Sedgemoor District Scout Fellowship Report 2008/9

Having recently taken over the Chairmanship of the District Scout Fellowship I thought my first point would be to remind everyone of why we exist and what our aims are.

Essentially Fellowship members are a group of adults who wish in some way to provide 'active support' to local Scouting. The Fellowship is made up of men and women of all ages, interests and backgrounds, whether or not they have been involved with Scouting or Guiding before. All members of Scout Fellowship are there because they wish to give some of their time to Scouting - this can be as much or as little as they like, in a wide variety of activities. We also have our own social and activity programme, which I will share the results of last year in a moment.

The aim of the Scout Fellowship is to "Provide Active Support", with the emphasis being very much on practical support of the youth programme at all levels of the Association, from the local Scout Group to Explorers and County events. 

Fellowship is open to all Leaders so please feel welcome to join us on any or all of our social events or when we are involved in supporting a Programme event for example Sixers Camp. 

I did mention our Programme of last year, we took part in a Racing Evening at ‘Ascot’ with everyone dressed for the occasion, an Uno evening complete with a Fish and Chip supper, afternoons out and summer evening barb-a-queues and many more. All very successful and enjoyable. We also undertook a number of Active Support roles in the District at the St Georges Day Parade and Sixers Camp to name but two events. 

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank Darby Allen and John Heal for their work over the past few years as Chairman and Secretary and wish them well, I’m sure we will continue to see lots of them. 

Finally we as a fellowship would enjoy supporting you so please take the opportunity and let us know what we can do to help you with your work in your section.

Dave Jellett

Chairman, Sedgemoor Fellowship