All Joey, Cub and Scout families
are requested to attend our annual sausage sizzle and AGM!
At Crosslands (end of Sommerville Road, Hornsby Heights)

On Saturday 12th April, 2008
Between 12 noon – 3pm
BYO drinks and salads/nibbles/picnic rugs.

The Asquith Scout Group can only continue with ongoing family involvement –
for the benefit of all of our children who gain so much from the scouting movement.

Young people need leadership. They need the guidance of informed and caring adults to develop self-reliance, initiative and responsibility.

The world-wide Scout Movement offers this guidance through our Leaders, a team of dedicated, self-motivated individuals who take the time and the interest to help on a voluntary basis.

If you care about the future generation, if you want to contribute, to learn about yourself and other people and want to have fun doing it, then we want you to join us as a Leader.

Take Interest In The Community
Leaders care not only about the young people under their guidance, but also about the communities in which they live. As a Leader, you'll be actively involved in planning and implementing projects to help your local community, and in expanding the community awareness of the young people in your group. You'll encourage a sense of responsibility and goodwill by participating together in activites. And you'll be helping to develop a future generation capable of making a positive contribution to the world in which they live.

1st Asquith Scout Group has set in its hall at Lords Ave, Asquith an amateur radio facility to connect into the Scout Sunrise radio network associated with the Centenary of Scouting celebrations next Wednesday the 1st August 2007.

Details of the Sunrise radio network are at http://home.tiscali.nl/worldscout/2007/Sunrise%20Network/Sunrise%20Network.htm. We intend to be one of the approx. 28 sites around the world that will have direct contact with the Jamboree on Brownsea Island.

The facility has both voice and Slow Scan TV capabilities so that we can communicate and send/receive images with Brownsea Island and other active Scout sites at the time. We also have the ability to connect into the amateur radio IRLP network which will also allow us to speak with other Scout sites around the world via this alternate means.

Prince William has opened the 21st World Scout Jamboree, marking the 100th anniversary of the movement's founding.

Around 40,000 young people from around the world are at the 12-day event at Hylands Park near Chelmsford, Essex.

A "tent town" is housing boys and girls from more than 160 countries on the 300-hectare site.

The Scouting Movement was founded by Lord Robert Baden-Powell in 1907, and the first camp was set up on Brownsea Island in Dorset.

The prince launched the festival with the Duke of Kent, who is president of the Scout Association, before being taken on a tour of the site.

1st Asquith have been granted the callsign VK2SAQ by the Australian Communications & Media Authority (ACMA).

With this new callsign, there will be no doubt who is on the other end of the radiowaves when we go on air this coming October for JOTA.

We will be on air from Friday 20/10/2007 - Sunday 22/10/2007.

The 2007 Annual Report is now available to either read online or to download.

To read online just follow this link 2007 Annual Report.

To download it follow tht link at the bottom of this page.

NEXT year, 2008, has been declared Year of the Scout to mark the centenary of Australia's scouting movement.
Prime Minister John Howard said Australia was one of the first countries in the world to adopt scouting.

About 60,000 people were involved in the Australian scouting movement, while another two million had been part of the nation's largest youth development organisation over the past 100 years, Mr Howard said.

"The Government greatly values the contribution these young Australians make to their families, their communities and the entire nation," Mr Howard said.

"To commemorate this event and to recognise the contribution that scouting has made and will continue to make to Australia, I am also pleased to announce that the Australian Government has decided to designate 2008 as the Year of the Scout.

The Federal Government today announced it would pay $17.7 million for rainwater tanks to be installed in scout halls across the country.

The Prime Minister, John Howard, said the money was a contribution to mark the 100th anniversary of the Scouts.

He said the Government had also decided to make 2008 the year of the scout and the mint would strike a circulating coin next year to commemorate this event.

"This funding will assist the Scouts to generate significant water savings while at the same time providing a tangible and ongoing demonstration of actions we can all take to conserve our precious water resources," Mr Howard said.

The March edition of Bravo is out now, If you haven't been emailed one or picked one up at the hall you can download it here and now.