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Membership We welcome Members to the Scout and Guide Fellowship UK. An Application Form for Membership or Renewal, is available on our website where we have added an additional form for you to set up a Banker’s Standing Order Mandate to help us reduce postage and administration costs. For those without internet access please contact our Membership Secretary – Mrs. Beryl Aldridge, 12 Penstone Close, Lancing, West Sussex, BN15 9AP.
Annual Gathering and Meeting 2015 This year’s Annual Gathering and Meeting is being hosted by our Members on the Isle of Man and based at the Glen Mora Hotel, Douglas, Isle of Man, from the 4 to the 8 May 2015.
Booking Forms and details are now available -contact our Secretary
Liz Aveston, email: [email protected]
CHAIRMAN’S - Welcome
Another year has passed and we look forward to our activities in 2015.
We can continue to participate in the International Fellowship’s activities, starting with our Annual Gather-ing and Meeting being hosted by our Trefoil Guild Members in the Isle of Man in May, followed by the 26th Western European Sub Regional Gathering being hosted by the Belgian Scout and Guide Fellow-ship in September. There is also the 6th European Workshop in Hungary in March. Last December, we dispatched a fourth consignment of toys for the children in the Refugee Camps in Jordan, bringing to an end the International Fellowship’s 60th Anniversary Project – Fellowship Toy. In all, we shipped 17,000 toys in four consignments, working with our Partners who are keen for the initia-tive to follow in 2015. Alan K B Beavis OBE Chairman – Scout and Guide Fellowship UK
February 2015
National Scout and Guide Fellowship
The latest Newsletter No. 7 – November 2014 for the National Scout and Guide Fellowship can be found on our website, www.nsag.org.uk including the report on the 27th ISGF – AISG World Conference – Friendship – Beneath Southern Skies, held at the Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia, in October 2014. We were represented by two delegates – Alan Beavis and Peter Short – and were joined by 9 of our Members as Observers. It was noticeable how the International Fellowship’s strength is now developing in the Africa, Arab and
Asia Pacific Regions together in the Western Hemisphere with the joining of Argentina. Europe’s posi-
tion has changed, possibly due to the way in which Scout and Guide Organisations are youth orientated,
whereas in these other Regions there is a noticeable dominance of those who have been in high ap-
pointments within their National Scout Organisations supported by the Trefoil Guilds in their countries.
The next World Conference will be in 2017 in Bali, Indonesia. The bid from Ghana was not accepted so
we have yet to hold a Conference in the Arab or Africa Regions.
MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Since the formation of SGF, and before, we have been fortunate in having Beryl Aldridge as our Membership Secretary and we are indebted to her for the work she undertakes on our behalf. Beryl has advised that she wishes to step down from this role at this year’s Annual Meeting and we are, therefore, seeking a volunteer to follow in Beryl’s footsteps. The role entails keeping in contact with our members, maintaining our membership records and annual donations together with advising of forthcoming events. Beryl will be happy to give information to the potential successor. If you have queries please contact our Secretary, Liz Aveston.
FELLOWSHIP TOY PROJECT
In December 2014 we concluded the International Fellowship’s 60th Anniversary Project – The Fellowship
Toy, when we dispatched the fourth shipment of toys to the children in the Refugee Camps in Jordan. This fourth consignment – the largest sent – comprised of 197 boxes containing 5,628 toys weighing 1,629 Kg and occupying a space of 17.36 cu metres. Thus, the total number of toys collected was 17,194 in 519 boxes and a total weight of 4,584 Kg, occupying a volume of 47.65 cu metres.
A magnificent effort and a huge THANK YOU go to all who supported this project.
We appreciated the assistance from our partners UNHCR, Aviation without Borders who were supported by the International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT) of America in providing funding, GIST for collecting the toys and taking them to TFA Logistics who managed the ship-ping from Heathrow. The challenge for further collection of toys has now been passed to the International Scout Active Support Unit who will be arranging collections of toys locally, utilising the support package of Marketing and Publicity Material available on the websites www.internationalscouts.org.uk or www.toys4simles.org.uk.
Latest News – the fourth consignment of toys were dispatched from Heathrow in December and we have now been advised that CARE agreed to receive the donation of toys on behalf of UNHCR for Azraq Camp. They were received on the 15 January 2015 and stored in the CARE Store 2 in the village. We await photos of the distribution of toys to the children.
Up and coming Events… 3rd Annual Gathering and Annual General Meeting
4th—8th May 2015 — Isle of Man.
26th Western European Gathering, Oostduinkerke, Belgium – 7/11 September 2015
28th Nordic Baltic Gathering – Denmark. 29/30 June 2015 8th Central Europe Conference – venue t.b.a. – 23 September 4th Gathering South America – venue t.b.a. – 10/12 October
Contact Details: email: [email protected] , website: www.sagf.org.uk
Members of Committee elected at the Annual General Meeting for 2014/15:
Alan K B Beavis OBE Chair
Mrs Liz Aveston Secretary
Mrs Beryl Aldridge Membership Secretary
Peter Short Treasurer
Dave Mowbray Marketing Contact Details: Email: [email protected] Website: www.sagf.org.uk
International Scout and Guide Fellowship: Website – www.isgf.org
Extracts from members detailing their support during the year...
Distributed the Peace Light locally and enjoyed a wonderful Christingle Service on Christmas Eve at our local Parish Church which is dedicated to “The Holy Nativity
—————————————————————————- Served on Scout District Executive and acts as Warden for their HQ Building.
Held coffee morning to raise funds for the fellowship toy project. ————————————————————————–
My first year in the SGF has been enjoyable in taking up the Fellowship Toy Project and getting to grips with local
Scouts and some schools in the area.
Polo / Sweat Shirts
We have available, with our logo, navy blue polo/sweatshirts and fleece. The
order form can be down loaded from our website or available from members of the
Committee.
