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Dear Parents, Time has come to organise a new scout year, we are meeting back on the Friday 12th September 2008 at 7:30pm in the school, with a registration night for the scouts. This will allow us to get a grasp on the number of youths attending this year, if your son or daughter is unable to make this meeting please contact one of the leaders to make us aware of this (some numbers listed below) and if possible please return the registration form. Many thanks to all the parents who helped with the camping equipment after summer camp, if you have equipment please return it that night, I would also like to appeal that if you have any other scout equipment that may be lurking in sheds, nook’s and cranny’s, under beds or under the stairs from previous hikes and events can you also return that. We are introducing a Texting Service as we feel that many of our notes do not make it home after the Scout Meetings as we have had poor numbers turning up for activities over the past few years. This has become very frustrating for leaders who give up their time and place a lot of effort into organising and running the events. Every time we send a note home we will also send out a multi-text to the nominated parent. We also have an e-mail address for anyone who may wish to contact us; the address is
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this will be sent to all the leaders in the Scout Section. Any notes that are sent home with the scouts will also be sent via e-mail. We hope to become more environmentally friendly by reducing the number of paper letters sent home. Don’t worry if you don’t have e-mail we will still continue to send you printed notes via the power of your Scout returning home from the meeting. If you wish to receive email notices please email our address, if you do not wish to receive paper notices please inform your son or daughter not to take the notes home, this will help us reduce our printing costs in time. Please do not use your son’s or daughter’s email address to register for this distribution list We also have a web-site http://www.shankill-scouts.com/ here you will find many articles over the coming years, there are also Calenders for the scout section where you can check up on events that will be happening over the coming year. All our notices will also be on this site. We hope to update this site regularly so please keep coming back. We have purchased some new equipment for the last summer camp and now we need to do some fundraising to pay for this equipment, if you are interested in organising or helping with fundraising please notify Shane and he will organise a meeting with the parents interested, Please fill in the attached form and return it to the scout leaders on or before Friday 12th September Some Leader Contact Information See printed letter Yours in Scouting Ken, Trish, Graham, Jodi, Shane & Tom The Leaders |
