Below is the text of a short article for the next Ridgeway Bell:
Chiseldon Air Scouts - News
In preparation for Red Nose day, 1st Chiseldon Beaver Scouts dressed up in their pajamas and brought in their pennies and tuppence's to make a penny trail around the community hall in aid of Comic relief. The trail was a success, Beaver section (age 6 to 8 years) has 12 members at present and we are pleased to say they made a trail worth £17.07, which was all donated to comic relief. Well done Beavers.
It's a Scout troop tradition to invest new members in novel and different places. On Red Nose Day itself, our Scout troop (led by Skip aka Mark Matthews) met in the Calley Memorial Hall for the first time. Graham Crawshaw was invested as a Scout Leader. The hall is currently undergoing repair and redecoration, so paint pots and staging was moved out of the way and space made to form a horse shoe of Scouts around the Union flag. Graham was invested by our new Group Scout Leader (a volunteer manager and leader for the Group) Pete Snipe. Pete took over as GSL in January.
Its frustrating not to be able to say a public thank you, but a local company has been supporting our work in the hall by supplying manpower. So far we have used circa twelve man weeks of effort at no cost. This has helped us strip woodwork back to bare wood and decorate 'properly'. Whilst I cant say which company, I can say thank you (you know who you are)!
As we move through the Summer, the Calley Memorial Hall will come visibly to life. Externally, we already have brickwork being cleaned and wood work being repaired / decorated. Inside the hall, we have been tackling cleanup, decoration and minor repairs. Surveys are being carried out for new gas and electrical supplies. Parents and adult leaders in the Scout Group have already been working weekends to get the hall into shape. We welcome help on Sunday mornings from 10:30. Come prepared to get dirty.
Some local tradesmen Rob Hall (plumbing) and Jim Leckie (kitchen fitting) have given their time and expertise for free. We thank them for supporting this community project. If you can help this project, even in a small way, please call Pete Snipe on 741164. We don't want to spend massive amounts on this project, so help is very much welcomed. Our aim is still to bring the Calley Memorial hall back into use, for Scouts, for the village and our community - on a not for profit basis.
You can keep up to date with progress on the hall by looking at http://www.chiseldonhall.
Finally, later than planned we have passed a signed copy of the lease agreement to our supportive landlords - Chiseldon Sports & Social Club. The CS&S Club and its committee have been brilliant in supporting the Scouts bringing the hall back into use.
Akela
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