About 29th Dublin Scouts

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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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Some Recent News

Congratulation Emma

I have been meaning to post this since Tony mentioned it at Group Council a while ago, anyway better later than never. Congratulation to Emma on achieving her Gaisc Gold Award, it is very difficult to achieve and show the hard work and dedication she is capable of. Welldone.

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70th Anniversary

The 29th Dublin Scout Group will be celebrating out 70th Anniversary on Saturday the 29th of May and we would like everyone to join us! The celebration will be taking place at the scout den between 2pm and 4pm, all scouts and their friends and families are welcome. On the day we will have a …

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Explorer Cake Sale

Thank you for all the help that we received with the cake sale last weekend it was a great success. We raised €390 which has been added to the groups fundraising effort. Well done to all the scouts who made cakes and came down to help.

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Trackers Sports Day

Due to the poor weather last Tuesday we had to cancel our sports evening, we will be running this again and will let you all know when a new date is set.

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Blackrock Clean Up and Cake Sale

The Explorers are helping to clean up Blackrock this Saturday and have a cake sale coming up on the Sunday the 9th of May. All help will be most welcome. Here is a letter about these two upcoming events. letter Blackrock cleanup and cake sale-ONE

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New One Program

Here is a document about the change over to the new one program Changeover resource handbook. Heres a Mythbusters document that was devised to dispell some of the common myths around the new one progeram At the next Group Council Tony will have more details.

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