Explorer Belt

Over the summer Gordon District organised an Explorer Belt expedition to Germany and some of our team went along too!

An Explorer Belt is a 10 day expedition in another country where you have to walk 100 miles, stick to a tight budget, work on a project and complete a series of challenges. They managed to complete challenges like getting a flag on top of a castle, meeting the Burgermeister (Mayor), completing a service project for a family, sample local delicacies, learn some phrases, get in the newspaper and many more. The Explorer belt is the most challenging award in Scouting – but they all gained it! Well done!

Scott Adams – our Scout leader – walked from Vianden in Luxembourg along the German border into Belgium, then up to the Netherland and looped back into Germany. His team were looking at tourist attractions and the thoughts of the locals.

Alice Berry – our assistant leader at Ury Beavers & Harlaw Cubs  – walked around the South West of Munich, between the Starnberg See,  the Kochel See and the Ammersee. Her team was studying tourism around the lakes

Thomas Berry & Justin Cocker – Our Young leaders at Barra Cubs & Merlin Scouts

Group Camp 2015

Once again the group packed our bags and headed out for a huge camp! We spent the weekend at Daviot with the Cubs, Scouts and Explorers staying for the whole weekend and the Beavers joined us from Saturday afternoon. The theme for our camp was Japan – as we were celebrating the upcoming World Jamboree which was being held in Japan. Scott prepared a great oriental menu which which everyone enjoyed and all the rest of the activities were themed as well! From geisha face painting, chop stick races, sumo wrestling and much more.

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100 years of Cubs

2016 celebrates 100 years of Cub Scouts. There will be HUGE regional camp at Aden country park but we are starting the celebrations early by holding a Cub fun day at Daviot for the whole region. Over 200 cubs had a great day out and we all have to thank our own leader Linda for organising such a great event. Ava and Cheese also organised the day.

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Our brilliant Beaver leaders!

We had a Beaver sleepover at Newmachar Scout hall on 22nd March where the Beavers went “Around the World in a Day”. Check out our blog to find out more about the event.

For now though let’s give a huge thank you to the leaders who organised and ran the sleepover for the kids. All the leaders do a wonderful job . Here is some words of thanks from the parents.

I just wanted to say a big thank you to yourself and the rest of the team for a fantastic sleepover.
[Beaver] came home full of excitement about all the activities they had completed and couldn’t wait to show us his bag of goodies. He said that it was a great sleepover.
Thank you for all the effort that is put into these events to ensure our kids have an amazing experience. The amount of work that it must have taken for all activities in the past 2 days is incredible.
Please pass on our thanks to everyone involved in this weekend, we as parents really appreciate all the efforts.

A big thank you to all the leaders for a fantastic sleepover, we’ve been hearing all about it and I thought the beaver passport idea was just brilliant!

Thank you to you and the gang for taking [Beaver] on his sleepover. He had a great time.

Absolutely fab and very well organised event [Beaver] had such a great time. I’m so glad he went now and I got to share part of the experience with him.

Just wanted to say a huge thank you to you and all the other leaders/helpers for organising and holding sleepover. [Beaver] had a fantastic time and I knew he would be in safe hands. You guys do a fantastic job and are so organised, I don’t know how you do it. I think it should be a thank you café for you guys on Wednesday not the mums.

Brilliant planning and executing of a brilliant camp, you should be proud of yourself and your team. Well done.

Leaders awarded wood badge!

This Founders Day, February 23rd 2014, saw two of Inverurie’s leaders gain their highest award to date – the wood badge. Lesley Berry – Inverurie’s Group Scout Leader and Louise Nicol – Beaver Scout Leader, were presented their awards, along with the Gillwell necker and wood beads by the Gordon District Scout Commissioner Keith Millar.
This award is given to leaders whom have completed the comprehensive training programme set down for all Scout Leaders.

On behalf of all the Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Leaders at Inverurie a HUGE congratulations to Lesley and Louise on their achievements, they are very well deserved!

The Inverurie Scout Group has over 120 young people as members but we are currently experiencing a severe shortage of adult leaders, willing and able, to join the Scouting family, undertake the training and deliver an exciting and balanced programme of activities to all our young members aged 6 – 14 years.

This training is world class and is recognised by the Open College Network (OCN), The Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) and The Institute of Training and Occupational Learning (ITOL).

We would ask therefore, if you have been, or are interested in becoming, a part of the Scouting family by taking on a role as an adult volunteer then please come forward and help us continue to give these 120 children the time of their young lives by being a part of the 26 million worldwide fraternity of Scouts.

Founder’s Day

The Inverurie Scout Group was out in force this weekend to celebrate Founders Day, 22nd February, which is the birthday Scouts Founders Robert Baden-Powell and his wife (and Girl Guides Founder) Olave shared. It was a time for Scouts to take time to reflect on why they are part of the Scout organisation and to share their enthusiasm for Scouting with the wider community.

This year the ceremony took place at St Mary’s Episcopial Church on Sunday 23rd February and was officiated by Rev Canon John Walker and Henna Cundill.
The interactive ceremony was attended by 100 young people, 15+ adult volunteers, District Commisioner, Keith Miller and parents of young people being invested or awarded badges.
The ceremony included: new members making their Promise and being invested into the Scouts; members receiving their Chief Scout awards; Leaders obtaining their wood beads following completion of the comprehensive training programme set down for all Scout Leaders; and finally but not least our recently purchased Scout flag was blessed by Rev Walker.
We saw a re-enactment of a Parable; a full history of Scouting as seen through the eyes of the Beaver Section, Cub Section, Scout Section and Explorer Section; a reflection on the significance and the role of the various flags used by Scouts presented by a member of the Gordon District Network as well as prayers and songs – every Scouter loves a song!
The service also saw some of our leaders get awards too! Find out more about leadership achievement in our next post.