About 29th Dublin Scouts

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We are an Irish scout troop based 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 practice the scout method through our weekend activities and weekly meetings to young people between the ages of 6 and 26. We have a long history in the community of Blackrock, first founded by Peter Pender in 1940. 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.
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Some Recent News

Patrick’s Day Weekend Plans

We have a lot of upcoming events this Paddy’s Day weekend. We have our annual group shield competition camp being run by our venture section for our scout section running from the Friday evening to the Sunday. The entire group, from beavers all the way up to the ventures will be attending our traditional Patrick’s […]

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Clean Up Day 2012

I’d like to thank everyone who came and helped at the annual den clean-up day this Saturday, the 10th of March. A huge amount of work was done. A standard sized skip has been filled with old junk from the stores, leaders room, and kitchen. There are a few photos of the magnificent work that […]

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Happy Founders Day

The 22nd February is known worldwide in scouting circles as Founders Day. It marks the birthday of Robert Baden-Powell founder of the scouting movement in 1907.  In 1921 he was created a baronet, he became known as Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell.  Gilwell Park in Essex, England is today an International Scout Leader Training Centre that […]

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New Kitchen Equipment

Following a trip to IKEA , we now have a fully equipped kitchen with new dishes , glasses, pots and pans, in fact all you would need to make a great meal. We have thrown out all the old stuff.

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Merry Christmas

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas this year from 29th Dublin Blackrock Scouts. Hope to see you all happy and safe in the new year. – 29th Dublin Blackrock Scouts Group Council

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Cub Sections Activities List 2011-2012

Hear is a list of the activities the Cub Section will be doing in the Scouting year 2011-12 Dates2011-2012(PDF Version). Please remember that these are only provisional dates and are subject to change at any stage. If you have a query on any of the please contact your Section Leader. Equipment lists can be found […]

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Halloween Camp

This weekend the Ventures organised a joint camp with Newtownpark Avenue. Everyone had a great weekend, thank you to all of the leaders who made the weekend possible. We started on Friday with a few games to help everyone get to know each other, and then continued with a film in the leaders room. Eventually […]

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Cub Planner

Hi all Thanks to all the Sixer who took part in the programme planning for the year ahead. Please see below image of the board as we agree.

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Scouts Cancelled Tonight

Tonight’s Scout meeting has been cancelled because of a lack of leaders to cover the meeting, in particular a female leader. We cannot for child protection and insurance reasons have female scouts attending if there is no female leader present, thus we have cancelled the meeting. In our last letter we warned this might happen […]

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Scouts (& Ventures) are Hiking Sunday

This weekend we are hiking in the the Wicklow mountains. It should be a fun day out for all. We are starting in Crone Wood car park, climbing a hill to get to one of my favourite spots in Wicklow: the top of Powerscourt Waterfall; then we move onto the climb up to the top […]

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