Tullis Explorers

Don’t believe me? Check this out…

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7150000/newsid_7151000?redirect=7151021.stm&news=1&bbram=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1

 Well done girls! I never knew we had such talent amongst the unit. Roll on the gangshow in 2008!

Here’s a challenge for you!

Back in the day when I was a humble Venture Scout (yes that time did exist and NO there weren’t any Dinosours!) I took part in a hike for double hard b*******! It was called Operation Triangle. Well time passed by and the hike didn’t run for a few years but then it came back and behold ‘Son of Triangle’ was born! Basically….

The Son of Triangle 2007 is a night exercise for teams of 4 Explorer Scouts. The exercise involves hiking around a circular course. Teams will process along the course as directed, reporting at the various incident and checkpoints.

Incident points will be marked by red / amber lamps and will be organised by a Senior Incident Officer to whom the team must report.

The exercise consists of approximately 23km (15 miles) of hiking.

The Exercise will commence at 20:00 hours on the 17th November 2007 and end at approximately 08:00 hours on 18th November 2007. Teams will have 10 hours of actual walking time to complete the exercise from their start time.

The venue for the start and finish, together with the details of your start time and map required for the event, will be sent to you early in November 2007.

The event will be supervised throughout by Triangle staff. An Emergency contact number will be made available to Leaders with the starting instructions.

Teams will be inspected to check that the equipment and dress are to the satisfaction of the organisers at the start. They will then be issued with a route card and detailed instructions.

A high standard of map reading, precision compass work and night bearing work will be essential. Physical fitness, courage, determination and initiative are necessary if the exercise is to be enjoyed and completed.

Overnight accommodation and breakfast will be provided for competing teams Each team members need to bring a sleeping bag that will be transported to the finish by the organizers. A trophy will be awarded to the team gaining the most marks during the exercise. The presentation of the trophy will be held at 0900 on the Sunday morning.

So let the leaders know if you think you hard enough!!!!!!

Members of the Ashdown District Tullis Explorer Unit are actively involved in setting up and running JOTI 2007 for the 1st Crowborough Scout Group.

Here is our Web Cam

Blimey!!! We’re heading towards the end of the year and I’ve hardly posted anything on the website!!! Eeeek must try harder!

Please let us know if you’ve got any photos you want adding to the gallery - C’mon I’m we have some somewhere - Martlets? - The World Jamboree?!!!

 Anyhoooo, I’ve updated the diary so if you want to know whats going on check it out.

LEADERS MANNING CHECKPOINTS and EXPLORER SCOUTS:
Meet at Friends’ Clump car park at 6:15pm prompt.

Download the full information PDF here (PDF 500k) Please print it and take it with you tonight.

Any problems or queries contact Grant

We have had a fantastic response from the Tullis Unit for the Martlets Camp with 18 members camping for the week. If you’ve changed your mind and you want to go its not to late! Obviously you won’t get the discounted price but places are still available. Contact the Leadership team for more details.

Download the first issue of the Daily Martlet (1.2MB PDF) for the latest infomation from the Martlets Team. It’s well worth a look and whilst you’re there have a think about what you want to do at Martlets with regards to theme nights - lets show county that Tullis mean to paaaaaaarrty!!!!!

Use the Contact form to give us your feedback or if you have any queries.

Grant

Interested in knowing what goes on when you leave Explorers? Network is the answer! Please speak to the leadership team if you want to know more about Network.

Please Download our latest Scout Network newsletter (820kb PDF) with lots of exciting stuff for next year.

As usual if there is someone you know would like to receive a copy of the newsletter but is not on my distribution list please let me know so I can add them for future issues.

Please feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone who would be interested.

Yours in Scouting

Steve Allen
County Scout Network Commissioner (East Sussex)

OK everyone, here is is a great opportunity to gain same life saving skills. Not only do you get the opportunity to learn something useful acquiring these skills count towards your Award Schemes! Martyn is offering up some places on a Practical First Aid Course that he is running, see below for more details.

I am running a first aid course for Scouts and Explorers. http://www.southonscouts.org.uk/i.asp?page=FirstAid2007

Chapman Scouts and Tullis Explorers are invited to attend, could you ask them to contact me, I will fill the 12 places on a first come basis.

Grant additionally many of your Explorers did it this year and I would like to ask if one or two would be prepared to help run next years course as casualties, could you please ask.

A Red Cross Practical First Aid Course will be run January to March 2007, up to 12 Scouts and Explorers can take part. It will be run for 8 weeks see below dates and times. The course is designed to be continually assessed and has a large amount of participation in incidents.

If you wish to take do the course please contact Martyn Everitt (m@1c.org.uk).

All are Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8:00pm at Crowborough Scout HQ in the Explorer room.
9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th January 2007
13th, 20th, 27th (final revision), 27th February 2007
6th (final assessment) March 2007

Yours in Scouting,
Martyn Everitt

I, Adrian Morris, being the acting returning officer for the Tullis Explorer Unit, do hereby declare that the following are duly elected as Explorer Representatives:

Oli Robison
Emma Easton
Sam Coates

Well done you three - elected by a landslide. The next step is for the leadership team to meet Oli, Emma, and Sam to agree how this will work. Then you can all start feeding your ideas in to them.

OK, it’s a little way off but before we launch ourselves into the Cristmas Spirit lets start thinking about next years Overland Hike.

I strongly recommend that anyone that is interested in participating in this event reads the Ashdown District Overland Training Booklet 2007 (PDF 445Kb). It has been written and put together by Alan Thompson Scout Leader 4th Uckfield Pheonix for Ashdown Scouts however, the information is relavent to Explorer Scouts too. It conatains some very useful advice that is not only relavent to the Overland Hike but Expeditions in general.

The Tullis Explorers have been invited to participate in the Scout training schedule (see page 3). If you wish to participate in any of these training days please inform the Leadership Team. You are of course more than welcome to arrange your own training again, discuss with leaders if you need help.

Any questions or queries speak to the leaders on a wednesday night or use the contact form.