Home : Wayne's Blog (Wayne Bulpitt - UK Chief Commissioner)
Wayne's Blog (Wayne Bulpitt - UK Chief Commissioner)
Active Citizens: Virgin Voters - what's the idea?A few people have asked me about the Active Citizens idea so I thought I'd share a little more background... | |
Huddersfield to Hungary, and back...A particularly busy week with a conference call and visits to Leamington Spa, Huddersfield and Budapest in Hungary | |
Campaigning updateAs promised, I wanted to feedback following on from the deliberative event on campaigning on 10 February and some of the continued discussions about campaigning... | |
Celebrating World Thinking Day and exceptional service to the MovementDebating with a Government Minister, running a Troop meeting, joining Girl Guiding UK to celebrate Thinking Day and toasting the achievements of our "cleverest of wild animals" - all in a weeks volunteering.... | |
Getting Volunteering Right - What Role for Central Government?As part of our campaigning activity to promote the value of volunteering we have been working with the Social Market Foundation with a series of three events attended by key politicians and other influencers. The latest was on Monday evening when we were joined by Tessa Jowell, Minister for the Cabinet Office... | |
Happy Founder's DayAs we celebrate the birth of our founder, Robert Baden-Powell, on 22 February 1857 it seems most appropriate that I spent Saturday with the Welsh Districts of Torfaen and Monmouthshire who had taken over the Cwmbran shopping centre for the day and held their DAFDA event at County Hall in the evening…….. | |
1st Molescroft - one example of why our everyday adventure is growingI came across a great article in the Beverley News about the success of the 1st Molescroft in opening a new Beaver Colony so I dropped the GSL a note congratulating them and asked her if she had any tips I could share..................... | |
Two Scouts, two different lives, same spiritStephen Young and Air Commodore Charles Widdows, two very different lives, in different generations, but both had the same passion for Scouting and were an inspiration to those whose lives they touched. | |
An inspiration to us allThis weekend, I’ve been lucky enough to visit two very different events, but both demonstrating what we mean by “everyday adventure”, Basingstoke Gang Show and Southern 50 Challenge….. | |
So flexibility really does pay off then?‘It’s simple really, you just run a good quality programme that young people and their parents want to be involved with – you run a programme utilising the skills of the parents, not asking them to do things they know nothing about, and they want to become leaders and share in the success”. So says at least one DC..... | |