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“An opportunity presented itself to refresh the Scout Fellowship Badge and this design (same colouring / lettering) would be worn on the right sleeve along with other formation insignia. However, in keeping with branding guidelines, the word “Scouts” is presented with the word “Fellowship” below. This is to convey a unified group of like-minded people, inclusiveness in an organisation not a label for an individual. The word SCOUTS achieve this whereas the word ‘SCOUT’ does not. Scouts is a collective and reflects the organisation within which we belong, and ‘FELLOWSHIP’ is our place within it. No doubt this may cause some concerns amongst the traditionalists within Scouting, but it does make the imagery contemporary.

Spring 2020 late edition

Refreshing message! …Scouts Australia has a new icon

As per Memo to all State Fellowship Commissioners from Elston Hynd (DCCoA)

FELLOWSHIP defines us • Friends made for life • Ethical behaviour • Loyal to Scout movement • Lateral thinking = creativity • Opportunities to support • Wisdom abounds • Scouting to serve others • Heritage is valued • Inspirational storytellers • Passionate personalities

Bold new symbolism … an all inclusive Australian Scouts icon, where “one picture speaks a thousand words”, as below, can now see all the colours of Australia, with the azure coastline expanding into the deep blue ocean of empowering leaders, protecting our heritage values and supporting all the sections from 5 to 25 years young. The ochre of Joeys, sand coloured Cubs, many shades of eucalypt green Scouts, Illawarra plum purple Venturers, and the bushfire red service of Rovers, requires the storytelling of our correct identity to be fully inclusive. Our imagination would lead us to leave suburbia, experience an outback adventure beyond the comfort zone of a local city-centric Scout Hall. “Over 85% of Australians lived in urban and coastal regions with nearly 70% living in our capital cities, making Australia one of the most urbanized countries in the world.” ABS. As a paradigm shift, bushcraft survival skills for escaping our concrete jungle, would seem a more authentic Australian challenge for everyone to discover the outback of NSW by going beyond the black stump. Another suggestion is that we all invite all ex Scouts to become Fellowship members with a Special Interest Area of expertise. This idea would support the new Youth program expansion. From just $20 extra this section become viable to be mentors and facilitators to assist group leaders grow local Scout membership and not be seen as a stand alone oldies club.

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Having Fun in 2021…. being bold+challenging+adventurous+friendly

Marketing our Brand to new Scouts & Leaders

as per Scouts Australia brand manual

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Challenging the Status Quo

BOLD… ADVENTUROUS FUN… FRIENDLY The words taken right out of the Scout Brand playbook, describe Quite Like Pete, a young music band started up by a Venturer from the South Coast of NSW,Som Bolond,aka Sam Boland. They have already earned a $50,000 recording contract, and I was there in Kiama when they won a Battle of the Bands comp.

His sister Ruby is a professional photographer, who took the photos.These are not my children (my younger brothers) and she was recently in a Weekend Australian magazine profile. Being seeing and heard is what the next generation want and need.

The 21st century belongs to those born post the year 2000, or near abouts, not the 20th century. We oldies have have our chance, time to pass on the wisdom and give them ago to shine in the limelight!

Quite Like Pete are a highly energetic, 5-piece, Rock n Roll

band based in Ulladulla on the South Coast of NSW. https://www.triplejunearthed.com/artist/quite-pete

We have had the pleasure of sharing the stage alongside

bands such as British India, Clowns Skegss and Polish Club along with plenty of small festivals and local shows in-between.

Our debut EP 'Can't Get Enough!' is out now on all digital

streaming services!

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SIA - Special Interest Areas - GREEN

We can create the next generation of fun-loving green Scouts… If we try… with local scout groups and diverse community supporters. A recent green workshop at Chester Hill dug up passionate Scouting parents in the working group and I met an old school friend from 50 years ago! But how green is your Scout Hall. …why not set it up as an Eco maker space centre like Granville Fellowship HO .

Meet HERB, Franks new friend the colourful gardener who just

loves SPICES!

Giant fruiting Lilli Pilli tree at Granville Fellowship HO

Refresh your Scout Hall by planting trees is the suggestion… Fellowship members

can arrange to get the local natives

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Bonus late edition.. bonus message from Malcolm

Greetings all, and welcome to Daniel’s second issue for Spring 2020, as unexpected as it is… I mentioned in Spring #1 that the pandemic has provided a valuable opportunity to reflect on how we go about our Scouting. Probably, it will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, allowing us to embrace the good with the bad. To paraphrase Baden-Powell and the Rovers, Scouting is a brotherhood of the open air and service. In these more inclusive times I like to think of brotherhood as fraternity or fellowship. So let’s for a moment focus on those three things – fellowship, open air and service. Fellowship is special within Scouting because, as well as being a platform for activities, it is also an incubator of ideas. The planning part of Plan > Do > Review. My own Fellowship, the Heritage Scout Fellowship, has a loose arrangement in which we catch up for lunch on Thursdays at the Granville Activity Centre. Mostly retired, we have time to ponder the issues of the deep Scouting universe and, as all of us have multiple roles within Scouting, to share myriad concerns and remedies. It is proving quite enjoyable. Currently Heritage is under the microscope, with a Heritage Working Group recently formed to improve our governance and communications. The word committee, unexpectedly to me, was roundly condemned, so instead we have a working group. I have to say I’ve come to like the idea. As I reflect on the five years it took us to restore the hall, it was all done without a committee or indeed any formal structure. So, that begs the question – is Scouting over-structured? Our Fellowship has an official tagline: Preserving the past - ensuring the future; but we have an even better unofficial one: Scouting - rarely indoors since 1907. COVID-19 is severely testing this maxim. It rankles me that so much attention is currently focused on Scouting by Computer when our mission should be to get outdoors. Last weekend I spent a couple of nights at Camp Kariong, a terrific camp established in 1958 by Gosford District on the Central Coast. Proud of its heritage, well presented, welcoming and - perhaps rare for a Scout camp - equally as attractive for Venturers and Rovers as it is for younger Scouts, the overriding feeling you get is that it’s what Scouting should be. Doing things outdoors. And, hopefully, doing them well. Certainly, the mob of Rozelle locals I was bushwalking with were more than impressed that Scouts owned such a fine facility. So that’s the open air part. Finally, service. We all accept that this is one of the two reasons why Scout Fellowship exists – service within and beyond Scouting, and fraternity. Our numero uno service mission right now is to build and retain membership. As COVID settles and we concentrate on getting Scouting outdoors again, let’s not overlook that we’re at a fork in the track – let’s not lose this golden opportunity to reinvent and refocus. Daniel and Mark at the Australian Scout Museum seemingly reinvent and refocus after every group goes through – not overlooking any of the three Plan > Do> Review elements – and returning formations can be assured that they will not get the same mix of activities twice. While it makes it hard to put a brochure together, it is what we must do to resurrect and grow our membership – to be fresh and a tad spontaneous. And, of course, to have fun! What has your Fellowship got planned to celebrate the end of the year? I’m looking forward to Summer 2020-2021 of course, COVID willing, Malcolm Wilson State Commissioner Fellowship

Make your ICONS work

The key is to mix and match icons within your program planning

Brainstorm. Personal development involves creative and critical thinking. Being in community

can be Zooming into Myanmar Scouts or the largest Scout nation in the world? …Indonesia or …outback Australia before you bush camp in a remote location

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Escaparee… What is it… escaping into bush?… recruitment or retention?… give the problem to

young people to answer...you do not have to solve it... they will tell you what they want and may be what they need.

Einstein’s ideas are very good…take his advice.

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Are your kids ‘fun’? It matters. By Dr Justin Coulson

Fun kids are laughing, playing and generally having a good time. But they’re also building skills that will lead to better relationships.

WHY BEING ‘FUN’ MATTERS? It turns out that being and having fun is more than just… well, fun! In fact, it’s a really important part of establishing our children’s social status. Studies show that ‘fun kids’, those who were considered ‘fun to be with’ by their peers, were also more popular and likeable. And the more their popularity and likeability increases, the higher their social status as well.

WHAT MAKES A FUN KID?

What are the characteristics of those kids that are fun to be with? Well, the 10-year-study covered that as well. Fun is whatever other kids think it is.Before you shout, that’s not helpful! All you have to do is ask your children, ‘Who do you think is fun?’ I imagine they’ll be a lot like my daughter. They’ll be the kids laughing, smiling, joking around, and looking at life with an optimistic lens. Sometimes our kids need a little help being fun. But luckily that’s something we can help them with. If, that is, we can be fun ourselves. Or perhaps… light…From peek-a-boo when they’re babies to shooting hoops when they’re teens, it doesn’t matter what the play is… as long as you are having fun and enjoying it together. Social Status: not fun to keep working on it When we talk about popularity and social status we’re talking about how much others want to spend time with you, and how much they respect you. But we aren’t talking about popularity that’s defined by status (our visibility, influence or fame) (the Paris Hilton’s of the world) which puts us at risk for depression, anxiety, addictions, and relationship problems.

FOCUS on a Fellowship member…Denise Davies With all the roles that Denise has in our Scouting world she still has time to ring other members are travelling. I just have had six weeks after painful foot surgery, and I would get call asking how I was feeling and surviving. I also know That Neville Tompkins ring older people directly for us senor Scouters, many much older than I. John Inglis is 94 years young and Denise invited recently him to join us at Granville to keep him busy and he still drives ! Denise philospophy is such passion to the benefits of e the educational value of best practice scouting. “You asked me about useful children. When the kids were growing up I never had time to consciously think about child rearing. The only observation I remember mentally making was that when I was strict, everyone was happy. It was hard work to keep it up but it made life easier in the long run. It is only now that I look back at how each person found their own skills, strengths and abilities by being brought up with a strong physical bond and never being allowed to cry themselves to sleep.” They were encouraged, empowered, challenged and learnt to share and care for each other in a family that did and continue to do things together. I never quite fitted in with the other mothers at school. When the kids joined Scouts I enjoyed the company of the Leaders who I found more in common with than the mums who did everything for their child or talked about shopping!”

Denise current interests include a Scout Child support fund role, and co-ordinator of a Landcare a group on Lake Tuggerah ... big Bravo to Denise over countless hours years, let alone the years scouting for us!

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Camp Kariong carryon…Fellowship State

Commissioner refreshing his views on scouting

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Where else do you get such diversity in one Scout Camp location?

Photos by Malcolm Wilson on recent bush camping expedition and fellowship follow-up

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Seeing and using all the SPICES …in everyday life

More Info@NSW Fellowship

Marketing + Media + Membership

Daniel Boland 0413 543 977

email: seegreen@live.com.au

Photo by Daniel Boland in a Christian

church near Berala, inner Western Sydney

Editor with West Pennant Hills group on a

cross cultural day trip to North Sydney

many years ago… it still can be done

As an Arts and Literature project, a

group could visit a local church or

the NSW Art Gallery. You will

find plenty of space for Spirituality

spice and reflection as part of your

Plan Do Review process.

John Coburn’s innovative

artworks, remind me of his

original scouting journey from

North Queensland to Sydney,

ending up designing the most

recent Scouts Australia logo.

He also created two magnificent

tapestries in our world-famous

Sydney Opera House. He should

not be forgotten in any recognition

of Australian Scouting Heritage.

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R+R = Ideas+Innovation Making recycling fun and profitable…have a green market day at your Scout Hall. Reuse, repackage and resell everyday items and small gifts. Buy in small bulk quantities of environmentally friendly home use supplies, sweets, wrapped chocolates, plus grow some small plants and seedlings... then have your open day. “Sprout a Scout” Marketplace is a refreshing way to be seen and green… Scouts...go for it… you have virtually nothing to lose…get a return on your investment in time , some Jamboree money and make it a fun project.

3D Printing comes to SPY School

…What can you make?

What happened to the word FUN? Be careful of over complicating what scouting should be first.... scouting for new ideas and opportunities

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Group Family Camp Planning 2021 Suggestion Combine at least three of Mark Boyles fellowship member’s Escape Australia cards into a major camping adventure. Visit Bourke as a unique highlight and organise a cultural tour with Jason Dixon … you will not be disappointed. I was there earlier this year when the Baarka (Darling) River was full of fresh water! and fish… where else could you go? Spot the other locations!

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FRANK says: Where am I in picture? …at the Vatican

International Scouting News

“Pope Francis recently urged Scouts “to give of themselves to others by building, serving, and caring for others, saying it will free them from within and enrich the world.” He made the exhortation to some 5,000 young scout men and women from over 20 countries belonging to the International Union of Guides and Scouts of Europe. They met the pope at the end of their Euromoot 2019 event, July 27-August 3, that saw them travelling along historical itineraries of Italy and converging on Rome.

Did you know?

In a February 2020, on an educational conference trip to Myanmar , my actual lowlight was the unsustainable living conditions I saw in Mandalay, central Myanmar. But the locals were the happiest people I visited in a burnt-out village at the back of a local Church. The current challenge is how to mobilise direct financial aid to a very cynical western audience.

Myanmar Education Minister asking for best practice education standards to improve student vocational opportunities… meanwhile who does the dirty work of helping clean-up the country