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Scout Experience Survey 2019
Every year we survey young people and parents/carers to understand:
- how young people feel about Scouting and what they gain from Scouting
- how supported adult volunteers feel and where we can offer more support
- why young people join and leave Scouting
- how parents/carers feel about Scouting
This survey helps us improve the impact we have on your children and those to come.
It should take you around 15-30 minutes and is easier to do on a computer rather than your phone. If your child left Scouting in the last 12 months, we would still like to hear from you. The survey will close on Monday 1st April 2019.
We would also like your child/children to complete the survey, even if they left Scouting in the last 12 months.
- If they are under 12, then they will only be asked five simple questions and will not be asked for any contact or personal information. You may want to help or supervise them when answering but please allow them to answer honestly, giving their own opinion.
- If they are 12, then we will ask them more detailed questions and information about their background but not their contact details as they are too young to give permission to be contacted again.
- If they are 13 and over, then we ask them more detailed questions, information about their background, and permission to contact them again and anonymously link their answers to things like school performance.
Please note: We will never share their answers in a way that allows them to be identified. Any results will be the average of lots of young people and any matching of information to other records will be done anonymously, with the link to them as an individual broken before we look at the results.
As a thank you, everyone taking part will be entered into a draw of £500 to spend at Scout Store or Scout Adventures or a Go-Pro. The two Districts that secure the most responses will also be entered into a similar draw for £1000.
So please remember when you’re entering the survey that ‘Where does your child take part in Scouting?’ should be answered with:
Country: ENGLAND
Region: NORTH WEST
County/Area/Region: CHESHIRE
District: MERSEY WEAVER
If you have any questions, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are available here: scouts.org.uk/frequentlyaskedquestions.
If you still have any questions or concerns, please email info.centre@scouts.org.uk.
Plant Sale 2019
With spring just around the corner many people will be thinking about getting out in the garden again – with that in mind, we’re pleased to announce our 2019 Plant Sale. This is our fifth year selling bedding plants, and after the success of the first four years – it acts as one of our main fundraising activities of the year. The money raised helps to maintain our building, replace and repair kit. It’s organised and run entirely by volunteers, so if you think you can help as part of our team – please get in touch!
How Can I Order Plants?
There are currently three ways that you can place an order with us:
- Paper Order Form
- Order Form via Email
- Our Online Shop
More details about each method can be found below.
Paper Order Form
Order forms have already gone out to customers who have ordered from us previously. These order forms will be collected by members of the Scout Group between 18th March and 12th April 2019. Haven’t received an order from? Don’t worry, you can still order plants using one of the methods below.
Order Form via Email
Just like we did last year – we’ll soon be making the order form available to download from our website. Simply download, print out/fill in and return to us via email by the deadline to place your order.
Our Online Shop
New for this year, we’ve introduced an online ordering system via our ‘online shop‘. Simply browse through the products, add your chosen ones to the basket and checkout – it’s as easy as that.
When Will The Plants Be Available?
Plants will be delivered to your door on Saturday 11th May 2019.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ALL ORDERS:
The deadline for placing orders is Friday 12th April 2019. Any orders placed after this date will not be fulfilled. ALL orders regardless of whether they’re via our paper based order forms, email orders or via our online shop are Payment on Order. Payments can be made bycash, BACS or a cheque made payable to 1st Ince and Elton Scout Group.
Order Form
The 2019 Plant Sale Order Form is now available to download. Please use one of the following links:
Scouts join in UK Parliament Week!
It’s UK Parliament Week and tonight our Scouts took part.
A huge thank you goes out to our local MP Justin Madders who came along to give a talk about Parliament and his job!
During the course of the evening, some interesting topics of discussion naturally came up including Brexit and that banned Iceland advert.
GDPR Fair Processing Notice
As you all may or may not be aware, on 25th May 2018 new regulations were brought in place to enhance existing Data Protection laws and also build on people’s rights regarding control of their personal data.
Over the last couple of months, we’ve been reviewing our internal policies and creating new ones so that as a Scout Group, we align with GDPR. This has taken us a little longer than anticipated while we’ve get to grips with the new regulations and to have our new/updated policies ratified through the Group Executive Committee.
As such, we’re now ready to make you all aware of our updated policies. Please find attached a copy of our ‘Fair Processing Notice’ – this is a ‘summarised’ version of our ‘Data Privacy Notice’ which explains how we collect, process, store and use your personal information.
The full version of our Data Privacy Notice is available online on our website, and can by directly accessed by clicking: https://1stinceandelton.org.uk/legal/data-privacy-notice/.
If you have any questions, then please feel free to speak to your Section Leader.
Elton Bonfire and Firework Spectacular 2018 – Thank You!
Another Bonfire and Firework Spectacular has been and gone – and what an event it was this year!
We estimate that we’ve pulled our biggest crowd ever this year as more people from both within the village and outside the village join us to see what all the fuss is about.
To everyone that came along to support our display either by coming along to watch, purchase from our stalls or giving a donation (however big or small), we’d just like to say a HUGE Thank You!
We would also like to express an extra special thanks to the following for their continued support of the years:
- Elton Parish Council
- Cheshire West and Chester Council (and Ward Councillor Stephen Smith)
- Essar
- Elton Primary School
- Friends of Elton Primary School
- Mitchell Brothers (Cheshire Oaks)
- Elton SPAR
- Encirc and Cheshire Waste
- Black Cat Fireworks
- Award Computing Ltd
This is currently Elton’s only annual community event! As a community group and registered charity, we invest a huge amount of time and money into staging this event – your continued support is crucial to the success of this event.
Finally, we must also remember to say a huge thank you to the team of volunteers here at 1st Ince and Elton Scout Group. Not are they supporting a weekly programme to each of the sections (that’s Beavers, Cubs and Scouts), they also give up their time for weekend activities and also find more time to stage great community events such as this. So a huge BRAVO goes out to them.
The ‘Elton Bonfire and Firework Spectacular’ returns for it’s 9th year in 2019 on Friday 1st November – save the date!!
Join us for our 2018 AGM!
You’re cordially invited to our AGM. Full details can be found on the event page by clicking here:
1st Ince and Elton Scout Group AGM 2018
Plant Sale 2018
With spring just around the corner many people will be thinking about getting out in the garden again – with that in mind, we’re pleased to announce our 2018 Plant Sale.
This is our fourth year selling bedding plants, and after the success of the first three years – it acts as one of our main fundraising activities of the year. The money raised helps to maintain our building, replace and repair kit. It’s organised and run entirely by volunteers, so if you think you can help as part of our team – please get in touch!
How can I order plants?
There are currently three ways that you can place an order with us:- Paper Order Form
- Order Form via Email
- Our Online Shop
Paper Order Form
Order forms have already gone out to customers who have ordered from us previously. This year, we have also dropped leaflets in the Hapsford area. These order forms will be collected by members of the Scout Group between 19th March and 9th April 2018. Haven’t received an order from? Don’t worry, you can still order plants using one of the methods below.Order Form via Email
Just like we did last year – we’ll soon be making the order form available to download from our website. Simply download, print out/fill in and return to us via email by the deadline to place your order.Our Online Shop
New for this year, we’ve introduced an online ordering system via our ‘online shop‘. Simply browse through the products, add your chosen ones to the basket and checkout – it’s as easy as that.When will the plants be available?
Plants will be delivered to your door on Saturday 12th May 2018.IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING ALL ORDERS:
The deadline for placing orders is Monday 9th April 2018. Any orders placed after this date will not be fulfilled. ALL orders regardless of whether they’re via our paper based order forms, email orders or via our online shop are Payment on Order. Payments can be made by cash, BACS or a cheque made payable to 1st Ince and Elton Scout Group.Order Form
The 2018 Plant Sale Order Form is now available to download. Please use one of the following links:Firework Spectacular 2017 – Thank You!
From the bottom of our hearts, we’d like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who came along and support our annual Bonfire and Firework Spectacular.
Thanks to the support of local organisations, food & drink sales and your generous donations, we have raised a whopping £2,397 which will be going towards our #HelpOurHut campaign to refurbish our ageing Scout HQ.
In addition, we’d like to express special thanks to the following:
- Essar Oil UK
- Encirc Glass
- Cheshire Waste
- Councillor Stephen Smith/Cheshire West and Chester Council
- Elton Parish Council (for the use of the Parish Field)
- Elton SPAR
- AVIVA Community Fund Vote – Vote open until 21st November 2017 – http://1stie.uk/go/AvivaCFVote
- Tesco Bags of Help Vote – Vote instore until the end of December 2017 – http://1stie.uk/go/E
- #HelpOurHut Crowdfunding – Share our Crowdfunding appeal, every little helps as they say! – http://1stie.uk/go/HelpOurHutAppeal
Tesco Bags of Help – Voting is now open!
As we announced a couple of weeks ago, we have been successful in that we’re in the public vote for Tesco’s Bags of Help for the month’s of November and December.
We’ve recently been informed of the stores that will be putting our project to the public vote – unfortunately a systems error has meant our project is being voted at stores in the Warrington area:
- Tesco Express – Grappenhall, WA4 2QJ
- Tesco Express – Winwick Rd, WA2 8JE
- Tesco Express – Orford Green, WA2 8PB
- Tesco Express – Penketh, WA5 2JW
- Tesco Extra – Warrington, WA2 7NE
- Tesco Express – Manchester Rd, WA1 3NJ