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1ST STEWARTON BOYS’ BRIGADE
Section Focus – Company / Seniors
The Company and Seniors meet on the same night with the main section of the
night offering different programmes more suitable for each age group. We meet at the
Academy for our main night on a Friday and also have a badminton/board games club
night at the Church Hall on Sunday evening.
On top of our weekly programme our
usual programme includes Scotland
matches, swimming, Glasgow Rocks
games and this is an area where we are
trying to expand the variety for the boys.
Our boys also get the opportunity to
take part in National competitions which
can mean a home tie in Stewarton or
away ties in venues which have included
Newtonhill, Forfar, Dundee, Perth,
Glasgow, Greenock and Dunblane.
Nationals events are chess, 5-A-side,
badminton, table tennis and Masterteam
(which is a general knowledge quiz).
This year although we never progressed
into the final stages this year, we were
still reasonably advanced and still in the
competitions for 5-A-Side, badminton,
table tennis and chess after the Christmas
break.
We also take an active part in Battalion
events. East Ayrshire Battalion includes
14 companies in total around the East
Ayrshire area. So far we have taken part
in a dominoes competition, swimming
gala, athletics, general knowledge quiz,
stain glass window competition (Moses),
Alton Towers visit and a visit to the dry
ski slope at Bellahoustoun. We have still
to take part in Cross Country, drill and
5-A-Side.
Each year our boys pick a charity to
donate their “tuck change”, so rather
nge to
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than spend all their money at the tuck
shop they put the change. We recently
donated £200 to the Ayrshire Hospice.
This year they have selected Help for
Heroes – aiming for a similar figure.
We have also rolled out the Duke of
Edinburgh Awards Programme to
the Senior boys with 4 boys recently
receiving their Silver Duke of Edinburgh
from the Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire Mr
John Duncan.
On March 15th the Battalion Parade
will be hosted in Stewarton with St.
Columba’s and John Knox Church both
attending along with boys and officers
from East Ayrshire Battalion. We will
be marching from the Academy, so listen
for the band and support the Company
in an event which only takes place in
the town once every 10 years. During
the service we are also retiring our old
Colours and dedicating the new Colours.
These Colours we estimate have been in
use from late 1950’s/early 1960’s. It will
be a great occasion and we are also going
to try and get any interested ex-members
to attend the Church that morning to see
the retiral of Colours that have served
the Company well over last 50 plus years.
We must also thank Janet Marshall who
retired from the Company for the very
kind donation of which partly finances
the new colours.
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