Scouts

Scouts is all about doing. And we have fun. We do this in small patrols, with support from the Section Scouters and mostly we get to decide what programme we do with the Scouters helping us make our choices.

We meet on a Friday night, and all teenagers between the age 12 and 15 are welcome to join us. Boys and Girls. At meetings we play games and learn our Scouting Skills like map reading, emergency skills and lashings.

We go on activities like abseiling, kayaking and hill walking. We also go camping where we pitch our own tents, build our camp gadgets, cook over a fire and learn about outdoors living, sometimes sleeping in hammocks under the stars. Scouts are interested in our community and we help at activities like the Carlow Pride Parade, 2019 where we were proud to wear our Rainbow neckers and carry our troop flag. And at the Annual Charlie Curran Race where we give out water to the runners and clean up after the race. We also help pack parcels for St Vincent de Pauls at Christmas.

Every year we are proud to carry our National Flag and lead the Carlow St Patrick’s Day Parade, and we host a St Patricks Day Party at the Parish Centre where everyone who attends always tell us they had fun!

We usually go on summer camp where we have a whole week of Scouting Activities. In 2019 some of us went on an adventure to the World Scout Jamboree in the USA.

But most of all we are proud to represent out Troop at the County Shield Competition where we spend a weekend camping on our own, building the site, cooking our food and having fun. Its hard work and we practice hard but we have won the Shield six times in a row, and represented our County at the National Event, The Pheonix.

As we are Scouts, we are all about learning by doing, and having fun. #BePrepared