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Sea Scouting
Our aim is to support each Sea Scout Group but also to ensure that each Scout Group can avail of a water based programme in an efficient way.
The Sea Scouting Team provides Scout training with and through water-borne activities to Sea Scout Groups and nonSea Scout Groups.
Sea Scouting is a balanced programme of land and sea activities, where the water content is essential, not optional, and where maritime tradition and atmosphere is maintained. In the Sea Scout Programme water is as important a training and activity area as woodland and mountain.
We want each and every Scout Group to enjoy the benefits of the Sea Scout Programme, that is why over the coming months we will be launching a substantial review of the Nautical Programme. This review will help us to bring the programme in line with the needs of our members, it will also allow for more members to partake than ever has before.
Along with a review of the Nautical Programme we will be looking at the various water based qualifications such as the Charge Certificate Scheme to ensure the Scouting Ireland qualifications match up with external qualifications. The boating guidelines will also be looked at to ensure the safety of all is being complied with while partaking in water based activities.
The Sea Scouting Team is made up of members from all over the island ensuring we have a grasp of the needs and wants of groups from all levels pf scouting. We will be working hand in hand with the other Programme Teams to help deliver exciting resources and opportunities for all youth and adult members.
We hope you will support us as we embark on this journey and look forward to working with you.
The Sea Scouting Team
Venture Scouts
The main focus of the Venture Scout Programme Team this year is to undertake a review of the Venture Programme. We want to make Venturing as fun as possible for Ventures. We are working with our National Venture Representatives for this review. We also hope that the refreshed programme will help with recruitment, as the Venture Scout section has been hit hard by Covid-19 and the closure of groups. Another big aim of the team is the reintroduction of some past National Events, with the help of the Corporate Services Team. too many Ventures have missed out, so we want to run as many events and workshops as possible for them.
We will release a survey to both Venture Scouts and Venture Scouters. We believe it is important to know what parts do and don’t work of the current programme from both the Ventures and the Scouters. Once this is completed we hope to trail several programme resources, and gain feedback on them. This programme refresh will ultimately will be done by the Ventures themselves for Ventures, the Venture Team are just the facilitators of the refresh.
The team has been working on returning to Venturing resources and investiture resources. The team is made of members who all had extremely different Venture experiences and we intend to bring all of those experiences with us. We will do this by adding options and suggestion on how to use all resources no matter what kind of Venture Crew a Scout Group has. The team worked with the Sustainable Scouting team earlier this year to create an on-line workshop for Fashion Revolution Week. Before the event, resources and activities were shared on social media for the Ventures. The workshop itself had a talk about the fashion industry, tips on how to be more sustainable when buying fast fashion and the Ventures who were in attendance got to have a talk with Aoife O’Dwyer, a sustainable fashion designer. We plan on running another Fashion Revolution event, this time in person, were the ventures will learn practical skills.
The Venture Scout Programme Team
Rover
The primary focus of the team this year is to re-invigorate Rovers to go out Scouting post-pandemic. We realise Rovers means different things to different people and no person’s needs are the same and we aim to evolve the section to be a self-sustaining section which allows everyone to receive the benefit which they best require for them personally.
To accomplish this, we are asking for feedback regularly and allow Rovers to have their voice heard on the changes we need to put in place. We are trying to learn from the experiences we gained in lockdown and encourage those with similar interests to use online to communicate to plan events and activities which they can attend and support each other and share expertise and experience and turn Rovers from a section which exists locally into one which encourages collaboration amongst members no matter where they are located.
Another hope is to link in with causes external to Scouting Ireland to assist Rovers in completion in awards which will benefit them in employability, access to tertiary education courses
or gain life skills which they will use inside and outside their scouting career.
The team has linked in with groups hoping to open a new Rover Section and discussed what resources they would see as key to their preparation of a successful opening of a new section including a “First 8 Weeks” document, how a Rover section functions and makes decisions and how they interact with their Group, county, etc.
The team aided the Explorer Belt Project Team and worked with them to see where they require help, as well as what the participants felt are areas where the award could be improved to make it more suitable for the objectives it aims to achieve. From this we are hoping to reach out to other award and event teams to see where we can assist them. In discussion with other sections, we share the passion to encourage a clear path that members are encouraged to take regarding events to participate in to build their skills and prepare for large awards such as the Explorer Belt or completion of Rover Chief Scout Award.
Many issues faced by young people today have been discussed by the membership and the team feel it important that they take an active part in assisting a solution to these through their work as Scouts. For this reason, a dedicated member for Empowerment and Equality has been chosen whose focus is to work with members and teams to provide input and assistance where required as well as finding ways to tie it into our program or provide opportunities for Rovers to participate
in projects. All members on the team have been given an area of focus including Program, Development, Communication & Events and are all working away on tasks in relation to these.
As Rover Scouts exist in Scout Groups as well as University Clubs & Societies, we have been working in improving relationships between them and Scouting Ireland to allow
us to support each other as well as share resources and encourage activities to be open to all. Work in going on in the background to build a team to oversee this and providing them a seat on the support team has begun. This team is hoping to expand in future as areas of improvement are identified but currently plans to advertise for 2 more members are in the works.
