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From 1st Sept 2004 anyone leading a camp must hold a nights away permit. Keith Hampson has agreed to be district nights away adviser. If you hold a wood badge and have been running camps, all you need to do is have an interview with Keith, to be "fast tacked". If you have not completed the wood badge but have camp leading expedience you can be assessed by Keith. For both cases please forward to him a completed "request for a nights away form" e-mail if possible to scouting@keithhampson.co.uk . Leaders on the new training scheme need to do the nights away training module (module 16). They need to have taken an active role in the running of three camps. They then need to plan and run a forth themselves under the guidance of a permit holder who must stay the night. Before running this camp they need to advise the nights away adviser. The nights away adviser needs to be satsified that you can run all aspects of a camp so will need to visit you at camp, so please make it a local one. Record the camps on the "request for a nights away form" and after three camps forward it to the adviser. They will then be assessed on the forth camp and a permit issued if they meet the standard. All camps must have "nights away notification form" sent to our DC Ian Carey at least 7 days before camp and to the home DC if the camp is not on a scout site, so if your staying in a YHA the local DC needs a copy also at least 14 days before! How to find the local DC it is in small print at the bottom of the form. Home contacts are needed for all nights away this fact sheet explains all. |