Ingleton Scouts help out local community during Covid-19 pandemic

When the Ingleton Parish Council and Ingleton Residents' Community Association's Covid-19 Response Team was formed, the Ingleton leaders offered their services as volunteers and they were quickly given the job of delivering flyers to the outlying communities and caravan sites of Thornton and Westhouse.

Armed with sanitiser and protective gloves, they grabbed their Scout hoodies and neckers, and peddled off, keeping a good distance apart, to help others.

Apart from one curmudgeon, who hadn’t realised that they were a Scout team with a mission, the leaders were greeted with waves, smiles, thumbs up signs and lovely comments like “great job” and “many thanks”, which was so rewarding.

With one successful task under their belt and an enlarged team including Explorer and Network members, they were then asked to deliver a second set of flyers to spread the news about a village Friendly Call Service which has been set up to combat loneliness.

To keep the youth members active during the lockdown, they are being encouraged to try out the huge range of Scout Association activities which can be found at https://www.scouts.org.uk/the-great-indoors/

In addition, fun projects and badgework tasks are being created by local leaders including all ages making competition shields for the now postponed St George’s Day celebrations.

Cubs are making rainbow cards to send to isolated members of the community, Scouts have had a makeshift camp in the comfort of their own homes and Explorers have been sent activity packs to help towards badgework.

They have also created an Egg-citing Egg Challenge with craft, science and fun activities for youth members to enjoy over Easter.

'Be Prepared' takes on a whole new meaning in difficult times but Scouts in Ingleborough District are definitely doing their best!