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The following were members of the Unit at the end of 2001:
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Troop Dinner
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Lee Baker, Grant Willett, Phil Page, Bryn Charles Pete Bristow and
Jon Corbitt joined the Scouts at their Annual Troop Dinner. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Unit Christmas Meal
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Lizzie Sudbury, Lee Baker, Grant Willett, Phil Page, Bryn Charles and Jon Corbitt
went to the Golden Ball for the Units Christmas Meal.
Grant Willett, Phill Page and Jon Corbitt joined other members of the Group at the Christingle Service at Stubbings Church. Grant carried the Unit flag and also did a reading.
Bryn and Grant joined the Troop and went Ice Skatiing at Slough Rink.
The Unit held a B-B-Q and Fireworks party. They invited guest who had support them over the parst year
The first venture evening was held with Pete Bristow as Chairman. There was a fairly good turnout - although not all were present!
Activities were planned for the next couple of months, including running a base at the Scout incident hike, and also holding a ventures 'bonfire night'. The Scouts have also offered for the ventures to accompany them to their ice skating evening and also Pantomime in January.
Once again this year, the ventures will be selling Christmas trees in order to raise funds for Thailand - so watch this space for details.
Four Scouts Grant Willett, Lee Baker, Phillip Page and Tom Byrne took part in a Going Up Ceremony and left the Troop and joined the Unit. All four new members made the Scout Promise and were invested in to the Unit, by our Group Scout Leader Rebecca Godfrey .
Five members of the Unit (Jonathan Corbitt, Bryn Charles, Alexei Vink, Pete Bristow and Lizzy Sudbury) plus Akela (Robert Harris) took part in the experdition, with help from Helpers Pete Smith & Richard Taylor with Transports down.
We held a Pizza Evening at the Scout Hall, where we made and eat Pizzas.
This was the main fundraising event for our Summer Expedition.
Under the guidance of Unit Secretary Bryn Charles the Unit have been re painting the Tomlin room. A new Gryphon has been painted on the back wall as well as the new Units Title Pinkneys Green Gryphon.
The Unit went to Laser Quest on Friday 9th March after being invited to come along by the Scouts.
All five of us crammed ourselves in Conrad's Fiat and he drove us to Reading. This was the
biggest challenge the venture unit have yet attempted.
After the General Meeting on 1st March the Unit went backwoods cooking in the PG woods
, the evening was a huge success and everyone who went had a great time cooking sausages,
despite the cold damp weather. The hardest part was lighting the fires in the damp and
trying to find dry wood to burn
The Unit held a special meeting, where they elected new officials, and worked out a programme for this term.
Christmas Trees Thanks to everyone who ordered a Christmas Tree. We hope to have
raised approximately five hundred pounds, which will go towards the trip to the French Alps this
summer Unit held a special meeting. |