Promotion Night

In my last post I mentioned that we were having a promotion night out of our own area to try and entice more kids to scouting.

I'm still suprised at the lack of knowledge about girls in scouting. Our troop is almost 50/50 now and judging by the number of girls we got last night (and the number telling us they'll be coming along next week) we may tip the scales to more girls than boys.

I have absolutely no feelings on whether we have more boys or girls in a troop because they're just as capable as each other. In one of the recent issues of scouting for boys, it was noted that Baden Powel would probably have introduced girls into scouting at the same time as the boys, however given the time it wasn't seen as right to do so. The closer we get to a 50/50 split the better however.

We got nine (maybe ten or eleven - a few turned up late and I didn't keep counting them) and they really enjoyed the night. Our scouts having practiced the week before knew everything about the night and because we didn't have to explain it all again to them, they ran the night not me. I just popped backwards and forwards between the groups to make sure they'd got everything. Unfortunately this meant the night ran quicker than before and we'd pretty much wrapped up with half an hour before the end.

So we ran a round of tag bulldog and Master-Mathew-Mark-Luke-John (a memory game).

In all we had about twenty five at the event including our own troop - how nice would it be if we stayed at that level!