Milton view Scout chief salutes you!
Dear Editor This week is National Volunteers Week and I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the dedicated volunteers who make Scouting happen in Scotland.
Across the UK, adults involved Scouting contribute in excess of 364 million hours of voluntary work each year to their local communities.
It is thanks to our 8222 adult volunteers in Scotland that we can offer life changing adventure to nearly 40,000 young people.
Our membership has grown year on year for the last 10 years and without our volunteers that would just not be possible.
Our volunteers fill many different roles; from Leaders working each week with young people to Committee members working quietly behind the scenes to parents helping out on an infrequent basis.
In addition to making sure that Scouting delivers fun and adventurous programmes each week in a safe environment these adults also organise and run camps and plan and run a whole range of different activities like abseiling, coding, zorbing and much, much more.
Our volunteers are helping to prepare Scotland’s young people to be active citizens, to make a positive impact in their communities and to embrace and contribute to social change.
I offer my thanks and the thanks of all our youth members to anyone who makes Scouting possible.
Graham Haddock Chief commissioner Scouts Scotland
they want, how they want it delivered. Only by listening - can we deliver. We should ask their views on national and local issues and what they agree with and what should be changed.
If we go with same old – then we will get the same results, defeat. Ask those on the ground, councillors, what needs to be done to save our councils – not MPS or MSPS - the public do not associate with them at local level
We must revisit Trident, the health service, council tax, policing and education.
Personally, I believe we should scrap Trident and focus money and jobs on those directly affected. Billions saved can be invested in a new technological armed force fighting terrorism and computer fraud.
Massive investment and recruitment for the health service – funded by a small increase in national insurance
Council tax abolished and a new fair tax system introduced. Also end austerity policing; make police more local and accountable.
No child should leave school unless they can read and write. They should be competent in arithmetic and new technology.
These are my personal views.
Councillor Bert Thomson Blantyre