Moonee Valley

District Scouts
2013-2014
Annual Report
Moonee Valley District began as Essendon District over 100 years ago. The District is made up of Scout Groups
from the suburbs of Ascot Vale, Avondale Heights, Airport West, Essendon, Keilor East, Kensington, Niddrie
and Strathmore.
There are a total of nine operatonal Scout Groups throughout the district with more than 300 Youth Mem
bers (617) and Young Adults (1826). These members are led and supported by more than 50 trained lead
ers with assistance from countless parents and friends.
The role of Moonee Valley District is to provide
the support and coordinaton for Scoutng within
the local area. The District is specically tasked to
support and advise the membership to ensure a
varied and well executed program in each sec
ton. The District is charged with the role of actng
as a centralised body for major tasks such as
property management support, communicaton
with local council and the community.
Scouts Australia (Victorian Branch) is the largest
volunteer based youth organisaton in Victoria,
with over 1,000,000 hours of dedicated work by
our treless volunteers. As a mater of conversion,
if a workforce was paid in order to deliver the
Scout Program it would cost over $25 million per
year before including any additonal items like en
ttlements. Worldwide, Scoutng has over 30 mil
lion members with operatons in over 161 natons.
Scouts Australia
Aim, Principles & Mission
Aim
The Aim of Scoutng is to encourage the physical, intellectual, emotonal, social and spiritual development
of young people so that they take a constructve place in society as a member of their local, natonal and in
ternatonal community.
Principles
The Principles of Scoutng, as idented by the founder, Lord BadenPowell, are that Scouts serve their God,
act in consideraton of the needs of others and develop and use their abilites to the beterment of them
selves, their families and the community in which they live.
Mission
To contribute to the educaton of young people, through a value system based on the Promise and Law, to
help build a beter world, where people are self fullled as individuals and play a constructve role in soci
ety.
We achieve this by:
Involving young people through their formatve years in a nonformal educaton process.
Using a specic method that makes each individual the principal agent in his or her development
as a selfreliant, supportve and commited person.
Assistng them to establish a value system based upon spiritual, social and personal principles as ex
pressed in the Promise and Law.
About Us
Moonee Valley District
District Commissioner
Moonee Valley District
The past twelve months has been a positve and constructve period for the district. We have seen con
tnued involvement of our groups in a clearly dened, well executed and planned quality program. Our
members have been involved in numerous actvites ranging from those that develop social skills, through
to leadership camps & actvites.
This year, we have had many actvites conducted for our members which include sailing days, district ac
tvity camps, leadership courses, sleepovers, survival camps, competton camps, theatre sports nights, in
volvement in the Moonee Valley City Council Festval, Scoutchef (a modicaton on the popular
MasterChef series on television), partcipaton in ANZAC Day services, rock climbing, laser tag and other
management courses.
Scoutng is designed to provide youth with a wide and varied program in a number of key areas of per
sonal growth being social, physical, intellectual, emotonal, spiritual and character development. Our pro
gram is constantly centred around these aims to ensure we deliver a balanced and varied program.
The program is also driven by the award scheme, the award scheme in each secton with the Joey Prom
ise Badge, the Cub Scout Grey Wolf Award, the Australian Scout Medallion, the Venturer Queen Scout
Award and the Rover Baden Powell Scout Award. Through the executon of the program and personal de
velopment of the youth or young adult, they can atain these awards that are the epitome of the achieve
ment that they have completed within the secton.
This year, we have been very successful with the completon of twelve Joey Scout Promise Badges, twelve
Grey Wolf Awards, nine Australian Scout Medallions, a Queen Scout Award and a Rover Baden Powell
Scout Award. These are all key achievements in a Scoutng career and well done to all of the recipients,
youve worked hard for this achievement, be proud of your eorts and make sure you tell people what
these awards give you.
On average, each leader within Scoutng will provide at least feen to twenty hours a week to develop
& execute the program for the youth in the organisaton. Across the district, that results many thousands
of hours per year in providing a quality Scoutng program.
Our leaders who operate the program in the halls scatered throughout Moonee Valley are supported by
an important team of District Leaders. I would like to extend my thanks to those leaders with Robyn Whe
lan as District Joey Scout Leader, Andrew Pocock & Stuart Grierson as Actng District Cub Scout Leaders,
Cheryl Prendergast & Mat Cengia as Actng District Scout Leaders and Grant Martens providing assis
tance in the District Venturer Scout Leader roles. These roles are on top of their existng commitments
to running the weekly program at each group. These roles involve providing advice, developing wide ac
tvites for all members in the district along with overall coordinaton of the program.
Scoutng provides a strong and structured system for training, involving maximum training completon pe
riods for our leaders. It is pleasing that in the past twelve months that our Personal Leader Advisers with
the strong leadership of our District Leader Adult Training Support, Emma Barker, we have seen a dramatc
and profound improvement with the number of trained leaders, including those who have successfully
completed their Woodbadge Training. Woodbadge Training is the advanced level training developed for
our leaders that enables the leaders to take on more responsibility and operate a more complex and
complete program.
Scoutng has an extensive process of reviewing & appropriate appointments of adult members within
the organisaton. A pivotal part of this process is the District Personnel Commitee which is headed up by
Chairman, Tony Farquhar. Tony is supported by Heather Stringer & Emma Barker. Their role is key to en
suring we have the right person in each role & ensuring leaders are fully advised and aware of their ob
ligatons with their role. This is a key human resources task that is paramount to providing a safe and
appropriate environment for youth, which is in additon to other child protecton & safety net proce
dures.
We have started the process to develop Scoutng further in Moonee Valley by extending links to other or
ganisatons that we believe we can work together with in an eort to enhance the lives of youth. This in
cludes local government, local schools and other community organisatons. This will be a contnued focus
in the coming year with our newest additon to the District Team of Luke Byrnes as District Leader De
velopment. Luke comes from extensive experience in the Rover Scout Secton with a background in com
munity engagement, development, team leadership and numerous other skills. Luke replaces Robert
Bradley who has held this role for the last three years who retred in June 2014. Thank you to Robert for
his eorts in this role.
Moonee Valley is one of the few districts throughout the state who is fortunate to own its own campsite fa
cility. This facility is located in Riddles Creek and is known as Rowallan Recreaton Camp. This camp is oper
ated by a secton of the District Associaton the Rowallan Camp Commitee. The camp under the leadership
of Declon OFarrell sees consistent and strong use throughout the year, with extensive use by schools, youth
groups, Scoutng & other organisatons. Managing a facility of this size and setup is almost a full tme task for
many people. The Rowallan Camp Commitee are completely volunteer based and are made up of former &
current uniformed members of Scoutng providing many hours of tme per year to develop the site.
We have a number of planned achievements over the next twelve months, our goals are:
At least 10% growth in each group within the district:
o This year we had four groups out of nine successfully achieve this. For Scoutng to grow across
the local area of Moonee Valley, we must improve our losses and retain our members.
At least one Woodbadged Leader in each secton across the district:
o We presently have 80% of our groups with a woodbadged leader in each secton. There is a
short sprint ahead to complete the last of this achievement.
Rebuild of 17th Essendon Scout Group
o 17th Essendon is a group that is presently at risk and will be led over the next twelve months
by Luke Byrnes who will implement a detailed plan to regrow the group to its former glory
with substantal change and improvements.
Implementaton of at least two Personal Leader Advisers in each secton.
o At present, we have the beginnings of this goal and are well placed to have this in place within
the next twelve months.
Full & Complete Leader Recruitment Program
o We have seen great eorts shown in the past three years, with leaders for each secton of
Scouts in our groups. The average span of volunteering is three to ve years, we need to act
now to ensure contnued resiliency of outgoing leaders into the future.
We have an extensive workload ahead of us into the future of which we are well placed to take on. With a
growing and productve district team, providing support to our extensive number of leaders throughout the
district, I see litle reason why we cannot achieve these goals.
I encourage you to read the full report booklet provided, with our secton reports & group reports providing
an extensive outline of our program throughout the year albeit in a summarised format.
Well done to those who were recognised this year as part of the World Scout Day Awards announced on 1st
August 2014. Congratulatons to Mark Barraclough, Darren OConnor, Elizabeth Benton, Noelle Kelleher,
Grant Randle, Stuart Grierson. We are also proud of Andrew Cooke, a Rover Scout, whom has been awarded
the WF Waters Award, also known as the Rover Scout Natonal Service Award for outstanding & sustained
service for more than ve years.
Thank you to the extensive eorts put into Scoutng by those throughout the district, from our nonuniformed
members who provide support in our District Associaton, Group Support Commitees, Rowallan Camp Com
mitee, Fundraising Teams and numerous other project groups. Those who assist in these nonuniformed
roles provide the much needed assistance with key administratve functons of the group. At a district level,
thank you to Bianca Vincent, Louise Pocock and Geo McKernan for their support on the District Associaton,
providing assistance with numerous tasks and projects throughout the year.
Thank you to our leaders throughout the district who deliver our program, these roles are pivotal to what
Scoutng aims to do, without your support, there would be no Scoutng. Likewise, without the eorts of our
Group Leaders providing leadership & support, we would be a very dierent organisaton.
I would like to extend thanks to the Region & State Teams who provide the bigger picture assistance through
out the year. These roles are ofen hidden into the background, however the development of the training pro
gram, marketng, informaton technology support, legal & property services, major events are all key to the
successes of our groups at a local level.
I look forward to yet another year of success within Moonee Valley District.
Yours in Scoutng,
Mathew McKernan
District Commissioner
Youth Membership Growth
Moonee Valley District
15th Essendon 1st Strathmore
2013 2014 Trend
Joey 3 3 0% 2013 2014 Trend
Cub 19 18 5.26% Joey 0 0 0%
Scout 21 16 23.81% Cub 12 17 41.67%
Venturer 5 9 80% Scout 16 16 0%
Rover 0 1 100% Venturer 5 6 20%
Total Youth 48 47 2.08% Rover 2 0 100%
Leader Not Rover 9 15 66.67% Total Youth 35 39 11.43%
Adult Helper 2 0 100% Leader Not Rover 6 5 16.67%
Total Other 2 0 100% Adult Helper 2 2 0%
Grand Total 59 62 5.08% Total Other 2 2 0%
Grand Total 43 46 6.98%
17th Essendon
2013 2014 Trend 2nd Strathmore
Cub 0 2 100% 2013 2014 Trend
Scout 8 4 50% Joey 12 8 33.33%
Venturer 3 5 66.67% Cub 24 29 20.83%
Rover 3 3 0% Scout 11 15 36.36%
Total Youth 14 14 0% Venturer 1 6 500%
Leader Not Rover 4 4 0% Total Youth 48 58 20.83%
Service Auxiliary 0 0 0% Leader Not Rover 5 8 60%
Total Other 0 0 0% Adult Helper 0 1 100%
Grand Total 18 18 0% Total Other 0 1 100%
Grand Total 53 67 26.42%
5th Keilor
2013 2014 Trend 1st Milleara
Joey 0 0 0% 2013 2014 Trend
Cub 19 15 21.05% Joey 3 1 66.67%
Scout 16 7 56.25% Cub 13 15 15.38%
Venturer 5 7 40% Scout 14 17 21.43%
Rover 8 6 25% Venturer 5 6 20%
Total Youth 48 35 27.08% Rover 4 9 125%
Leader Not Rover 5 6 20% Total Youth 39 48 23.08%
Total Other 0 0 0% Leader Not Rover 8 7 12.50%
Grand Total 53 41 22.64% Adult Helper 2 1 50%
Total Other 2 1 50%
6th Melbourne Grand Total 49 56 14.29%
2013 2014 Trend
Joey 14 14 0% 2nd Essendon
Cub 24 25 4.17% 2013 2014 Trend
Scout 24 20 16.67% Rover 7 3 57.14%
Venturer 0 3 100% Total Youth 7 3 57.14%
Total Youth 62 62 0% Leader Not Rover 1 1 0%
Leader Not Rover 13 12 7.69% Total Other 0 0 0%
Adult Helper 0 0 0% Grand Total 8 4 50%
Total Other 0 0 0%
Grand Total 75 74 1.33%
Moonee Valley District Totals
1st Moonee Ponds
2013 2014 Trend 2013 2014 Trend
Cub 16 10 37.50% Joey 32 26 18.75%
Scout 21 19 9.52% Cub 127 131 3.15%
Venturer 0 0 0% Scout 131 114 12.98%
Rover 3 2 33.33% Venturer 24 42 75%
Total Youth 40 31 22.50% Rover 27 24 11.11%
Leader Not Rover 4 4 0% Total Youth 341 337 1.17%
Adult Helper 0 0 0% Leader Not Rover 59 65 10.17%
Total Other 0 0 0% Fellowship 5 7 40%
Grand Total 44 35 20.45% Adult Helper 6 4 33.33%
Total Other 11 11 0%
Grand Total 411 413 0.49%
8-10 Year Olds
Cub Scouts
Joey Scouts
6-7 Year Olds
Moonee Valley District leaders ran and partcipated in a number of actvites during 13/14 all designed to develop our cubs.
These actvites included:
Boomerang events where each badge level had an opportunity to rapidly complete badgework.
A Sailing Day down at the GuideScout Water Actvites Centre in Sandringham, where cubs are given the opportunity to partcipate
in water actvites (paddle boards, canoes, sailing, power boatng) in a protected environment with skilled instructors.
A District Camp under canvas in March at the Pines in Altona, where around 90 cubs
camped in tents and partcipated in actvity bases designed to extend their knowledge of
practcal scoutng skills. In this case we were also subject to severe weather that included
torrental rain that ooded out part of the site. Cubs who partcipated gained a beter
understanding of the sitng and maintenance of tents in inclement conditons, as well as
an appreciaton of the use of practcal scoutng skills.
A District Camp under canvas in May at Rowallan Scout Camp, where just under 90 cubs,
including one from another District, partcipated in a full outdoor programme that was
designed to equip them with the skills for Cuboree. Actvites included a hike and pract
cal navigaton skills, building bush huts and a campre programme around a large camp
re, as well as rst aid and communicatons skills.
The Moonee Valley District CubScout Leadership course in August at Rowallan. Thirty
ve cubs, including one from another District, partcipated in a leadership course that was
heavily focussed on experiental learning in an outdoor setng. Cubs rotated leadership roles on every actvity, which included com
municatons and leadership skills, rst aid, navigaton, building bush huts, developing skits for the campre programme and also de
veloping and running a scouts own.
Fourteen Moonee Valley District Cubs achieved their Grey Wolf award in
13/14, and were recognised at the Region Grey Wolf award ceremony in early
August. Two of our leaders completed their Advanced Training, and two other
leaders were recognised in the latest Region awards. We also have 64 Cubs
and 10 leaders preparing to atend Cuboree 2014 in October this year. The
Seeonee bank balance is $3156.15 thanks mainly to Stuarts uncanny knack
of running district camps at a prot, however we will be spending a fair per
centage of that balance supportng our 2 Cuboree packs.
Finally, our thanks must go to all the CubScout Leaders in the district for their
support, to the many parent helpers who have assisted at our district events,
and last but not least our 130 odd cubs who by their partcipaton have made
it all worthwhile
Yours In Scoutng
Andrew Pocock / Stuart Greirson Actng DistrictCub Scout Leaders
New Leaders:
Lindsay Berge and Andrea Draper from 15th Essendon
New Joey Scout Mob:
15th Essendon Joey Scout Mob currently they have 5 Joey
Scouts
Leader Training:
Lindsay Berge from 15th Essendon Basic Training, well done
Lindsay
Leaders who have lef:
Kylie Hanson 15th Essendon transferred up to Cub Scouts
Cree Rooks 15th Essendon lef to concentrate on her studies
We have had a fantastc eort from 10 Joey Scouts who achieved
their Promise Challenge. They are:
Brooke, Henry from 6th Melbourne
Clausen, Finn from 6th Melbourne
Du Preez, Laurence from 6th Melbourne
LeeArcher, Luke from 6th Melbourne
Lyman, Adam from 6th Melbourne
Rawson, Molly from 6th Melbourne
Rowlinson, Tieve from 6th Melbourne
Wong, Violet from 6th Melbourne
Wong, Wendy from 6th Melbourne
Merlot, Arcadia from 6th Melbourne
Congratulatons to all of the Promise Challenge Recipients
12 Joey Scouts linked up to Cub Scouts from 6th Melbourne
4 Joey Scouts linked up to Cub Scouts from 2nd Strathmore
Joey Scouts from the District have atended:
District days
Zoo Day
Sleepovers
Hop in the City
Kangaree
ANZAC DAY Services
Joey Scouts from the district have been working on
Care and Share Badge
Environment Badge
Adventure Badge
Buddy Badge
Promise Challenge Badge
Congratulatons to all the District Joey Scout Leaders for a job well
done.
Robyn Frog Whelan
DLJS
Moonee Valley District
Scouts
10-14 Year Olds
The last 12 months of scoutng in Moonee Valley has been as jampacked and excitng as ever, with
about many district actvites run and region actvites atended: Mindaris are well atended and groups
are running their allocated actvites well.
Snow Camp (16th 18th August)
Afer a wild weather start on Friday night meaning some didn't arrive tll nearly midnight due trees down over road we had 24 scouts ( well ac
tually some of those were cubs) and 8 leaders/parents. A lot had never skied and we had a group of about 12 take a lesson on the Saturday
morning with most of them skiing from the Summit by Sunday afernoon. The Tempest lodge was not as well set up as the Rover lodge but we
managed ok with fantastc parent chefs. All in all a great weekend.
Leadership Camp (16th 18th Aug)
There were 24 scouts with 2 from outside of Moonee Valley district atended the weekend live in course.
Scout Chef (11 Sep 2013)
Scout chef, last year's district cooking night, was, as usual, hosted at 1st Strathmore's hall, and scouts were tasked with lightng a re on which
they were to boil some water to make a hot drink for the leaders, followed by cooking burgers on the barbecue, and nishing up with a dessert
of their choice. All scouts seemed to enjoy themselves, with 15th Essendon taking away the trophy for the year.
Survival Camp (2830 Sep 2013)
Survival Camp saw another group of scouts brave the elements by building a shelter, "foraging" for food, lightng res without matches, and
doing a litle bushbashing as part of a navigaton exercise to nd their way back to camp, in which they only got a litle bit lost. Food was what
could be found having fallen o the back of a truck, road kill, or found in a derelict farmhouse. Scouts even
got to try some rabbit stew. We saw partcipaton from 3 patrols, and the trophy was taken this year by 15th
Essendon. A good tme was had by all, and by the end we were stll well below quota for the number of scouts
we could get away with losing! We also managed to get an artcle into Scout Mag about our Survival camp!
Cohen Shield/Jota/Jot (19th 20th Oct)
Two troops atended, Moonee Valley leaders ran the Jamboree of the Internet and the Archery actvites.
JOTI was voted the best actvity.
Theatre sports night (29 Nov 2013)
We tried something dierent last year with a District Theatre Sports night, hosted by David Bucknell at 17th Essendon. Patrols competed in var
ious dierent improvisaton and drama games. Afer some inital shyness from some who seemed concerned about making fools of them
selves, everybody loosened up and had a lot of fun, with some hilarious improvised performances, judged by an objectve panel of 3 judges.
The trophy for this event was taken by 2nd Strathmore, who had the advantage of 2 scouts who played o each other partcularly well resultng
in some extremely funny scenes.
MVCC Festval
Many leaders took part in the constructon and supervising of the members of the public who visited our bridge and other actvites. Max the
scout mascot also atended.
Fitzgerald Cup (810 Mar 2014)
Our District competton camp, Fitzgerald Cup was the usual fun this year, with 11 scout patrols, a patrol from Keith Farquhar Rovers, and, this
year, for the rst tme, a patrol of leaders, who, along with the rovers, competed with the scouts on score, but were ineligible to win the cup.
That honour went to 1st Strathmore this year.
Stradbroke Cup
There were 2 patrols competng and brought home a Gold and Silver awards. A new assessment format was trialled which was much easier to
use.
Theatre sports night (4 Apr 2014)
In an endeavour to get the scouts more involved in drama, David ran another theatre sports night this year. This was as much fun as much fun
as the rst, and the most welldone performance was awarded to 15th Essendon.
Walter Murphy Hide hike (31 May 1 Jun 2014)
This year's Walter Murphy, our annual hike weekend, was organised by 15th Essendon & 1st Milleara and run at Eumarella Scout Camp, An
glesea. As usual, scouts had to hike in patrols from the dropo point to the campsite, completng various actvity bases along the way. This all
went well, and the trophy was taken home by 6th Melbourne.
Scoutchef (30th July 2014)
We had 7 patrols represented (some troops had 2 patrols ). With patrols ranging between
4 and 7 scouts from 6th Melbourne, 15th Essendon, 2nd Strathmore , 1st Strathmore .
Over all we had 33 scouts with the winner being 1st Strathmore "Smokin Salmon (Com
binaton patrol)
Patrol Leaders' course (1517 Aug 2014)
20 Scouts atended the weekend live in course 5 Leaders and several parent helpers. The
leaders have revamped the course to make it more actvity based.
Mat Cengia &Cheryl Prendergast Actng DistrictScout Leaders
14-17 Year Olds
Venturer Scouts
The past 12 months has seen great growth in Venturers in the Moonee Valley District. While the two existng Units, Akoona and
Parkair have contnued to thrive, we have also seen the reestablishment of two Units in Monash based at 17th Essendons hall
and Strathmore based at 2nd Strathmores hall. Venturer numbers contnue to grow in the District and there is contnual plan
ning for recruitment of our older Scouts to contnue their Scoutng experience. The noton of providing a contnued Scoutng op
ton for youth members is strong in the District with Units currently providing a way to Look Wide for members from 1st Milleara,
1st Strathmore, 2nd Strathmore, 5th Keilor, 15th Essendon and 17th Essendon. We are also hostng Venturers from 1st Keilor Vil
lage as well as atractng members from outside Scoutng to our ranks. Units contnue to provide fun actvites and events for
older Scouts to show them that fun in Scoutng doesnt have to nish afer Scouts.
The growth in numbers in youth members has also seen a growth in the number of Venturer Leaders in the District. With some
of the same old faces stll around in Steven Mariot at Akoona, Robyn Harris and Peter Krotsis at 15th Essendon and Grant Martens
at 5th Keilor, we also have a couple of newbies join the crew. Maria Bucknell, a Queen Scout herself, is heading up a rapidly grow
ing Strathmore Venturers and David Bucknell has got Monash Venturers up and running again. Bernie Brown has come across from
1st Keilor Village with his Venturers to lend his valuable experience and knowledge.
Parkair Venturers currently has 20 invested Venturers; 6 from 5th Keilor, 5 from 1st Strathmore, 6 from 15th Essendon, 3 from
17th Essendon and 2 from 1st Keilor Village. There are now four leaders. These leaders are atached to 5th Keilor, 15th Essendon
and 1st Keilor Village. We also have a number of new members who are currently in the process of linking into Venturers for the
rst tme. We are expectng further linking Scouts from 5th Keilor, 15th Essendon, 1st Strathmore, and 1st Keilor Village over the
coming year.
1st Millearas Akoona Venturer Unit contnues providing a Venturing opton for youth members in the west of our District. It cur
rently has 5 members and maintains a strong link with the 1st Milleara Group. This Unit also has the distncton of producing two
Queen Scouts in the last couple of years. Congratulatons to Kieran Prendegast, Marcus Rutkay on earning this auspicious award
Simone Prendegast has met the technical requirements of the Queen Scout and is now nalising the completon of her Queen Scout
Award. Again, congratulatons are due to each of these youth members as well as the leaders, Groups and families who support
them.
It is encouraging to acknowledge that in 2014, two new Venturer Scout Units are now up and running in the Moonee Valley Dis
trict; Monash, and more recently Strathmore. Both of these Units are running good programs that are atractng and engaging our
youth members and developing their growth in lines with Scoutng ideals and principles.
Also pleasing is the sense of District spirit among the four Units. There have been regular District and combined events through
out the year and these will contnue in to the future with a good rapport developing among the leaders.
Venturers in the District have taken part in some amazing and challenging actvites throughout the year. These include:
Venturing Skills camp at Mataranka and Rowallan Scout Camps
Themed Camps
Amazing Race actvity in the city
The Anzac day Dawn Service and Parade and partcipaton in local RSL services
Vocatons / Training for Job interviews
Art expression actvites with a guest presenters and a formal presentaton night
Rock Climbing
Zone Councils
Anything Goes and Victorian Gathering (annual actvity camps)
Hoadley Hide challenge camp completng the Venturer Initatve Award
A Movie & Pizza night
Laser tag and gocart night with the Rovers
Unit Management Courses
Upcoming events include:
A formal McDonalds dinner
Canoeing Expeditons
Victorian Gathering (annual end of year actvity camp)
Victorian contngent will go to the Australian Venture in Adelaide in Jan 2015
Roventure
Venturing in Moonee Valley contnues to grow in 2014 and we antcipate will do so over the next few years. We now have a num
ber of dierent optons for our members of Venturer age in regards to Unit types as well as meetng nights with every Unit in the
District meetng on a dierent night of the week. All the Units are running good, engaging programs and are led by a group of vol
unteers who are passionate about the growth of Venturing. It has been my absolute pleasure to work with the youth and adult
members of the District over the past 12 months and I look forward to working with them in the future.
Grant Martens
Actng DistrictVenturer Scout Leader
Moonee Valley District
Rover Scouts in the Moonee Valley District have contnued to grow, not only in numbers, but in skills and
presence in the overall Rover Community.
The crews (Keith Farquhar, Amaroo and Berembong) in the district have experienced a great deal of devel
opment in the past 12 months. Members have already begun working towards the recently implemented
new Baden Powell Scout Award (BPSA), which has seen working groups within the district collaborate with
Rovers to have a smooth roll out and to ensure local Rovers have a strong under
standing of the new award. This hard work seems to be paying o with a number
of Rovers taking up the challenge and startng their badges. Hopefully we will see
improved engagement in the community and in the future more Rover Scouts com
plete the award.
Not only has this new award created some excitement about development, the past
twelve months has seen four Rovers in the district receive their Rover Wood Badge,
the highest Rover Training achievement. This will allow these Rover Scouts to hold
Chairman Positons with strong training behind them, which will hopefully see the
Rover Secton run to the highest of standards. Being a Chairman is something that
runs strongly in Rovers of the Moonee Valley District with our Rovers running the 2 major events for the year,
as well as our Rover Scout Motorsport component of the organisaton, under aliaton with the Confeder
aton of Australian Motorsport. The
involvement of Moonee Valley Rover
Scouts as chairs of various commit
tees and teams, demonstrates the
wider sharing of experience and
statewide impact that the members
in this district have. With approxi
mately twenty commitees and teams
throughout the state running mult
million dollar assets, major events,
community teams and the like, it
demonstrates the capability that
members in this district have.
Moonee Valley Rovers, as part of The
Victorian Rover Council, are thrilled to
be hostng the next Rover Moot, The Moot in 2017. Rover Scouts from Moonee Valley District hold four Di
rector Positons on The Moot Council which is something to be very proud of and also extremely excited
about. The Moot is going to showcase the best of Victoria as
a State and as a Rover Scout Secton.The Moot will see up
wards of one thousand Rover Scouts from around the world
convene over the 20162017 New YearPeriod for two weeks
of Rover Scout actvites, involving expeditons into the ex
panses of Victoria, sightseeing around Melbourne, providing
service to the community.
In 2013, there were a number of RoverScouts from theDis
trict who atended the World Moot in Canada, who atended
along with a contngent from around Australia.
As always, Rovers running Rovers, provides each individual to
explore their interests, needs and wants. This has never been
truer than in the last 12 months. With all crews experi
encing growth in numbers, they have been able to open
up their programs more than ever. The crews in the dis
trict have run Astronomy Nights, Commonwealth
Games Nights, Car Hide and Seek, Lawn Bowls, and
much more, respectvely. Crews have also run very suc
cessful joint Venturer Nights, which will hopefully pro
vide the Rovers of tomorrow a positve insight into what
Rovers has to oer.
Caitlin Brideson Berembong Rover Crew, Crew Leader
18-26 Year Olds
Rover Scouts
Adult Lives Enhanced By Scouting
Adult Training Support
Moonee Valley District has had a great year in terms of training being completed. The District should be very proud to
recognise 7 Wood Badges being completed in the last 12 months.
Congratulatons go to:
Michael Wong, 6th Melbourne Cub Scout Wood Badge (August 2013)
Simon Rickard, 2nd Strathmore Cub Scout Wood Badge
Grant Randle, 6th Melbourne Group Leader Wood Badge
Mathew McKernan, Moonee Valley District DL/Commissioner Wood Badge
A special menton to the three Rovers, all female:
Catherine Paterson, 17th Essendon Rover Wood Badge
Annie Phelan, 1st Milleara Rover Wood Badge
Louise Pocock, 5th Keilor Rover Wood Badge
This brings the total number of fully trained leaders in the District to 29.
Within the Scout program, actvites undertaken as part of the Basic and Advanced training are mapped against compe
tencies from Accredited Management Programs. In Moonee Valley in the last 12 months we have had the following
qualicatons completed:
Certcate III Business 1 leader
Certcate IV Frontline Management 5 leaders
I must say thank you to the hard work of the PLAs and mentors who work with the leaders in our District. The guidance
and assistance our leaders are given to help them complete training in the required tmeframe is invaluable.
I must also recognise the hard work of the Moonee Valley District Personnel Commitee (DPC) under the directon of
Tony Farquhar. The new leader interviews are now being conducted in a tmely manner and reviews are up to date.
Emma Barker
District Leader Adult Training Support
Leadership that Supports Scouting
District Personnel Committee
In the year July 2013 July 2014 the District Personnel Commitee interviewed eleven new leader applicants and conducted
twelve 3 yearly reviews of existng leaders.
These interviews/reviews were spread across the following Sectons and Groups.
New Leader Interviews
Secton Positon Group
Joeys AJL 6th Melbourne (1), 15th Essendon (1)
Cubs ACSL 1st Strathmore (2), 2nd Strathmore (2), 15th Essendon (1), 17th Essendon (1), 6th Melbourne
(2)
Group GL 1st Strathmore (1)
Three Yearly Reviews
Secton Positon Group
Cubs ACSL 1st Milleara (1)
CSL 1st Strathmore (1), 17th Essendon (1)
Scouts ASL 1st Milleara (1), 5th Keilor (1)
Venturers AVL 1st Milleara (1), 5th Keilor (1)
VL 2nd Strathmore (1)
Group GL 6th Melbourne (1), 1st Moonee (1), 15th Essendon (1)
Rovers RA 5th Keilor (1)
I would like to recognize and extend my thanks to Heather Stringer and Emma Barker for their contributon to and sup
port of the District Personnel Commitee.
Tony Farquhar
Chairman
Moonee Valley District Personnel Commitee
Rowallan Recreaton Camp is operated by a dedicated team of Scoutng Friends and Members who are theRowal
lan Commitee of Management. Rowallan is located approximately 5km from the township of Riddles Creek and
has been in operaton since 1946 from a generous donaton of Essendon Rotary Club. The camp provides facili
tes both for Scouts andGuides along with being used extensively by other Youth organisatons and schools.
Rowallan has a dedicated Camp Ranger and is an Accredited Australian Camping Associaton Site.
The year 2013 to2014 has seen a contnuaton of improvements both at HQ Camp and in the Forest Camp.
Water Filtraton
Water supply problems t noted last year have now been overcome. The ltraton system unfortunately reduced the pressure untl everything
was unusable. A new lter arrangement to increase the capacity now appears to have solved the problem. At the same tme the sequence of
water supply and storage as been rearranged such that all water on site, including Forest Camp, is ltered. Thanks to Rudolf, Robert and the
Ranger, for the many hours of work.
HQ Camp
The First Aid area in the Sta Quarters has been remodelled into a practcal administraton area as well
as an emergency First Aid room.
The 2 HQ Cub camping areas have been extended and are now available for use.
The HQ adventure playground has had a Flying Fox and a slide added to it.
Scout Fellowship spent a weekend on 2 actvites. One team weeded and generally tdied the grounds of
HQ Camp, whilst the other team refurbished the Chapel, weeding, cleaning the seatng and reforming
the path.
Forest Camp
The Forest Camp Amphitheatre and Campre has new drainage and crushed rock to remove groundwater. New tered seatng around the re
place was installed over the summer by Steve Rahill, Neil Collum and Tom Lanigan.
With advice from Landcare we have removed pine trees and non indigenous Hakea and planted Hakea Decurrans which is indigenous to the
area.
Plans have been drawn up for the upgrading of Warnock Lodge to Fire refuge standard and with the additon of a forest kitchen and dining area.
As yet we have been unable to secure funding for this project. In the interim a gas stove has been installed into Warnock Lodge for camper
use.
A large area at the end of Farquhar crescent has been cleared of trees to make a large cleared camping area.
Rangers Shed
A retaining wall has been built at the Rangers Shed and grasses etc have been planted on the embankment to stop soil erosion. New rewood
storage bays have been built to reduce the footprint of the wood store.
Insurance and Council Rates
At last, with a lot of involvement by our DC, thank you very much, a few issues with Branch have been resolved. Namely council rates payment
that reverts to being a camp responsibility and camp insurance that is nally sorted.
Fire
As many of you know, last re season Gisborne South to Riddells Creek was under atack by a grassre. This meant we closed the camp for 2
weekends and the intervening week.
At the height of the incident, the Rangers relocated from the Camp.
Thanks
I would like to thank all the members of our commitee. It really is amazing what we achieve with so litle. The assistance of Keith Farquhar
Rover Crew has been of enormous benet.
Specically, I would like to thank Steve Rahill for spending the summer doing work on the Amphitheatre and machine maintenance and the Scout
Fellowship for assistance with camp maintenance.
Our Booking secretaries, Rob and Helen Arends for their ongoing work, and for securing a much
beter tractor and a hydraulic log spliter as well as the donaton of many miscellaneous items from
an estate wind up. Much of our success can be atributed to them and their management of the
Camp PR.
The Ranger, Len Krois for being there many weekdays as well as all weekends. He is kept quite busy
with groups coming and going in both HQ Camp and Forest Camp throughout the year.
Our Projects ocer Rudolf Arends puts in more hours than we can count into repairs and mainte
nance as well as projects.
My thanks to our DC, Maty McKernan, for his skills and assistance in the trials last re season, and
to Bruce Paterson for being our Auditor.
Finally our Treasurer Shauna has announced her resignaton afer 9 years of reliable management
of our nances. During all this tme she has consistently overseen our nancial side and kept us up
to the mark.
Service Work
The Camp is maintained by our small commitee with the assistance of KFRC, however we would like to see more physical assistance from the
members of our district in keeping the Camp in good shape. Much of the work, especially in the forest clearing and plantng could be done a
litle at a tme by groups on site and would make an enormous dierence to the camp. Service work at the Camp can be used toward badge
work.
Declon OFarrell
Chairman
Rowallan Scout Camp Management Commitee.
Rowallan Recreation Camp
Moonee Valley District Campsite
Financial Report
Moonee Valley District
Please refer to the above report for exact incomings/outgoings and details.
As you will note, the District has a loss on paper of $870.29, which is a major improvement on the
2012/13 nancial statement. We nished the nancial year with a bank balance of $1037.53.
This year, we established electronic banking, which has improved the ongoing correctness of our
monthly nancial reports and has removed delays in managing cheque payments etc.
The greatest challenge from a district perspectve is ensuring that we have prompt payment for fees
collected to ensure that we are able to appropriately pay invoices in a tmely manner. These invoices
are generally for insurances for district equipment, electricity services & other development related ex
penses such as signage on facilites.
There is a small amount of work outstanding for recovering funds that have not yet been collected for
the 2013/14 nancial year, including District Levies and badges, which is the primary focus for the next
month.
Over the next twelve months, a consistent eort will be placed on improving the accuracy of our budg
etng and ensuring that we have appropriately calculated the amounts expected for income from levies,
hall hire and other actvites. As the district team grows, there will be an increase in the funds required
for training & registraton.
Additonally, returning the operaton of the 1st/10th Essendon Scout Hall, which is presently used as
a district facility hostng theHoadley Show Band, District Actvites and program to a cost neutral op
eraton will be benecial.
Louise Pocock
District Treasurer
Closing Balances as of 30th June 2014
Moonee Valley District Scouts (Bendigo) $1,037.53
Moonee Valley District Scouts (ANZ) $90.70
Income
Secton 1314 Budgeted Actual Dierence 1415 Budgeted
Badges $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $500.00
District Levies $4,200.00 $3,384.00 $816.00 $4,100.00
Rae Tickets $150.00 $0.00 $150.00 $0.00
Hall Hire $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $300.00
Income Total $4,350.00 $3,384.00 $966.00 $4,900.00
Expenditure
Secton 1314 Budgeted Actual Dierence 1415 Budgeted
IT Consumables $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
Electricity (1st/10th Essendon) $1,000.00 $369.53 $630.47 $1,000.00
Insurance (1st/10th Essendon) $2,000.00 $1,706.41 $293.59 $1,900.00
Insurance (MVD Assets) $100.00 $61.05 $38.95 $100.00
Leader Registraton $200.00 $0.00 $200.00 $280.00
Leader Training $200.00 $0.00 $200.00 $300.00
Misc Expenditure $100.00 $1,867.30 $1,767.30 $700.00
Fire Services (1st/10th Essendon) $500.00 $0.00 $500.00 $150.00
Expenditure Total $4,100.00 $4,004.29 $966.00 $4,430.00
Budget Total $250.00 $620.29 $870.29 $470.00
Moonee Valley District
Rowallan Recreation Camp - Finance
Group Reports - Ascot Vale
15th Essendon Sea Scouts
Group Reports - Aberfeldie
17th Essendon
15th Essendon has had a remarkably year with some signicant achievements. We have reopened our Joey Mob once
again, with 2 leaders, 6 Joeys, and plenty of enthusiasm.
Our Cub pack has awarded one Grey Wolf award, and has invested two new leaders. Scouts at 15th Essendon have also
gained an Assistant Scout Leader, and proudly reports a 100% linking success rate of eligibly aged members to the Ven
turer secton well done! Our Venturers have awarded two Queen Scout Awards this year special congratulatons to
these recipients.
Our Group has also added to the team with an Assistant Group Leader. Our Group Support Commitee is making strides
with 4 new Commitee members, a successful rae sale (thanks Andrew Draper!), and are proud to report that we
were one of 96 groups to receive a monster rae badge for selling more than $40 worth of tckets per Scout! Top
eort all!
The Group also partcipated in Clean Up Australia Day at the Maribyrnong, cleaning up 50 bags worth of garbage from
the surrounding areas. We look forward to contnued success and contnued growth of our Group in the future.
It has been a long and tough year for 17th Essendon Scout Group, but that has not quenched the thirst of it's dedicated
Leaders and Youth members to deliver and partcipate in the Scoutng Program.
The Cub pack has successfully returned to their 17th Essendon Scout Hall to deliver a regular program afer spending
much of the year hosted by 1st Moonee Ponds Cub Scouts. Special thanks to Stuart and the supporters of the cub pack
for helping to support Cub Scouts of 17th Essendon.
Scouts are stll experiencing dicultes with just two members, however, a fresh start and new approach to sharing the
Scoutng program will hopefully allow the secton to grow into a stronger Troop.
Monash Venturers have had a successful year, running a strong program with partcipaton of youth members across 6th
Melbourne, 15th, and 17th Essendon.
Across the Group, we are looking to recruit more leaders to support each secton, but most importantly, encouraging
growth of youth members.
I'd like to thank John Fisicchia for his excellent work on holding the Group together, and to his team partcularly Mat
Haysom, Mat Cengia, and David Bucknell for their treless eorts and determinaton in taking our youth members on a
journey of growth and discovery. The team are remarkably dedicated and ne leaders, and I look forward to working
with them over the next year.
Yours in Scoutng,
Luke Byrnes
Leader in Charge at 17th Essendon Scout Group
District Leader Development
5th Keilor has completed another successful year, and although we have decreased in numbers 37 current to 48 this tme last year,
there are several positves that demonstrate we are moving in the right directon. In the past year we have seen 4 of our scouts
awarded the Australian Scout Medallion, 3 cubs receive their Grey Wolf and 2 Rovers atain their Rover Wood Beads. This is a fan
tastc eort and a credit to both the awardees and their leaders. The Parkair Venture Unit contnues to grow, and they are prepar
ing to atend the Australian Venture early in the new year. The Berembong Rover Crew has again been actve both at group and
Branch level, and contnue to provide assistance to the group.
It is disappointng we have no news on our hall redevelopment, but I am sure that Scouts Victoria do have our interests at heart, and
will come forward with some positve news in the near future. Unfortunately our Group Chair, Paul Cadzow, will not be able to con
tnue in his current role, he has done a truly amazing job, his legacy of a healthy bank balance, a strong bond with the local Bendigo
Bank, and thriving Christmas Tree sales, are a testmony to tme as our Chairman.
The year ahead, will again be busy and excitng, as we look forward to increasing our numbers, commencing a Joey mob, and prepar
ing for our 50th Birthday celebratons in September 2015. My thanks to all leaders, parents commitee, parent helpers who have done
their bit, in making the year so successful, I again ask that we support our newly elected commitee, to ensure our contnued suc
cess.
Andrew Pocock
Leader In Charge
Group Reports - Kensington
6th Melbourne
5th Keilor
Group Reports - Airport West
How can you tell that a Group has had a successful year?
One way is to look at our membership statstcs. Theres a report atached for that. In short, all our Joeys and 80% of our Cubs stayed
in the Group, and most that reached linking age chose to progress to the next secton. Scouts retained 67% of its members, which
for that age group represents success, so there is stll opportunity there to improve. We added a secton to our Group this year with
2 Scouts advancing to the District Venture Unit Monash Venturers as well as adding a new recruit. As with last year, we have a very
strong waitng list, so all the signs are good.
Another way is to look at the awards earned by our members. Nearly all of our members have challenged themselves to try some
thing new and earned badges. As youll read in the secton reports this culminated in Promise Challenge and Grey Wolf awards. We
also saw 2 Scouts be the rst to earn the Australian Scout Medallion.
Perhaps a beter indicator are the actvites that are run by each secton. Im not even going to begin to try and list everything the
Group has been doing in the last year, mainly because you will hear it from the Cubs, Scouts and Joeys themselves, and see it in the
pictures and reports from each secton.
This success is built on a foundaton of strong support from our families and leaders. This year we have gained 3 new Cub Leaders in
Chris Dwyer, Craig Rawson and Liam Merlot. This has enabled us to contnue the great program in Cubs as we farewelled Fiona Borg
and Tomas Torres. We thank both of them for their service to our Group and in partcular Tomas for his loyalty to the Group he joined
as a Cub, following his father into the Cub Leader role and staying with us when we nearly closed and helped us to rebuild. Unfortu
nately, Francisco Tovar decided not to contnue with the Scout Troop, and we also thank him for his service. We have been very for
tunate to have David Bucknell from 17th Essendon step up to relaunch Monash Venturers. He is being supported by Gary Howard
although we do need additonal leaders to make the Unit a success.
Once again, the Cub Leaders ran a wonderfully varied program as you will read about in the Cub report. They have been busy prepar
ing our Cubs for the biggest event for Cub Scouts, the upcoming Cuboree. The Joey Leaders Cazz Redding, Lyndall Williams and Lianne
Rowlinson also took the Joeys from strength to strength with the highlight being the Kangaree held earlier this year.
Having well trained leaders is part of the foundaton of the Group. I have nally completed my training and earned the Wood Beads.
We now have several new leaders commencing basic training and Karen Davis completed her Basic Training. Lyndall Williams and
Lianne Rowlinson completed their Advanced Outdoor Training for Joeys and are now qualied to conduct our Groups own Joey
sleepovers.
The nal underpinning is the support from our Group Commitee and parents. This year the Group contnued its strong fundraising
actvites. This has enabled us to fund an excitng actvity for every secton each term and we are now in a positon to invest in a re
furbishment of the kitchen. We have obtained a grant from the City of Melbourne for $7500 towards this project as well as being the
extremely fortunate winners of a complete kitchen from IKEA. It will be a big project requiring lots of support from our Scoutng com
munity, but will really expand what we can do with the sectons. The commitee is contnuing to work on funding completon of the
redevelopment plan for the hall, and any help or input would be appreciated.
So, having recognised the success of the past 12 months and the foundatons of that success, Im sure that you would all join with
me to express our thanks to all the leaders, commitee members and parents who have contributed in so many ways. In partcular,
thanks are due to our commitee executve; Chairman Fleur Clausen, Treasurer Anthony Paatsch who quietly deals with the endless
transactons that a Scout Group generates, Secretary Sarah Brooks, Hall Redevelopment Manager Dean Sleigh for working on the next
stage of improvements to our beloved hall and Publicatons Ocer Meg Dunley for her informatve newsleters documentng the
Groups actvites. Anthony has elected to step aside as Treasurer at this ARAP and we thank him for the fantastc eort he has put
in and the healthy nancial state that we see our Group in. Meg Dunley has also published her last newsleter and Im sure all the
parents will agree that it her newsleters have given everyone a glimpse of the many facets of the goings on in our Group. Mark Som
merville also elected to step aside from the Quartermaster role, and we thank him for his contributon as well as welcoming Jake
Marum who has agreed to become our next Quartermaster. Of course, we would love to hear from anyone willing to help out our
commitee in either the Treasurer or Publicatons role.
Our youth members have much to look forward to over the next 12 months with Cuboree and the Venture, as well as commencing
preparaton for the 2016 Jamboree. I look forward to partcipatng with all of you all in making it possible.
Grant Randle (Hathi)
Group Leader
Group Reports - Moonee Ponds
1st Moonee Ponds
1st Milleara
Group Reports
East Keilor & Avondale Heights
This is my second year as actng group Leader and I am constantly amazed by the commitment and achievements by our
group. None of these achievements happen in isolaton.
This year we have seen a Joey Scout Promise, a Grey Wold Award, A Queens Scout Award, and a Rover obtain her
Woodbeads.
I need to make many thankyous to 1st Keilor Village for contnuing to host our Joeys. A special thanks to Joanne our
scarf maker who made a batch of group scarves not for our group but to 1st Keilor Village when they were desperately
low.
Around 5 cubs atended the district camp with was held in Altona. This camp resulted in some wild weather which saw
some groups leave early. They cubs took part in actvites such as beach constructon, food making, rope constructon
and a camp re. As this year is a Cuboree year we will be having 2 cubs atend this event and hopefully will be a re
warding experience for them. As another year closes it is pleasing to see the number of ex cubs who have contnued on
to the scout secton and gradually to leader positons. This shows that we must be doing something right, at the lower
level, as they are stll enjoying the journey. We currently have 18 cubs and will lose a few to scouts before/at the end
of the year.
The Scout secton has had a busy year with the Scouts atending a number of actvity and competton camps. Over the
Easter break, two patrols took part in the Stradbroke Cup competton camp at Treetops in Riddells Creek, bringing
home Gold and Silver awards. We also had a patrol take part in the Cohen Shield in September, also achieving a Silver
Award. We sent a patrol to Castlemaine to the district survival camp which involved the Scouts camping for 2 nights
without sleeping bags or bedding or even shelter. During the year, a number of Scouts have completed their Pioneer
level badges and are well on their way towards their Explorer level badge with the remaining Scouts working on their
Pioneer badge. Towards the end of the year we expect to see a number of Cubs moving up into the secton which will
give us 3 full patrols.
This year has been another successful one for the Venturer Unit. We currently have 6 Venturers and one leader, the
largest our unit has been since startng. One of our Venturers achieved their Queen scout and another has just been ap
proved. We congratulate Marcus and Simone on achieving this milestone. As usual the unit undertook a range of ac
tvites over the course of the previous 12 months. Most notably the unit atended all but one of the major camps for
our secton (except the ones where we would have had to work too hard (i.e. hiking). We made friends, had a good tme
and tried actvites we otherwise would never get to do.
I look forward to greater things as we contnue into the next 12 months.
Cheryl Prendergast
Leader in Charge 1st Milleara
1st Moonee Ponds Scout Group is presently working on a number of key tasks to contnue the growth of Scoutng within
the Moonee Ponds area. The group is actvely resolving items within recruitment, leader recruitment, capital works and
maintenance actvites.
Both Sectons experienced reducton in Members for various reasons.
Recruitng of Leaders: Female Assistant Cub Scout Leader Elise Jerey. Paperwork in progress.
Resignaton of Scout Leader, Dan Wats for family reasons. Actve recruitng drive on currently through SEEK Volunteer
site two enquiries so far.
Roof of hall being redone.
Purchase of new equipment through a Community Grant (tents, stoves, bateries for solar system, etc.)
Three Scouts on verge of Australian Scout Medallions.
Good nancial result for 2013 / 2014.
New Parent Commitee elected at AGM.
Very successful camping events in both sectons (Noonameena; District Cub Camp; Fitzy Cup to name a few.)
SteveMcLean
Assistant Group Leader 1st Moonee Ponds
Group Reports - Strathmore
1st Strathmore
Group Reports - Strathmore
2nd Strathmore
The Group has had another successful year of eectve program delivery and partcipaton, of which a key measure is the
20% increase in youth membership to 58 registered members at 30th June 2014.
At 30th June we had registered 9 Joey Scouts, 28 Cub Scouts, 15 Scouts and 6 Venturer Scouts. With membership growth
greater than 10% we have again earned the Chief Commissioners Award.
Simon Rickard completed his Cub Scout Wood Badge, Zed and James Walker (Scouts), Scot Harrison (Cub Scouts) their
Basic training and, very recently, Maria Stanton (Venturer Scouts), completed Basic training. Scot is very well advanced
in his Advanced Cub Scout leader training.
Quality Scoutng Awards
The Cub Scout Pack and Scout Troop gained the Award; the Joey Scout Mob missed out only because several Joeys had
moved on to Cubs, leaving 9 (less than the required minimum of 10) Joey Scouts. The Group earned the Quality Scoutng
Award certcate including an 83% retenton rate overall. The Scout Secton had a 100% retenton rate, Cub Scouts 80%
and Joey Scouts 75%.
Australian Scout Medallions and Grey Wolf Award the top awards for each Youth Secton.
During the 12 months, Daniel Bushnell gained the Australian Scout Medallion. Jacob Cudmore and Zacari Harrison gained
the Cub Scout Grey Wolf award.
Finances
The Groups nances are in very healthy conditon with antcipated expenses in the near future on hall and trailer insur
ance, shelving and linoleum replacement, some fencing and outdoor equipment. A fundraising strategy and subcom
mitee has recently been established.
Leaders wider partcipaton:
Our Groups uniformed leaders regularly atend the District Training Meetng, assist other leaders and assist in District
events.
Support Personnel
We get great support acton from our Chairman Martn Hollibone, Treasurer Peter McKie and Secretary Kathleen Mather.
John Ravenhall (TGL)
The 2013/14 year has been a big one for 1st Strathmore.
Major achievements have been the replacement of the oor in the hall, which was a huge undertaking. The new oor
looks fantastc and the relaunch party was a great chance to celebrate our achievements with the inclusion of represen
tatves from Strathmore Community Branch of the Bendigo Bank, Councilors and Lerdederg Region all atending.
We have also completed work pertaining to the health and safety issues within the hall and are now compliant with re
regulatons and have updated our electricals. The rst aid kits have also been updated. I feel we can move forward with
condence that our Youth and Leaders are well cared for.
The Cub secton leaders have been doing a fantastc job of getng everyone ready for Cuboree along with their usual great
job of running the Cub Pack.
The Scout secton leaders have been doing a fantastc job of keeping the Scout Troop functoning whilst barely seeing each
other due to work travel commitments and stll devising a program that has Scouts having fun and gaining knowledge (we
have 3 on track to achieve their Scout Medallion).
Challenges for the future are a need to address retenton issues for both Youth and Leaders. We will be looking at: more
Group actvites to improve knowledge between sectons, dierent payment methods for families, addressing the need for
more leaders most especially at least 2 more Scout secton leaders, improvements to programming and behaviour man
agement techniques, communicaton within the Group.
HeatherDavis
Group Leader 1st Strathmore
Moonee Valley District
Group Meeting Nights
15th Essendon Scout Group 1st Milleara Scout Group
21 Woods St, Ascot Vale 1A Doyle St, Avondale Heights
gl.essendon15th@vicscouts.asn.au Quinn Grove Reserve, Keilor East
Cub Pack Thu (19:00:0020:30:00) gl.milleara1st@vicscouts.asn.au
Scout Troop Tue (19:00:0021:00:00) Joey Mob Tue (17:45:0018:45:00)
Rover Crew Thu (19:30:0022:30:00)
17th Essendon Scout Group Scout Troop Mon (19:00:0020:30:00)
7 Batman Street, Aberfeldie Venturer Unit Wed (19:30:0021:30:00)
gl.essendon17th@vicscouts.asn.au Cub Pack Wed (18:30:0020:00:00)
Cub Pack Tue (19:00:0020:30:00)
Scout Troop Thu (19:30:0021:30:00) 1st Moonee Ponds Scout Group
5th Keilor Scout Group Cnr Clarinda St/Ardmillan Rd., Moonee Ponds
Fullarton Road, A.J. Davis Reserve, Airport West gl.mooneeponds1st@vicscouts.asn.au
gl.keilor5th@vicscouts.asn.au Cub Pack Mon (19:00:0020:30:00)
Cub Pack Wed (19:00:0020:30:00) Scout Troop Wed (19:00:0021:00:00)
Scout Troop Mon (19:00:0021:00:00) Venturer Unit Wed (19:00:0021:00:00)
Rover Crew Berembong Thu (19:30:0000:00:00)
1st Strathmore Scout Group
6th Melbourne Scout Group 138 Lebanon Street, Strathmore
55 Mccracken Street, Kensington gl.strathmore1st@vicscouts.asn.au
gl.melbourne6th@vicscouts.asn.au Cub Pack Thu (19:00:0020:30:00)
Joey Mob Wed (17:30:0018:30:00) Scout Troop Wed (19:00:0021:00:00)
Cub Pack Tue (18:30:0020:00:00)
Scout Troop Mon (18:30:0020:30:00) Monash Venturer Unit
7 Batman Street, Aberfeldie
2nd Strathmore Scout Group dc.mooneevalley@vicscouts.asn.au
63A Kernan St, Strathmore Venturer Unit Fri (08:00:0010:00:00)
gl.strathmore2nd@vicscouts.asn.au
Cub Pack Mon (19:00:0020:30:00) Parkair Venturer Unit
Joey Mob Mon (17:00:0018:00:00) Fullarton Road, A.J. Davis Reserve, Airport West
Scout Troop Wed (19:00:0021:00:00) dc.mooneevalley@vicscouts.asn.au
Venturer Scouts Friday (19:30:0022:00:00) Venturer Unit Thu (19:00:0022:00:00)
Interestng in Joining Scouts? Call 1800 SCOUTS (726 887) or email dc.mooneevalley@vicscouts.asn.au
Moonee Valley District
Youth Awards
Moonee Valley District
Adult Awards
Baden Powell Scout Award PATERSON Catherine 17TH ESSENDON
Australian Scout Medallion WEBB Kathleen 15TH ESSENDON
Australian Scout Medallion O'CONNOR Jack 17TH ESSENDON
Australian Scout Medallion SOUTHWORTH Lucas 1ST MILLEARA
Australian Scout Medallion BRADLEY Olivia 2ND STRATHMORE
Australian Scout Medallion BUSHNELL Daniel 2ND STRATHMORE
Australian Scout Medallion JOHANSSON Hannah 5TH KEILOR
Australian Scout Medallion KNOX Rohan 5TH KEILOR
Australian Scout Medallion GRANT Benjamin 6TH MELBOURNE
Australian Scout Medallion RANDLE Samuel 6TH MELBOURNE
Joey Scout Promise Challenge STEVENS Dante 1ST MILLEARA
Joey Scout Promise Challenge BORG Jai 5TH KEILOR
Joey Scout Promise Challenge BROOK Henry 6TH MELBOURNE
Joey Scout Promise Challenge CLAUSEN Finn 6TH MELBOURNE
Joey Scout Promise Challenge DU PREEZ Laurence 6TH MELBOURNE
Joey Scout Promise Challenge LEEARCHER Luke 6TH MELBOURNE
Joey Scout Promise Challenge LYMAN Adam 6TH MELBOURNE
Joey Scout Promise Challenge MERLOT Arcadia 6TH MELBOURNE
Joey Scout Promise Challenge RAWSON Molly 6TH MELBOURNE
Joey Scout Promise Challenge ROWLINSON Tieve 6TH MELBOURNE
Joey Scout Promise Challenge WONG Violet 6TH MELBOURNE
Joey Scout Promise Challenge WONG Wendy 6TH MELBOURNE
Grey Wolf MCMAHON Emily 1ST MILLEARA
Grey Wolf SWINGLER Patrick 1ST MILLEARA
Grey Wolf CURTIS Luke 1ST MOONEE PONDS
Grey Wolf FREEMAN Harriet 1ST MOONEE PONDS
Grey Wolf GARVEY William 1ST MOONEE PONDS
Grey Wolf GODFREY Susan 1ST MOONEE PONDS
Grey Wolf CUDMORE Jacob 2ND STRATHMORE
Grey Wolf HARRISON Zacari 2ND STRATHMORE
Grey Wolf ATTARD Kieran 5TH KEILOR
Grey Wolf TOSTO Jake 5TH KEILOR
Grey Wolf CHURCHES Lucy 6TH MELBOURNE
Grey Wolf DUNLEY Peter 6TH MELBOURNE
Silver Watle BARRACLOUGH Mark 1ST MILLEARA Leader
Distnguished Service Award BENTON Elizabeth MOONEE VALLEY DISTRICT Commitee
W.F. Waters Rover Service Award COOKE Andrew 5TH KEILOR Rover Scout
Meritorious Service Award GRIERSON STUART 1ST MOONEE PONDS Leader
Special Service Award KELLEHER Noelle 1ST MILLEARA Commitee
Meritorious Service Award MCKERNAN Mathew MOONEE VALLEY DISTRICT Leader
Special Service Award O'CONNOR Darren 17TH ESSENDON Commitee
Special Service Award RANDLE Grant 6TH MELBOURNE Leader
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Scouts Australia (Victorian Branch)
Produced by Moonee Valley District Association
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Contact: 1800 SCOUTS (1800 726 887)
Delivering a diverse, inclusive and quality Scouting Program to the youth of Moonee Valley