Ted Whitworth Award Presentation 2003

The Ted Whitworth Rover Service Award is given to a rover crew each year in honour of a man who devoted his life to serving the community. On March 6^th the Anstey Rover Crew received this award at a ceremony hosted by the Freemasons of lodge Baden Powell 222 for community service.

The Anstey Rover crew is based at the Hope Valley scout hall and has approximately 23 members. In the last twelve months Anstey has worked hard towards developing the crew structure and relations. This includes introducing squire training, members becoming leaders, and 5 members starting their Baden Powell Award.

Our members have participated in major events such as the promotions at the royal show through to ongoing service to the Hillcrest, Glen Osmond and Kingscote groups. We are looking forward to extending this service to the newly formed Hope Valley group at our hall. We have also had members involved in an ongoing basis in a variety of community service groups including Edmund Rice Camps and the Anti-Cancer Foundation.

The Crew would like to firstly thank the Branch Rover Council for selecting us as the recipients of the Crew Honours Award for 2002. We thank the Lodge Baden Powell for both the award and its presentation and for their hospitality during the night. Special thanks goes to Michael Baden Powell as guest speaker and the other guests who were there to support us. Lastly we would like to thank Blackburn for coming and acting as our “honour guard” with their stubby flag, which paled in comparison to our broomstick flag (just kidding, Thanks!)

This award has given all crew members a huge amount motivation and encouragement and if nothing else gave us the push we needed to get both our crew scarves made up and a broomstick for our flag for the presentation.

As good as it would be to get this award again, we hope that other crews are motivated gain the award, as a variety of recipients reflects a high standard of rover crew in SA, rather than the same crew getting the award over and over again. We hope that future recipients of the award find it as rewarding as we have.

Minky Cockshell, Alex Rungie and Simon West