Scouts meet on Friday evenings from 7 pm till 9 pm.

Children can join Scouts at any age from 10 yrs and can stay until they are 14.

Scouts also have formal opening and closing ceremonies and run a points competition. The small groupings of Scouts are called patrols and are named after native wildlife. We have 6 patrols, each under the leadership of an older Scout called a Patrol Leader (P.L.). They also have assistant Patrol leaders (A.P.L.) who help to run the patrol. Both P.L’s and A.P.L’s receive training for their roles.

Our patrols 

Wolf -       PL Ian     APL Zoe

Otter -       PL Rachel    APL Erin

Falcon -    PL Natalie        APL Harriet

Eagle -     PL Jenna        APL

Stag -       PL Daniel      APL

Hawk  -     PL Cara     APL 

Scouts offer the opportunity to get much more involved in the outdoors and to develop team work and leadership skills. In addition to the Friday night meetings we also do quite a lot of camps, hikes and trainings at week ends and hold an annual week long Troop camp in the last week of the summer holidays. Scouts who wish to become patrol leaders are expected to have a high level of commitment to the group and to attend on a regular basis.

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The Scout troop does not run a parent rota but we do have a cleaning rota which involves parents taking turns cleaning the toilets after the Friday meetings. Turns only come around once per term at the most.

There are even more badges for Scouts to work for although there is a big increase in difficulty from Cubs. Some badges are worked towards at Scouts and others can be done by the Scouts at home. The top award available to Scouts is the Chief Scout’s Gold award. This consists of badges that have been achieved during their time in Scouts and some extra elements which will be done after the Scout reaches 13½. Scouts must have been to camp to get the Gold award. Each summer we run a weekend away for all Scouts who have achieved their Gold award in the previous 12 months. In 2009 this trip was to the high ropes course at Kinlochleven and then climbed the Buachaille the next day.

Camp is the most important part of the Troop programme and offers opportunity for responsibility and self reliance  that few young people experience elsewhere. Scouts camp in their patrols with the leaders there in a purely  supervisory role. Patrol leaders organise the cooking of meals, daily chores and completion of set tasks. Cooking is done on open fires and the Scouts use axe and saw in the collection and processing of fire wood. All meals are prepared from scratch with no ready meals or  junk food.

There is a summer camp shield for which the patrols compete in a range of tasks such as  making raspberry jam to building shelters and performing campfire songs.

Zodiac Award

Scottish Scouts have a special badge to work towards called the Zodiac awards. There are 3 stages - Bronze, Silver & Gold. For the Bronze award a Scout must camp at least 1 night in each of 8 months of a calendar year. The number of nights goes up for the Silver and Gold awards. In 2009 we awarded our first Gold Zodiac award!