Welcome to the Ross and Sutherland
Area Website
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Editor
There are always plenty of opportunities in our Scouting Programme for local
outdoor activities and more distant adventures in our beautiful Scottish hills
and mountains. From low level exploring to long distance hiking routes like the
“West Highland Way”. Our coastal beaches are great fun to just paddle and
laze about especially at quieter times of the year when few people are
about. Whatever your age enjoy walking along miles of clean sand, poking
about rock pools, or checking out the infinite variety of coloured pebbles and
stones. See the youngest members collecting as many varieties of shapes
and tones, and look up books to tell the story of how they got there.
Thousands to millions of years shaping the land we walk upon with geological
centres such as Knockan Crag on the Ullapool road near Elphin, with a Visitor
Centre dedicated to my stepfather’s grandfather – Benjamin Peach and his
partner, John Horne. Or call at Cromarty on the Black Isle to learn about
Hugh Miller. Plus the excellent museum at Inverness, and other Highland
towns they all provide a wealth of opportunities for Scouting at low cost . ‘
Local history’ badges to earn creating building blocks of learning on route to
the various Beaver Colony, Cub Scout Pack, Scout Troop, and Explorer Unit
“Chief Scout Awards”
Bridges and Causeways crossing Firths and Islands, with great swathes of
moorland and forestry over the Highlands and coastlines give us access to places
offering quiet walks to energetic climbing, canoeing and camping whatever your
age. We take whatever weather and make the most of it – hot summer sun or
winter snow. Scouting can offer all of this and so much more in our various
towns and rural areas of Ross-shire and Sutherland. We would love to
expand in areas and retain, but in our commercial world of today it is more and
more difficult to recruit adults to step forward and offer time to ensure these
dreams become reality. Can you handle the challenge ?
Our Rules and Regulations have kept pace over the decades with all government
and local requirements on Youth Protection, Training of adults, Tutoring Skills
and so on to a very high standard to ensure children are safe in our Scouting
Adventure.
Will our young people, when they are older adults in future decades, be able
to say “I remember when I was in the Scouts we did…………… it was brilliant”
Our Website is here to inform, advise and encourage. We are part of
half a million Scouting membership in the UK and over 28,000,000 Scouts
worldwide covering most of the globe of the largest free non political
Organisation the world has ever known.
We promise “To help others – to do our best – to serve others in need”
Our Law or Code of Conduct is our other building block as a person doing our bit
“to leave this world eventually a little better than how we found it” – to
paraphrase some words our Founder of almost 100 years ago – Lord Robert Baden
Powell. An expanded Law says “Trusty – Loyal – Helpful – Friendly –
Courteous – Kind - Obedient – Cheerful – Thrifty -- Brave – Clean –
Reverent” What better
route to follow.
For comprehensive information contact our national website
www.scouts.org.uk.
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