Category Pfadfinder scouts

Landscaping in Haig Park

In response to community consultation, the ACT government is trialling some changes to Haig Park. One suggestion was to formalise the walking tracks into paths. The Pfadfinder joey and cub scouts volunteered to help spread bark chips along one of…

Lantern Walk 2019

What a wonderful winter walk we all enjoyed. This year’s traditional German lantern walk was a magical evening. Many volunteers helped to put the event on: providing food, drinks, shopping, cooking and serving on the BBQ, cleaning, providing the audio/visual…

Mental Health initiative

Spielwelt has recently established a relationship with BeYou, a national mental health initiative with an enormous number of resources for families and teachers, to promote and protect children’s mental health and well-being. At Spielwelt, we promote healthy messages throughout each…

Another sustainability award from ACTSmart

We were suprised and delighted to be acknowledged once again at the ACTSmart Sustainability Award ceremony this year. Last year, we won the Energy and Water Star award, and this year we received “highly commended” for the Small Business award,…

Youth led, adult supported

Pfadfinder has been offering more and more opportunities for our youth members to lead our scouting activities.  As the youths progress from joeys to cubs to scouts to venturers to rovers, they are given more input opportunities and chances to…

Leaders Honoured

Some of our Pfadfinder leaders and adult helpers were recently formally acknowledged for their leadership, enthusiasm and dedication.   Our Joey leader (Kerria), Cub leadership team (Baghira and Gerald), and Scout leader (Nala) were each the very deserving recipients of Children’s…

Venturers “game on” with Joeys

Five of our Scouts and Venturers attended a Youth Leadership course on the weekend, put on by the ACT Scouts branch, where they learned about what it takes to assist or lead a Joey or Cub scout program. Two of…