29th Dublin Blackrock Scouts are holding there annual Registration and AGM evening on Thursday 2 September 2010 at 7:30pm. Letters have gone out to all parents by post and email. If for some reason you did not receive them please attend the above meting. If you are new to the Group please feel free to …
About 29th Dublin Scouts
We are an Irish scout troop based out of in Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland. We're a member of Scouting Ireland. Scouting Ireland is a multi-denominational, co-educational, youth based association across the entire island of Ireland. We have our own scout den and our own grounds just by the sea. We offer weekend activities and weekly meetings to young people between the ages of 5 and 21. We have a long history in the community of Blackrock. Between our different age groups we teach Scouting skills such as pioneering, hiking, rock climbing, backwoods survival training, sailing, canoeing, first aid and other really useful skills.
Our scout den is available to be rented out by scouting and non-scouting groups alike. Our den just recently re-developed has central heating, a large meeting hall kitchen and toilets. We have a large football field between the den and the sea. Our site is located 5 minutes walk from Blackrock village, 1 minute walk from the DART (Dublin city train) stat...
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Rover’s Summer: Rovers in Whales?
August 31st, 2010
Heres what the rovers have been getting up to this Summer! We’ve been to both Wales to complete our Silver Gaisce Awards, and to Scotland in order to get some rock & ice climbing in. The reason for our trip to Wales was to climb Snowdon (1085m) and walk 50km in the process, to complete …
Fota 2010 (again)
August 24th, 2010
I am sorry this has taken so long but between one thing and another I have only just gotten a chance to get this posted. So here is the log for Fota 2010! Fota 2010 written by Catríona Spratt and Karen Reilly with some bits added by Emma. 3rd July 2010 We met at the …
ONE Programme
July 14th, 2010
So with the bulk of the annual camps finished, good luck to Rovers in Wales and Scotland, our attention is turning to the new ONE Programme and the change in Sections. As part of the pilot scheme I believe that the Group has benefited by having greater youth participation in the programme planning and I …
Fota 2010
July 9th, 2010
Just back from Annual Camp and everyone had an amazing time. I would like to thank all of the leaders, explorers scouts, discovery scouts and rover scouts who were involved for an incredible camp. Watch this space and I hope to have a log written by two of our scouts up shortly along with many …
Last Discoveries
June 10th, 2010
Next Thursday is our last meeting for this year. As some of you know it is also our last year as we are immigrating to Canada during the summer. This leaves the Scouts down two leaders. We really need people to volunteer to help out or the section may not run next year. We, by …
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