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Parental Involvement

Please take an active interest in your child’s Scouting and encourage them to participate in their Section’s activities.  Absence from meetings and camps makes a mockery of progressive training and inevitably results in loss of interest.  There can be no doubt at all that the value of Scouting is directly proportional to the length of time spent in the Movement.  Please help the Leaders to help your child get the maximum benefit.

If you have ploughed your way through all of the above, you will appreciate that the Group functions only because of parental involvement.  This means you! With no apologies, a brief summary: the quality of Section programmes is proportional to the adult time available.  There is always room for more help from adults as fund raisers, or fund savers, by using skills/time on repairs and maintenance to save hiring labour.  The greater the number of people willing to help the Group, the fewer demands on any one person’s time.

Please think very carefully how your talents can be used to help the Group and discuss the matter with the G.S.L. or Group Chairman. You might find that working with the Group is not only worthwhile - but also great fun.