Sunday 21st April

This weekend many involved Scouting will be either holding their own St.George’s Day celebrations or they will be joining in with bigger events organised by their home towns.

 

Here in Ware, we join together with other uniformed organisations to celebrate the fact St.George is the patron saint of Scouting. Members of our Group will be involved in the parade through the High street, will take part in specially held church services, will help support  our community by performing a variety of services such as litter picking, gardening, painting town benches, maintenance and tidying up at the skate park.

 

 

Just like the Scout Association, St. George is a supporter of people from all backgrounds, nationalities and walks of life. As well as England he is the patron Saint of Aragon, Catalonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Germany and Greece; he also represents, archers, soldiers, farmers, those suffering from leprosy, several other illnesses and many other towns and jobs.

The Scout Association recently asked him, "why Scouting?". Here is his reply... 

‘Scouting is a fantastic organisation to be involved in. The work it does with young people across the world providing them with the opportunity of adventure and developing new skills is something everybody should applaud.

Recently I witnessed some Scouts being taught how to light a fire for the first time on camp. I admit the flames made me a bit nervous, ever since that thing with the dragon I’ve had a bit of an aversion to fire, but it was great to see how excited and inspired the young people were by this new skill they’d learnt.’ (source:Scouts.org.uk)

 

We look forward to seeing all members of 3^rd Ware tomorrow and gathering together at the end of the day to renew our promises along side the other Scout Groups from our District, learning who is to be awarded the Peter Geer trophy this year and then, just before heading home, taking our annual Group photograph, which gets bigger and bigger each year.

 

Last year

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