here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/scoutsqld.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/457732510_906863218145518_5422653546286353796_n.jpg” title_text=”457732510_906863218145518_5422653546286353796_n” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” width=”73.4%” custom_margin=”||11px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Nunito Sans|600|||||||” text_font_size=”25px” text_line_height=”1.8em” min_height=”82px” custom_margin=”-3px|||||” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]\nDuring October we hosted\u00a0 the 2nd and final Jamboree Contingent Leaders meeting in Maryborough, so now\u00a0 it is all systems go for AJ2025.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nI am pleased to advise that I have approved the wearing of the AJ2025 Jamboree Badge as an event badge on the Scout Uniform in Queensland. This badge can be worn from 1 December 2024 through to end of February 2025. It should be worn on the top right-hand side of the uniform.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nOver the last month I have reinforced to our members the importance of the Scout Promise and Scout Law. It should be the basis on how we live our lives each and every day.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Nunito Sans|600|||||||” text_font_size=”25px” text_line_height=”1.8em” min_height=”106px” global_colors_info=”{}”]\nImportantly it is a \u201cpromise\u201d made by us to our ourselves!\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI promise to my best\u201d \u2013 nobody else\u2019s best just my own.\u00a0 I encourage you to chat with your young person about their promise. Are they living up to it every day?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWe are continuing <\/span>our budgeting<\/span> process for 2025\/2026 year. This means we are reviewing our Fees \u2013 both Joining Fee and the Renewal Fee and all other hire fees, campsite fees.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nI shall keep you informed as our Branch Executive completes this review over the coming weeks and we hope to be able to advise our 2025\/26 fees in late November.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Nunito Sans|600|||||||” text_font_size=”25px” text_line_height=”1.8em” min_height=”106px” global_colors_info=”{}”]\nOver October I communicated the following with our Leaders across the Branch:-\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Our\u202findependent reference checking for Adult Members is now ready to be launched which will reduce the administration workload for some of our leaders.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- The importance of the presentation of Badges to youth members at the time of completion of the SIA\/Milestone.<\/span> I impressed upon them the impact this can have on a youth member and asked all leaders to ensure <\/span>they hold<\/span> a supply of badges – based on the activities being undertaken, so that presentation and recognition to our youth is completed in a timely manner. I also highlighted the chance to involve and engage parents\/carers, families at the presentation \u2013 at the opening or closing ceremony on a meeting night. The other opportunity this presents is other youth members seeing this recognition may then be encouraged to progress their own journey pathway. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- We launched our online Branch Calendar for 2025. This has been revised based on feedback <\/span>and will<\/span> be accessible to all members and not require any specific account or login<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- We <\/span>celebrated \u201c<\/span>Children\u2019s Week\u201d during October with a theme of Children have the right to a clean and safe environment. In Scouting we support this theme through our Child Safe Policies and Standards, which are all focused on creating and ensuring a safe environment for children. We all work hard through our program and activities to create these environments, to ensure great experiences for our youth members.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- I wanted to again highlight our +2 target for growth across our Groups. The chance we have to influence a young person\u2019s life is significant and our program delivers real opportunities for their growth and development. We set a goal of +2 for each group\u202fover the year. I can report that currently (since April 2024):<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- 48% of groups have grown by at least 2 youth members (94 Groups)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- 14% of groups are stable (28 Groups)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- 33% of groups have lost members (68 Groups)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- 5% of groups have no members (15 Groups)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Brisbane First Chinese Scout Group celebrated 20 years with a dinner and a great many attendees from the original and first meeting of the group back in 2004. The group commenced with significant support from the Queensland Police Service and their representatives certainly enjoyed renewing past friendships. BRAVO Brisbane First Chinese!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Nunito Sans|600|||||||” text_font_size=”25px” text_line_height=”1.8em” min_height=”106px” global_colors_info=”{}”]\n
I received a lovely email recently following the resignation of a youth member (names have been removed).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201c<\/span>Our son is leaving scouts as we\u2019re moving back overseas. He has really enjoyed his time with the Moggill Group, and I can\u2019t put in words our appreciation to the team at Moggill for the care and effort made to make him and ourselves feel welcome and included from day one. He will be continuing his Scouts journey. Thank you all so much<\/span><\/i>\u201d.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nI hope this reinforces the opportunities to influence and gives all our Leaders a sense of pride and achievement. Well done Moggill Scout Group!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Nunito Sans|600|||||||” text_font_size=”25px” text_line_height=”1.8em” min_height=”106px” global_colors_info=”{}”]\nHave a great month and good Scouting!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the Chief Commissioner Hi everyone, hope you are having a great month!\u00a0\u00a0 The Australian Jamboree is now only 2 months away so can I highlight \u201cFuture Scout Day\u201d at the Jamboree \u2013 scheduled for Saturday 11 January 2025. This day is dedicated to our Cub Scouts and Joey Scouts who wish to visit the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouting-family-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scoutsqld.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scoutsqld.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scoutsqld.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scoutsqld.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scoutsqld.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scoutsqld.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34915,"href":"https:\/\/scoutsqld.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34904\/revisions\/34915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scoutsqld.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scoutsqld.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scoutsqld.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}