Category: Wenvoe Scouts

Young Volunteer Award

 

Congratulations to Hannah, 1st Wenvoe’s Beaver Leader, who has won the Scouts Cymru “Young Volunteer Award" of the year. This national award recognises the achievement of a young adult volunteer (aged 18 – 25) for their dedication, enthusiasm and leadership in Scouts in Wales. We are thrilled Hannah has won this!

Hannah, who was previously a 1st Wenvoe Beaver herself, has led and regrown the 1st Wenvoe Beaver Colony, which was struggling to stay open. In a year, since September 2017, she has re-energised the colony and kickstarted an awareness of the amazing activities and opportunities Scouts offers in our village community.

Hannah has led Beaver numbers increasing from 4 to 20 in five months! She leads a team of six adults volunteering on a flexible basis and is also developing two Young Leaders (aged 14-18).

Hannah‘s role in re generating the group and demonstrating how much fun volunteering is has been invaluable. It‘s been wonderful to see her leadership skills, confidence and enthusiasm for Beavers grow through her first year as Beaver Leader. Well done!

Congratulations to Arjinder, Brady, Ilan and Naeve, 1st Wenvoe Scouts, who came joint second (out of 7 teams) in the District Scout Gamer Hike (navigation and c omputer game challenge) this month!

 

 

 

District Cub Badge Day

 

Well Done – 1st Wenvoe Cubs!

 

Congratulations to Christopher, Georgia and James who all attended the District Cub Badge Day in January. They all worked hard in their teams through the day, really enjoyed their challenges and were successfully awarded their badges that afternoon

 

 

WENVOE CUBS SWIM SQUAD

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO 1ST

WENVOE SWIM SQUAD

 

Five beavers and cubs took part in the Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan scout swimming gala in February. they all took part in this big event for the first time, overcame their nerves and swam brilliantly. Four of the team are through to the finals in March!

GOOD LUCK 1ST WENVOE

 

 

Welcome to the New Beavers

 

Welcome to our new 1st Wenvoe Beavers!

In October we invested eight new Beavers into 1st Wenvoe's Beaver colony. They all made their promise and were awarded their purple membership badge and welcomed to the group. In just half a term three Beavers have been awarded their 'three nights away' badge and a further four their 'one night away' badge. These were for taking part in the summer district family weekend camp and the district Beaver sleep-over, where they completed their 'space' badge. They watched a short video of Major Tim Peake welcoming them, as a new Scout Ambassador. The whole colony were also awarded their 'health and fitness' badge in October. Well done all Beavers, leaders and assistants for your hard work this term!

 

 

Cub Team Challenge

Penarth and District Cub Team Challenge

Congratulations to our four Cubs from 1st Wenvoe who all completed the District Cub Team Challenge event in October. The Cubs had to work in teams, practise their communication skills, solve problems and take the lead in a series of challenges. These included bean bag races, land-curling, string shapes, a 'crab football' mini tournament, building spaghetti and marshmallow towers, 'banana surgery' and bamboo catapults.

The Cubs all had a great time! These activities all count towards their Team Leader and Teamwork Challenge awards. The leaders all had fun running the activities and watching the Cubs making friends and working together to succeed. Well done to all involved!

For more information about 1st Wenvoe Scout Group please contact Tori Thomas, Group Scout Leader,

by email: 1stWenvoe@ penarthanddistrict.org.uk or have a look at our district Facebook page: www.facebook.com/penarthanddistrict.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scout Post 2017

 

Wenvoe Scout Group are once again taking part in the Cardiff and Vale Scout Post. The stamps, are now available and remain at 25p each. Please buy your stamps locally, this helps support the 1st Wenvoe Scout Group. See the advert below for local stamp availability, post box locations and the areas covered by the Scout Xmas mail service.

The last day for posting this year is

Monday 4th December.

WHY NOT LEND A HAND

The Scout Post requires adult support to carry out the majority of work involved. Each evening of the sorting week we need people to help sort cards into the different areas. Our sorting office is set up in the Community Centre leisure room. We also require somebody to go to Llandaff each evening to exchange the sorted mail with the other participating scout groups and collect the mail for the Wenvoe area. By the end of the week with all the local mail sorted into roads we require deliverers. We are responsible for mail in Wenvoe , Brooklands area, Twyn-yr-Odyn, St Lythans, Dyffryn and The Downs. It is at this stage the whole family can lend a hand with a short walk in the area.

We will be sorting at the Community Centre at the following dates and times

Saturday 2ndd Dec. @ 7.00pm

Sunday 3rdh Dec @ 2.30pm

Monday 4th Dec @ 7.00pm

Tuesday 5th Dec @ 7.00pm

Wednesday 6th Dec. @ 7.45pm

Mail exchange starts on Saturday 2nd December and continues until Wednesday 6th December. Delivery of the mail starts on Saturday 9th December.

If you would like to lend a hand with any of the activities involved please contact Martin Williams 20593345 or e-mail wenvoescoutgroup@gmail.com, Ian Moody 20594573 or Jane Fenton-May 20593221 or any leader connected with the scout group. Those who have assisted in the past have found it an enjoyable experience.

NOTE – The Scout post covers Cardiff and most of the Vale but does NOT include Beddau, Bridgend, Castleton, Church Village, Coychurch, Kenfig, Llantrisant, Llantwit Fadre, Marshfield, Miskin, North Cornelly, Ogmore & Garw Valley, Pencoed, Pontyclun, Porthcawel, Talbot Green, Tonteg which are all outside our area.

 

 

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