This last year and a bit has been challenging for us all, young and old and for some of us following in the tradition of Scouting helped a great deal part from being the source a good third of all posts on here, such as last weeks.
Although Scouting was affected hugely by the pandemic which also had an affect on finances such as rising funds to keep branches going which we helped with with the Race around the World with sponsoring, donations and taking part in, Scouting was able to open up 1,280 new groups in areas of social deprivation, bringing into the scouting family children and young people who otherwise would not of had that opportunity.
This helped an awful of of young people not just cope with the pandemic which mattered a lot but also helped them develop new skills and grow as people.
Currently there's a big waiting list, around 70,000 and one thing we know would help is to raise funds to set up more groups, help with costs such as uniform for those who are the least well off and premises to hold events as conditions enable more face to face scouting to resume .
Currently the Scout Association is running an appeal Oliwa's Story raising funds which can be one off donations or for those who can, a monthly recurring donation.
Reading that you can see for yourself what a difference Scouting made to her life.
I have decided to make a monthly payment because I believe that Scouting Matters and those of us who can should help pass on the opportunity to the next generation.
Please consider helping the appeal out in whatever way you can
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