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The High Sheriff of Northamptonshire, Mrs.Penelope Escombe MBE visited Irthlingborough Scout Group on Monday 26^th September and met all of our training sections. She was welcomed by the Leaders and the Executive Team and was interested in seeing details of our Adult Volunteers featured on the notice board, all 45 of them! She was introduced to the Leaders and was amazed that Secretary David Maddock had been with the Group since 1947!

This year the Group entered a ‘Zombies and Aliens’ themed float into the town carnival. This was a great success and the group won a silver cup! A big ‘Thank- you’ to all parents and friends who put the float together and special thanks must go to Sharon Fisher, Karen Marriott and Donna Mills who successfully led our Team to put on such a good show!

As is traditional, the scouts manned the change-wagon and collected “loads a money” for the Carnival Committee. They also showed off one of their new tents at the Recreation Ground. A big well done to Lisa and her team!!

The Ward family made sure that the groups fundraising activities went “full steam ahead” by running the tea stall at the Recreation ground. A huge thank you goes to Chris and Shelly for organising the event and to Wayne for providing transport for all the equipment.

Over the summer months the Group have refurbished the head quarters building. Full credit for the completion of this project goes to Wayne Fisher and his wife Sharon.

For those of you that have not managed to view the fabulous decoration, here are a few pictures.

2011; Another exciting and fast moving year! These last few months we have seen the formation of a brand new Adult Section and a New Explorer section. We are launching our 2nd Scout Section night within the next month! I would like to highlight those that perform on the front line, week in week out, the leaders of our Young Peoples’ Sections.

Beavers – Jason, Cubs – Including their 90th celebrations – Laurence and Scouts – Lisa.

2009 witnessed a 49% Growth, 2010 a 19% Growth, and not to be outdone, 2011 produced a 35% Growth in Group Membership. To put this in to perspective overall growth for 2011 Northamptonshire Scouts was 1.4% and Nene Valley District was flat. So, quite rightly we can be proud of our achievements again in attracting the Young People to our Group and retaining our Superb Leadership Team.