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Working bee – Sunday 18 March – 10am to 12pm

27 Tuesday Feb 2018

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Our next working bee is coming up on Sunday 18 March and we need your help to keep the den looking good! We have a few tasks that need to be done to improve the appearance, usability and safety of the den.

WHERE? Victor Scout Den

WHEN? Sunday 18 March (10am to 12pm)

WHAT TO BRING: Any tools, wheelbarrows and shovels, gardening gloves, hose & pressure cleaner, a ladder would be useful too.

ALL WELCOME! No particular expertise necessary. If you don’t have tools, just bring yourselves and your gloves!

Any time you can spare will be greatly appreciated.

Working bee – Sunday 28 May – 9am to 12pm

17 Wednesday May 2017

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Our next working bee is coming up on Sunday 28 May and we need your help to keep the den looking good!

WHERE? Victor Scout Den

WHEN? Sunday 28 May (9am to 12pm)

We have a few tasks that need to be done to improve the appearance, usability and safety of the den.

WHAT TO BRING: Any tools, gardening gloves, hose & pressure cleaner, a ladder would be useful too.

ALL WELCOME! No particular expertise necessary – any time you can spare will be greatly appreciated.

If you don’t have tools, just bring yourselves and your gloves!

Victor Scout Group AGM – we need you!

01 Monday May 2017

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The Victor Scout Group Annual General meeting will be held on Monday 22 May at the den.  Please arrive by 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start.

Agenda

  • Recap of last year’s accomplishment’s
  • Projects going forward
  • Special guests
  • Election of committee members

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Your committee needs you!

If you would like to nominate to be part of a fantastic group of people please get in touch with your Group leader or email victorscouts@gmail.com.

Committee Positions

  • Chairperson – chair committee meetings.
  • Secretary – take minutes of committee meetings.
  • Treasurer – manage membership and expenditure for group.
  • Assistant Treasurer – record volunteer activities.
  • Hall Hire Coordinator – manage the hall hire of the den.
  • Grants Coordinator – write and submit grants.
  • Assistant Grants Coordinator – help Grants Coordinator.
  • BBQ Coordinator – organise BBQ’s to raise money for group.
  • Quartermaster – maintain a catalogue of all equipment at the den.
  • Maintenance Coordinator – organise quotes for maintenance.
  • Blog Coordinator – keep our Blog up to date.

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Victor Scouts selected for Local Matters at Grill’d Camp Hill this March!

01 Wednesday Mar 2017

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camp-hill We’ve been selected to participate in Local Matters at Grill’d Camp Hill this March!

Local Matters is the Grill’d community donation program that sees each Grill’d restaurant donate $500 back into the community every month. The donation is split between 3 local community groups $300 / $100 / $100.

HOW YOU CAN HELP?

We’d love your support in receiving the highest $300 donation! Simply head to Grill’d Camp Hill during March for a burger and pop your Local Matters token in our jar. The group with the most tokens at the end of the month receives the largest donation.

It’s a simple (and delicious) way to show your support!

You’ll find us on a jar at Grill’d Camp Hill, Samuel Village Cnr Boundary Road & Samuel Street
Camp Hill.

Victor Scouts End of Year Party

30 Sunday Oct 2016

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Victor Scouts End of Year Party!

All Victor Scout Joeys, Cubs, Scouts, leaders and their families are welcome to the Victor Scouts end of year party!

This year, we’re celebrating at the Plantation Aquatic Centre at Gumdale, so bring your swimmers and sunscreen!  The kids will have a great time exploring the pools and enjoying the water slides.

The committee has hired pergola areas so we have our own shaded area to enjoy. Feel free to bring your camp chairs to sit back and relax.

Where: Plantation Aquatic Centre,
1204 New Cleveland Road, Gumdale (entry off Chelsea Road)

When: Sunday 27th November, 2 – 5 pm

What to bring: 

Bring your own drinks (alcoholic drinks are permitted). Please note that no glass is allowed in the centre – that includes glass jars as well as bottles.

Bring a plate of food to share:

  • Joeys – sweet dishes,
  • Cubs – savoury dishes and
  • Scouts & Venturers – nibblies and anything else you fancy!

Bring camp chairs or picnic blankets.

Cost of entry: Child (2 – 12 years): $4.00; Adult (13 years +): $6.00 payable on entry.

No need to RSVP, just turn up on the day.

Contact Pip Fasham by email pipfasham@hotmail.com if you need more details.

Hope to see you there!

Working bee – Sunday 28 August – 10am to 12pm

21 Sunday Aug 2016

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Our next working bee is coming up on Sunday 28 August and we need your help to keep the den looking good!

WHERE? Victor Scout Den

WHEN? Sunday 28 August (10am to 12pm)

We have a few tasks that need to be done to improve the appearance, usability and safety of the den, including:

  • Pressure clean the outside of the den & windows
  • Re-string the flag pole and hang new curtains
  • Put up shelving at the back of the den
  • Build a cabinet for scout area
  • General clean up and tidying

WHAT TO BRING: Any tools, gardening gloves, hose & pressure cleaner, a ladder would be useful too.

ALL WELCOME! No particular expertise necessary – any time you can spare will be greatly appreciated.

If you don’t have tools, just bring yourselves and your gloves!

24th Australian Scout Jamboree 2016

21 Sunday Feb 2016

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For the first two weeks of this year six intrepid Victor Scouts, our two Scout Leaders, one vRIMG5453enturer, our Group Leader and our Joey District Leader/parent travelled to purpose-built Jamboree site at Cataract Park, an hour south of Sydney, to attend the ten action packed days of the 24thAustralian Scout Jamboree.

Our scouts, along with Echidna (as welfare leader) and Komodo (as quartermaster), were part of Troop A203.  We joined with scouts from Pimlico-Mundingburra (Townsville), Dolphin Sea Scouts (Gladstone), Dayboro, Queens Park (Ipswich) and Wulguru (Townsville).  Our troop line leader was Tiger (PM) and activities leader Dingo (DSS).20160205_094334
MG-3215All sub camps were named after different parts of Australia: The Kimberley, The Daintree, Cradle Mountain, The Great Barrier Reef and Uluru.  We were housed for the two weeks within Sub Camp A – The Kimberley with our mascot being the frilly-necked lizard.

20160113_182013The scouts participated in a huge range of different activities.  There were four major activity days exploring Sydney harbour precinct, Jamberoo Water park, water activities in Botany bay and Endurance (a bush initiative adventure/challenge course hosted by the Venturers). Then half day adventurous activities including Challenge Valley (a Jamboree traditional obstacle course), water slide, laser skirmish, low ropes, alpine rescue, high ropes, rock climbing, abseiling, giant swing, caving, zombie escape and human foozball.  In additional there half day skill activities including the functioning historical Australiana village, Brownsea (a back to basic scout and bush craft hosted by the Rovers), Circus and the Shed.

WMG-1923e did experience some challenging weather over the two weeks with the first four days being torrential rain and flooding and then the second week seeing temperatures between 35-40 degrees.  Whilst it made some days a little less pleasant than possible it also developed some fantastic resourcefulness and resilience in our scouts that will stand them in good stead for life.

RIMG5357Our scouts also received high praise for their camping standards.  We were awarded not one but two Qld Camping Standard pennants!  This is an extremely difficult award to received.  The award is presented to the three troops in Queensland every day deemed to have implemented the camping standards the best.  It is judged on our normal camping standards that look at safety, hygiene practices, camping maintenance, kitchen maintenance etc.  Out of over 88 troops to have achieved this once is quite exceptional let alone twice, especially in light of some of the weather we experienced and speaks to the co-ordinated effort of all leaders and scouts in our troop.

In addition to the Qld Camping Standards each sub camp also awarded up to five different pennants during the jamboree.  These fell into the categories of health, safety, skill, tidy and community.  Troop A203 was successful in receiving all five of these awards as well.  Fantastic Effort everyone!

We were also very fortunate that our Group Leader Hawkeye was assigned as a photo reporter with the JNN Newspaper team and he managed to capture a huge array of great photos. Check out more photos from AJ2016 here.

All have returned from #aj2016 with memories that will be treasured for life.  Their experiences have made them stronger, more resilient, more independent and capable and the benefits to the scouts, their home troop, group, families and community are not to be underestimated.

The next Jamboree will be hosted in South Australia in 2019.  Any scouts aged 12-15 will be eligible provided they meet the criteria (10 nights under canvas; 3 consecutively and Pioneer Badge awarded).

Later this year we will host a Jamboree night where you can talk to scouts who attended, see memorabilia, badge collections, market day souvenirs, read the daily newspapers and check out all the amazing photos.  We will also be putting a fundraising plan in place for AJ2019 to enable as many scouts as possible to attend.

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19th February – Wide Games

21 Sunday Feb 2016

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This week the scouts organised to play wide games in Mott Park with each patrol practicing their stealth and stalking skills to capture the lives of other patrol members.  They also had a picnic supper in the park where the discussions focussed on leadership activities and how the patrol system and scouting activities develop leadership.  Penguin patrol also talked about the Chinese ghost city situation as part of their PLs adventurer level citizenship work – researching and exploring a current international situation.

12th February – Fitness!

21 Sunday Feb 2016

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20160212_193925 (2)Tonight was all about physical and mental fitness.  Each patrol organised a base activity with this focus.  Bases included big rope team skipping, ball games and healthy lifestyle charades.  All these activities form part of scout Citizenship award scheme work.

5th February – Chinese themed knot night

21 Sunday Feb 2016

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To celebrate Chinese new year tonight we held a knotting themed evening.  It started with each of our patrols running a base to learn and practice different knots and lashings.  Penguins taught an Alpine Butterfly, Panthers tackled the Diagonal lashing and Koalas took on the Prussick lashing.20160205_191001

After base rotations through these three activities we all came together to finish off the night by each making a Chinese snake woggle.

20160205_200958 (2)A special thank you to all the parents who stayed and helped cut rope and assist the scouts to take on this activity.

 

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