Dear all

To those of you who attended the Stanford Summer Festival, I am sure that you will all agree it was an amazing community event and was strongly supported by many, both from within the village and outside it.  Everyone seemed to enjoy both the weather and the occasion and, more importantly for the Scout Group’s Barrow of Bottles raffle, many were willing to part with their hard earned cash.

On behalf of the Group’s Executive Committee and Trustees, I have a number of thank you’s to make regarding the weekend’s events.  Firstly, may I say a HUGE thank you to Val Wyatt who arranged the beautiful ‘Animal Badges’ display in the Church on Friday evening for the Scout Group.  It was thoroughly enjoyed and admired by all.  Thank you also to the kind parents who delivered some flowers for Val to use in her display.

Another HUGE thank you must go to those parents who were generous enough to donate a bottle for the barrow (some of you donating more than 1).  I was kept sweating until the last thinking we might only have handful of bottles in a barrow full of hay, but as is often the case, everything came together in the end and we had over 60 bottles and tins of alcohol (plus a few soft’s) to raffle off!

My last HUGE, and very important, thanks must go those parents (Emma Cornish, Emma Brooks, Sue Courtney, John Cave, Sue Finney, Theresa & Carl Smith, Sylvia Thornycroft, Heidi Crook, John Baker & Emma Reed) who very kindly volunteered 20-30 minutes of their time on Sunday to help sell the raffle tickets.  You were amazing and together we managed to sell 382 tickets which raised a whopping £290.00 net for the Scout Group!  The funds for the Scout Group will go a long way to subsidizing many of the activities your children participate in throughout the year.

The winning ticket was drawn on Sunday 14th June at 5.45pm by Cub -Deanna Stamp, and witnessed by Janet Warren, and others.  It was ticket number 107, which had been bought by Ben Wetherall (20 years of age) of SITV.  Upon receiving his prize, he instantly took on the look of the proverbial ‘Cheshire Cat’ and commented that he might not remember the rest of this term at University!!

So finally, thank you again to all those parents who contributed either bottles, time or both towards this highly successful fundraiser and thank you to everyone who bought raffle ticket.  Let us hope we do just as well, if not better, next year.

Sheena Stamp

Chairperson

1st Stanford in the Vale Scout Group Executive Committee

The winning raffle ticket for this year’s Barrow Of Bottles Prize at the village Summer Festival was drawn on Sunday 14th June 2009 at 5.45pm by Deanna Stamp (one of our cubs).

Congratulations to the lucky winner, Ben Wetherall of SITV, who had bought ticket number 107.

Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket and helped raise £326.00 for the Scout Group and St. Denys’ Church.

COME AND FIND YOUR DESIGNER BARGAINS AT THE SCOUT JUMBLE SALE!

BEAT THE CREDIT CRUNCH!                                    

DOORS OPEN 1.30     RAFFLE DRAW 3.30

NO ELECTRICAL GOODS

ALL DONATIONS TO SECTION LEADERS OR DELIVER ON THE MORNING TO THE HALL

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SHARING A CUP OF TEA WITH YOU

ENTRANCE 20p

The Leadership Team would appreciate any help Scouts/Explorers or parents are able to give. Donations of jumble or raffle prizes, or setting up (between 10.45 & 1.00), manning the stalls (between 1.30 & 3.30), or helping clear up (between 3.30 & 5.00).

Any hours that Scouts put in will count towards their Community Challenge Award. 

Many of you will know that over the last year David Ashby has been performing extensive excavation work in the field. David has kindly released a report of his work for all to see; available in PDF form in the 'Useful Documents' link on the left.

Please look on the 'Useful Dcouments' section of this site, under 'Administration', to see a letter that has been posted.

Thanks to all the Scouts and Explorers that participated in the event on White Horse Hill last night. Everyone seemed to enjoy the game, all the details of which are posted in the "Useful documents" area on this site so that other sections (and even other scout groups) can modify and use themselves if they wish!

The Contacts section of the website has been updated.

The programmes for all sections are now on the site - please check back regularly though as all programmes are subject to change.