Details on Court Trip

All ventures are to note that the trip cum tour of the Subordinate Courts would be on 2 February 2008. All those who are attending are to assemble at 0845 hours sharp outside the Courts.

The itinerary for the day is as follows:

- A short introduction about the courts
- A sit-in at Court 26
- Briefing on the functions of the courts
-> Specialised Courts
- Tour of registries and Family and Juvenile Courts

Please bring along a bottle of water and writing materials.

The address of the Courts:

Subordinate Courts Building
No 1 Havelock Square
Singapore 059724

For those taking the bus services, 51, 143, 174, 186 and 608 would stop directly in front of the Courts. It is surrounded by the Ministry of Manpower, Central Square and Havelock Square.

Have fun and hope to see you all there!

An Introduction to the Venture Treasury

Hello everyone!

J1s pls read this...

Information about the venture treasury :)

1. The Venture Funds is kept by the Venture treasurer and is mainly used to purchase essentials to keep the venture unit running.

2. If you want to make a claim, approach me (ben) or ur future treasurer (nic, aft the seniors step down) and then fill up a reimbursement form and attach the receipt as proof or purchase. receipt is very impt cos if not then we don't know if u really bought it for that price or something like that.. basically for formalities la

3. venture subscription fees. I will be collecting venture subscription fees in the coming months after the membership is confirmed.

cost is $5 per month so means everyone pays $60.

venture subscription fees is the principle source of 'income' for our venture funds. basically this money will eventually be given back to you through all the subsidies and payment for the material u use and its just a convenient one off way to fund our activities. hope everyone understands :)

4. for those who haven't bought the venture t shirts, rmb to do so.. it's $20 for 2 shirts (one white and another polo)

yupp that's all i guess..

ben.

General Meeting, 26th January

Hey guys. Hope everything's going fine for you all thus far. It's been quite some time since we had a General Meeting. So, here are the details of the meeting:
Date: 26th Jan 2008
Venue: SJI Canteen
Time: 0930 hrs sharp
By the way, Yen Chee has kindly agreed to join us in this meeting. The main agenda in the meeting will be election of JC1s' understudies and discussion of upcoming major events. It's important for all Ventures to be present at this meeting to clarify many things. Also, do come down in any Venture tee (any scouts based tee for JC1s) with black shorts and shoes. Strictly no wearing of slippers or sandals during official meetings such as this one. Hope to see you guys there, punctually of course. If you have any queries, call me @ 90575403

P.S. JC1s please bring along S$20 for purchasing of both the venture t-shirts
P.P.S. Lu Zhi, please invite your ex-guide friends to this meeting as well


-Ara-

Night Hike!

Hello everyone!

Night hike was on the 18th to 19th of January! The plan was to walk from bishan to toa payoh, balestier, geylang and finally east coast park to watch the sunrise… Along the way as usual, stuff our faces with the famous food from 24-hour makan places!!

The participants were: Shannon( who left us halfway), Darren( who joined us halfway), Chao Hao, Geovenn, Aaron Chan, Matthew, Navin, Bertran, Ibrahim (who joined us halfway) and me, Rubegan. All of us had a lot of fun and enjoyed ourselves so much that the drizzle in the morning couldn’t put a “damper” on our mood… The photos are coming soon, latest by Monday. So Stay Tuned…

Venture community service

Hello ventures!

To all J2s: Hey we are going to do service at the SPCA Animal Shelter as a kennel helper cleaning cages.
Our commitment will be at least twice a month working the afternoon shift of 12.30-3.00 on saturdays for 2+ months. These months will hopefully be Feburary and March, maybe a bit of April.
Please print the signup form, fill in the details and pass to me by 31st January.
If have inquiries please ask, i'll be heading down to the SPCA shelter itself at the end of January and can try to clarify your doubts.
More info here: http://www.spca.org.sg/volunteer/type_volunteer.asp
Signup form here: http://www.spca.org.sg/volunteer/images/volunteerregistrationjun07.admin.frm.doc

To J1s: Feel free to join us! You'll be accomplishing the service section of the Venture Scout Standard. If interested, please follow the same instructions set for J2s above!

This is just a short term service project. Shannon has suggested that, with reference Marcus Png's email, we should have a long term service project which will stretch generations of scouts/ventures/rovers, and has proposed collaborating with St. Joseph's Home for the Aged. We'll talk more of this on a later date.

Thanks all!

YOURS IN SCOUTING SIA...
Darren

[Additional note]

I have updated the links section on the right-hand bar, please take a look as some information might be useful.

Cheers,

Shannon

Trip cum Tour to Subordinate Courts

All Ventures are to note that the tentative date for the visit to the Subordinate Courts has been shifted from Saturday, 26 January 2008 to Saturday, 2 February 2008.



Those who have signed up for the trip are to assemble outside the Courts at 0840 sharp. The attire for the trip is half-uniform. (Any scouts related T-shirts and scouts pants)



Remember to bring a note pad and writing materials to take down notes.



Those who are unable to make it please contact Navin (H.P. 90476502) as soon as possible.
More details on the trip will be posted on another day along the course of the coming week.

Night Hike

There will be a Night Hike on Friday the 18th. All who are going will meet at Bishan MRT Station's control station at 8.00pm. The attire is scout related T-Shirt, bermudas/shorts and sport shoes. Please bring along a 1.5 Litre water bottle and a poncho as in the event of wet weather, we will continue walking in the rain. The amount of cash to bring is $40 minimum. The hike should end at Tanah Merah MRT. Those who are going are to sms or email their NRIC no. and next of kin details to Navin at 90476502 or blackmamaz@hotmail.com . Please do not eat your dinner. In the event there are any more details Rubegan will update all of you.

First Aid Course Information

The Standard First Aid Course to be attended in Q1 requires a minimum of 20 people to book the whole course. Those who have to attend the course (J1s) are to inform Matthew Koo of the days in which they are free as the course dates are up to us to decide first before the Red Cross can confirm with us after checking the dates with their instructors. *Scouters, Rovers who have not completed the Standard First Aid Course are invited to join in order to book the whole course.* The course fee is $90 and the course can be completed in:

a) 8 lessons of *3 hrs each
b) 3 lessons of **9 hrs each
c) 4 lessons of **7½ hrs each

For more information about the course details please refer to: http://www.redcross.org.sg/docs/SFA_syllabus.doc and it will most likely be held in the Red Cross House (Next to Stansfield College / opposite Haw Par Centre/Singapore Shopping Centre / beside Y.M.C.A) 15 Penang Lane Singapore 238486.

Jan schedule + Random updates

Okay! First up is the schedule for Jan.

For J1s:

12/1 (sat) - ECP Cycling Trip (I/C: Matthew Koo)
18/1 (fri) - Night Nike (I/C: Chao + Rubegan)
*Submit plan by 14/1 (Mon)
26/1 (sat) - Court Visit (tentative) (I/C: Navin)

Above is the juniors' schedule, but seniors who missed night hike and court visit please go too ty.

Other Updates:

Kevin Michael to collate orders for badge scheme and polo tee to make mass purchase.
Standard First Aid Course to be attended in Q1 (KIV) (I/C: Matthew Koo)
Understudy positions to be elected once all J1s can appear in the same spot...
Check with Scouts to see if they need help with Friday weekly SJIJ cub scouts' training.
All juniors to read Scouting For Boys! Borrow from Malcolm =DD

Lastly, campfire council meeting on 26/1, 5pm @ HQ. Seniors only. (as of now)