A key Strategy for our Group over the next 12 months is to grow our Kea
and Cub sections. This year we have started a second Cub pack on a
Tuesday evening. We also have new leaders in both our Cub Packs, with
our previous leaders having stepped down after some 10 years service to
the Group. Now that our New Cub leaders have had a chance to settle, and
with the summer months approaching, it is the ideal time to try and grow the
membership of our junior sections.
Our Target is that the Cub sections will be around 20 – 30 members in
size, averaging around 24 (4 lots of six in each pack), and our Kea
section to be around 15-25 (averaging 20).
Currently our Tuesday Cubs have an age range for Keas through to Cubs,
the ultimate goal is to grow this in sufficient size that it can split
into dedicated Kea and Cub packs.
The rationale for the growth in the group is to provide a very stable
membership base, with a large enough membership in each of the section age
groups will enable us to be able to provide a greater range of activtiy choices (some of
which will rely on numbers to make them feasible). A second issue is
that our overhead costs do not change much with increased membership,
but increased membership means that we have a greater fees base to be
able to absorb increases in overhead running costs, i.e. increased power and rates etc (we have not
increased our fees for a number of years now).
Please take every opportunity to promote the Group when you are able
(for all age ranges, but in particular for the Kea and Cub Sections). 6
- 10 years).
FYI our Scout section is approaching a membership of 40, with the overall
group numbers likely to be in the top twenty of all Groups in NZ).
Current memberships sits at about 90 and our target size is about 120.
Increasing our membership base is one of the easiest ways that we can fundraise
to cover our overhead costs – saves us having to consider lots of fundraising for this.
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Andrew Stevens
Scout & Group Leader
