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Oh what a show!
Author: Gary Bainbridge | Date: 02-02-2012
Oh YES it was - many thanks to the cast and crew of the local pantomime Aladdin, which was held in the Rutherglen Town Hall.
The show was fantastic and the beavers and cubs of the 137th (St Columbkilles) Scout Group, had a thoroughly enjoyable and slapstick evening.
The staff at the Town Hall are always so friendly and accommodating and even arranged for Wishee Washy (Steve McKenna of Real Radio) to come and join in the Group photograph at the end of the show.
This was the Groups final event of 2011 and what a happy way to finish off another fun filled year of Scouting.
Celebrating Burn's the Scouting way
Author: Gary Bainbridge | Date: 01-02-2012
The 36th Glasgow Scout Group held their 16th annual Burn's recently with their beavers, cubs, scouts and explorer scouts coming together for a joint evening.
The group held its first Burn's Supper in answer to a question from a scout who, after coming to Scotland from France, joined our troop 16 years ago. He wanted to know what a Burn's Supper was so they decided to show him and have done it every year since.
The teddy bear that you will see in the pictures is part of a school project where pupils have to take turns to 'care' for the bear for a weekend and take him everywhere with them, so he ended up at scouts for the evening, he loved the haggis and joined in with the entertainment, alongside some members of the district team.
At the end of the evening, the district chairman, Jim McLaren presented 2 wood badges to leaders who had recently completed their training, Alan Mitchell and Mark McMahon and Peter McMahon who was presented with his Chief Scout's 30 Year Service Award. Congratulations to them all.
Thanks to Peter McMahon for the story and pictures.
Support with energy and engineering programme ideas
Author: Gary Bainbridge | Date: 31-01-2012
Many leaders will have seen the article in Scouting + on Friday of last week about the new National Grid programme resource.
The STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Ambassadors team in Glasgow might be able to assist you with delivering some of these programme ideas. If you would like to take advantage of this, please contact Aileen Hamilton in the Kelvin Building at Glasgow University.
