Review of 2025

As Chair of the Trustees Committee, I have been asked to review the past year in the life of the 2nd Renfrew Trinity Scout Group.

The Group remains in good health, primarily due to the hard work and enthusiasm of all the Leaders. We are fortunate in having such a talented and experienced group of leaders, ably led by our Group Lead Volunteer, Rachel Shaw. We are delighted to welcome new leaders joining us through the course of 2025, either by joining the group or by progression through the Sections.

We are fortunate in having the continued support of the congregation of Renfrew Trinity Church. The use of the church halls gives us the facilities and continuity without which the Group could not run. I would therefore like to thank the Church for their continued support.

Some of the year’s highlights included:

• Beavers Halloween party amazingly run this year by the cast of Scooby Doo!

• Scouts and Explorers attending the annual SubZero camp at Auchengillan

• Cubs weekend camp at Blair Drummond Safari Park (remember – don’t smile at the monkeys!)

• Beavers Bonfire Night with toasted marshmallows and campfire songs

• Explorers climbing wall activity in Paisley

• Cubs kayaking and paddle boarding evening

• Scouts back to basic camp at Lapwing Lodge

In addition, a full programme of badge work, games and many other activities were run for the Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers each week.

Two other points are worth noting.

• The Group of enthusiastic and talented volunteers archiving the huge amount of materials amassed during the Centenary continue to do a fantastic job. From this has come a further venture in association with Alzheimer Scotland, using some of the material to provide inspiration and stimulate recollections for those affected by these conditions and who may have had an association with the Scouting Movement in their younger days.

• We have also had a young member of the Group apply and be accepted by the selection process for attendance at the World Scout Jamboree in Poland 2027. Acceptance in the selection process is a fantastic achievement and I am sure that we, as a Group, would wish to support this effort.

As I am sure you would expect, I would like to finish by thanking everyone in the Group for their support, encouragement and enthusiasm – the Leaders, the Trustees Committee and Office Bearers, the Archive Group, the young people who come along week by week and who make it all so much fun – and to the ever patient parents who have to wash socks and sleeping bags after camps, look for lost shoes and everything else!  Thank you all for your support.

Donald McLeod
Chairman, Trustees Committee