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.

This year the Brigade started running NVQ training courses for Youth Work and Playwork. The picture below was taken on the first course to be held in the Eastern Region. Can you spot anyone familiar ?

Our best wishes to both Simon and David in their endeavours.

Picture from the BB Gazzette – July 09.

Promotions 09 - The Brits

Following on from last years very successful themed Promotions Evening we’re going to give The Brits a go this year on Tuesday 15th September at WECC. Doors will open at 17:50 with the offcial cermony starting at 18:15. Formal dress is required or come dressed as your favourite performing artist ! Live music courtesy of Amicus.

The after show party will have a circus skills element as well as a BUZZ competition for the 11+ age group.

The evening ends with a showing of the Camp Video, with popcorn naturally !

So if you want to come along please contact us, remember if your name isn’t on the list you’re not coming in !

The other month a couple of our Junior Section boys joined 2nd Bedford for a weekend camp in Swadlincote in the midlands. I can tell you they had a whale of a time and have enthused the other boys on their return ! Here’s the programme of what they got up to.

• Thursday:  Settle in, Toboggan, Swadlands Country Park (and boulder to climb)
• Friday: Conkers (+ assault course), footy at the park,
• Saturday: Pitch n Putt at Markeaton Park, Derby, another visit to the park, Video: Cool Runnings
• Sunday: Church, then Swimming, and home.

As you can see they were pretty busy !

I can tell you everyone is looking forward to next year. Thanks to 2nd Bedford for inviting us.

Mark.

It’s finally happened, our sister GB company now has an online home. I’ve added a permament link in our links section, but here’s their URL in all its glory;

www.1bgb.org.uk

The site has been created by the members themselves and I think they’ve done a great job. Well done.