Sometimes you have a weekend which you just want to be over and forgotten; a weekend that is tiresome and drawn out; a weekend that makes you want to curl up in a corner somewhere. Sometimes you have a weekend that makes you feel incredibly positive about life; a weekend that gives you a strength you hadn’t felt for a while; a weekend that reignites whatever passion you have in life.
This weekend has been the second of those. I have spent the weekend with around 50 of the most amazing young people you will ever meet at Hampshire Scout Youth Council at Hampshire’s Runways End activity centre.
Normally, these weekends remind me why I love Scouting – the passion and the friendships. You see people arrive at Youth Council who haven’t seen each other in six months and jump straight back where they left off last time.
This weekend was different though.
This weekend did so much more for me than normal. Hampshire Scouts is now over a year into the term of our new lead volunteer, Martin Mackey, which means new ideas. It’s not so much out with the old and in with the new; more let’s build on the old to make it even better.
This weekend proved that Hampshire Scouts isn’t just in a strong position under Martin, but we have loads of young people ready to lead Scouting at every level as soon as they’re giving a chance.
And they know how to have fun.
You can join the Scouts, as an adult or a child, and gain Skills for Life by going to scouts.org.uk in the UK or scout.org in the rest of the world.
