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Scouting offers challenge and adventure to 400,000 young people and 100,000 adults across the UK. We believe in helping our Members fulfil their potential by working in teams, learning by doing and thinking for themselves. We give people of every background the chance to stretch themselves, learn new skills and make life long friends.

Boys and Girls from the age of 6 to 25 are welcome in our youth sections whilst those over 18 may wish to help out at your local group.

Don District is made up of groups from Stocksbridge, Shiregreen, Wincobank, Burngreave, Eccelefield, Chapeltown, Grenoside and High Green.

'My aim is to make Scouting even better than it is. Fun, teamwork and adventure – those are my three things. My role is to keep the focus on that.' - Bear Grylls

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Our Newest Volunteer

The Duchess will be helping out at Scout meetings and will be supporting specific projects. This role is all about flexible volunteering and is ideal for The Duchess. Due to all the other demands in her life she is not able to make a regular weekly commitment, but still wants to help make a difference. The Duchess will be helping out in particular with Cub Scout Packs and Beaver Scout Colonies.

As flexible volunteering is therefore high on the current news agenda this is a brilliant opportunity to offer up a suitable case study of one of your adults aged under 35, who has a Scouting role, whilst at the same time has to manage a busy lifestyle around their flexible volunteering. Please find below a selection of quotes and a video for use on your communication channels.

Bear Grylls - UK Chief Scout, who led a party of 200 Scouts to the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2011 said:

"The Duchess has an incredibly busy life which makes it all the more inspiring that she has chosen to volunteer alongside us. Over the last few years it has been our mission to make it easier for adults who volunteer with us to give as much or as little as they are able – it is how we change our society: many people doing a little bit. I just know that the Duchess will love the buzz that young Scouts always bring to their communities and their adventures, and there are few greater joys than being part of empowering young lives through the simple principles of Scouting: fun, friendship, faith and family."

We need YOU!

As part of the County’s commitment to engage young people in all aspects of Scouting and in conjunction with The Scout Association’s vision for Scouting to be shaped by young people in partnership with adults, we have produced these documents to outline South Yorkshire Scouts Youth Involvement Project. As you will see from the information provided, the project is being led by our two County Youth Representatives who have worked hard to set this work in action.

I would like to draw your attention to the flyer that promotes an introductory meeting for anyone interested in finding out more about Youth Involvement. This can be attended by any young people aged 13 – 19 or adults who may wish to involved in coordinating the work at a local level.

You should find all the information you require in the attached documents but if you do have any questions or require further information the Youth Involvement Team can be contacted on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. "> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

The meeting will take place on Sunday 5th February 2012, 2pm - 6pm at 82nd Sheffield (Chapeltown) Scout Group HQ, Burncross Road, Chapeltown, Sheffield, S35 1RX.

Please do pass this information on to any 13 – 19 year old and allow them to have the opportunity to help us continue to provide better quality Scouting.

Information Leaflet Questionaire Flyer

Before the Dragons

Dragon's Den came to Don District this last weekend. 6 teams from 3 troops (32nd, 33rd &231st) all competed for the honour of being rewarded by the Dragon's.

We were lucky to have Judith Young, a business woman who has worked and managed companies with turnovers of £500 million, and Sylvia West whose knowledge of scouting is legendary as our two dragons. They played the part to the full with searching questions about costs and products.

Each team had to come up with either a new product or service that would be useful for scouting. Ideas ranged from a whistle and torch enabled woggle, a bear that you could take on camp, a circular storage device, a pocket necker to a scouting penpal site and a ScoutLine to help answer the questions every scout needs to answer.

All the teams had their business plans and devices ruthlessly questioned by our two Dragons.

In the end the Dragons gave feedback to all the teams before eventually awarding the prize and November Challenge Trophy to the 33rd team for their work on the Scouting Website that enabled scouts to contact others from around the world.

All the scouts present completed the requirements for the Entrepreneur Challenge.

A Quiz that wasn't pointless

What a fantastic time was had by cubs from our District. The buzz was evident as soon as you entered the room when teams from Ecclesfield, Wincobank and Chapeltown (33rd & 82nd) fought it out to be crowned the Quiz Champions for 2011.

In the end it came down to a tense tiebreaker betwwen the 'Genie Brains (33rd) and the Brain Boxes (25th). The eventual winners were the 33rd team who retained their trophy for another year. The trophy was presented by the DC.

Many thanks to Matt (33rd) for providing the room and keeping the cubs brains topped up with drinks and cakes. Also thanks to all the eladers who came and ran games and asked the questions.