Cookham Scout Group

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Catching up with some posting to the Website.  Well worth showing the picture from our trip to Tate Modern to receive our prize in the national Scout centenary art competition

Cookham Scouts' Centenary Gateway is unveiled

Cookham Scout Group's One World Centenary Gateway

Cookham Scout Group have built and decorated a 2.5m by 5m self standing wooden Gateway to celebrate the Centenary, themed on One World.  This is one of the themes of the national Art of Scouting Competition...which the Gateway has been entered in. 

To see a bigger version of the picture, double click on it. 

Scouts and Leaders built the structure, with construction supervision by Assistant Scout Leader Michael Fletcher.

Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Explorers, Guides and Leaders designed and painted the Centenary pictures

Over 100 people were involved in the construction of the Gateway.  Cub Scout Leader Gail Dorrington masterminded the entire project

The Gateway has been displayed at our Centenary Camp, at the Scout Group Village Fair, at a local Arts Festival and in the local paper.  It will be the centre piece of our annual report back and our next AGM.  Here is a key to the design:

Left Hand Panel:

Forms the 1 of the central "100" motif

This shows the progression from Beavers through to Scouts:

- Beavers visiting the old folks' home and having a sleepover

- Cub scouts on the climbing wall and climbing caving ladders at our Centenary Camp

- The Scout Troop on Dunkery Beacon for the Centenary Sunrise celebration, part of our Summer Camp

Centre Wing Panels

Together with the globe panel, these form the first 0 of the "100" design. 

They feature the main theme of "One World / One Promise" plus the Big Left Hand Shake Centenary Activity

Central Globe:

A map of the Scouting World, featuring the flags of key Scouting nations and a portrait of Baden Powell

Right Hand Panel:

Key images for Cookham Scout Group in our Centenary year

Three scarf designs: our group scarf, the national Centenary Scarf and the Brownsea scarf of our re-enactment participant

Our annual Bonfire and Fireworks display, run as a fund-raiser in the Village.  This is the second "0" of the "100" motif

The Brownsea Island re-enactment camp, attended by one of our Scouts: Josh Dorrington

Waterfall Climbing scene from our 2005 Summer Camp

Baden Powell canoeing on the Thames at Cookham in 1906.  He was staying with the Young family and picked th e brains of Geoffrey Winthrop Young, the pioneering mountaineer, about Wide Games.  One of the games discussed was incorporated into the Brownsea programme the following year.  While canoeing with Young, he almost capsized near Cookham Weir: this is the scene captured on the Gateway

The project has taken over 6 months to complete but will remain a reminder of our Centenary Celebrations for many years to come

Cookham Scouting Centenary Hike

Download cookham_scouting_centenary_hike_v2.pdf

As part of our Celebration of 100 years of Scouting, Scout Leader Andrew Sutherland has created a hike route around Cookham visiting sites connected to the foundation of the Movement.  On this hike you can visit places where our Founder, Robert Baden Powell, could have drowned before Scouting began, where Baden Powell's sister's former boyfriend changed history up a tree, where three of the writers that inspired Baden Powell stayed, where Wide Games entered the Scouting programme, where the man that triggered the War that made Baden Powell a hero stayed, and a memorial in a Cookham Church that links Baden Powell, Butch Cassidy and Sherlock Holmes. 

The link above should (may!) let you download the document.  Otherwise, it is available as a pdf file by e-mailing Andrew Sutherland on asutherland19@tiscali.co.uk

New Beaver Leaders - Please Apply!!

After 10 years of service Joy Poulter, Leader and Heather Pearce, Asistant Leader both retired from running the Friday Beaver colony at Easter. In Cookham we have two very succesful and full colonies, the second one being on a Monday evening.

I am the Leader for the Monday colony and am currently also running the Friday one to prevent it from closing. We do desperately need new Leaders for Friday and if anyone is interested please contact me through the website to find out more. The only requirements are to be over 18 and to have a love of working with lively 6-8 year olds.

Stephanie Matthews

After 10 years of service Joy Poulter, Leader and Heather Pearce, Asistant Leader both retired from running the Friday Beaver colony at Easter. In Cookham we have two very succesful and full colonies, the second one being on a Monday evening.

I am the Leader for the Monday colony and am currently also running the Friday one to prevent it from closing. We do desperately need new Leaders for Friday and if anyone is interested please contact me through the website to find out more. The only requirements are to be over 18 and to have a love of working with lively 6-8 year olds.

Stephanie Matthews

Building improvements to the scout HQ

 

 

We are planning to carry out some building work on the scout hut to improve the use of the space we have, update the facilities and include toilets for potential scouts; cubs; beavers and leaders who may be disabled. This will involve internal and external work at the front of the hut and we would like to take the opportunity to improve the general appearance from the road and if possible improve security. This will be a large project for us. The next step is the production of planning and building regulations drawings and a detailed budget. If you have any experience in this area we would really welcome any help you may be able to give. Later in the project we will undoubtedly be looking for help in other areas but it is production of drawings and quantity surveying that we need right now. If you are able to help please to talk to any leader or executive committee member and we will be delighted to talk through our plans in detail.