The Roxby Downs Scouts will celebrate its second year as a full-blown Scout group by taking the Joey and Cub sections to Woodhouse in the Adelaide Hills for a three-day camp.
The event will take place from October 31 to November 2.
"Its called a Cubboree and a Hopporee because we are taking our Cubs and Joey group,” group leader Trent Burton said.
“There will be 68 of us there from Roxby.
“We are the biggest Scout group north of the metropolitan area."
The group celebrates its second year of successful scouting in September.
The group has waiting lists in three out of four sections: Joeys, Cubs and Scouts.
The older teenagers up to 18 years old are called Venturers.
There are still some room for new enrolments there.
"Scouts are for all young people between the ages of five and a half and 18.
“It may surprise some people to learn that Scouts is for girls as well as boys.
“We have boys and girls enrolling in all the different age categories," Trent said.
"Young Venturers can use the Scouts program to earn points against their SACE (South Australian Certificate of Education).
“The Scout movement is international so there are lots of opportunities to learn new skills and meet new people," he said.
The group is putting out a call for new adult volunteers.
"We would love to have another eight adult volunteers.
“We are running a great program for over 70 young people right now.
“With a little more effort we could take up those waiting lists," Trent said.
The group has recently purchased 14 brand-new tents and some more lightweight hiking tents for use in the coming months.
They recently won funding from Woolworths which allowed the purchase.
"We would dearly love to take part in next years' celebration of 100 years of Scouting in South Australia," Trent said.
The group also has longer range plans to send a group of Scouts and Venturers to the National Jamboree in Sydney in 2010.
In the meantime it is training and passing certificates and badges in a variety of useful skills with lots of safe outdoor activity.
"The young people in our groups learn against well-designed competency-based assessment courses written by the Scout movement.
“There is a wealth of information there and the Scouts are given choices about how they prove their competency in any given area.
"Venturers have been involved in SuperSpash, that's canoeing, tubing, rock climbing, land yachting.
“They have been out hiking with another unit in the Flinders Ranges.”
Venturers also study first aid.
"Venturers’ activities are only limited by their imagination, and their ability to organise - as long as it is legal, and can be done safely, it's a possibility," Trent said.
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