Stratford Foodbank

For last night's meeting, we visited the Foodbank in Stratford-upon-Avon. Each of us took quite a few items to donate - a number of Cubs thought the food would be sent on to Africa; they didn't realise that people in our area needed food in times of hardship.
Marion, the Manager, explained how the charity worked and how individuals or families accessed the food. The Cubs asked lots of great questions and found out how it all works. This was all part of their World Challenge Award work.

Marion explained how the food store was laid out and the items dated rotated.





We learnt that last Friday 30 people were helped by being given three days worth of food.

At the end, the Cubs labelled their donations with the "best-before" month and year, so that the volunteers who look after the store can rotate their donations in with existing stock.

Oh, and welcome to William who is old enough to join us from our Beaver Colony.

 



Chinese New Year "Year of the Monkey"

We have our own monkey of course - King Louie from the Jungle Book - and he's been out and about celebrating in Wilmcote.

When Robery Baden-Powell started up the Wolf Cub section in 1916, he got permission from his friend, Rudyard Kipling, to use the Jungle Book as a basis for the section. That's where the adult leader's names come from ("Akela" was the wise old wolf) as well as a couple of ceremonies (Grand Howl at the start of the meetings is based on the circle of wolves in the book).



The Cubs made a New Year card at Cubs this week. Jessica was really inventive with her's - she made it 3D!