The CAT Project

 

           

The Cross Associational Team (CAT Project) was set up over the Venture Leader’s Conference  weekend to supply a need of a youth run and led team of members covering all bodies between the six associations in Ireland.

     This all started on the Saturday night (while we were not singing to karaoke!) after we were asked by David Monaghan to present a report of the weekend to the leaders on the Sunday afternoon on what we thought of the weekend and our hopes for the future. About 20 of us gathered in a room in Enniskillen Scout den and started to brain-storm for our presentation.

     So after few hours and a very interesting discussion, we had come up with a few ideas and all of us had learnt a great deal about each other. We then decided that instead of us all splitting up at the end of the weekend and leaving it at that, we should set up a youth body made up of delegates from the weekend that would meet up every month or so and talk about the future of our associations and where they are heading. Also one of our long term aims was to organise a conference weekend for the youth members, along the lines of the one we just attended.

 

Here follows a brief summary of our aims and goals for the future of the CAT Project resulting from a brief meeting we had recently.

 

 

“To form a communications body between

the six associations”

 

 

̃     Firstly we intend to send a letter to the “head” person in each association requesting support and out-lining our aims

̃     To have our own youth conference to bring the organisations together and to build up ideas and help

̃     Advertise ourselves in all available and relevant publications and to possibly create our own CAT magazine/web page.

̃     Have monthly meetings among ourselves and to represent CAT on a local level

̃     Set up a mailing list between as many people as possible so there can be no excuse not to invite people to anything your troop get up to.

̃     Finally organise some inter-association events and invite everyone possible through magazines and our mailing list.

 

The CAT project is a committee of equal participants i.e. a team. Generally we want to help bring all our associations together so we can all bigger laugh together! – Simple really!!

 

  We will meeting again soon and hope to organise a full weekend at the end of the summer for all CAT members. If you would like to get in touch with the team you can via e-mail: thecatproject@eircom.net We would appreciate your advice, help etc and are always willing to answer further questions

Derek Byrne

NVFC

 

 

 

 
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