Ashton and Droylsden Scouts praise "tremendous" volunteers

Scouts from North Tameside District (Ashton and Droylsden) joined in the celebrations and recruitment of Volunteers’ Week.

The celebration took place at  Hurst Community Centre with the help of an Action Together grant with more than 40 people attending. Of those, 24 received Thank You certificates from the District Chairman Alan Fish.

Fourteen visitors also attended with three people asked about joining Scouting. 

Following the presentations, Alan said: “Scouting can not survive without all the Scouting volunteers who spend many hours helping young people to be better citizens in all our differing communities.

“We must not forget the many support volunteers as well, who help make Scout groups work, with fund-raising, management of an HQ, and many other roles behind the scenes of a Scout group.

“We must thank them all for the tremendous work and the many hours some volunteers do.”

Scouting can offer many different volunteering roles from as little as two hours a month. However, despite the support from the Active Scouts Unit which helps out now and again, Scouting is very short of adult leaders and supporters in the North Tameside district.

This consists of ten Beaver colonies, ten Cub packs, eight Scout troops, five Explorer units, one network unit, four support units and 13 management teams - but in all they are short of 77 leaders and support volunteers. 

Volunteers’ Week finished on Friday June 7, but if you would like to help Scouting as a leader or just help out at a group, then it’s never too late to start.

Visit www.ntscouts.org.uk/events or call in at any of the open nights held at each Scout group. 

For more information about joining Scouting, contact: alan.fish@ntscouts.org.uk, call 07931 765120 or visit www.ntscouts.org.uk to find your nearest scout group.