1st Carnoustie Scout Group Annual Awards Ceremony and Concert - Friday 17th May 2019

1st Carnoustie
       Scout Group

           Annual
  Awards Ceremony
       and Concert
            (incorporating AGM)

    Friday 17th May 2019
Beach Hall, Links Parade, Carnoustie

Carnoustie Scout Group

                             2019 Annual Awards Ceremony & AGM

                           Carnoustie Beach Hall, Friday 17 May 2019

Good evening and a sincere welcome to everyone to our annual awards ceremony celebrating all the
successes of our Group over the past year.

This has been another extremely busy year for the Group and we would like to take this evening to
recognise the hard work, challenges and achievements accomplished by all our members from the
youngest Beavers, through Cubs and Scouts to Explorers and our adults.

The achievements come in many formats from our talented Beavers winning the Arbroath Festival
singing games to the Explorers successfully completing their Duke of Edinburgh Award as well as the
numerous Chief Scout Challenge Awards at all levels and the Zodiac Awards.

As well as congratulating the young people we also show our appreciation to our excellent team of
volunteer leaders who plan these achievements to take place.

Thanks to the invited guests who have supported us this evening to appreciate the community impact
from Carnoustie Scout Group:
       Graeme Dey – MSP Angus South
       Stewart Hosie – MP Dundee East
       Councillor Brian Boyd – Carnoustie & District
       Councillor David Cheape – Carnoustie & District
       Councillor Mark McDonald – Carnoustie & District
       Rev Annette Gordon – Minister at Carnoustie Panbride Church
       Lorraine Young – Carnoustie Co-op
       Eric Armit – Vice President of Carnoustie Rotary Club
       Beth Lee-Smith – Founder Leader of Carnoustie Beavers
       Callum Farquhar – Regional Commissioner, East Scotland
       Ailsa Bickerton & Maureen Yool – South Angus District Scout Active Support

Finally, thanks to the parents and carers for all your support, assistance and ensuring that your young
person turns up at the right place at the right time for each meeting, camp or actvitiy.

Kenny Lee
Group Scout Leader

Carnoustie Scout Group – Chairperson Report 2018/2019

2018/2019 has been another year full of fun for the young people, leaders and parents.
Without the young people and their parents, none of this would be possible so a MASSIVE
THANK YOU to everyone who has helped, donated, baked, taken part in sessions or
activities, bought raffle tickets, attended coffee mornings, bag packing & camps ….to
mention only a few!
Every penny & bit of help really does matter! Most of the money raised has been used for
the upkeep and maintenance of the hall as well as for buying new camping equipment for
the young people.
Christmas Post, A MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone who got involved to help with our
biggest fundraiser. Despite the volume of cards being down, we raised over £2k.
Donations, we have received very generous donations from Carnoustie Golf Links
Management Committee, Carnoustie Rotary Club and Carnoustie Gala Committee which we
are extremely grateful for. Also, thank you to all the parents who helped at the last Hall
clean too.
The group has a number of upcoming events to look forward too such as the Barwood camp
at the end of May and the Blair Drummond Safari Camp in June, for details of all up and
coming events please go to our fantastic website http://www.carnoustiescouts.org.uk/. The
group has also started a refurbishment programme in the hall where we are planning to
create a more fit for purpose Kitchen and dining area and upgraded toilet facilities, we will
keep you all in the loop as we move forward.
Thanks for all your time, effort and support over the past 12 months and here’s to the next
12 action packed ones.

Carnoustie Scout Group Report 2018/19

I am extremely pleased to report that this has been another hugely successful year for Carnoustie Scout
Group. Our numbers have increased again since last year and we currently have a record number of 144
young people enjoying Scouting in Carnoustie on a weekly basis which is 17% up from the previous year.
This is not down to chance but as a result of the excellent team of great leaders we have in the Group.
Each leader has their own unique quality which they bring to the Group when combined gives an
amazing force to which I am immensely proud. The Scout Group currently comprises the 2 Beaver
Colonies on a Monday and Friday, 3 Cub Packs meeting on a Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings,
Scout Troop on a Friday and Explorer Unit also on a Friday. Numbers in the Beavers have increased
towards the end of the year, Cubs have remained steady but our biggest growth has been in the Scouts
where we are retaining the young people more than ever. Numbers in the Explorer Unit have remained
constant although we have sadly lost some of our older members through work and study commitments.
We continue to look for new members for all sections of the Group.

I have had many highlights over the past year including the national beaver picnic at Meggernie in Glen
Lyon and finding trolls. We have had numerous camps but Barrwood has been my personal favourite.
The Blair Atholl Satellite Camp is also a firm favourite and the excitement of the scouts trading with
others from different nations. We were lucky to have 3 members of the group taking part in the Dundee
Scout Gang Show. The Group brought the District swimming gala trophy back to Carnoustie. I
accompanied the scout band to Falkirk to a poignant ANZAC celebration.

Without doubt every section of Carnoustie Scout Group continues to offer a high quality, varied and
exciting programme to the members over the course of the year. This is only possible thanks go to our
team of dedicated and committed volunteer leaders, section assistants and helpers for continuing to
provide an interesting and stimulating programme on a weekly basis covering such a diverse range of
activities. This is testament to the great number of Chief Scout Challenge badges which will be
presented to our members this evening. We currently have the following warranted leaders - 4 Beaver
Scout Leaders, 5 Cub Scout Leaders, 4 Scout Leaders and 2 Explorer Scout Leaders plus a further 12
section assistants. We continue to have great support from parents willing to help out on occasion. As
always, we are continually on the lookout for anyone able and willing to help in whatever way.

Thanks goes to Simon Laird in his inaugural year as chairperson of the efficient Parent’s Executive.
Special thanks goes to our hard working volunteer secretary (Adrienne Ross) and treasurer (Carrie
Higgins) who both stand down this year after a great number of years’ service. Thanks to our social
convener Mel Anderson for all her hard work and keeping on track of the various emails. Thanks also go
to Lindsay Ross and Natalie Mackland and the Christmas Post sub committee for once again efficiently
and professionally organising our biggest fundraiser. Our donations for the post remain the main
fundraising income for the Group. We continued working with neighbouring Scout Groups in Arbroath,
Monifieth and Broughty Ferry. Thanks to Sandy Smith for all his work as quartermaster (equipment
manager) for the group.

All the sections have taken part in events both at district level in South Angus, regional events in the East
of Scotland as well as National events across Scotland. In the summer we held our stall and float at
Carnoustie Gala Day and thanks to the members of the Parent’s Committee who helped at this event. In
November we were well represented and smart at the Carnoustie Remembrance Day parade.

We have embraced the new scouting #skillsforlife hashtag and this is none so more apparent than on our
regular camps. Camping and the outdoors have been fundamental in the core values and witness to this
is the number of zodiac awards being presented this evening. We have had over way over 1000 nights
away cumulative at the Group over the past year. We have a diverse group of skilled individuals in the
group from our band instructors and Makaton teachers to our skiing instructors and gorge walking
leaders. We are very proud of the musicians in our Group with the Beavers winning their category at the
Arbroath Music Festival. The Scout String Group and the Scout Wind Band all won first place in their
categories.

The year has been tinged with sadness with the untimely passing of Dean Morrison who had been a
section assistant at Scouts and progressing to become a leader. We remain supportive to the family and
in due course will organise a camp in Dean’s memory.

We have building on our relationship with Monifieth Scout Group and this has increased over the past
year or so but more so since December 2018 with mutual use of leader’s talents. We have also
continued to have a strong relationship with our friends in the Falkirk area Scout Groups.

Summer 2019 will see over 30 members of the Group attend the international Jamborette in Paisley,
USA. This grew from meeting the leaders at Blair Atholl and hearing about the activities at the
Jamborette. This will be a trip of a lifetime for the fortunate scouts and explorers attending this event.

Scouting in Carnoustie continues to be varied and strong. We have a committed, talented and dedicated
team of leaders suitably complimented by a hard working parent’s executive. This combination ensures
that Carnoustie Scout Group can offer a varied programme to the 150 or so regular members every
week. The future growth remains steady with a busy programme scheduled by all sections for the year
ahead.

Kenny Lee, Group Scout Leader

Beaver Report 2018/19

Both Beaver Colonies have had another successful year. We have around 50 boys and girls enjoying
Beavers on a weekly basis on either a Monday or Friday. Both Colonies broadly run similar programmes
to achieve the same badges and all Beavers have the opportunity to attend the many joint events as well
as activities run by the Group.

Our programme over the year has been varied and focussing on the various badges. Presentations have
been made of all challenge awards. The Beavers have also been working on various activity badges. 12
Beavers achieved the bronze award of the Chief Scout Challenge. When Beavers leave to swim up to
Cubs we always ask their favourite activity and without exception this is always the camps. The 10 nights
away badge is now common place with our older Beavers.

Our Beavers attended the National Beaver Picnic at Meggernie which was an amazing day out and trying
out various activities and meeting other Beavers from across Scotland. Our highlight of the year was
winning our class of the under 12s singing games category at the Arbroath & District Music Festival 2018.
The Beavers all did really well and enjoyed the opportunity to perform on a professional stage.

Beavers have had the opportunity to attend may residential experiences over the course of the year.
The Beavers attended the Craig’s Camp in May last year and enjoyed being in tents. Then in March the
Beavers enjoyed being day visitors to the Group Camp at Fordell Firs Activity Centre in Fife. We have
enjoyed various activities over the year from husky racing at Easthaven Beach to dam building on the
Lochty Burn.

We were joint winners at the District Swimming Gala at Arbroath Swimming Pool so well done to Luke,
Harris, Manny and Abby in the winning team.

We have partied to celebrate Halloween and for our Christmas Party we visited Jumping Joeys in
Arbroath. We have been on outings to the pantomime at the High School Theatre and the Dundee Scout
Gang Show at the Whitehall Theatre. The Beavers also attended the Carnoustie Remembrance Day
Parade. Our summer trip was to the Monikie Park to the Group Activities day.

In Carnoustie we have continued to benefit from having a committed and dedicated leadership team and
this is reflected in the great number and variety of activities which have been offered to the Beavers.
Our thanks go to Rachael Barber, Lorna Hendry, Lesley Ritchie and Kenny Lee for their help, support and
continued enthusiasm over the year to continue with the success of the colonies. Thanks to our young
leaders Lewis McNicoll and Katy Roberts. Thanks also to all the leaders and parents who have helped
from time to time especially Kenney Falconer. We are all looking forward to a continued varied
programme in the coming year.

Kenny Lee                                   Rachael Barber
Beaver Scout Leader                         Beaver Scout Leader

CARNOUSTIE ‘A’ CUB SCOUT PACK
                                     REPORT 2018/19
Tuesday Cubs are a long standing cub pack in Carnoustie and in August 2018, the running of
the pack was undertaken by Kim Keillor and Heather Keillor with administration support
from Pamela Millar. Thanks to the support from the Thursday Cub Pack run by Keith and
the Sunday Cub Pack run by Joyce. We have at times received ideas and feedback from the
other two packs.
Since August our pack has seen some cubs move on to scouts with new cubs joining us from
Beavers and from new. We are small and friendly group with our current numbers at 16
with room for more.
During the terms our pack have completed many different badges. These have included the
home help badge, personal safety badge, crafts badge and astronomy badge. We have also
enjoyed learning about different culture’s like Chinese New Year and learning new games
such as double Dutch skipping (which was difficult for the adults!) In addition, the older
cubs have been successfully working to complete their Chief Scout Challenge Silver Award.
We are currently working on the science badge and the disability badge which involves
learning Makaton and are working on a challenge badge.
We have had several camps that many of our cubs have attended which helped them to
complete numerous badges. The most recent camp was also our closest and enjoyed by
everyone who camped at Carnoustie Beach. The cubs have been given the chance to take
part in various activities including archery and fishing. They are looking forward to our
group camp at Barrwood where currently over 30 cubs are attending from the 3 different
packs which will allow them to complete the outdoor badge.
In January we came together with the rest of the South Angus District to compete in the
swimming gala at Arbroath pool. All our competitors were fantastic and swam their hearts
out.
As part of our disability awareness badge we are learning Makaton for our cub promise, law
and motto as well as learning a song which will be performed tonight. For this badge we
have had the wonderful Anne Lochhead in to help the children to learn it all as well as
Heather and I. Thank you Ann.
Many thanks to everyone in Carnoustie Scout Group for you unquestioned support
throughout the year. Without each of you helping in various ways Tuesday Cub Pack would
not continue to be as successful as it is.
Thank you
Kim Keillor- Tuesday Cub Scout Leader
Heather Keillor Tuesday Cub Section Assistant

Sunday Cubs AGM Report 2019

Another busy year has been completed at Sunday Cubs, marking the 2nd year since the pack
started.
Our Cubs that have moved up to Scouts have all successfully completed their Silver
Challenge Award, a great achievement that they have all worked hard to earn.
Highlights of the year have included our sleepover in the hall where we collected donations
for the local Food Bank. Cubs from all 3 packs came together to collect much needed
donations and to have a fun night staying together in the hall, not much sleeping was done
though!! We have been working on badges including our science badge where amongst
other things we learned about floating coins and made balloon rockets.
The camping season will be starting soon with camps arranged at Fordell Firs, Barrwood and
the Cub district camp at Jock Neish and we shall be working on our Outdoor Challenge
badge at these camps.
A lot of our Cubs are due to move up to Scouts in October and we will therefore have spaces
available for new Cubs to start. If you know of anyone wishing to be added to the waiting
list, please let me know.
I would like to thank all the parents/helpers and our young leader David who have assisted
us at pack meetings, camps, outings etc. over the past year, it really is much appreciated.

Joyce McPhee
Sunday Cub Leader

1st Carnoustie, 6th Angus Scouts, AGM
                                         17 May 2019, Scout Report
Current number of Scouts: 38. Of these on average the weekly normal attendance is between 20 and 30.
After the AGM in May last year we continued to have an active programme over the next 12-month period
working on some of the highest awards in scouting (Silver/Gold Chief Scout Challenge Awards) not to mention
activity staged badges and numerous other badgework. This has been a bumper and extremely busy year for the
Scout Section with its highest no of registered scouts to date. Here is a summary of what we have done:

May 2018
25-27 May – Summer Trip to Craigs Camp in West Lothian with the Group.

June
9-10 June – Cycling Camp on West Fife Way.
24 June – Group Summer Activity Day and BBQ at Monikie Coutry Park

July
2-8 July – Carnoustie Beach Camp.
20-23 July – Blair Atholl International Jamborrette Satellite Camp meeting up with Gibraltar Scouts.

October
20 October – Astronomer Camp at Muirhead.
26 October – Zombie Run, Carnoustie.

November
2-4 November Torwood Camp.
11 November Remembrance Day Parade in Carnoustie.
17-18 November – Wee Social Bite Homelessness Awareness Camp in Carnoustie.

December
2 December – Scouts visited Carnoustie High School for their Christmas Panto with the Beavers also attending.
21 December – Christmas Party followed by a fundraising film at the Dibbletree Theatre on the 22 December.

January 2019
18 January – Scouts attended and Ice Hockey Match at Dundee Ice Arena.
26 January – Swimming Gala event at Arbroath Swimming Pool.

February
2 February – Scouts Burns Supper in Carnoustie Panbride Church Hall.

March
15-17 March – Group Camp to Fordell Firs Scout Centre in Fife.
29 March – Trip to Dundee Scout Gang show where Evelyn and Thom (Scouts) were on stage for performances.

April
20 April – Beach Camp in Carnoustie down by the Coastguard Station at Ballater Park in Carnoustie.

May
17 May – Celebration Success Ceremony and AGM at Beach Hall in Carnoustie.
24-25 May – Big Barrwood Camp (Next weekend)

As always, we have worked continuously on challenge awards for the Gold Chief Scout and laterally with an influx
of new Scouts from Cubs getting them finished up for their Silver Chief Scout Awards. Mix this with a camp every
month somewhere different as in type (under tent, bothy, bivvie, hammock etc) or location/time of the camp
(sub zero, more than 40 at camp, at altitude or somewhere you would not expect), (Zodiac Award). This also
must be completed in all four seasons and over a period of time.

Steve Scott / Mairi McMillan / George Martin                                                  14 May 2019

Explorer Report 2018/19

The Explorer Unit has had an extremely busy year. Our numbers have increased over the year with new
members coming from Scouts. Altogether we have now have 12 young people coming along every
Friday. Unfortunately, our older membership has been decreasing over the year as the young people
focus on other commitments including employment and education.

Our programme over the year has included developing the young people’s camping and survival skills as
well as care and maintenance of the camping equipment. Presentations have been made of all
challenge awards. We are proud that 2 Explorers successfully achieved their Silver Duke of Edinburgh
Award and are now working towards completion of their Gold level whilst 4 of the young members are
working on their Bronze level award.

Ross Clark represented the unit at the Blair Atholl Jamborette in 2018 and had an amazing experience.

Our highlight of the year has included the gorge walking in the Trossachs with Falkirk Explorers and
abseiling in the Avon Gorge. Whilst at Craig’s Camp we enjoyed kayaking under the Forth Bridges and
climbing at the Edinburgh International Arena. We enjoyed trying out fencing at Dundee University.

Explorers have been well represented at all the Group camps over the year including Barrwood,
Torwood, Technocamp, Ballister Park and Craig’s Camp.

We were winners at the District Swimming Gala at Arbroath Swimming Pool so well done to Greg, Joel
and Emily in the winning team.

The Explorers attended the Carnoustie Remembrance Day Parade.

In Carnoustie we have an enthusiastic group of Explorer Scouts who are keen to take part in new
activities or further develop existing activities. Thanks to Stewart Bisgrove who has continued to provide
inspiration and support as assistant leader. Thanks to the parents for their continued support of the
unit.

Craig Barber
Explorer Scout Leader