Refugee Response

Thank to all who turned out to remembrance parade last Sunday - we get a badge for that! (coming soon)

Its a reminder of how lucky we are to live in a rich and peaceful part of the world! Coincidentally, the latest edition of the Scouting Magazine was promoting a resource that they have developed to help scouts respond to the issue of refugees coming to the UK to escape from much less fortunate parts of the world or from other dangers in their own country. 

I thought we could look into how we help refugees locally and also do some fundraising to help others - a lot of our recent fundraising has been to support our expeditions so it would be nice to help others directly this term.
To get us in mind of what issues and difficulties refugees face - imagine that you suddenly have to run away to escape danger - grab a rucksack and just 5 items that you would really want to take with you! Actually, why just image that - one hour before the meeting on Thursday, recognize that you have to leave in just an hour - grab the 5 things you couldn't do without and flee to the explorer meeting! We will see what the Scouting Resource 'Refugee Response' inspires us to do!