Going on a backpacking trip with scouts this weekend, first time since knee surgery in January. Knee not 100%, but strength back to normal. Do your PT! Amazing!
Looking forward to sleeping outside, sitting by a waterfall with nothing to do but listen to the water flow. (Photo from last year.)

#NewEngland #scouts #Mosstodon #waterfall

https://youtu.be/EiB5WDizssU?feature=shared

Star Trek: Scouts

the three kids capture tribbles that were threatening to eat a Klingon farmer's field of corn.

The subtitles are error prone, calling the animals "troubles", "tribbles", and "shribbles".

(later: Clingon/Klingon)

#StarTrek #Scouts #StarTrekScouts

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQq7IVO7-BlqQdRfyaTwv4iCSUwHQFc8S&si=nlZgpeK855-msKN6

Star Trek: Scouts - Asteroid Defense Club 🚀

Besides the various Star Trek shows on Paramoun+, there is one animated series on YouTube by Nickelodion for little kids (and isn't Star Trek: Prodigy).

Is anyone watching it?

#StarTrek #Scouts #StarTrekScouts

undefined | Arrest as £200k stolen from scouts trip fund

A 46‑year‑old man was arrested on suspicion of theft after roughly £200,000 raised for a Herefordshire and Worcestershire scouts trip to Canada went missing from a charity bank account. The money, intended to fund a two‑week excursion for 100 children and 27 volunteer leaders, was raised through extensive parent‑led fundraising efforts that began last year, with each child’s place costing about £2,750.

Scout leaders have now cancelled the trip, which was slated for July or August and would have visited destinations such as Toronto and Niagara. Parents have been told the missing funds will be refunded, but the process could take several weeks. One parent, whose 13‑year‑old son was due to attend, said the loss of more than £2,200 was “devastating,” while another expressed frustration after spending 100 hours on fundraising.

A letter to parents indicated the money was believed to have been taken “over an extended period of time” from a dedicated trip account. The Hereford and Worcester Scouts say they have reported the incident to both police and the Charity Commission and have committed to covering any shortfall so that families are not disadvantaged. West Mercia Police confirmed the arrest and that the investigation remains ongoing.

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#herefordshire #worcestershire #scouts #charitycommission #westmerciapolice

Guides UK have gone full TERF. This breaks my heart. If you're a girl or volunteer who is being unjustly expelled, or if you cannot tolerate that your friends or trans women and girls more generally are being expelled, please consider joining scouts, you'll be welcome and treated with the respect you deserve. Scouting could do with a better gender balance and if it didn't happen before it is only because many girls chose guiding.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rn250ddjo

#scouts #guides #guidesuk #trans

In the last year I've more intensively used the Scouts NSW "ScoutHub" member management system, backed by Revolutionise.com.au.

There is a lot of things missing which would make the life of every leader in Scouts NSW happier, and in the last two weeks I've dived into Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey again to regain these features.

If you look at https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts?q=scouthub, you will see four scripts now:

- Two to add the age in years and months of the members to the overviews, instead of only years.

- One to also show the members who did not yet respond to an event invitation (long story, serious lack of functionality in the product, everybody is complaining about it)

- One to remove cruft from events pages when you print them.

The revolutionise backend generates none of the HTML elements with an id attribute, so I'm afraid I will be back in the future counting elements.............

#scouts #scoutsnsw #scouthub #revolutionise #greasemonkey #tampermonkey