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The 150th Sheffield (Wadsley Church) Scout Group executive committee has taken the decision to charge parents half of the normal subs for the Autumn 2020 term due to the Covid-19 crisis.

Why?

Many families are in difficult and uncertain financial times so we want to support those families by not collecting the full subs for this term.

What's the impact?

As a Scout Group and, in particular, a Group with its own building, we have overheads we still need to cover. This means we may have to dip into our reserves to meet these costs.

How can you help?

Although the Group has made arrangements to be able to cope with the reduction in subs, any donations we are able to collect in lieu would help a great deal. In order to continue to support the fantastic activities our leaders provide and development of the group, we would ask anyone who feels able to support us at this time, to make a donation.

We have set a target to raise 1/4 of this terms subs (£1997.50).

More information

To give you some idea of our outgoing; our largest single outgoing each year is the capitation fee which we pay to our national HQ. This pays for loads of things including insurance, a safeguarding team, training for our volunteers, support for adventurous activity rules (e.g. canoeing) and much, much more. The cost will be £49.50 per young member for the year. When we compare this to our subs, you will note that this amount is only just covered by the £51 (£17 + £34) we plan on collecting this year. Although the Scout HQ are reducing their outgoings to their possible minimums, they still need to collect full membership fees for each young person to cover the vital services that they provide.

If you would like any more information or can support our Group in other ways, please contact Henry Bryan (Group Scout Leader) at gsl@150th.org.uk or visit www.150th.org.uk

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