{"id":221,"date":"2009-08-04T10:55:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T09:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/?page_id=221"},"modified":"2024-12-04T10:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T10:39:05","slug":"new-leaders-queens-scouts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/1990s-and-on\/new-leaders-queens-scouts\/","title":{"rendered":"New Leaders &#038; Queen&#8217;s Scouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">During the mid 1990&#8217;s to around 2000, the Beavers were run by Jim Shallcross then by Mark &amp; Janet McDonald and Michele Hammond. The Cubs by Sharon Hickton with help from various Ventures and various other leaders. The Scouts by Dave Bowers and then Nick Wood with help from Gareth O&#8217;Donnell, Wayne Foster &amp; Domonic Boyson. The Ventures were run by Gareth O&#8217;Donnell &amp; Jop (Wayne Foster). Dave Bowers was now GSL.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"12-96 Bowers last Scouts (Medium)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/1296BowerslastScoutsMedium_thumb.jpg?resize=248%2C167\" alt=\"12-96 Bowers last Scouts (Medium)\" width=\"248\" height=\"167\" border=\"0\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"12-96 Bowers last Scouts 2 (Medium)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/1296BowerslastScouts2Medium_thumb.jpg?resize=244%2C166\" alt=\"12-96 Bowers last Scouts 2 (Medium)\" width=\"244\" height=\"166\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p>L: Dave Bowers on his last night as Scout Leader.R:\u00a0Dave trying out his new GSL&#8217;s flared trousers!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"05-98 Consall bivvy 2 (Medium)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0598Consallbivvy2Medium_thumb.jpg?resize=244%2C168\" alt=\"05-98 Consall bivvy 2 (Medium)\" width=\"244\" height=\"168\" border=\"0\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"05-98 Consall bivvy (Medium)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0598ConsallbivvyMedium_thumb.jpg?resize=244%2C168\" alt=\"05-98 Consall bivvy (Medium)\" width=\"244\" height=\"168\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>L: Scouts making a bivvy for the night. Consall June 1998.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">L to R Antony Stephanelli, David Forrester &amp; Tony Oliver<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">R:\u00a0The nearly completed bivvy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"center\">In 1999, two of the Ventures gained their Queen&#8217;s Scouts Award. Alistair Anslow (Alb) &amp; Wayne Foster (Jop) were the last last members of the Group to have gained this award until 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/2014\/02\/13\/queens-scout-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(see here)<\/a>. They can be seen below with the Group&#8217;s other two Queen&#8217;s Scouts.<\/div>\n<p class=\"style2\" align=\"justify\">Although the 4 Queen&#8217;s Scouts shown here and Jack in 2014 are the only ones we know of in the Group, we had at least one King&#8217;s Scout in the 1920&#8217;s or 1930&#8217;s. Mr. F. Tyler, who was also an old Patrol Leader, is mentioned in a newspaper article from 1938.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/180499QueensscoutsMedium.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"18-04-99 Queens scouts (Medium)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/180499QueensscoutsMedium_thumb.jpg?resize=466%2C312\" alt=\"18-04-99 Queens scouts (Medium)\" width=\"466\" height=\"312\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">L to R &#8211; Nick Wood, Alistair Anslow, Wayne Foster &amp; Gareth O&#8217;Donnell<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">On 2nd January 2000, a group of new members joined the Ventures. They were invested during a hike with the Scouts in the Goyt Valley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"justify\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"05-99 Venture invest (Medium)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0599VentureinvestMedium_thumb.jpg?resize=312%2C215\" alt=\"05-99 Venture invest (Medium)\" width=\"312\" height=\"215\" border=\"0\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"05-99 Venture invest 2 (Medium)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0599Ventureinvest2Medium_thumb.jpg?resize=307%2C217\" alt=\"05-99 Venture invest 2 (Medium)\" width=\"307\" height=\"217\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"justify\">L: Ventures being invested in the ruins of Errwood Hall by Jop.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">L to R &#8211; Julian ?, Vicky McKinley, Michelle Kobylarz, Carol Chilton, Andrew Hancock &amp; Tony Oliver<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">R:\u00a0After the investiture.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0599Ventureinvest3Medium.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"05-99 Venture invest 3 (Medium)\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0599Ventureinvest3Medium_thumb.jpg?resize=489%2C336\" alt=\"05-99 Venture invest 3 (Medium)\" width=\"489\" height=\"336\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p>At the end of the hike<\/p>\n<p>L to R &#8211; David Forrester, Andrew Hancock, Antony Stephanelli, Dee, Alistair Anslow, Tony Oliver, Michelle Kobylarz, Mathew Kobylarz, Carol Chilton, Nick Wood, Wayne Foster, Julian ?, Vicky McKinlay, Gareth O&#8217;Donnell and Dave Lawton.<\/p>\n<p>Note the Group\u2019s minibus in the background<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:45,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/porthillscouts.org.uk\\\/site\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/13\\\/queens-scout-award&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20201214114421\\\/https:\\\/\\\/porthillscouts.org.uk\\\/site\\\/2014\\\/02\\\/13\\\/queens-scout-award\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 08:47:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 00:02:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 07:32:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-14 02:10:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-05 00:54:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-13 18:33:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-26 14:46:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-07 22:59:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-07 22:59:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the mid 1990&#8217;s to around 2000, the Beavers were run by Jim Shallcross then by Mark &amp; Janet McDonald and Michele Hammond. The Cubs by Sharon Hickton with help from various Ventures and various other leaders. The Scouts by Dave Bowers and then Nick Wood with help from Gareth O&#8217;Donnell, Wayne Foster &amp; Domonic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":175,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-221","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PB7Sa-3z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221\/revisions\/1848"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}