A big thank you for everyone who helped with car parking at the Littleton Show on Saturday 6th Sept. Once again we did a great job and earned the Group funds several hundred pounds. There were lots of well known helpers and it was great to see some new faces too.
Category Archives: Bigger Better Campaign
#TheLongHaul Total
The final tally of what we raised on The Long Haul is TBC, but will run into several thousand pounds. Please continue to ask people to donate – ask all your work colleagues, show them the video. It’s inspiring enough to make people donate!
Steel work going in
Most of the roof is on and the steelwork is going in to complete the frame for the extension. The project remains on schedule and pretty much to budget. Amazing! But do you know who might want to donate £8000 for a folding door? Or £25,000 for an external store? Or £9000 for a canopy? Ideas to fundraising@firstwinchester.org.uk
Winchester Mayor’s Charities
Beaver, Cubs and Scouts joined forces to raise over £800 on Saturday on behalf of the Mayor’s Charities. Thanks to everyone who volunteered – we had very good attendance and it paid dividends as we are in the Hampshire Chronicle!
Why the # in #TheLongHaul?
We want people to follow us on Twitter before and during the 12-13th July event. You can search for conversations on Twitter using #TheLongHaul. You don’t need to follow anyone to see these conversations! Just add #TheLongHaul into your tweet and you’ll see what everyone is saying! Start doing it now and get used to it. It will mean you’ll know exactly where the cart is throughout the weekend and how much we are raising as we make our way to Winchester!
#TheLongHaul T-Shirts
A limited number of #TheLongHaul t-shirts are available to people taking part in the event next weekend. Look at The Long Haul pages and see what you can do. But be quick! There’s less than a week left!
The Long Haul – update!
Following a Coordination Meeting on Monday 30th June, much of The Long Haul information has been updated including the route and where to join the cart at specific Spectator Points. Check out The Long Haul pages again to help plan your day.
The Long Haul On The Air
On Saturday 14th June our chairman, Dave Kesby appeared live on BBC Radio Solent. If you missed it, don’t worry, you can catch up on iPlayer. Dave was ther to review the papers but managed a plug for the Long Haul Campaign.
Follow this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0208jqy
The Long Haul
The Long Haul is our big event for this summer is one of our Scout leaders, Rob Thomson, is going to pull a Scout Trek Cart from Brownsea Island to Winchester from Saturday 12th to Sunday 13thJuly.
We aim to raise over £10,000.00 towards the Bigger & Better campaign and at a recent Scouting event Chief Scout, Bear Grylls, has wished us luck adding that he was impressed with the challenge we’ve set ourselves.
Pre-School Provider Selected
After a series of interviews, the YMCA has been chosen as the provider of the pre-school in the new hut. This is an exciting choice, the YMCA already have ten pre-schools (four of which are outstanding) in Hampshire, as well as Fairthorne Manor.