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The County Swimming Gala has been changed to Saturday 27th March, due to reasons beyond our control. Please adjust your calendars accordingly. DCs are aware.

It is with great pleasure that I can announce that our County President Colonel Alan Hall has been awarded a MBE in the 2010 New Year's Honour List in recognition of his services to the local community.

Alan has been Her Majesty's Deputy Lieutenant for the London Borough of Redbridge since 1989 and was appointed as a Vice President of GLNE at the same time, recently completing twenty years service to Scouting. He has been our County President since 1995 and has offered outstanding personal support to three GLNE County Commissioners, has always enlivened our Chief Scouts Award Evenings and County AGMs and has personally visited numerous County, District and Group events to offer his personal appreciation of what goes on in our County.

I have already personally congratulated Alan, but felt that news such as this should be communicated further and that everyone should have the opportunity of sharing this great news.

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The County Commissioner joined Alan Hands - East London District Commissioner and Abdulmukith Ahmed - Group Scout Leader to formally open the 8th East London Scout Group. At the celebration event they invested 6 leaders and 24 Cub Scouts and had speeches from a variety of senior community and civic leaders about the importance of young people working together for the benefit of society. The Cub Scout Pack are the first section to open and will meet on a Sunday morning at 11am. Further sections will open over the next six months. The celebration event continued with singing and drama from the Cub Scouts and lots and lots and lots of food.

New London Regional Development Officers are being recruited to help further increase membership (particularly of adults).

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An FAQ and an Application Form to join the GLNE contingent at the WSJ in 2011 are now available.

www.glne-scouts.org.uk/wsj2011/

Scouts from the 12th Hackney were delighted when Diane Abbott agreed to help them with part of The Community Challenge. The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington took time from her busy schedule to jump on the bus from Westminster and make her way to the Groups headquarters in Stamford Hill, London.

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The courses that are intended to be run in 2010 are for Scouts aged 12 and over for their Cavers, Badge, Explorers for the Cavers Badge and Network as well. There is also the opportunity for Leaders to gain instructor certificates

Maximum course numbers are 25. If enough interest is generated it may be possible to have a course exclusively for GLNE. Otherwise the advertised dates are composite and will include other counties. The maximum number from GLNE for these dates is initially 10 but may rise if other counties don't fill their quota.

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Please find details of a number of new key appointments to the GLNE County Team in the release below

2009 County Appointments 2009

Visit our new WSJ area for all the information you need about the exciting opportunities at the upcoming World Scout Jamboree in 2011

www.glne-scouts.org.uk/wsj2011/

The 2010 Calendar is now available for download. The calendar contains all the important events in 2010 including meetings, awards and selected national events. It also includes a complete diary of training courses.

The events will soon be available in the online calendar, which will hold updates and changes to the printed calendar.

County Calendar 2010

'Programmes in a Box' is a year's supply of 40 weekly programmes for Beaver Colonies, Cub Packs and Scout Troops (12 for Explorer Scout Units), written by experienced section leaders from across London. Whether you're looking for a few new ideas, or you want enough programmes for every week of the year, 'Programmes in a Box' can help you out!

Feedback from leaders who ordered a copy of last year's resource had some excellent things to say about how it helped them (www.programmesinabox.co.uk/feedback), and some useful suggestions which we've taken on board whilst writing this year's programmes.

For further information please email:

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Following the approval of the County Appointments Advisory Committee, GLNE is pleased to announce a number of new key appointments to the County Team:

Rebecca Still (DC Epping Forest South), Keith Pethers (DC Romford), Rob Youd (ACC Explorer Scouts), Peter Banks (ACC Youth Awards), Paul Fix (DCC Adult Training) and Alex Kerr (Assistant Warden Thriftwood).

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