Last Saturday the members of the Company Section ran a fund raiser for company funds. The event, which was organised entirely by the members themselves, was a combination of a car wash and car treasure hunt with refreshments.

Well the weather behaved its self and the boys had a busy afternoon, as you can see from the pictures below.

By the end of the afternoon they had raised the grand sum of £100 ! Very well done to you all and many thanks to all those that came along.

While we’re on Easter break here are a few things coming up before the end of the session;

Uniformed Service

The last Uniformed Service will take place on Sunday 9th May at the Water Eaton Church Centre. We will be producing reminder notes closer to the date, but please try and plan for your son to be able to attend this important part of Brigade life. All future Uniformed Service dates are published in advance on our website or please ask for a printed diary sheet if one doesn’t make it home with your son.

Anchor Boys’ Outing

This will take place on Saturday 15th May and will cost £3 per boy. Please return your form and book your place by Tuesday 27th April.

Junior Section Camp

This year we will be taking a small contingent to Southend-on-Sea over the Late Spring Bank Holiday to join with other Junior Boys from the Battalion. The weekend is packed with lots of events and things to do. Cost is £50 for Friday night through to Monday evening.

Company Section Fund Raiser

The members of the Company Section are organising an afternoon fundraiser on Saturday 17th April. There will be a Car Treasure Hunt, Car Wash and Refreshments (including cake!) . Please pencil in the date and join in the fun and support our members in their endeavour.

Amicus – Heaven’s Kitchen

Saturday 24th April sees the Amicus group transform the Church Centre into a Gourmet Burger style restaurant for the evening. There will be 2 sittings (lunchtime and early evening), menus and more information available in the near future.

As you can see we have a lot planned over the coming months and that’s before we get to summer camp for the Company Section and up. When we return on Tuesday 20th April the sections will be finishing off their various achievements and badges before the summer programme starts.

Not to be out done by the Junior Section last week the Anchor Boys got stuck into some Easter crafts of their own this week. As you can see from the pictures below all the boys made Easter gardens. They all looked great and hopefully they made it home, through the rain,  in one piece.

Easter is not too far away now and some of the Junior Section made it into the kitchen last week to bake and decorate a very sweet looking Easter cake.

As you can see I didn’t mean sweet as in Easter Bunnies, but sweet as in processed sugar !

Apologies for the delay, Programme No.98 now posted in the links section.

Mark.

A new year sees our Anchor Boy section celebrate its 9th year. Of course you can’t have a birthday without cake ! The boys played various party games, as you do at birthday parties.

Here’s to another year of Anchors !

Birthday Cake !

Just to let you know that the bug in the Contact Us part of the site has now been fixed and updated; you can now email the Senior Section.

I’ve just uploaded a copy of the new Company Section Programme, number 97 !

It can be found in the links section on the left hand side of the site.

Mark.

Thanks to a £1200 grant from the Milton Keynes Community Foundation we have been able to purchase a new snooker/pool table and 4 new tents suitable for BB/DofE expedition. We added £400 from our own fund-raising to meet the total cost of £1600.

We have been using the same set of Vango F10 tents for expedition work for almost 30 years. They are now past their best, not very waterproof, have been repaired several times each and simply much too heavy for today’s expedition work. Modern mountain tents, such as those used at Caldecotte project, are much lighter to carry, easier to erect in bad weather and keep the rain out. We hope to be using them during the 2010 season.

The snooker table we use most was donated to us by the Bletchley Lyons Club many years ago (maybe 20 or more) and has seen good service! The pockets are now all damaged to some extent and the cloth has a large tear. We hope the new table will help us provide that extra option for sports and games for BB/GB/Amicus/Friday Club and last just as long.

This work has been assisted by funding from the Milton Keynes Community Foundation

OK, some may debate the fact but there was a definite buzz as Company Section Members  return from an evening of climbing at the George Amey Centre. The evening formed part of the section’s summer programme. As you can see from the picture below it was enjoyed by all.