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Closure of British Guiding Overseas..
28/08/2023 By Helen Williamson
Four Male Scouts on Carts

"With regard to the impending closure of British Girlguiding Overseas (BGO) on September 1st (see https://british-girlguiding-overseas.org.uk/), we recognise the significance of this transition for all involved. British Scouting Overseas (BSO) had been hoping for a resolution to secure BGO's continuation. Unfortunately, despite our hopes, that solution has eluded BGO.

Our area and district are doing their best to support those BGO leaders and young people who wish to join scouting as our associations have many shared values and goals. Many of our female leaders were in Girlguiding as young people.

Locally we are discussing the future with our district, the guiding District Commissioner and our other leaders.  We hope that the 3rd Brussels Brownies/Guides who meet met at St Anthony's on a Tuesday will be able to become a Cubs/Scouts section soon.  
We are looking for leaders who can open a second Squirrels section on Wednesdays (venue British School of Brussels) which could accommodate some Rainbows and other young people from our current waiting list. 

We unfortunately cannot transition all of the existing BSB Girlguiding over to Scouts, as it is not viable for all the adult volunteers and/or girls to move to scouting, due to their personal circumstances. 

Some Girlguiding members have joined waiting lists for Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers for 1st Brussels or with Central Brussels and we have started offering spaces..

If your family has been affected and you would like to join us please do sign up! Do let us know your place and time preferences and that you were a BGO member.
We can't promise everyone an instant place- but we are looking for additional adults to help expand provision where needed."

 

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Blog | Explorer Facebook
17/06/2023 By Helen Williamson

If you want to see some of the highlights of the year for Brussels Explorers why not visit their facebook group

 

 

 

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Ice skating
25/11/2022 By Helen Williamson

 A great night tonight, with Griffin Scouts and Brussels Explorers at the Poseiden Ice rink.  It was disco night, with bright lights and music and a friendly atmosphere.

Some of the scouts were skating for the very first time, and were helped by the others to learn the basics. It was good to see them giving this a go and getting back up, after the inevitable slips and falls and trying again. 

We like to do our Investitures on a memorable occasion whenever possible.  We couldn't quite manage that on the ice, without causing a hazard, so we invested 10 of our new scouts in the skate collection area, while it wasn't busy. Not only a first for us, but probably for the smiling staff members too. We also officially welcomed a new leader, TJ, to the troop.

 

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Blog | Light up the Forest
18/11/2022 By Helen Williamson
Campfire

 

It was great to see around 150 people at our Light up the Forest event this November.

Both from 1st Brussels, Central Brussels, 1st Waterloo and Danish Scouts

Everyone enjoyed the BBQ, lanterns and Campfire

The scouts also enjoyed lazertag. Our EU was camping and did a fantastic job of catering for the BBQ, a big thanks to them.
Sunday morning they hiked to the Remembrance service in Oud Heverlee from the campsite.

 

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Blog | Imaginative building
26/09/2022 By Helen Williamson

 On Saturday Squirrels heard the story of the 3 little pigs.. Naturally we wanted to Be Prepared for any big bad wolves who might try to come along and try to blow down our house. So  they had a fun time building very strong houses from Duplo. The  'wolves' huffed and they puffed, but they couldn't blow the houses down... 

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