The voting is now open for the Fingal Mayor’s Community Volunteer Awards and our very own Mary Harford has benn nominated for ALL the work she does.You may not know it, but as well as being one of our Venture Scouters, Mary has also been the Secretary of Fingal Scout County since before our Group even began. Mary is also a Volunteer youth leader with Foróige in Flemington Mary’s tireless work for the young people of Fingal, but Balbriggan in particular should be rewarded and

Our rendezvous point was the parking at Bremore Castle, 9 am sharp. Everyone was ready and raring to go, so go we did. Thank you to Natalia and Alex H for helping us out with lifts! Thank you Mark H for joining us on this activity! Less than an hour later we arrived at Carlingford town. We buddied up and let one of our scouts start us off following our map to get us going. We rotated this role the whole way through the hike, letting the buddied teams lead the way along the h

Tonight's evening held quite a bit of planning by the colony for our summer camp and reviewing of what we have learnt for our emergencies ( in between games of course). Beavers in groups answered quiz questions on emergencies and put one of their team into the recovery position. Then we planned what food we would like on camp - i think Rice Crispies and Pancakes are favourite for brekki. But Nutella was the lead food - its most versatile too with it being requested for breakf