First of all thanks to everyone who has paid the initial €50 deposit.  To those that haven’t yet, it’s due by tomorrow!

This deposit is non refundable (unless you are on the waiting list and we are unable to accommodate you).

We then have a schedule of further payments due throughout the next few months as follows:

1. Further €150 due by 16th November (€200 paid in total)
2. Further €200 due by 11th January (€400 paid in total)
3. Further €200 due by 8th March (€600 paid in total)
4. Further €200 due by 3rd May (€800 paid in total)
5. Final €100 due by 7th June (€900 paid in total)

As ever, all payments are payable via easypayments…

If you have any issues or difficulties in paying please email camp19@douglasscouts.ie

All our weekly section meetings have now kicked off.

With the new Scouting year comes the annual registration fee, which covers national insurance, registration with Scouting Ireland and the balance goes towards the ongoing upkeep of our hall and support to our Group.

This year registration fees are as follows:

€140 for one youth member. €260 for TWO youth members from the same family and €360 for THREE youth members or more from the same family.

All registration fees are payable online using easypaymentsplus.com. There is NO charge or cost for using this service.

We are asked that all payments of registration this year are completed by Sunday September 30th.

In addition to the registration fee, all members must have their activity consent form signed by a parent and submitted to their Scouter to allow them take part in any activity and remain at the weekly meetings.

If you have any issues or difficulty in paying please contact the Group Leader Eoin Field, in confidence, by emailing eoinfield@douglasscouts.ie

Hi All,

The coach for Camp 2019 is now full!

PLEASE don’t panic if you’d like to go to Adelboden with us.  Fill in the form here as before.  This form will now add your name to the waiting list.  Any places that come free on the coach, will be offered to people strictly in the order that they were added to the waiting list.

As we’ve said (many times!) before, we’ll try to find a way to get everyone to camp that wants to go there.  While there are no guarantees, we’ll really try to make this happen.  The more the merrier!

As ever, any queries to camp19@douglasscouts.ie

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Welcome back to all our members and welcome to any new members that have joined us.

This week, and next, sees the return of all our weekly section meetings. With the new Scouting year comes the annual registration fee, which covers national insurance, registration with Scouting Ireland and the balance goes towards the ongoing upkeep of our hall and support to our Group.

This year registration fees are as follows:

€140 for one youth member. €260 for TWO youth members from the same family and €360 for THREE youth members or more from the same family.

All registration fees are payable online using easypaymentsplus.com. There is NO charge or cost for using this service.

If you have any issues or difficulty in paying please contact the Group Leader Eoin Field, in confidence, by emailing eoinfield@douglasscouts.ie

Good news.  We now have the dates of camp for you.  They are:

Thursday 11th July – Monday 22nd July.

Put them in your diary NOW!!

Also re numbers on the bus – we’re now down to about 10 places left.  As mentioned previously, if you haven’t already put your name down, please do so now.  Once we’re full, we’ll have a waiting list & see what we can do.  But only the first bus load is guaranteed!!

Keep a steady eye here to see what’s happening!

Any questions, contact the leader team or email camp19@douglasscouts.ie

Hi All,

Just a quick update that only a short few days after putting up the form, we have half the coach full with people interested!!!

IF we fill the coach (and it would seem very likely), we’ll add everyone else to a waiting list.  Anyone on that list, we’ll try to arrange something – but NO GUARANTEES!!

So, to ensure your place, please indicate your interest now, through the form on our website at:  https://douglasscouts.ie/camp2019announcement/

Keep an eye here on the website – we hope to confirm the dates in the next few days….

Contact us with any queries!!!!!

Hi All,

Great News!  We’re now in a position to announce our Camp for Summer 2019!   Next year, our camp will be in Adelboden, Switzerland!

Adelboden is a village high in the Swiss Alps.  It’s about 30km from Kandersteg International Scout Centre – which of course we’ll be visiting!

Adelboden village has it’s own website, which you can see at:  https://www.adelboden.ch/en/s/home

There will be a HUGE range of really good activities available.  While not arranged or booked yet, among the possibilities are:

• Absiling
• Boat Trips
• Canyoning
• Chairlifts & Cable Cars
• Dry Toboggan Run
• Guided Mountain Hikes – Snow & Ice!
• Overnight Mountain Expeditions
• Swimming
• White Water Rafting…….

The list goes on and on!

Accommodation

We’re planning on staying in a JEKA Hostel – as we have done before in Prague & Austria.  We found these great for use every few years.  Main benefits are:

• No camping gear to bring with us
• No worries if there was a storm during our time.  (In this area of Switzerland, we’ve found that the weather is generally great, but also the possibility of a decent storm!)
• Food is supplied every day for us.
• It’s our own, private Hostel.  No other groups or people will be staying there.

One of the hostels in the village which we’re looking at is:

Travel

As we’ve done before, we’re planning on travelling by luxury coach.The benefits of this mean that we have our own coach available to us while we’re in the area.  It add’s to the fun of the journey.  Most importantly, it’s a significant cost saving on what it would cost us to fly.

Dates

Not confirmed yet, but it’s highly likely that we’ll be away for about 12 days, in July.  Likely to be mid July.  We’ll confirm these as soon as they’re tied down.

Cost

We anticipate the cost of the trip to be €900.  Switzerland is expensive to go to & for activities etc, so it’s a significant achievement to keep the price to this!   We will have fundraising during the year, to enable us to manage this.

What’s next?

The first thing you need to do is express your interest.  The ONLY place to do this is on the form on this website!

PLEASE note that there will be a limit on the number of people who can go on this camp.  (Remember, the number of seats on a coach is limited!).   So get your name down fast if interested.

Payment structure

We will have a payment structure in place.  A €50 non refundable deposit will be needed by 15th September to secure your place.

After this, we’ll have a schedule of payments in place.  These will not be optional – they’re there to make everybody’s life easier in the long run!   The fact that we’ve most of a year until this camp, will mean that these payments should not be too onerous.

These payment options will go live on www.easypaymentsplus.com in the next few days

Questions or thoughts?

We welcome any questions or thoughts on the camp.  Please feel free to contact any of the Scouters, or email:

Enda Downey (Group Chairman) – enda@douglasscouts.ie

Conor Crowley (Deputy Group Leader) – conorcrowley@douglasscouts.ie

We look forward to hearing from you!!!

By the way, we will of course, have a meeting for everyone shortly to discuss further!!

Hi all,
You can download a consent form that needs to be filled out for every youth member and handed back to their Leader immediately to allow for activites in 2018/2019.

ConsentForm2018

You can fill it in and print it off yourself and bring it down to the next meeting.
YiS,
Darran.

Hi all,

Now that we’re back, we will move on to photo’s. I know that a lot of you have taken many photos over the course of camp. So I would ask that they are sent to: seantaaffe@douglasscouts.ie This is so that they can be included in our montage of pics. This montage will be uploaded within the next 2 weeks, after the post-camp meeting. Details will follow in the coming days.

Regards,

Sean Taaffe, Programme Scouter (Scouts) on behalf of the Jamborí leadership team.

Douglas & St. FinBarres Scout group are thrilled to inform all members, that we look forward to all camping activities in the future

In the meantime, we’d like to encourage all our sections to continue planning outdoor programmes and keep having fun and a laugh: We trust that you didn’t fall for our joke about camping being banned.

And remember, keep the OUT in SCOUTING.