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On Tuesday August 1st, Scouts all over the country participated in Scout Scarf Day.  Scarf Day is an annual event where Scouts get to show their Scout pride and increase the public’s awareness of Scouting. Scarves were worn to school, work, World Scout Jamboree, sports games, swimming pools, and other fun places!   Scouts Aotearoa also ran it’s annual Scarf Day

Scouts Aotearoa held it’s annual Leadership Weekend over the weekend (8th – 10th September). It was a jam packed weekend with lots of activities, constructive conversations, and training sessions. There was also a formal dinner where this year’s Best Practice Awardees were announced and presented with their awards. A huge BRAVO to the 2023 Best Practice Award recipients…. Supreme Award:

In April 2023 4 Kiwi Rovers attended the 1st African Rover moot in Nairobi Kenya.

On Saturday June 10th, the E-Scouts Aotearoa Scout Group awarded the group’s first ever Chief Scout’s Rimu Award.

Our Annual Report for 2022 is ready! Featuring the highlights of 2022, Adventure Week, Gang Show Scarf Day, National Schools, Founder’s Day Awards, annual accounts, and more.

Over the weekend 45 youth from across Coastal Otago and North Otago Zones went on a tramping camp. 11 youth did an advanced course and 34 youth participated in the basic course looking at Adventure Skills Tramping levels 1 to 3.

Our current Board is ambitious and is seeking a dynamic individual to support the evolution of the Scouting Movement in Aotearoa and contribute to a new phase of strategic development and growth.

6 Years ago Holmes Park Scout Group started a tradition of a Biannual raft trip down the Avon River in Central Christchurch. This year it just so happened to coincide with this term’s Adventure Week which was water themed! The Cubs and Scouts spent the weeknights before the trip designing and building the rafts, then on the final night of the

Rāwhiti Zone held their Zone Camp in September with lots of fun activities like sack racing, stilt walking, tug of war, a beach clean up, and heaps more! Check out the gallery below….

On Monday August 1st, Scouts all over the country participated in Scout Scarf Day.  Scarf Day is an annual event where Scouts get to show their Scout pride and increase the public’s awareness of Scouting.  Scarves were worn to school, work, the dentist, ski fields, at the pool, and other fun places!   As usual, Scouts Aotearoa ran a photo competition