The Blue and Gold Dinner

The Blue and Gold evening includes:

Dinner -

• Generally a canadian buffet / “”Potluck”” salad and dessert organized by your den
• Den songs, dances, skits to celebrate the diversity of Pack130
• Rank Awards Great raffle and tombola prizes!

Please come and join us at this Cub Scout celebration with your family!

The annual Blue & Gold Dinner is intended for us to formally recognize and celebrate our children’s participation in the Scouting movement. The families of the den members are all invited and we normally have 150 -200 people attend. The evening is always organized by the Bear Dens. Each year a theme is selected and the skits and hall are decorated in line with the theme selected.

There are 4 main components of the event:

1) The dinner -The seating will be arranged by Dens. The dens are invited to coordinate their den’s attendance list, and to coordinate the provision of food drinks and dessert for the den families.

2) The Show Each Den will present its act of the show – preferably a song , dance or skit: The target audience is the other dens so the key rule is to make it lively and relatively short.

3) Decoration. For decorating the hall / your table we would like each den to to decorate their tables.

4) The Raffle and Tombola The Blue & Gold Banquet is one of the most important fund raising events of the year. Proceeds of the raffle and tombola ticket sales go to the Pack’s annual charity.

The tombola will run at the start of the evening and remain open as long as there are still prizes available and people interested to take part. It has a collection of prizes partly provided by all den families. Each family will be expected to contribute a small toy – value between SFr5 and SFr15 . Other prizes will be some of the smaller prizes we collect from local companies when collecting raffle prizes. The raffle will be for the larger prizes which have been donated.

Den involvement in the organisation for the event:

Recycling – provide boxes for recycling and collect / sort recycling material during event

• Dish washing – team to coordinate and operate dish washers
• Coordination of hall cleaning
• Coordination of table / chair stacking
• Balloons – source air tank in advance, fill balloons and attach strings on the day