A message from the new NT District chair

Hi NT Scouts Earlier in the week, Alan contacted me to let me know he would be expecting a speech from me at the AGM on Wednesday, I prepared one. However, the football was calling and Harry efficiently swerved it…

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Alan’s Briefing 12/7/24

Hi Leaders and Supporters, Well has summer finished? as we are back to rain? Shop News. Do you remember last week’s burst of plasterers, well it didn’t happen this week as they only turned up one day Tuesday 10.30 to 3.00….

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Alan’s Briefing 5/7/24

Hi Leaders and Supporters, Sun is shining, that’s a good sign for Scout for outdoor activities, but remember you need to contact DC Andy to take your Scouts outside. You need his permission, and a load of risk assessments and…

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Alan’s Briefing 28/6/24

Shop News. Well we have had a good week. Some builders have been every day this week, putting plasterboard up and the scaffolding has gone. You can now see the shop at long last. Yellow Card 20. Do Not join…

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Alan’s Briefing 14/6/24

Hi Leaders and Supporters Shop News. Well there isn’t any as nothing has happened, other than me complaining to the bosses and another 2 weeks lost. Yellow card 18. Do not trivialise concerns or abuse. Trivialise means, downplay, minimise, understate, to make something…

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Alan’s Briefing 12/1/24

Hi Leaders and Supporters  Friday again, the weeks pass faster when you get older. Lets hope 2024 is better for all of us, if not there are many services in Tameside to help, mentally and physically plus abuse and debt. Shop, they took the…

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Alans Briefing 05/01/2024

Hi Leaders and Supporters, New Year has started I hope you have recovered from all the parties and events of last year, we are now in 2024 and hopefully it will be a great year for us all. Some of us may…

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Alan’s Briefing 29/12/23

Hi Leaders and Supporters. This will be my last briefing, what’s all that cheering? let me finish, for this year. Shop Update. Well after all the gales and rain on Wednesday the building is still standing. I went to check after the grandkids…

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Alan Leaders Briefing 22/12/2023

Hi Supporters and Leaders, Shop Report. Job stopped again last Friday, the next stage was the slates to come off the roof to check the trusses and purlins beams in the roof. There is another job now, removing about 30 pigeons and…

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Alan’s Briefing 15/12/23

Hi Leaders and Supporters, Shop Report While at 2/1 Christmas do on Saturday night I got a call that the shop had fallen down. I left, to find all the wooden hoardings were in the road due the lashing down rains and…

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