E/YM7/8/8

File regarding County Scout Association including the following:

1982 - 1986

From: 1982 To: 1986

- correspondence with Bedfordshire County Council on various matters including: classification of River Great Ouse for sporting purposes; assistance for three leaders attending International Jamboree in Canada; visit of Chief Scout; need for a County Office; possible representative for Someries (Luton) District on Area Youth Committee, help with transport in North Bedfordshire and need for population figures of boys in county; process of applying to Bedfordshire County Council for grant aid; - copies of Bedfordshire County Scout Council 'County News' and 'County Digest'; - population projection up to 2000 of numbers of cubs, scouts, venture scouts, and leaders in Bedfordshire; - County Summary of Census of various types of scout and staff broken down by district; - minutes of meetings of: County Scout Council including Annual General Meeting; Bromham [Training Centre] Management Sub-Committee; Leslie Sell Youth Trust - Chalton Scout Advisory Centre; Bedford County Scout Council Finance Committee; County Scout Executive Committee; District Commissioners; and Leslie Sell County Scout Activity Centre, Bromham; - Reports and Accounts of Bedfordshire County Scout Council; - correspondence regarding request by County Scout Association for grant aid from Harpur Trust; - boundary reviews in South Bedfordshire (Ickwell, Chiltern, Stockwood, Someries, and Dunstable Districts) and North Bedfordshire (Bedford (North), Bedford (South) and Ouse Valley Districts); - draft job description for post of County Organiser; - Constitution of Bedfordshire Scout Activity Group; - report on BAGS Activity House; - publicity sheet for Boyd Camp Site, Henlow; - Bedfordshire County Scout Council policy document on improving scouting over the next decade; - 1st Dunstable Scout Group sponsored canoe run from Leighton Buzzard to Regent’s Park, London to raise money for group funds and BBC TV Blue Peter Lifeboat Appeal Fund; - evolution of county badge; - report of Bedfordshire delegation at National Scouters’ Conference.

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Bedfordshire Scouts,
Scout Movement,
Bedfordshire County Council,
North Bedfordshire District Council,
Harpur Trust,
South Bedfordshire District Council

boys Scout movement, business correspondence, Bedfordshire County Council, sport, Great Ouse, funding, scout leader, events, Canada, chief scout, Office, Someries, TRANSPORT, North Bedfordshire Borough Council, Bedfordshire County Scout Council, newsletter, publication, population statistics, Cubs, Scouts, Venture Scouts, scout leader, AGM (Annual General Meeting), management, social & welfare provision youth, Leslie Sell Youth Trust, Chalton, advice and information, PRIVATE FINANCE, commissioner, Bromham Leslie Sell County Scout Activity Centre, BROMHAM, charities accounts, Harpur Trust, borough/district boundaries, South Bedfordshire District Council, Ickwell, Chiltern Hills, Stockwood, DUNSTABLE, BEDFORD, Ouse Valley District Scouts, employment, county organiser, business, publicity, Henlow Boyd camp site, HENLOW, canoeing, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, London Regent's Park, charity, BBC, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, lifeboat, Design Consultants, BEDFORDSHIRE, conference