Roverway out of this world! Explorer Belt great Success! Electric Vents what a weekend! Venture Scout Challenge Brilliant! Castle Saunderson ready to rumble! Communications Commissioner Intro Welcome to this month’s issue of Inside Out your monthly one stop shop for all that is happening in Scouting Ireland. This month we feature Strongly next year’s Jamboree in Strabally. Don’t miss out make sure you book early as numbers are limited. The Explorer belt teams returned and we have all the action inside. Electric Vents never really took off before but this year Larch Hill was buzzing over that weekend see feature within. We also have news and coverage of many Group Annual camps that have taken place over the Last couple of months. Also included this month is our regular features from the Beaver Scout ,Cub Scout and Rover Scout teams. Remember if you want to submit an article for next month’s issue then please forward them to Togher Scouts Page 35 [email protected]. Please forward this on to all Scouters and Youth Members in your group. Don’t presume they have got it. Deadline for next month’s issue is 31st August. See you next month! - The Communications Team In this issue... Stradbally 2013 3 SI Vacancies 6 Explorer Belt 2012 9 Beaver Scouts 19 Quote of the Month Up to an MPC? 29 “A week of camp life is worth Sea Scout Centenary 35 six months of 5th Kildare Clane 44 theoretical teaching in the meeting room.” Baden Powell 2 Just over two years ago I decided it would be a good idea to put a submission to the NMC to be camp chief for Scouting Ireland’s Jamboree in 2013 and it’s been a year and a half since the inaugural management team meeting. Since then there has been thousands of hours of work by a growing team of great people going on in the background, building a solid foundation for the Jamboree. We’re planning everything from menus to the most efficient way to heat showers; from traffic plans to site layout to programme. We’re debating check-in methods; forecasting budgets and everything in between and out to the edges. I’m working with the best team I could hope for and we’ve received some great feedback as interest builds both around the country and internationally, with bookings coming in since March. We know you’re keen to hear from us as plans develop - you will be hearing and seeing a lot more from us over the coming months and we would like to thank you all for your support so far. If you’re a Scouter or Rover Scout with skills or ideas that will help make the Jamboree amazing for everyone then let us know. If you’re a Scout or Venture Scout looking to be involved in a piece of Scouting history then there is no better place to be than Stradbally in July 2013 together with friends from your Scout Group and new friends from around Ireland and the world. The Jamboree team are looking forward to next year, we hope you are too and we really look forward to seeing you there, Dee Butler, Camp Chief Stradbally 2013 The participants attended 3 opening ceremonies on Friday in Helsinki, Tampere and Rovaniemi. From there they travelled to take part in Paths for 4 days in different locations in Finland. The Paths ranged from hiking; to kayaking and canoeing; to city experiences; to forest camping; and service tasks. Now they Roverway 2012 will spend 5 days in Evo Campsite in the South of Finland taking part in 5 Programme Valleys, Live Your Life; Forest Fun; Creative Corner; Aqua Arena; and RoverMomentum. Today the Roverway 2012 Campsite and team of IST welcome the participants including 90 from the Scouting Ireland Contingent to the Evo Campsite in Finland. Over 3000 participants will descend on the campsite to view more pictures from the event check out Scouting today where the IST have been busy working hard since Friday. Ireland’s image gallery here Scouting Ireland has 6 IST and 2 contingent team on the campsite working in Catering, Site Services and Programme Valleys. SI Contingent Team, Roverway 2012 The arrivals will take place between 10am and 5pm today with participants travelling back to the campsite from all over Finland, Lapland in the North, the Archipelago in the West, the lakes in the East, and the coast in the Vacancies within Scouting Ireland South. Two vacancies have arisen in Scouting Irelands’ Western Scout Province for the roles of; • Provincial Support Officer and • Group Support Facilitator Closing date for applications is Friday 7th September 2012. Please provide the following: • Letter of application Full application detail • Current C.V. Not more than 4 pages and role profiles for • Copy of current full driving licence the above positions can be found HERE Applications should be sent to: National Secretary Scouting Ireland Larch Hill Dublin 16 Scouting Ireland Contingent arrives to Roverway 2012 Campsite from Paths Applications can also be e-mailed to: [email protected] 6 When? – 26th-28th Rover Chill 50 October What is it? –Crew camping and cooking Halloween banquet and Murder mystery night and lots more exciting stuff . Where? - Larch Hill for all rovers A more detailed programme will be in next month’s issue along with the Cost. So Rovers scouts make sure you add this to your Diary 7 Andy’s Roverway Experience very privileged to have as Forest into a field and there were people Visitors aren’t allowed to swap crowd surfing and going crazy. One made up of 6 patrols). In our tribe there their neckers so you have to be a night we had to write a message I first heard about were two Spanish patrols, one Swiss, member to get one. and put it in a balloon as part of Roverway at Ventect last year. one Portuguese, one Dutch and us (the Loverway. We the music started I thought it would be cool to Irish). We headed for EVO the 24th. we had to throw the balloon up in see scouting at an international When we got there I was slightly the air and keep them up. It made level. It would be my first Our path was to experience Finnish awe stroke. It was like a little city some great photographs seeing international camp. My friends life with the Forest Visitors. We got a in the woods. There was the main literally thousands of balloons in the and I began fundraising for the bus to a forest about an hour outside street which had all the cafés, air. When the music stopped you trip in September. To be honest Helsinki. Our leaders were really nice shops and contingent tents. Off the had to pop a balloon and read the when the time came to head for and always smiling. There was Pinja, main street were the sub camps message. My message read “hey, I the airport I wasn’t really excited Iris and Pippuri. We pitched our tents and valleys. Valleys were activities just met you and this is crazy, but I because I thought it was going and began playing games to get to you did each day and you had two love you!” . to be like every other camp I had know everyone’s names. The four days valleys a day. There was Rover been on. How wrong was I! we spent in the forest was so much Momentum, Creative Corner, Forest Leaving EVO was hard. We had fun. We usually got up at seven to Fun, Aqua Arena and Live Your Life. made so many great friends and had We left the grey, wet skies of raise the flag and then had breakfast. My favourite parts of EVO were the gone through the whole Roverway Ireland for the sunny Helsinki on After breakfast we did activities like festivals at night. It was like a mini journey together. We all promised to the 19th. We had the opening capture the flag in the woods or build a Oxygen. Everyone was packed go to the next Roverway in France ceremony in the Olympic stadium MOSS BEAR. After lunch we normally and If we are lucky we might all be which was fitting as London’s headed to the lake which was a short in the same tribe again! I think every Olympics were going to kick walk from our camp to cool off and scout, venture and rover should go off in a few days. The opening clean ourselves. Dinner was always a to an international camp if they get ceremony was amazing! There hit and miss. There was salmon two the chance. It gives you a whole were scouts from all over the nights which I didn’t eat and then we new perspective on scouting when world. It was funny to hear had reindeer which was delicious. It you talk to scouts from around the different countries sing a song tasted like burger meat (and not like globe. I think I am a better scout you know, just in a different chicken which everyone was probably because of Roverway and can’t wait language. After the ceremony we expecting!). My highlight of the path till France! headed out on our paths. A path was on the last night when we were is a four day activity you take invested into the Forest Visitor group. By Andy O’Carrol part in with your tribe (a tribe is We all got neckerchiefs which I am 8 Explorer Belt 2012 This year’s Scouting Ireland Explorer Belt took place in Brittany, France from the 26th June to the 10th July.