Active Support

Rhydd – Paul

Potholes – Apologies for the potholes, we are awaiting a delivery of plannings which are arriving this week and then the service team will be repairing them.

Car Parking – The car park on Ebury Rise has been extended to the left as you enter Ebury Rise, enabling more cars to be parked in the bad weather.

Self Led Training –

Saturday 13^th and Sunday 14^th April – for the following activities - assault course, atb's, grass sledges, bikes, waterslide, turf boards, under 8's play area, pedal karts, frisbee golf, slack line, caving, pioneering and Beaver Caving Trailer.

Saturday - 9am-10.30am - FULL

11.30am - 1pm

2pm - 3.30pm

Sunday - 9am- 10.30am – Limited spaces

11.30am - 1pm

Saturday 27^th and Sunday 28^th April – for auto belay tower and bouldering wall

Saturday –

10am -12noon – Limited spaces

12.30pm – 2.30pm

Sunday –

10am-12noon – Full

To book onto either course please email Kathy on bookings@rhyddcovert.org.uk

Activities for week nights only and campfire bookings are to be booked by emailing Kathy on bookings@rhyddcovert.org.uk, please include your meeting times when emailing. Individual sites can not be booked for weeknights but are operated on a first come first served basis when you arrive on site.

Weekend activities are to be booked on OSM please as normal.

Latest update contains the following information: -

• Great weight is being placed on getting everyone engaging with our new Volunteer Culture. If you or anyone in your District / Group has not yet gone through it, please look at and understand the information at link: https://www.scouts.org.uk/volunteers/volunteer-experience/our-volunteering-culture/

• There will be a March 2024 version of POR that becomes effective for us all on the 1^st April 2024. This will require us to put into place a number of aspects of Transformation ahead of the new digital system becoming available later this year. Apparently good progress is now being made on the new Digital System – but we currently have no clear dates and Compass will remain operational until about a month before we transfer.

• We cannot move fully to the new Welcome Conversations until we have the new Digital System. However, we should now be starting to transition by forming a new District Volunteering Development Team Leader. The new Welcome Conversation Volunteers (formerly the Appointments Committee) will be applying the new guidelines at link: https://www.scouts.org.uk/volunteers/volunteer-experience/welcome/conversation-guide/.  Typically, these welcome conversations should be held as part of the Scouting meeting that the new volunteer is attending so that they can also been seen in action. Note: under the existing POR the GSL / Group Lead Volunteer cannot be part of these welcome conversations; although we expect this to change at some point during transformation.
• I will be meeting with Malcolm and his team to work out how we bring in the new best practice over the next couple of months

Before this date, and I know I’m repeating myself, make sure that

• no one is sharing an email address
• email addresses are current and correct
• everyone has an email address on the system
• Make sure all training that needs validating is done or it will be lost when the systems change.