February 2010 will see the launch of our second scout troop 'Explorers'.

Our existing Hunters troop has been over-enrolled for some time and the Humphries Road hall almost groans on a Thursday night trying to fit in 55 scouts and six leaders !

Explorers will be our 'feeder' scout troop for those in 2010 who will be linking from our three cub packs to the scout section. It will, therefore, mostly comprise 11 and 12 year olds. No new enrolments from outside the Group will be accepted at this stage, until we are able to better balance the numbers in the scout section.

One of our youngest but most experienced Scouters, Richard Scholes, will initially lead Explorers troop. In fact, it was Richard who started the Hunters troop some years ago, so he has a reputation as a 'can-do' guy !

Richard will be assisted by a new leader (and parent) Steve Watkinson, Group Leader Tim Bracher, and Venturer helper Jarrod Lilford.

Explorers will meet at Humphries Road hall on a Monday night, 7-9pm, starting February 8th. It will do some combined activities with Hunters, but it has its own program (see Explorers calendar on this site).

For further information, contact Richard on 0414 778594 towards the end of January (for most of the month he is Deputy Contingent Leader for the 300 Australian Venturers going to the NZ Venture), or please contact Group Leader, Tim Bracher on 9787 0962 anytime.