1st Pontygwaith Scout Group

May be of interest to the Scouts.

Children’s Commissioner for Wales.

The Children’s Commissioner is looking for 15 young people, aged between 11 and 18, to join the Young People Advisory Panel. The team will work with the Commissioner to feedback on her work and come up with new ideas for the future. The young people would be committed to 3 meetings per year and would be in the role for two years. More information and application forms can be found on the Commissioner’s website.

Recruitment – Children’s Commissioner for Wales

We’re looking for up to 15 young people from across Wales to join our Young People’s Advisory Panel. Ideally, you’ll have some previous experience of representing the views of other people and be… CHILDCOMWALES

Congratulations to Evan on being the only young person from RCT to be selected to attend the 24^th World Scout Jamboree ( www.2019wsj.org ) in the USA in two years’ time. Evan successfully attended the All Wales Selection Camp on the weekend and received notification of his place today.

Now the fundraising will begin and he has to raise over £3500 to attend the event, he has less than two years to raise the money and the Scout Group will be supporting him in his fundraising efforts.

If anyone has any fundraising ideas or would like to donate some money towards this once in a lifetime opportunity for Evan please feel free to contact John.

To kick start Evan’s fundraising we would like to run a bus trip to Bath on Saturday 9^th December and if we can get 14 people to attend this would make the trip viable. The cost of the minibus would be £15 per person (contact John on 07976623950)

Time to post your Christmas cards – still only 20p.

See Christmas post link on the left.

Happy Christmas.

1st Pontygwaith Scout Group celebrates their 75th anniversary next year and since 1966 there has been a totem Pole in the hall depicting some of the Groups history.

As far as we are aware the totem pole was actually a pit prop from the local mine and we would like to find out more about how the group came to have it and which mine it came from. We are also looking for a local artist that could help the scouts update the pole as there a number of events we would like to add to the pole.

Any help much appreciated.

We also have some vacancies in all sections for young people between the ages of 6-14 years of age and would also be interested in hearing from any adults who would like to volunteer.

The Christmas post has started again…please try and post early!

Happy Christmas!

PSG Scout Group.

Rockets made out of old plastic bottles – looks like fun.

Mind out – Rocket!

Hope they did not hit anyone – ouch!

Well, four exactly…but who’s counting…except me:

1. May 21st Cub Five A Side, Ystrad Sports Centre 1pm-3-pm (£1.50)
2. June 11th All Wales Cub Funday (Cost £11)
3. June 24th-26th All Wales Scout Camp(£40)
4. Cub Camp 15th – 17th July(Cost TBC)

John W