Blue & Gold

Invitation to Celebrate the Diversity of Pack 130

Blue and Gold Dinner

 Time: 19h00-21h30

Place: Tannay Salle Communale

 

  

 

The Blue and Gold evening includes:

Dinner -

  • Main course “Porc Saussice Vaudois Brioche”(to be booked and paid in advance – SFr16 per adult, child price to be confirmed)
  • “”Potluck”” salad and dessert organized by your den
  • Den songs, dances, skits to celebrate the diversity of Pack130
  • Rank Awards Great raffle and tombola prizes!

Please come and join us at this Cub Scout celebration with your family!

 

By January 17th latest: - Let your den Leader know how many will be attending - sell raffle tickets to relatives and friends in advance (but you must have the tickets to pick up any prizes at the event) - order & pay for meal vouchers - provide at least one prize for the tombola And also, let our raffle coordinators know of any companies you can contact for raffle / tombola prize donations (Yasmin and Julia) ASAP

 

 Yasmin Jabsheh kevinyasmin@bluewin.ch

Julia Gaskell juliagaskell@hotmail.com

 

The annual Blue & Gold Dinner is intended for us to formally recognize and celebrate our children’s participation in the Scouting movement. The families of the den members are all invited and we normally have 150 -200 people attend. The evening is always organized by the Bear Dens, this year we have one Bear den and the entire den is active in the organisation. This year is the 30th anniversary of Pack130 but, rather than choosing an anniversary theme (we had the 75th anniversary of cub scouting 2 years ago), the theme we have chosen for this year’s event is Celebrating Our Diversity – what make Pack130 special.

 

There are 4 main components of the event:

 

1) The dinner There will be a meal (main course only) organized by the restaurant next door to the Tannay Hall – Coeur du Lion. The seating will be arranged by Dens. The dens are invited to coordinate their den’s attendance list, and to coordinate the provision of salads, drinks and dessert for the den families.

 

2) The Show Each Den will present its act of the show – preferably a song or dance from the country you have already chosen. The latest info we have is:

Den Tigers – Texas Line dance

Den 4 Wolves -

Den 6 Wolves – South Africa

Den 7 Bears – Scotland Strip the Willow

Den 5 Webelos I – Russia

Den 3 Webelos II – Diversity skit

The target audience is the other dens so the key rule is to make it lively and relatively short.

 

3) Decoration There is not a dessert competition planned. For decorating the hall / your table we would like each den to provide a flag or poster of your chosen country or a den flag you have made. . . .or mini ones for your table.

 

4) The Raffle and Tombola The Blue & Gold Banquet is one of the most important fund raising events of the year. Proceeds of the raffle and tombola ticket sales go to the Pack’s 2006-07 Charity, which is the wonderful project to buy a boat through the HUG charity to allow the children from the Ssese Isles the get to health centres on the mainland.

 

The tombola will run at the start of the evening and remain open as long as there are still prizes available and people interested to take part. It has a collection of prizes partly provided by all den families. Each family will be expected to contribute a small toy – value between SFr5 and SFr15 – there will be separate note from Julia Gaskell so that you can forward this to all den families. Other prizes will be some of the smaller prizes we collect from local companies when collecting raffle prizes. The raffle will be for the larger prizes which have been donated.

 

Tickets for tombola will be SFr1 each and for the raffle will be CHF 2 each. For the tombola, the tickets will be on sale at the event only. All tickets will win a prize (although not all the same value obviously). 1 out of 5 tickets will win one of the “main”prizes. We are hoping to have enough pens / small items so that every ticket can win something. The raffle tickets will be on sale before and during the event. The tickets need to be brought to the event so all prizes are collected on the evening. If you would like to sell to relatives and close friends who would be happy for you to pick up any prizes for them then please do so. Tickets will be available via den leaders after the January 17th committee meeting. Unsold tickets and the money raised should be returned via den leaders on February 2nd. Also, the ticket stubs for those tickets sold obviously need to be brought to the Blue & Gold dinner!

 

Den involvement in the organisation for the event:

 

  • Recycling – provide boxes for recycling and collect / sort recycling material during event
  • Dish washing – team to coordinate and operate dish washers
  • Coordination of hall cleaning
  • Coordination of table / chair stacking
  • Balloons – source air tank in advance, fill balloons and attach strings on the day