Active Kids 08 - get 'em in!

Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers have now finished, as of Wednedsay 4th June. May I on behalf of the Group thank all those people who have donated their vouchers, the current total stands at over 2700 vouchers. Last year's goodies can be seen here and this year we are hoping to have enough vouchers for a 5-man tent, so if you have any vouchers hiding in your wallets/purses that you wish to donate please get them in via the Leaders as soon as you can.

buy.at webshop pays out £29.31

We have just received a cheque for £29.31 as commission from 12 purchases made through our buy.at webshop over the past few months.

Cubs: Tracking Signs & NCM photos

Two new albums of photos are now available in our Photo Gallery of recent Cubs events: the Tracking Signs pack night and the day trip to the National Coal Mining Museum.

easyfundraising - cheque received

We are now in receipt of our fourth cheque, for £26.60, from our EasyFundraising webshop. As some of you will remember, this shop pays commission quarterly, posting a cheque a month or so after the end of each quarter. This payment results from purchases and EasySearch web searches made between January and March 2008.

Some interesting statistics, we now have 16 Registered Members in our EasyFundraising shop, and there have been 1,299 Completed Searches, generating £9.51 for Crofton Scout Group funds, through use of EasySearch.

CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA - final total

All monies are now in following the recent charity events in which our Beavers, Cubs and Scouts took part. Many thanks to Kaa, who not only had the idea but has also handled the administration and collection of sponsor money. The Beavers raised £174 and beween them the Cubs and Scouts collected £483.65, making a magnificent total of £657.65.

Resulting from this we are delighted to pass on cheques to the CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA charity for £335, with the remaining £322.65 being retained for Group Funds.

Some of this money has been used to purchase a new events shelter, which all sections will benefit from.

The young people who took part in these events are looking forward to receiving their key rings, baseball caps and other goodies which are being given as rewards by the charity organisers.

CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA fundraising

Crofton Beavers recently took part in a sponsored A-to-Z word game where they had to think of as many words as possible to do with scouting. Our Cubs and Scouts also completed a sponsored walk. Over £525 has been collected so far, the proceeds of which are to be shared between the Crofton Scout Group funds and the CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA charity.

Many thanks to all the generous sponsors.

Archery

On Sunday 10th February the Wakefield District ran an archery session at the 23rd Scout HQ. This was an indoor session over a reasonably short range, suitable for Cubs, Scouts, Explorers and Leaders.

The County Activities Team are going to be holding a County Archery Competition in June, so this was a good chance to get some practice in.

See the pictures in our Gallery.

Virgin Vie success

Squirrel reports that the recent Virgin Vie night made £73 for group funds, so many thanks to all who attended and also to the Slipper pub for hosting the event.

Events Calendar 2008

As more and more events are being added to the scouting calendar we have incorporated a Google Calendar into our Events page. By default this will display the current month but there are several different ways to navigate to different dates. Some events have further details which can be seen by clicking on the particular Event. If you wish you can even print selected pages from the calendar using the inbuilt print option.

Cubs' Christmas Party

These pictures were taken at the Cubs' Christmas Party.