Welcome to our website.

We are part of the Greenwich District

in the Scout County of Greater London South.

We have three sections in our Group:

Beavers    ← Follow links Cubs Scouts

We are sponsored by St. Michael's Church and meet in their halls.

Group News    ↓ Follow links

• CRB
• Subscriptions
• Gift Aid
• Recycle print cartridges
• Sainsbury's Active Kids Vouchers
• Uniforms wanted

Purpose of Scouting

The purpose of Scouting is to promote the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual potentials, as individuals, as responsible citizens and as members of their local, national and international communities.

The scout method provides an enjoyable and attractive scheme of progressive training based on the Promise and Law,  It's best seen when young people are:

• Enjoying what they are doing
• Learning by doing
• Participating in varied and progressive activities
• Making choices for themselves
• Taking responsibility for their own actions
• Working in groups
• Taking responsibility for others
• Taking part in outdoor activities
• Sharing prayer and worship
• Making and living their promise

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Recycle print cartridges

We are collecting empty print cartridges (only inkjet but not Epsom). This is being organised by Greenwich District towards the cost of a new district headquarters.

They would like you to bring cartridges into meetings with you or if you have lots at work that are not already recycled, perhaps you would be able to have a collection box there. Arrangements can probably be made to collect the box from your workplace. Do let Conway know so he can pass the message on.

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Membership Payment

The autumn term's subscription of £25 is due at our first meetings in September. Please remember this is a membership fee NOT an attendance fee. It is due whether your son or daughter attends regularly or not.

Cheques to "40^th Greenwich Scout Group" or cash in an envelope marked subs with the name on it.

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Gift Aid

We have been using the money repaid under this scheme to keep the cost of activities down. Also, Scout HQ have increased their share of the Annual Membership Fee due in the spring of 2011.

We have recovered £2,236.79 for earlier years but we need the parents of our current members to sign-up to keep the money coming in.

We will have to increase the termly subscriptions unless we can persuade everyone to complete and sign a Gift Aid form so that we can recover the tax paid (currently at 22% as a special concession to charities.) This increases the value of your Subscription payments from £25 to £32. (An extra £2,000 per year if everyone signs up and all for a little bit of paperwork!)

Our Group Scout Leader, Conway Tearle has a supply of declaration forms (They only take a minute to fill-in). Please speak to him if you want a form or you have any other queries.

More about Gift Aid and a form see link

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Uniforms wanted

We have requests from time to time for second hand uniform items.

We all know that children grow out of their clothes often before they are worn out. It is good to recycle these if we can so can we ask that any outgrown uniforms be passed to our leaders and we will make sure that good use is made of them.

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CRB and Disclosure Applications

Any adults (over 18's) who want to join us on outings, at camp or even to help regularly at meetings must have completed a CRB disclosure form and been cleared before doing so. Please speak to our Group Scout Leader, Conway if you need a form.

More about the CRB & completing a Disclosure Application Form see link