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Committee Notes

With the advent of Covid 19, the hall was closed to tenants on the instructions of the City of Cape Town. To date, the hall remains closed to all users. The consequence of this was that we lost one of major streams of income (rental from our tenants). It is fortunate that the Group is …

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Blessing Bags and Community Service

As one of her Leaping Wolf challenges, Olivia collected donations and packed Blessing Bags containing food, toiletries and warm clothing to hand out to homeless people in the Southern Suburbs. Well done Olivia for helping people facing the triple challenge of homelessness, Covid-19 lockdown, and the start of Cape winter. Community Service forms part of the …

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Senior Cub Adventure Camp

Once a year, Western Cape runs a camp for 10 year old cubs in their final year before going up to scouts. The camp theme is based on the “Survivor” reality show and it takes place at the Hawequas scout campsite. In March this year 72 cubs took part, with ten cubs from 1st Claremont …

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Regional and National News Roundup

Scouts is a vibrant organisation with many activities on offer and a need for volunteers to help deliver. Not all of these activities are offered at Group level and we would like to not only ensure that our scouts are aware of opportunities and developments but also to help Scouts SA find volunteers to help …

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Cub Freedom Day Mountaineering

Normally if we said the cubs were going to wave the South African flag on top of a mountain on Freedom Day, we would pack a backpack, put on our boots, and climb a mountain to do it. This year, because of lockdown, we asked the cubs to build their own furniture mountains at home …

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Scout Covid 19 Badge

Discuss COVID-19 with a parent, other adult or adult leader. Explain: what is a virus how the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 were named how COVID-19 is spread symptoms of infection methods and measures to prevent infection, and ‘flattening the curve’ List the steps to take if a person exhibits symptoms of COVID-19 infection. Memorize the national …

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City Nature Challenge – 24 -27 April

Earn an event badge which you may wear on your uniform! Cape Town is participating in the City Nature Challenge which takes place form 24-27 April 2020.  That is – this weekend.  It is suitable for everyone. Last year we hiked Silvermine and took many photos. This year, due to the lockdown, we are restricted …

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Lockdown Trophy

With the Upton Shield competition cancelled due to Covid 19, an online competition called the Lockdown Trophy was organised for junior scouts. The competition consisted of a number of tasks and was run on the Discord platform. We entered 4 teams in this novel competition and for 3 hours on Sunday there was intense work …

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