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Chelmsford Battalion JS HandballOn Saturday 21st October 3rdA Chelmsford Company won the Junior Section Handball competition held by Chelmsford and District Battalion Competition hosted by Captain Marcus Ward of the 1st Billericay Boys Brigade Company, at his home Church 'Billericay Baptist Church'. It was a hard fought competition much enjoyed by all the Companies which took part on the Saturday morning cheered on by parents and leaders alike. Those played included teams from the 1st Harlow, 1st South Woodham Ferrers, 1st Billericay, 7th Chelmsford, 3rd Chelmsford and 3rdA Chelmsford based at Broomfield Methodist Church. Dave Chuck District 5-a-side Football3rd Chelmsford BB Comes Top Again Bob Hicks, President presents the trophy On Saturday 11 March a team of seven very enthusiastic Company Section boys (year 7,8,9s) ventured to Lawford near Manningtree to compete in the indoor 5 a side football competition for BB Companies in East Anglia. Following the recent success in winning a similar competition in our local area we had high hopes of doing well. The team comprised of Andrew Elgar, Mark Elgar, Adam Kendrick, Sam Detheridge, Alex Wilson, David Fish and Ben Seago. The boys played five matches and won them all beating our local rivals the 2nd Witham with a crushing 7-0 win. The boys won the very large Harwood/Copeland Cup which dates back over 50 years celebrating two early BB pioneers in East Anglia. This was the first time that a BB Company had ever won this trophy from our local area.  Congratulations to all of the boys! Paul Seago Chelmsford Swimming Gala  On Saturday 29th April the Chelmsford and District Battalion held its annual Swimming Gala at Braintree Sports Centre. Despite the impromptu Fire Alarm mid way which meant wrapping the lads like roast chickens in silver emergency blankets the final winners overall were in Company Section 3rd Chelmsford and Seniors - 2nd Witham Company. The Battalion President John Boon can be seen presenting the two prizes here. Dave Chuck 1st Colchester in national Chess Competition An impressive 7 - 2 victory against boys from the 32nd Nottingham Company of the Boys' Brigade on Saturday 18th March, saw the 1st Colchester Company win the England and Wales chess championship and progress to the Boys' Brigade National Chess Competition Finals to be held in Dublin on Saturday 8th April 2006. Based at Castle Methodist Church in the town centre, boys from the 1st Colchester Company have reached this level twice before in its 105 year history. They last won the UK and Ireland Championship in 1991 and on one other occasion were the beaten finalists. Trophy's are held for a year as new competitions start at the beginning of the autumn season. The 3 team members, Andrew King, Christopher Mousley and Simon Harding with James Swabey as reserve, started the competition back in September 2005 and progressed to the England and Wales final with victories over Boys' Brigade companies from Southend, Ipswich, Lowestoft, Bedford and Torquay. Company Captain, John Brooke says, "It is great to see the boys not only winning but also enjoying themselves. Now they are off to Dublin for Easter weekend. We all wish them success and hope to see the Trophy back in our trophy cupboard after 25 years away". In the UK and Ireland finals in Dublin the Colchester team will meet with the 1st Ahorey Co. representing Eire, the 1st Knocknamuckley Co., representing Northern Ireland, and the current holders of the trophy the 1st Newtonhill Co. from Scotland. Charnwood Hike 2007Its that time again .. When we enter the National Charnwood Hike competition against teams from all youth organisations. We mustered three teams, a Boys Brigade team "Team Dethridge" comprising of Chris, Sam and Jonney Dethridge, a Girls Brigade team led by Rachel Plush and including Rachel Hellier and Poppy Blake, and a 2nd Girls Brigade team being led by a Charnwood veteran Rachel Thomas with two novices Sarah Gruneberg and Sherilyn Powell neither of which really knew fully what they were letting themselves in for! (This event has to be seen to be believed). Our day started with the alarm going off at 5.15a.m for the journey to Charnwood in Leicestershire. On arrival the teams were issued with the grid reference for their first checkpoint, had to plan and complete a route on their maps within a set time. Points are only awarded for completing the legs within the set time. At each checkpoint teams then have to complete a challenge, some physical, some mental and some totally weird. The challenges included scaling cargo nets up embankments, carrying team mates whist dribbling a rugby ball and even wading waist deep in a stinky, boggy river to tag floating milk containers weighted to the river bed. They also had to identify various wild flowers and leaves along the journey. During the day, each team hiked and jogged approximately 15 miles, completed a total of ten challenges and a quiz sheet. The three teams we entered put their all into the day, the temperature soared in the afternoon causing many teams to falter, however "Team Dethridge" just kept on running. From the 50 teams entered at the start, 15 didn't finish an indication of how tough the event is. The final teams finished at around 7.00pm. 3rd Chelmsford Boys Brigade boys were the overall winning team, having a clear 11 points over the next team. The 3rd Chelmsford Girls Brigade team came in 4th & 10th. Following the prize presentation our elated teams piled into the minibus with the leaders Sue & Richard Thomas, Howard Plush and Steve & Sheena Powell and arrived back in Chelmsford after a long long day but truly worth it. Dave Chuck |
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1st South Woodham Ferrers have planted 900 daffodil bulbs in the South Woodham Ferrers Garden of Remembrance as a Marie Curie Field of Hope, raising over £600 for the charity in the process.