This Thursday (9th September): An Intro to The Unit/Summer Review (7:30pm)Time for new unit members to get an idea of what The Unit is all about from our current members.
Next Event (5th September): Great Yorkshire RunMeet outside Winter Gardens (Peace Gardens side) @ 7:45am; finish 12:30
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As the Unit Dinner draws closer, yet again it's time to create another famous Woodseats Venture Unit Production Video showing your parents what you've been up to over the past year!
'The Review of The Year' needs ALL your pictures and videos of Unit Activities that have taken place since October 09!
These include The Great Yorkshire Run, The New Year Trip, Bothying, Cycling, Easter Knoydart Trip, Apex Challenge, Canoeing, District Camp, Thursday Night Activities, UK Summer Trip, Abroad Summer Trip, Explorer Belt, Splashdown, DoE Expeditions, Robin Hoods Cave Night Expeditions and any other general photos/videos you have of unit activities/members!
We know there are loads of pictures out there and we need them to feature in the video! If you do have any, please could you bring them to the Unit on a memory stick, CD, DVD or Hard Drive on a Thursday Night.
Make sure you print off a Camp Permission letter and hand it to a leader tomorrow. In case you've lost yours, you can print off another one here
Murray and I would like to thank the Explorers and Network for all you did in so many different ways for John's funeral - just going to it was a brave thing to do. Lots of you worked hard, put in a lot of time and effort and did really well to help to make the funeral so special, a fitting tribute to John.
It was very moving to see so many young people at a funeral - that alone brought tears to both our eyes. Perhaps just a few of you have will already have had to face the death of someone important to you - like John, for, as we found out, his mum died when he was young.
However, for most of you, especially those in Explorers it is likely that John will be the first person you've known who has died and his the first funeral you've been to. Hopefully you've discovered that although funerals and all that surrounds them are not easy they are something that you need not be too afraid of. As a friend said, even in death John was able to equip you for stuff that of course you'll have to cope with again - though hopefully not for ages.
You should all be really proud of yourselves and we hope that despite the first few days of the school holidays being very sad, you go on to have a wonderful summer.
Murray (Vicar/GSL St. Pauls) and Ann Brown
