Achievements and highlights in the Scouting Association

Training Courses

Leadership
Patrol leaders course - 28.6.81
Caving Party leader - certificate of competence - 25.6.85
Venturers Initiative course weekend - circa 1985
Venturers Leadership course weekend - circa 1985
Rover Crew Leader Training Course - 24&25.9.88

Qualifications training courses
Abseiler Certificate of Competence - 16.10.1983
Boating charge certificate -
Canoeing - 10.12.1984
Caving Party leader - certificate of competence - 25.6.85
St John's
First Aid courses - circa 1983, 1985


Positions held

Rovers - Crew PR team, NSW Branch Rovers PR Team,
Venturers - Elected to the Unit Council as Fundraiser, and representative to the District Venturer Council, Member of the team which made an audiovisual to recruit new members to the Venturer Section. (This won the NSW Branch Communications Award and was distributed by the Scout association of Australia to all states in Australia.)
Scouts - Assistant Patrol Leader, Patrol Leader, Troop Leader.
Cubs - Seconder, Sixer

Experiences

Weekly club activities, various weekend events (fundraisors - [Weekly Car washes, annual Fertiliser drive, Trash and Treasure sale, lamington drive, confectionary sales, job week], social, sporting, wilderness) and excursions (Camping, Hikes, Crosscountry skiing, caving trips, canyoning, canoeing), plus various interclub social events and sports days.

Venturer Unit tour of South Australia and Victoria 1984.
Attended (and won?) the Innaugural "Dragon Skin"Tournament weekend - 1984.
Attended the 7th Australian Venture, Perth, Jan 1985.
Crew catering team for the National Venture at Cataract Scout Park - 1986.
Member of the team who worked at the Bicentennial Air Show Richmond Airbase - 1988
NSW Branch Rovers PR display - Jamboree 1988.
Crew hosted the "Hippy Moot". circa 1987
Attended "Surf Moot" circa 1988.
Crew helper at 1989 "Dragon Skin" Tournament weekend.
Home hospitality for the 6th Asia Pacific Rover Moot Canberra 1989/1990.
World Rover Moot, Victoria, 1991. PR Team - Newspaper columnist.
TROTS catering at Newcastle Moot 2002.


Awards

Venturers
Queen Scout Award - Presented by the Governor of NSW - 21.3.1986
Selected to give the Resonse speech at the QS Luncheon, on behalh of all the QS recipients - 21.3.1986

Scouts
Adventurer Badge - November 1982
Explorer Badge - June 1982
Pioneer Badge - March 1981

Cubs
Gold Boomerang - circa 1979