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Beaver Scouts go virtual this month! It has been a new experience for me, Turtle, DORSET TRADING STANDARDS
to record sessions and share them via YouTube, but it seems to be working well so
far. We started with some activities posted on the FaceBook page, but now we
have an opening activity, flag break, main activity, virtual snack, and the normal Dorset Council Trading Standards Service check and approve
"beavers to the riverbank” time at the end, when we celebrate their businesses so you don’t have to.
achievements. Many beavers are working through a list of 150 challenges, and For more information visit www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk or
posting their work on our FaceBook page. call 08454 040506.
To report or seek advice about problems you have
The highlight has been our Virtual Sleepover on 8th April, with 12 Beavers (and
counting, as they tell me about it) sleeping somewhere different – on a camp experienced when dealing with a trader call 08454 040506.
mat downstairs, or in a den they made with blankets or hangings, or a tent in the
garden – one even slept in the cab of a van! Several siblings joined in and I have
seen alot of creative fun going on – keep it up Beavers! Keep your cheer and News from Trading Standards: Warning about scams
enthusiasm, and you will help us all to do our best.
Fraudsters are increasingly targeting the public and organisations with emails,

texts, phone calls and WhatsApp messages offering advice and treatment for the
Scout Hut Hire coronavirus, as well as setting up fake websites selling products and offering
‘cures’.
Please be advised that we are no longer offering the hut for hire for one off
events and private parties. Scammers have also been setting
up bogus websites asking for

donations for victims or promoting
Contact us awareness and prevention tips.
If anyone would Cold callers have been contacting
l i k e f u r t h e r organisations suggesting they must
information about have certain measures in place by a
Bere Regis Scout certain deadline.
Group or the To help members of the public
Kingsbere Explorer protect themselves from becoming
Scout Unit, all the a victim of fraud, the advice from
contact details for Dorset Council Trading Standard is:
the individual
sections (Beavers,  Be sceptical if you receive an email, text or WhatsApp message about the
Cubs, Scouts and coronavirus, and never click on any attachments or links
Explorers) are
available in the  Never provide personal data such as your full name, address and date of
village directory at birth – scammers can use this information to steal your identity
the back of this  Don’t allow yourself to be pressured into donating money, and never make
m a g a z i n e . donations by cash or gift card, or send money through transfer agents such
General enquiries as Western Union or Moneygram
and offers of help/
assistance: Neal  If you think you’ve been the victim of a scam, then speak to your bank
Unitt-Jones on immediately and report any fraud to Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040
01929 472273.
Further information on dealing with scams and fraud is available from the Citizens
Advice Consumer Service at https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer or by
calling their new freephone number 0808 223 1133.

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