Looking For Correspondant To Talk About Scouting In The USA

[lakes-stu]

Hi everyone,

To be honest, I am after a bit of a favour. My Beavers are planning to run an evening talking about Scouting in the USA, and Jamboree this Thursday. This is because we are hosting some Explorer Scouts who are hoping to sell raffle tickets to parents as part of their WSJ fundraising. However, I am hoping to keep the evening more generic where possible.

I was wondering if there are any Lion or Tiger Cub Masters or Den Leaders that would be willing to receive an email from myself containing a digest of questions from our Beavers for your Cubs? Wolf, Bear, Webelos and Scout Masters too, provided you don't mind the questions being written by younger children!

In short, I was thinking along the lines of you and your Scouts producing a reply to our questions, and providing questions of your own about Scouting in the UK that we can answer for you. Kind of like a hand of friendship if you like rather than individual pen pals.

Please, I realise this is short notice, but if anyone can help me with this either reply here or contact me directly at woodhallhedgehog@gmail.com

Many thanks,

Stuart 'Hedgehog' Rayner, Assistant Beaver Scout Leader, 1st Woodhall Scout Group, UK Scout Association

Edited June 3, 2018 by lakes-stu

[Eagle1993]

Just sent you private message with my Pack email address.  I think our scouts would love to correspond with scouts from the UK.

[The Latin Scot]

My boys would LOVE that, and it passes of requirements that they need to complete as well! I am sending you a private message now!

[lakes-stu]

Hi,

Just to say a big thank you to the people that have contacted me about this. I will get the Beavers (5y9m - 8 year olds) to put together some greetings and questions on Thursday if I can. We will certainly be in touch with you.

I will also speak to the Cub Leader (8 - 10 year olds) and Scout Leader (10 - 14 year olds) and try to get them involved too, for a better spread of ages. The Cub Leader helps us with Beavers and the Scout Leader is her Husband, so that should be pretty easy!

Regards, Stu

Edited June 4, 2018 by lakes-stu

[Hawkwin]

@lakes_stu Absolutely! I have two Webelos girls that would welcome such contact.

[TWCub]

This sounds like fun!  We are in.  

[The Latin Scot]

Our Pack will be answering all the letters you sent us at our Pack Meeting tonight, and you will get our responses tomorrow morning (well, California morning at any rate). Thank you so much for reaching out to us!