New Scouts Website

I would like to announce, that over the last few months, our County website has been undergoing some major redevelopment and improvements and went live on 14th November 2011.

I hope that you agree that the new design and functionality is a great improvement on what we had previously, although this has proved very successful over the last few years and has led to other Counties following our lead in this development.

Our County website is seen as one of many ways that we communicate Northamptonshire Scouting to the world.

New Features

Diary

This will be regularly updated and will contain dates for County Events, County meetings National events such as Gilwell Reunion, Gilwell 24 etc. I will also add any other Scouting events that you would like to publicise to the County, such as Gang Shows, Group or District fund raising events for example.

Facilities

This is an added feature that many have asked for and will contain contact details for District campsites, minibuses for hire, marquees for hire, climbing walls for hire, and in fact anything that you think that your Scouting colleagues could benefit from and you are prepared to hire out. We will not be adding commercial companies to this listing.

If you have any item that you would like added, please send me the details.

Twitter and Facebook

These have both been added with links to our pages from the homepage of the site based on experience from other Counties, this is another useful means of communicating to a wider audience of both adults and young people. These will be carefully monitored using Scout HQ guidelines.

News articles

These will be regularly updated and I would like to encourage everyone to send in some editorial content and a couple of suitable photographs from an event, which could be a camp, sleepover, fund-raising event etc. and we will add this to the website.

I would appreciate you taking a look at our redeveloped website and advising of any improvements, additions or amendments that are required.

Many thanks,

Tony Keay
County Commissioner
Northamptonshire County Scouts