Scouting Five - Week of January 10, 2022

Everything you should know about #Scouting in #Canada, and occasionally other places.

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Scouts Canada plants trees, Scouts BSA pilots co-ed troops...and UK Beaver Scouts hunt for the Gruffalo.
News Stories
Launching the Canadian Climate Challenge
Applications for the Scouts Canada Scholarship Program are now open!
Combined Troop Pilot
Scouts honor veterans by placing flags at Appleton cemetery ahead of Memorial Day
Ely Scouts Gruffalo hike for Cambridge Search and Rescue
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Scouting Five - Week of May 20, 2024

Scouts BSA renames to Scouting America, Scouts fundraise and rally to help...and a fire ravages a Canadian Scout Camp.
News Stories
Boy Scouts of America announces rebrand to ‘Scouting America’
Tides of Transformation: Thousands of Portuguese Scouts Leading the Charge Against Marine Litter
Young People Innovating Solutions to Plastic Waste in Rwanda
HRH Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg awarded Bronze Wolf for exceptional service to Scouting
Scouts of Venezuela implements Interreligious Dialogue Challenge to promote peace
Empowering Change Through Interfaith Collaboration and Environmental Education
Supporting the Growth and Development of Scouting in Congo
A Year of Impactful Giving: Scout Donation Platform’s Matched Campaign
Donations matched: Uganda Scouts for Clean Water
Historic Scouts Canada camp lodge burns to ground in Quebec’s Laurentians
Brazil Scouts Rising Together: Post-Flood Reconstruction
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Scouting Five - Week of May 13, 2024

Let’s learn a bit about a particularly hazardous invasive plant to watch out for this summer.
Podcast Topics
Scouter John Kemp of the 5th Brant Troop joins Scouter Ken to discuss giant hogweed, an invasive plant that looks a bit like cow parsnip, and which grows near watercourses. Anyone out exploring in the bush should take care to avoid contact with giant hogweed; the sap damages the skin in a way that causes it to develop a severe burn when exposed to sunlight.
John is also part of a group of volunteers who track growths of giant hogweed, and work with municipal authorities to eliminate it, and this episode is all about how to identify giant hogweed, how to report its presence, and how to be safe around it.
Important giant hogweed resources:

 Google Drive folder of information and images
 EDDMapS

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Giant Hogweed

What is the Better Programs Initiative? Let’s find out!
Podcast Topics
Scouter Ken is joined by Scouter Alicia, who is one of the representatives of Scouts Canada’s new Better Programs Initiative, a knowledge-sharing forum where Scouters can share (and find) ideas on how to run a top-tier Scouting program.


Visit this episode's page at our website to find QR codes for the initiative and the Scouts Canada Network.


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The Better Programs Initiative

If you aren’t already planning for how different roles within your group can transition between people, you need to be.
Podcast Topics
Scouter Ken is joined by Scouter Corey - the outgoing Group Commissioner for the 59th Edmonton Scout Group - to discuss the importance of planning for how to transition people out of (and into!) roles within a Scout Group.
Transition planning takes many forms. Ideally, the outgoing role holder should mentor the incoming member to make sure that there’s a full handover of knowledge and processes. But this needs to be backstopped by a digital infrastructure that allows for data to be easily moved between people as well; email accounts, documents, cloud storage, etc. all need to be able to move from one person to the next as well.
Services and resources mentioned in the episode:

 Carrd (cheap, landing page-style websites)
 TechSoup Canada or TechSoup US (cheap/free software for nonprofits)
  Quip
  WhatsApp Communities
  Scouter Transition Planning (spreadsheet)

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Scouting Five - Week of January 10, 2022

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