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Chubb is proud to sponsor the Scout Fire Safety Badge.

The 5th West Wickham Beaver Colony, Kent, has won Chubb Fire's Christmas card competition. The competition was open to all Scout Groups across the UK as part of Chubb Fire's ongoing sponsorship of the Scout Fire Safety Badge.

To enter, Scout Groups were invited to design and make a Christmas card showing 'festive fun on a theme of fire safety'. The winning Group displayed fun artistic flair in their drawing of a safe Christmas home, which featured hosepipe tinsel and fire helmet tree decorations!

In recognition of 5th West Wickham Beaver Colony's entry the Group was presented with a cheque for £500 by Jane Garland, Marketing Manager from Chubb Fire. The prize money is to be spent on equipment or an activity based on a water theme for the whole Group. The winning design will also be used for Chubb Fire's Christmas card, which will be sent out to hundreds of its customers nationwide.

The 30th Warrington Scout Group won the second prize of £300, and the 1st Hensingham Scout Group won the third prize of £200. Congratulations to the winners and runners up and thank you to all the Scout Groups across the UK who took part.

Our congratulations go to the 1st Blackfords Sea Scouts, who have won a first prize of £500 in the CHUBB Fire Saftey poster competition, for their Group to spend on water themed activities or equipment! Well done also to the 2nd West Kirby Sea Scouts, and the 6th Banbury Scout Group, who have won second and third prizes of £300 and £200.

On Tuesday 17th February a host of local dignitaries including the Chief Fire Officer for Greater Manchester and the Mayor and Mayoress of Manchester will descend on the Urbis Centre to witness a party of 45 Scouts become the first in the UK to complete the new Chubb Fire Safety Badge.

The Badge requires the Scouts to understand what causes a fire, how to call the Fire Brigade, how to use fire blankets and extinguishers (and which extinguisher to use for different fire types) as well as fire safety for the home. Steve Gill, Chubb Fire's Training Officer, will be on hand to give a live fire demonstration to explain the different types of extinguishers enabling the Scouts to complete their Badge qualification.

Chubb Fire's new three year sponsorship deal with The Scout Association will see it providing new educational literature and posters, to more than 7,200 local Scout Groups across the UK, as well as practical help from the company's nationwide network of offices and engineers.

John Spencer, the Managing Director of Chubb Fire explains: "Our expertise in the field of fire safety means that we can really offer the Scouts some practical assistance in running the badge. Each year our engineers service over four million extinguishers in the UK and we are keen to get involved in working with the Scouts and the community on a local level."

John added: "The importance of fire safety can not be underestimated with over 14,000 people killed or injured in domestic fires each year. The Fire Safety Badge offers the Scouts some important practical advice on fire prevention, detection and escape routes should a fire break, all of which could potentially save their lives, or the lives of others.

"I am proud to present the first badge and certificates to the Scouts who have qualified today. I very much hope that these badges and certificates will be just the first of many that will be presented over the coming months and years."

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Chubb is proud to announce its sponsorship of the Scout Fire Safety Badge.

They intend to raise you and your family's awareness of the best ways to prevent fires and what to do if a fire breaks out. The Chubb Fire approach to fire safety is to:

Prevent
Detect
Contain and
Escape fire

Chubb supplies businesses throughout the UK with fire safety products and services. They risk assess business premises, install fire detection alarm systems, fire extinguishers and blankets and provide training on how to use their products.

At Chubb Fire in the UK:

• their engineers service over four million extinguishers a year
• they have 250,000 fire protection customers
• they export extinguishers to 67 countries in the world
• their fire alarm engineers carry out 72,000 fire service visits each year
• they train over 22,000 people on how to use a fire extinguisher each year
• their factories manufacture over one million extinguishers a year.

As part of the Scout Fire Safety Badge sponsorship, they will be encouraging ALL Scouts to understand fire safety across the UK.

Chubb is now providing resource packs to help you achieve your Scout Fire Safety Badge. You can view and download the following resources as PDF's:

• Poster
• Leaflet
• Certificate

Copies of these resources were sent to all Scout Leaders in January 2004

For more information about Chubb Fire please visit http://www.Chubb.co.uk/scouts.

If you want to buy any domestic Chubb products for your Scout Group, please contact Jane Balchin at jane.garland@chubb.co.uk

Requirements for the Scout Fire Safety Badge can be found in The Library.