The Leader Questionnaires will be collated for the Conference in the next few days, so the final date to complete the questionnaire is tomorrow, January 31st. Don’t miss this chance to affect County Communications, Training Offerings, Skills Instruction and Events – fill out the survey here: http://www.gln-scouts.org.uk/survey/
The GLN County Programme Conference for GSLs, District and County teams is at the beginning of February.
In order to help them with planning, there is a short online Leaders Survey to gather information ahead of the discussions. The survey asks for your opinions and ideas on County Events, Communications, Training and Permits and Skills.
All Leaders and helpers should fill this out – it will only take 5 or 10 minutes – even if you have never been to a County event.
The Survey is at http://www.gln-scouts.org.uk/survey – thank you for helping make the County even Greater!
6,144 people are currently enjoying the everyday adventure Scouting provides in Greater London North – the highest number for 14 years!
Results of the termly census are available at: http://www.gln-scouts.org.uk/
In addition to collect details of our current membership, we asked for views on a range of new initiatives to support local Scouting – which will be launched over the coming months.
County Development Conference 2012
The County Development Conference will take place on the 4th and 5th February 2012 at the DeVere Hotel, Theobalds Park , Lieutenant Ellis Way , Cheshunt, Waltham Cross , Hertfordshire , EN7 5HW – if you are a GSL, Group Contact part of a District Team, please take note of which of the days you are invited to attend:
Saturday 4th February – DCs, County Team Members, DESCs, ADCs and District Scouters
Sunday 5th February – GSLs, DESCs, DCs
Further details (including an outline of the content) now available on the County website - click here
Saturday 4th February 2012
Audience: DCs, County Team Members, ADCs and District Scouters
Time: likely to be 10am – 4pm
Content / discussions likely include:
- The “adult support” part of the ADC / District Scouter roles
- Structure / objectives of the County programme team
- Ensuring events (particularly District and County level ) complement the programme, rather than duplicate what’s happening at section/Group level.
Sunday 5th February 2012
Audience: GSLs, DCs
Time: likely to be 10am – 4pm
Content / discussions / workshops likely to include:
- HQ / County updates (including initial feedback from the Saturday session)
- Workshops to support GSLs in their role (based on feedback from the Termly Census)
- A chance to discuss the initial feedback from the Saturday session
- Discussion to help shape the support delivered to Groups by Districts/County
- Question/Answer with members of the County/Region/HQ team
The Termly Census is now live for Group Scout Leaders and/or Group Contacts to complete. In addition to asking about current membership and capacity, the County is also consulting on:
- A website service
- Use of the FREE recruitment leaflets available to groups
- A proposed recruitment badge for youth members (for the uniform)
- Support required by Group Scout Leaders
The form is available at: http://www.gln-scouts.org.uk/
Make sure your Group has responded by the deadline (16th October)
During the last year several new groups/Sections have been opened in parts of the County. Russ Dyble, our Local Development Officer, has helped find leaders and set them up but cannot stay to support them for very long. It is our intention that any new Group or Section would be allocated a County Support Leader to help them.
Some of these new units may need help with Programme Planning, ceremonies, games, organisation of an evening etc. Others may only need somebody with a warrant to be present until their CRB’s etc. are sorted. Obviously some will need a lot of support and some much less depending on their knowledge and expertise and also whether there is good support within the Group.
I need experienced leaders who would be interested in helping these new sections.
Each new unit will be different but it will be you who will decide how much time and support you can give. Whether the support comes with a physical presence or as a source of help and support on the phone will vary. I suspect that with most it will start as a physical presence to give advice and confidence and gradually become more remote.
It is a very worthwhile job to be doing and could make the difference between a flourishing section or a failing section. Russ and I will always be there to support you.
Please think carefully about this and how you can help. You can contact me on accdevelopment@gln-scouts.org.uk or 020 8366 3757
If you know of anybody else who may not have received this please do tell them about this opportunity to help.
Thanks
Barbara
Barbara Garner
ACC Development, Greater London North Scouts
| Top line = | 2011 |
| Middle = | 2010 |
| Bottom = | Change |
| DISTRICT | BEAVERS | SCOUTS | NETWORK | LEADERS | ADULT | TOTAL | ||||||
| CUBS | EXPLORERS | YOUTH | OTHERS | |||||||||
| Barnet Borough | 334 | 464 | 417 | 147 | 0 | 1362 | 247 | 57 | 304 | 1666 | ||
| 242 | 448 | 356 | 149 | 0 | 1195 | 214 | 48 | 262 | 1457 | |||
| 92 | 16 | 61 | -2 | 0 | 167 | 33 | 9 | 42 | 209 | 14.3% | ||
| CCI | 175 | 263 | 265 | 49 | 0 | 752 | 146 | 33 | 179 | 931 | ||
| 164 | 289 | 255 | 64 | 0 | 772 | 141 | 35 | 176 | 948 | |||
| 11 | -26 | 10 | -15 | 0 | -20 | 5 | -2 | 3 | -17 | -1.8% | ||
| Enfield | 277 | 341 | 290 | 110 | 0 | 1018 | 217 | 22 | 239 | 1257 | ||
| 253 | 348 | 304 | 103 | 0 | 1008 | 211 | 21 | 232 | 1240 | |||
| 24 | -7 | -14 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 1.4% | ||
| Haringey | 102 | 190 | 222 | 32 | 0 | 546 | 100 | 29 | 129 | 675 | ||
| 77 | 209 | 210 | 22 | 0 | 518 | 103 | 27 | 130 | 648 | |||
| 25 | -19 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 28 | -3 | 2 | -1 | 27 | 4.2% | ||
| Southgate | 173 | 250 | 273 | 89 | 0 | 785 | 152 | 10 | 162 | 947 | ||
| 163 | 247 | 262 | 89 | 0 | 761 | 152 | 16 | 168 | 929 | |||
| 10 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 0 | -6 | -6 | 18 | 1.9% | ||
| DSP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 84 | 5 | 89 | 102 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 79 | 5 | 84 | 96 | |||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 6.3% | ||
| County | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 24 | 41 | 58 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 20 | 36 | 46 | |||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 26.1% | ||
| TOTAL | 1061 | 1508 | 1467 | 440 | 10 | 4493 | 963 | 180 | 1143 | 5636 | ||
| 899 | 1541 | 1387 | 439 | 10 | 4276 | 916 | 172 | 1088 | 5364 | |||
| 162 | -33 | 80 | 1 | 0 | 217 | 47 | 8 | 55 | 272 | 5.1% | ||
| 18.0% | -2.1% | 5.8% | 0.2% | 0.0% | 5.1% | 5.1% | 4.7% | 5.1% | 5.1% | |||