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The Annual General Meeting of the Winchester District Scout Council will take place on Monday 9^th June 2025 at 7pm at St John the Baptist Church, St John’s Street, Winchester SO23 0HF.  All members of the Winchester District Scout Council are invited to attend.  Members from within Winchester District include:

• all adult members with a District role
• all Group Lead Volunteer members of each Group Leadership Team from the District
• all Group Leadership Team Members of each Group in the District
• all Group Section Team Members of each Group in the District
• all Group Trustee Board Chairs from the District
• all Group Trustee Board Treasurers from the District
• all Explorers (including Young Leaders) in the District
• all members of the Scout Network in the District
• all parents of all Explorers (including Young Leaders) in the District
• the County Lead Volunteer
• the County Chair
• any members of the District Scout Council appointed under rule 5b.3.2.8
• any community members of the District Scout Council appointed under rule 5b.3.2.9

Anyone can propose themselves or another person for election to the Winchester District Board of Trustees, and details can be found here. 

How the Trustee Board works can be found here.

An important part of the meeting will be to approve an updated Constitution for 2025/6.

As every year, Winchester Cathedral welcomed the Scouts to our St George's Day Parade after we had all marched up the Broadway where the Mayor, Cllr Russell Gordon-Smith, took the salute at the Guildhall. This year we were also joined by the Guides. The theme of the service was the teamwork of the Moon landings in 1969, because so many of those astronauts had been scouts themselves when young. The congregation was treated to a marvellous 'silver rocket' which ran all the way down the nave followed by many 'firecrackers'. They returned from the Moon with some 'cheese', which was presented to the Mayor. All this was splendidly arranged by 16th Winchester.