December Lucky Number Winners

This months winners are:

1st Prize: Hale Family

2nd Prize: Rachel Daly

3rd Prize: Madelyn Key

The easyFundraising competition was won by Becky Knight who received a bottle of wine and a box of chocolates.

Congratulations to all our winners!

Name the Cub Packs

Our two cub packs have now been running for a whole term and are growing successfully thanks to all the hard work put in by the leader team.

To date, we have been referring to them as the Tuesday Pack and the Wednesday Pack; however, it would be far better if they had proper names such as the two beaver colonies, Endeavour and Discovery.

Elsewhere in the district, we have cub packs named:

• Windmill and Watermill (the same as their beaver colonies) at Ivinghoe & Pitstone
• Mars and Saturn (beaver colonies are Gemini and Venus) at Wendover

We are therefore looking for ideas on what to call our two packs. Do you have any suggestions?

Please pass on your thoughts to Ian, or any of the leaders.

Website Revamp

The group website has been given a new look with a new clean look and feel, new functionality and information brought up to date.

Please do make use of it and let us have any comments back.

Christmas Competition

As Christmas approaches we have a free competition for you to play along with and help us to make some money for Cheddington Scouts.  The best part is it won’t cost you anything but you could win.

All you need to do is log on to our EasyFundraising page before ordering your Christmas presents online and the companies you purchase from will make a donation to help us.  Go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk.

We’re going to zero the counters on the 1^st October and the person who has raised the most on the 24^th December wins.

If you’ve already got an EasyFundraising account you need read no further.  Simply have a go and good-luck.

How to set up your Easy Fundraising account...

Go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk and register by clicking the yellow button at the top of the page.

In the “Support your cause” search box type “1^st Cheddington Scout Group”.  You need the 1^st to find us.  Then click on the “Yes! Sign me up...” button.  Fill in a few details and you’re ready to play.  If you don’t want EasyFundraising to send you voucher codes by e-mail remember to untick the bottom tick box.

You will have the chance to send the details to others.  This gains you points and they are all welcome to join the competition.

How to raise us funds...

Before you buy anything on line, open up the Easy Fundraising page (and log in if you’ve not left it ready to go).  At the top of the page you can Search for any retailer or product.  Type in where you want to shop there, or what you want to buy, and choose your store from the drop down list.  Almost everywhere is on there including supermarkets, hotels and many more online shops, even Weight Watchers offers a donation, should you want to make your new years resolution early.

Click through to their site with the Go Shopping button or through an offer and they will give us a donation.

To increase your chances of winning have a look at the amount the company will donate.  Some insurance companies will give £30 or more if you take out a policy others will give 2-3% of your spend.  You increase your chances of winning by choosing the companies that donate the most.

You can also increase your chances by looking at the Raise funds for Free page (it’s off the deals button).  There you can get things to try and the companies will give us donations.  It all counts towards your total in the competition.

Finally, remember you can use it if you purchase things for work too.  There are stationary companies and hotel chains on there so feel free to get everyone at work to help you to win.

Good luck.

Attachments:

Cheddington Scouting Plus - Christmas Competition.pdf

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