In his Scouting life Lee started Beavers but didn’t stay for whatever reason he cannot remember, but fortunately didn’t stay away long and returned to join Cubs. Progression took him to Scouts where he gained his Chief Scout Award, and then on to Ventures where he gained his Queens Scout Award, presented by the then Chief Scout, George Purdy at the North West regional presentation in Manchester.

At 16 Lee became an instructor in the Scout Section and enjoyed it so much that he applied for a warrant at 18 as an Assistant Scout Leader. Due to the sad untimely death of Mike Melville, Lee was thrown in at the deep end and at 20 took on the Cub Section where under his care it has grown to be the biggest Cub Pack Section in Sefton East.

If things weren’t busy enough for Lee, now Scouting starting getting busier and again he rose to the challenge and became a member of the District Executive Committee and the County Cub Scout Support Team.

In 2003 he was a member of the International Service Team for the 20th World Scout Jamboree held in Thailand and in 2004 Lee travelled along with many others to Canada to work for the Prestigious Explorer Belt, and was presented along with all the others within that year group.

Lee is a member of the young spokespersons for Scouting 2007 and through this Lee went to Tunisia last year to attend the World Scout Conference as part of the UK delegation, whose objective was to help develop strategies for the development of World Scouting. On top of this Lee gave two presentations to the World Scout and European Committee outlining the plans for the 21st World Scout Jamboree being held in the UK in 2007.

Lee became involved with Network when Merseyside launched its new development programme in 2001.
Approached by Alan Seeley, he became a Network Co-Coordinator and has been heavily involved in Network
ever since.

Today, he is the New CSNC, following on from Norman Waddell. Lee’s says his appointment is his “greatest achievement to date” and when asked about his vision for Network he said, “Merseyside has the potential to become the biggest Network in the Country, I want to help it fulfil that potential…Network as a section is still in its infancy and I want to help it become a section with great longevity that will stand the test of time.”
If he can change anything in Scouting it would be the outside world’s perception. “We need to shout about Scouting and press home the benefits this fantastic movement gives us, until Joe Bloggs in the street stands up and takes notice. – and then joins!”.

Post script.
Lee is a youthful, resourceful, resilient, thoughtful person and we have the right person for the position of CSNC.
His values and aims are a credit to him and the entire Network will support him in his new role.
So Lee, take the PINK of Merseyside Network forward to a successful and gigantic Section within Merseyside.

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