34th Dublin Ballyboughal Scout Group

What Can Members Expect?

1. Adventure in Practice

• Organize regular camps, hikes, and outdoor challenges.

• Use the outdoors as Baden‑Powell intended: a classroom for self‑reliance, resilience, and teamwork.

• Encourage scouts to take responsibility for planning parts of trips (menus, routes, gear lists).

2. Empowerment & Growth

• Give scouts real leadership roles — patrol leaders, event coordinators, badge mentors.

• Use the Scouting Ireland program to support social, physical, intellectual, character, emotional, and spiritual development.

• Celebrate achievements not just with badges, but with recognition in meetings and community events.

3. Community Connection

• Run service projects framed in modern language as “community impact” — e.g., local clean‑ups, helping at parish events, supporting charities.

• Involve parents and families so the group feels like a hub for Ballyboughal.

• Share stories and photos on your Teams community to keep everyone connected.

4. Living the Scout Promise & Law

• Start and end meetings with reflections on the Promise and Law, but keep it practical: “How did we live loyalty, helpfulness, or cheerfulness this week?”

• Encourage scouts to set personal goals that tie back to these values.

5. Better World Vision

• Connect local actions to global scouting ideals — e.g., linking a recycling project to sustainability goals.

• Remind scouts that every small act (helping a neighbour, leading a hike, cleaning a trail) is part of leaving the world better than they found it.