The explorers have broken out some consoles tonight.
There is Dance Central 3
And a bit of Call of Duty
And some sitting around
While the rest are doing karaoke on the PS2 in the top hut but we have been banned from taking pictures.
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We’ll hear this week how much we raised on the litter picking, we’ll let you know as soon as we do.
In the meantine:
If every family does this and spends £250 on the internet between now and Christmas (including tesco, sainsbury’s, waitrose and asda), we would earn about £300 in a month ish. Just by sitting at a computer.
No effort fundraising:
We get a donation from hundreds of internet shops (all the big ones and many small ones) and it is so easy… you don’t need to register, fill in extra forms etc…
Simplest way
Go to our website: 5bs.org and click of the link at the bottom of the page
or look over there on the right… a big advert, just click click click >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
then just search the shop that you are buying from. It then sorts out all the payments etc… Â why not bookmark our page for next time? Just use it as a portal to shop through.
Never miss an opportunity
Download and install the toolbar and it will make sure that you never miss a chance to donate to the 5th and it offers you bargains and deals from the shops you visit.
Please take the time to do this. It’s free money for us. Sometimes the donations are quite significant – i bought a bike rack in June from Evans for £140 and in return, we earned over £5 . Lots of £30 purchases add up to lots of £1 donations.  It costs nothing to you.
Bargains
with the toolbar, i have the opportunity when i visit a page to click ‘yes’ to donate to the 5th. When i do that, it pings me first to a page of voucher codes etc that could save me money. It’s been rather useful on occasion.
Please give this a try. As we say, it’s free money.
The Fifth had a wonderful turnout from all sections, in smart uniforms (for the most part) and brilliant behaviour (from everybody). Following remembrance themed activities for some of the sections, we invited them all to parade at Beckenham War Memorial on Sunday Morning. The hight street was closed off and with a parade that was 50% 5th Beckenham South, we walked to a memorial that is inscribed with the names of over 1,200 Beckenham residents who lost their lives fighting for their country. (more info on Beckenham War Memorial)
Chris and Badger lead the group down the High Street while Nicky carries the flag.
our wreath layers
Their behaviour was perfect and the weather was glorious for a very special day.
Grace, Lizzie, Rhylie and Luke chat to Col. Bob Stewart MP.
They might be a scruffy lot but they did their duty and were a credit to us.
Here is a little video of the event:
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We pinched an idea from the scouts but the explorers did it with rather less mess.
Robert gave Molly a cut down her arm
Tom’s arm was pretty messed up
Check out all the photos here and there is a link at the bottom for the full size pics.
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Rob, Alex and Dave organised tonight
And it was currytastic. Chicken tikka masala, chicken Balti, beef balti, lamb tomato and aubergine, chick pea curry and prawn tikka with pineapple.
Marks and spencers curry book
Over 60 of us from the 5th helped Beckenham Round Table 104 run their fireworks this weekend.
eight adults helped Marshall on satuday night
nearly 60 kids and parents turned up on a very wet Sunday morning
these bins were empty when we started!
We left the park spotless!
Thank you so much to all involved. That’s our biggest ever turnout and easily the worst weather. It’s very reassuring that we get so much support from our families and members.
Today was an important day for The Fifth as three of our leaders were awarded their Wood Badge by Gary the Deputy District Commissioner. The beads are the symbol of completed leader training.
The first Wood Badges were made from beads taken from a necklace that had belonged to a Zulu chief named Dinizulu, which Baden-Powell had found during his time in the Zululand in 1888. When B-P was looking for some token to award to people who went through the Gilwell training course he remembered the Dinizulu necklace and the leather thong given to him by an elderly African at Mafeking. Â He took two of the smaller beads, drilled them through the centre, threaded them onto the thong and called it the Wood Badge.
(apologies for the dreadful photo quality)
Adam, Keeley and Andy renewed their promise
Traditionally, the beads are transferred from one leader to another so Gary took them from around his own neck before awarding them to our leaders.
Andy receives his wood badge.
Andy’s late father was a leader at the 5th for many years, he was Assistant Group Scout Leader, Assistant Scout Leader and an Assistant Deputy Commissioner, today would have been a proud day for Dave.
Keeley (Akela) receives her wood badge.
Adam (bagheera) Receives his wood badge
Big thanks to Gary for coming over to do this. You can find out all about the history of the wood badge here (opens as pdf, right click, save as)
Have you got your tickets yet?
Saturday 22nd Septmber 12-4pm @ the scout hut and grounds
Tickets: £5 adults, £3 kids includes food
please email [email protected] for tickets, info etc or buy your tickets below
There’ll be a BBQ, pimms tent, archery, face painting, bouncy castle, crockery smashing and more
Prizes
please get in touch with keeley if you can offer a raffle prize [email protected] or have some inspiration for how to make the day even better.
Profit matching:
Do you work for a company that offers profit matching? (Many banks do this) Would you help us to double out money please?
Please invite family and friends to make this day a success.
We have to raise every penny that we spend and we either spend that money on boring stuff like utilities and insurance or cool stuff like go karts, archery kit etc! Nothing is wasted.
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It’s that time again…
Running a scout group is very very expensive and we rely on subs to cover all the basics.
Subs are £48 per term and need to be paid by half term (Friday November 2nd) – please pay online if you have a debit or credit card.
All the info for subs payments etc is online
Check out  the video above to see how we have been spending your money,