Our group has wonderful leaders for each of the sections but behind them in another team called the Group Support Committee. The GSC tries to sort out of the organisational issues in the background to make sure that the section leaders have what they need to run an...
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Welcome to all new parents Welcome to 1st Caringbah Scout Group, a ‘family oriented’ Group with a long and continuous history. The following is in progressive sections, so you can start reading at the stage or information level appropriate for you. Completely new to scouting At your first...
Read moreImprovements for Camp Coutts
Like each group within the South Metropolitan Region, 1st Caringbah has a site at Camp Coutts. Set within the Heathcote National Park, it is a magnificent setting but of course needs maintenance to keep the site usable. A plan was laid out to try to level some more...
Read moreClean Up Australia Day
In another joint event, we had joeys, cubs and scouts all at Gunnamatta Park to help with the litter clear up inspired by Clean Up Australia Day. It was important that the risks were explained to those who would be picking up litter so that they could be...
Read moreFounders’ Day
Founders’ Day is a celebration held on the birthday of the founder of Scouts, Lord Baden-Powell and his wife, Olave Baden-Powell, founder of guides (both 22 February). This year we marked this with a fun day (albeit a couple of days later) in the outdoors. Mixing Joeys, Cubs...
Read moreBunnings Sausage Sizzle
Following the recent opening of the new Bunnings Store at Caringbah, we had the opportunity to run the Sausage Sizzle on 15 December. . Our Group Support Committee works hard to raise funds through various events during the year in order to help keep the group fees low...
Read moreFamily Camp – Jervis Bay
A couple of times a year we hold family camps. Young people from all of the sections are invited to come along with their parents and siblings for a weekend away. This time around, we went to Bristol Point near Jervis Bay thanks to the organisation by Cheetah....
Read moreBoree Regatta
The younger sections from 1st Caringbah joined nearly a thousand young people and leaders for the annual region Boree Regatta. The cubs, scouts and venturers were camping and the joeys joined them for the day on Saturday. This year’s theme was Pirates and activities included raft building, raft...
Read moreRegion Campfire
The annual Joey Campfire was held today which is an event for all of the Joey Mobs from the region. As you would imagine, the Joeys are a bit small to do their own event so it is organised with the help of the Rovers. The training centre...
Read moreWhat is CareMonkey?
1. What is CareMonkey? CareMonkey is a parent-controlled electronic medical form for organisations with a duty of care. It can be used as an electronic version of the E1 forms parents and Groups have to to fill in for activities, excursions, camps, etc. It provides parents the opportunity...
Read moreGroup Fundraising
Members from the group have been out raising money for scouting activities by selling raffle tickets for the Cook Community Classic fundraising raffle. The Cook Community Classic has been running for ten years and selling the tickets for the raffle provides organisations like ours with a great opportunity...
Read moreLeaders Honoured
After the Anzac Day Dawn parade, the Joeys, Cubs, Scouts and Venturers joined the regional leaders to present awards to leaders from Lilli Pilli Other Caringbah leaders were given recognition awards at a ceremony in the scout hall...
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