks to the Scouts. Our aim is for each Scout to be signed off on as many aspects of the logbook as possible. This includes learning knots, sailing skills.

We’d like to thank the Chair, the Trustees, all the leaders, the parents and all those who support and help to make our Scout Troop a great place for our young Scouts to learn and do things they wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity to do.

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As I close our report I have had the privilege of being a Mudeford Sea Scouts Section Leader for the last 3 years. Due to other commitments, I will be stepping down as joint Section Leader. I will support Pete and the team as much as I can and I wish him and our troop a successful year ahead.

Andy Foy

Joint Scout Team Lead volunteer

SBS Annual Report for the year 2024

This year the SBS were delighted to welcome the Squirrels to Hengistbury for the first time, to show them where we do our boating, and see some of the boats that they will be using when the move up to Beavers.

We ran successful sailing, kayaking, rafting sessions for the Beavers and Cubs and paddleboarding for the Scouts. We also supported a few Explorer sessions where SBS involvement allowed them to do an extended range of activities.

This year we started our more structured approach to activity awards for the Scouts, so that we could work to them achieving Level 3 awards in sailing and kayaking by the time they move to Explorers. This has run well with targeted instruction appropriate the Scouts’ levels of experience and ability.

I would like to thank all our tireless team members who come along to run and support the boating sessions this season, without them, we would not be able to offer or put on the range of boating activities across all the sections.

Having Beavers Cubs and Scout boating running after half term meant the SBS members were at Hengistbury 3 nights a week, a massive commitment which is hugely appreciated by me and the leadership team.

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Independent examiner's report to the trustees of1 Oth Christchurch Mudeford Sea Scout Group, Scout Council I report to the tru8te8s on my examin8t•on of the account8 of the 10th Ch￿Urth Mudeford Sea Scout Group for the year ended 31 Decemiw 2025. ResponsibiLities and basis of report As the charity trustees ofth8 10th chrIstch￿ Mudthrd S8A Soxrt Group, yw are responsibla for the preparation ol the a￿ounts in accordance wlth the requirements of the CharitSes Act 2011 (IheArf). I report in respect of my examination of 10th Chiistthutch Mudeford Sea Scout Group. tho ac¢ounts carried out under sectlon 145 of the 2011 Ad and in carrytng out my examination I have followed all the apF￿￿8bl0 Directions givon by the Charfty Comml8wn under 8ectSon 145(5)(b) ofts Act Independent examiner's statement I have compW my 8xaminalion. l eonfimi that no rnaterfal mattwB have ￿rne to my attention in connoclion with the exarninallon giving me Gause to believe that In any material r8sp8ct: l. acco(￿lINj records were not in r88pact of 10th Chrf8tthur¢h MudofoTd Sea Scout Group as required by se¢*on 130 of the Act or I have no con¢ems and havo auoss othw maltsr8 In Conn￿lon with tho examlnation to which attentlon should be drawn in tPls report in order to enabl8 a proper understanding of the a¢￿Unts to be reach&4. Signed: Name: Susan Divall Athjress.. B2. Exboume Marv. 37 Chrfstchurth Road, Bwmernc￿, BH13NX Date.. 02 Jun6 2￿25