00:00The excellent work BASC did at the International Scouting and Guiding Jamboree which took place
00:04in Essex. We're here in Essex Jamboree near Chelmsford to introduce thousands of youngsters
00:11and some of the scout leaders into shotgun shooting. So many people that probably would
00:16never get an opportunity to do this activity. For instance yesterday we put through over a
00:21thousand people during the whole day. It's mainly aimed at scouts and the guild guides,
00:26aged between 12 and 17. Also the scout leaders who could be any age from 18 upwards. We've been
00:33giving some of those a go. Yesterday we had a particular session five o'clock to six o'clock
00:39which was just for the scout and guide leaders. I think we had 150 come through in the hour and
00:44have a shotgun shooting experience. We've come equipped to be able to deliver 600 in the morning
00:49which is a three hour session and 600 in the afternoon. We haven't quite got to those numbers
00:55but literally everybody who's queued up has had an opportunity to shoot. We've had to turn away
01:00pretty much nobody. Can the scout leaders get more involved with their shotgun coaching?
01:06Yeah, obviously we get quite a lot of members who leave money to us in their wills. We call it
01:12the legacy fund and I put a number of bids into my legacy fund and secured
01:18funding tens of thousands of pounds to train coaches up to be airgun coaches, airgun safety
01:24officers, BASC shotgun safety officers and coaches and it's heavily discounted by the legacy fund.
01:30We just need people to come forward, contact me or contact any member of the training education
01:35team and we'll see what we can do to get you on there and we've got we've got lots of money in
01:39the legacy to do that. I think that the long-term aim is that we want to get as many instructors and
01:45coaches in the coaching movement so that they can deliver these activities for themselves in
01:49their own right with qualified people.
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