Outstanding scouts honoured

Photo: Chris Sunderland

THE former Mayor, Jim McArdle, with scouts in the Council Chamber

Top awards presented in movement’s centenary

OLDHAM’S outgoing Mayor honoured scouts who have had an outstanding year during their movement’s centenary.

Councillor Jim McArdle and Youth Mayor Adil Mohammed are pictured with scouts and leaders in the Council Chamber.

The Mayor hosted a reception in the mayor’s parlour to reward the Oldham Scout District, which was founded only three years after the beginning of the scout movement in 1907.

County training manager Susan Nuttall, from Crompton and Royton Scout District, was awarded the Silver Acorn while Anne Elliot, who has recently retired as district commissioner in Chadderton District, was presented with the Award of Merit.

Both awards are not simply given for length of service but for service of outstanding quality and for the immense contribution the recipient has made to scouting and young people locally.

The Mayor also met the four young people from the scout and explorer scout sections who will be attending the 22nd world scout jamboree in Sweden next year and the two leaders who will be part of the international service team.

They will be part of the county unit of 36 young people going to the event who will be led by Neil Kayley, the group scout leader of the 85th Oldham (St Margaret’s, Hollinwood) troop.