Good afternoon,

I hope you’re well.

Here is a summary of the information in the email below:

  • The National Scout & Guide Symphony Orchestra and Concert Band Concert 2025
  • Youth Voice Fora: we need your help!
  • External First Aid certificates
  • Role Audit Flowchart

We are working on a membership system email with hints and tips on using the new membership system and this will follow soon.  

The National Scout & Guide Symphony Orchestra and Concert Band Concert 2025

2025 is the 50th Anniversary of The National Scout & Guide Symphony Orchestra, and the 10th Anniversary of The National Scout & Guide Concert Band, and following a week long course, both ensembles are performing a joint concert with repertoire featuring a mix of classic pieces and audience favourites from across the years, including:  

NSGCB: Abba Gold, Overture to Candide, Bond… James Bond, Irving Berlin Showstoppers, Ride  

NSGSO: Festive Overture, Nimrod, Star Wars, Finlandia, Danzón No. 2  

Joint Pieces: The Olympic Theme and Fanfare, New York, New York, Pirates of the Caribbean  

For this, our anniversary year, we had an exceptionally high number of applications, and when both ensembles join together on stage, we will have 201 musicians, aged 12-25 from all over the UK, performing. 

Form for Completion 

This is set to be an unforgettable celebration of our ensembles and the young people who make them special. Please can you complete the following form by Sunday 18th May:  https://forms.office.com/e/xYyKT1dwh2 

If you are not sure by that date whether you can attend, please complete it anyway. There is a facility to update us later. 

If you are a uniformed member of The Scouts or Girlguiding, we would ask that you attend in full formal uniform. 

Travel & Parking  

Refreshments  

There will be light refreshments, soft drinks, tea and coffee available to purchase from the foyer area.  

Youth Voice Fora: we need your help!

On behalf of Oxfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire Youth is working with the National Youth Agency to create a comprehensive map of children’s and youth voice forums and opportunities for engagement with local and national democracy for children and young people across Oxfordshire.

This work will inform and support Oxfordshire’s future generations programme, which is based on the principles of Future Generations. Your feedback is invaluable in ensuring that future services can reach, engage, and be informed by a greater diversity of children and young people.

We need your support to map out the great work that is already happening across education, the public sector, and the voluntary, community faith sectors. Please take 15 minutes to fill in this survey to help us all to better understand existing youth voice fora in each area of our county. Please also forward this on to anyone you feel should be included in this survey.

COMPLETE THE SURVEY NOW

External First Aid Certificates

If you have completed an external first aid course which you would like to use for Scouts, please be aware that a First Aid Trainer needs to confirm that the syllabus of the course meets the Scouts First Response criteria. If there are elements which are not met, you will be requested to cover these either via an online conversion course or in some cases attendance of a 10b course (see above), before the learning can be added to your profile. The whole first response course does not need to be retaken, but the missing elements will need to be covered.

Please send your external certificates to Firstaid@oxonscouting.org.uk where they will be reviewed. Your course certificate needs to be uploaded in My Learning, so please make sure this is provided.

The First Response criteria includes:

  • Life support: The principles of first aid and initial response (arriving and managing an incident), emergency life support, CPR (including technique for children and an explanation of what AED is and how to use it), management of an unconscious casualty (child and adult) and choking. 
  • Trauma and injury: Shock, bleeding, fractures (ambulance imminent and non-imminent) and sprains, head injuries, dental incidents and burns.
  • Major illnesses: Asthma, anaphylaxis, heart attack, stroke, seizures, diabetes, sepsis and meningitis.    

To help our First Aid Trainers confirm the criteria it would really help if you can send in both your certificate and the syllabus of the course attended. If your course has extra elements added on the day to cover the Scouts syllabus, please ask the trainer to provide confirmation of the additional elements covered (e.g First Aid at Work does not normally cover Child CPR, dental incidents and some major illnesses).

Role Audit Flowchart

Want to see the process of adding a new volunteer to the system?

Don’t worry we have you covered, in the link below you can download a flowchart to see what needs to be done at what step of the process!

The link to the most up to date version is at the top of this page…

https://www.scouts.org.uk/volunteers/volunteer-experience/digital-tool-guides/add-new-members-and-manage-roles

Have a great month!