Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

From what I can gather, school have asked this company to come in and give ideas. Unfortunately, Chris's post on FB made it sound like it was all arranged and sorted...which has obviously started a lot of problems. I still have no idea why Scouts have not contacted other groups or tried to get more ...

There are 131 comments on the facebook page; far too many to copy and paste! but if anyone wants a full run down, I will gladly copy and paste all the comments, if they email me via here.

Chris's second post... Chris Brickel Hello again, The vigorous nature of debate demands a few clarifications. Excuse the brevity - I am using a phone and going to work shortly. - nothing has yet been decided or confirmed. I apologise if I have misled anyone on that point. We were trying to work out ...

here is the first post... Chris Brickel Hi Everybody, As you may know the CH Scout group is struggling, very few staff, if any, are willing or able to lead the group and the number of young people taking part in Scouty adventurous activities is falling. The demands that the modern Scout Association ...

I have just found out the Chris Brickel will be paid by CH. Therefore, why can't the school fund the current scouts and pay towards a Scout Leader, rather than bringing in a company who specialise in (amongst other things) Stag and Hen nights and corporate team building???

Thank you CHDad. I am a mother of a Dep, who is very involved in Scouts. Apparently, there is now a petition and a poster campaign going around school. Also, apparently, the Head was unaware of all of this until it was pointed out to him on Saturday - after the comments on FB. Please put your messag...

Josh is very on the case! As is Jack RH. They need support over this - can any old Blues help by reading the facebook comments (all 109 of them as at 7am this morning!) and either commenting there or sending a letter to the head. Please, please can old Blue Scouts and current parents get involved.

Please could all parents of current and past pupils and all past CH scouts look at the facebook page of CH Scouts, past and present. You will see a long discussion which needs supporting if we are to keep scouts alive at CH.