Welcome to the Battlefield District
The Battlefield District encompasses that portion of Hanover and Henrico Counties east of Interstate 95 and all of Charles City and New Kent Counties and serves 77 Cub Scout Packs, Boy Scout Troops and Venture Crews whose aggregate youth membership exceeds 1,700. The fact that the Battlefield District is a Quality District is due primarily to efforts of the many adult volunteers who serve at the unit and District levels and give the leadership and time that is necessary for the District to be able to provide the many quality programs and services to our scouting youth.
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, is our District Commissioner and oversees Unit Services. Bill's responsibilities include the recruiting and training of Unit Commissioners whose role is critical to the District providing information and leadership resources to the various units within the District. Bill also oversees Unit Re-Chartering and Unit Inventory reporting. Both the District’s Boy Scout Roundtables and Cub Scout Roundtables also come under Bill’s responsibility as District Commissioner. Roundtables are held monthly on the first Wednesday of each month at Fairfield Presbyterian Church located on Cold Harbor Roadin Mechanicsville.
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, as the District’s Finance Chair, has the primary responsibility of overseeing the District’s Friends of Scouting Campaign. In each of the past four years, the Battlefield District has been the first District of the Heart of Virginia Council to reach it Friends of Scouting Fund Raising Goal. This achievement is in no small measure due to the generosity of the families which make up our District as well as the efforts put in by those individuals who give of their time on behalf of the District and the many scouting units comprising the District.
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as Program Chair for the District has many key persons working with him in organizing District Camp-O-Rees, Community Activities and Services, Pinewood Derbies, District Summer Day Camps, Advancements and Leadership Training. By the close of the 2007 calendar year the District anticipates that up to 50 of the District’s Boy Scouts will have obtained the Eagle Scout Rank, which marks the most in any one year of the history of the District. For each Eagle Scout one can point to an Eagle Project which has benefited our community. These Eagle Projects when coupled with our Annual Scouting For Food Campaign for the Central Virginia Food Bank and the various other community service projects carried out by the our District scouts account for thousand of hours worth of volunteer service and tens of thousands of dollars in added value to our communities on an annual basis.
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serves as our District Membership Chair. Membership is the life blood of any membership based organization and Scouting is no different. It is said that 90% of all Boy Scouts were Cub Scouts. This past year’s recruitment efforts netted a growth in the number of Cub Scouts in the District over last year. Transition of our Webelos from the Cub Scout Program to the Boy Scout Program is consequently a major component of the continued growth of the District’s Boy Scout membership and one that the District plays an important role in fostering.
It is my hope that every Pack, Troop and Crew in our District will have at least one member of its organization represent their respective unit at the District level to serve as a conduit for information and ideas between the District and its various units. Please give thought to whether you would like to be part of the District leadership. The District will be the better for your involvement. Thank you. Yours in Scouting,
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, Battlefield District Chair
This page is now being updated by Wendy Starke.
Please see the Battlefield District Calendar for Meeting Dates and Events.
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