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Expressly Digital.
Yes, there were a few
spelling errors, and
yes, sometimes the
parapgraphs didn’t
link up quite right, but
the very small team in
the Express office have
worked tirelessly and
have been proud to
serve you with news
that was very literally
hot off the presses in
most cases! We were
also happy to ‘go green’
and distribute the paper
online for all our digital
readers and those that
couldn’t make it this
year. The paper was
read all over the UK, in
the USA, Canada, the
Czech Republic, France
and Spain, and thats just
what we can see, it may
well have gone further!
Plenty of you have
tweeted and re-tweeted
us, and sent us messages
on facebook by email
and text, we are sorry we
weren’t able to reply to
you all.
(We’ve also had an email
from Helga who is now a
proud grand mother, but
is still in need of a tent
to borrow!).
Like it or not, we are
moving into a digital
age. Does your Scout
Group communicate
with parents and other
potential volunteers
online? Laura Cameron
from 4th Chester le
Street was recruited
entirely online, if the
group didn’t have a
website, Laura may well
have found her way to
another organisation.
How often do you hear
“I don’t know anything
about online, or facetube-book!!” This is a
prime opportunity to
talk to the parents of
your young people, or
Going off roading with
our little Scouts.
perhaps ask for some
support from the local
community. Ask around
I’m sure you will find
someone with the skills
you need.
You may have
seen the mini
Land rover
this around
the grounds at
Reunion this
year. It’s been
happily taking
our younger
members for
jolly rides about
the fields.
Speaking to
Paul Wilkinson,
who is a Land
Rover enthusiast,
he was able to
tell us that this
particular vehicle
The first thing any
potential volunteer or
young person will do is
to search for your group
online, so have a think
about what your website
says about you. Is it
fresh, exciting and up to
date, or is it a bit bland?
Which Scout Group
would you visit?
It is also a great way to
involve young people in
the programme!
Thank you for following
us this year, we hope to
see you all again next
year!
David, Sarah, Charlotte,
Glen, Clare and John.
The Reunion Express
was lucky enough
today, to catch up
with Matt Hyde and
Wayne Bulpitt. We
were able to ask our
leading duo these
questions and they
were kind enough to
answer.
Wayne: Just amazing!
The combination
fun, fellowship and
chance to chat to
other people, let our
hair down as well.
Express: Have you
enjoyed Reunion
2014?
Wayne: The mixture
of all aspects of
Reunion including the
campfire which was
amazing, brilliant new
talent.
Matt: I’ve had a
fantastic Reunion.
It’s the second year
I have been and its
incredible, so good
to talk to different
people and to soak
up the atmosphere,
it has such a positive
vibe, fantastic!
Wayne: No one
single thing, the
weekend itself is such
a highlight. What
makes Reunion is to
learn a new skill, go
on high ropes course
for the first time...the
Express: What was
the main highlight for mixture of workshops,
activities, parties.
you?
Matt: Brilliant to have
Bear here mixing in
with volunteers, and
to see the excitement
whenever he wanders
around the site;
there’s such affection
wherever he goes.
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Express: Moving on
from 2014, what
would you like to
see?
Matt
leads
the way
with
the
onesie
Getting a‘Grylling’
How many leaders succeeded
(or failed for that matter!) to
get a signature from our Chief
Scout? What did bear say to
you, and what did he sign???
Final words from Wayne and Matt
(Now on sale from Scout Shops)
New group opened this year still growing.
Good Luck to Mike
Preston & Chris Neal,
you take away that
GSL & AGSL of the
make you think
4th Highams Park
slightly differently,
Scout Group with the
it’s our responsibility opening of the new
from HQ to put into Cub Pack, later in
action, listen to what September.
people are saying
They were supported
and changing as a
by the Regional
result. This event has Development Service
been so important in (RDS) to open a
doing that.
new Group in an
area where were
Wayne: More of
the same, the buzz
within the movement
is amazing at
the moment, the
challenge is to make
more of a difference
to more young
people.
Matt: Conversations
@reunionexpress
is a Series 2a with
a short wheel
base. Its marine
blue, which looks
green to us here
at the Express.
This is a ‘ToyLander’ model
that you can
make yourself!
Paul has a fully
road worthy and
full sized series
2a which was
made in 1966
which he drives
to work and back
from time to
time.
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large joining
lists had been
identified. They
now have a
brilliant parent
committee
and thriving
Beaver Colony.
All parents are
invited to help
the group in
some way as
their children
join. Jane was
‘just a Mum’
as she said
but became
so excited that
the Leaders
‘actually asked
her to help’
that she is now
one of the
Beaver Leaders.
Along with
James they
are running a
wonderfully
varied
programme
and have
already
had three
sleepovers!!!
They meet just
20 minutes
from Gilwell
and would
welcome any
new volunteers
to help them
grow faster and
give even more
young people
and adults the
opportunity
to join email
mpreston89@
icloud.com
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REUNION EXPRESS 2014
Issue 5 | Sunday 7th September
Announcements.
New to Reunion
Welcome to Des
Witney the new
CC for Dorset to
his first Gilwell
Reunion with
Christchurch JAS
and Brownsea
Island SAS.
Richard KLA.
Happy Birthday
Former Field
Commissioner
Bud Shackleton
is celebrating his
80th Birthday
and is being sent
Birthday Wishes
from all on site
who know him
especially Roger
and Gail from 1st
Halesowen.
Lost
A Bobble filter
water bottle 1 litre
with a pink filter.
If found please
return to lost
property.
Thanks
Thanks to the grils
from Cookridge
Village - they’ve
Welcome
enjoyed their first
home to Aaron
reunion nad we’ve
Chamberlain.
enjoyed having
After 2 months at Birthday Wishes
them share our
Gilwell as Service also Bud from all
‘subcamp’. Barbara
Crew. We dropped your friends and
him off at Gilwell former colleagues and Mick - Central
24 and is coming in the Association’s Yorkshire.
home after
Field Service in its
various guises.
Reunion. Mark
and Helen RESDU
Explorers
Quick caption
competition.
“We definitely left the
minibus here lads.”
Thanks to Caroline in
Archives for the picture!
A frightening delight.
Final update from the editor’s chair.
Ahh dear loyal
and faithful reader,
we have made
it through the
weekend togetgher,
where did the time
go ?
The 88th Gilwell
Reunion and quite
possibly the best
yet – your Reunion
Organiser Katie
Farnish and her
band of helpers
have managed
to provide one
of the most
packed Reunion
Programmes yet. I
always thing that
scouting there
were in the room
(it was a riveting
meeting as you can
tell) but then we
got to wondering
what we would all
be doing if we had
not been given
the opporunity to
join our local scout
group,which in turn
led us to talking
Sat at a District
Meeting the other
about what we
could do to ensure
day we worked
that young people
out how many of
us had been youth in our area would be
as lucky as we were
members before
becoming and adult when someone siad
volunteer and then to us “yes you can
how many years
join next week”.
the week after
Reunion is almost
like Christmas Day
unpacking all those
programme ideas,
hints and tips and
working out how to
include them in the
weekly programme
in the months
ahead.
The last word...
The Movement
has established
itself onto a
wide and so
strong a footing
as to show most
encouraging
promise of
what may be
possible to it
in the coming
years. Its aim
is to produce
healthy, happy,
helpful citizens,
of both sexes,
to eradicate
the prevailing
narrow selfinterest,
personal,
political,
sectarian and
national, and to
substitute for it
a broader spirit
of self-sacrifice
and service in
the cause of
humanity; and
thus to develop
mutual goodwill
and cooperation not
only within our
own country
but abroad,
between all
countries.
Experience
shows that this
consummation
is no idle
or fantastic
dream, but is
a practicable
possibility if we
work for it; and
it means, when
attained, peace,
prosperity
and happiness
for all. The
“encouraging
promise” lies
in the fact that
the hundreds
of thousands
of boys and
girls who are
Reunion Express
has been compiled,
created and spill
chocked by Glenn,
Clare, Charlotte,
David, Sarah and
the whole thing
made presentable
together with our
on line presence,
made possible by
John “Wae’aye man”
McAtominey. We
all hope you had
the most amazing
Reunion ever, if it
was your first time
we hope you will be
back again.
learning our
ideals today
will be fathers
and mothers of
millions in the
near future, in
whom they will
in turn inculcate
the same
ideals, provided
that these
are really and
unmistakably
impressed upon
them as the
young people of
today.
Suggestion for next year...
New for 2014 Scarefest is coming to Gilwell Park on the 1st2nd November. Book now and be prepared to be scared at
www.scouts.org.uk/scarefest, we look forward to seeing you
there!
Can a beer be brewed using
Gilwell hops?!?! They are near the
lid!
Another top tip!
Charlotte
Sarah
John
facebook.com/reunionexpress
David
Glen
@reunionexpress
International Scouters avoid jet lag by simply
catching an earlier
flight, thus getting to
your destination fully
refreshed and on time!
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