Our Venturer unit continues be a vibrant part of 12th Caulfield. It provides a space where adolescents are able to express themselves and have the freedom to develop their own program. It also provides a framework for a huge raft of adventurous activities and the Queen Scout award.
Venturers is also a time where school pressures are high and there are a lot of competing time constraints. However, there are no limits apart from the imagination of our adolescent youth members as to what they can achieve outside the academic framework.
The unit elects a unit chairman and other office bearers from within their ranks. Apart from the 'fun' activities listed in the following precis drawn from their 2009 AGM report, there are also more mainstream events such as debating, fund-raising and badgework.
Here's a sample of what our Venturers did in just one year...
- A week spent at the Mt Baw Baw rover chalet snowboarding and skiing.
- Attended the scout centenary street party in the city.
- Visited the Wilson brothers rally car factory, in which we have all lost a few percent of hearing range due to his SICK exhaust and air induction system
2009 Review:
Leader: Andrew Holmes
Unit members: Nick L. (unit Chairman) Marcus, Nick H. (fundraising management), Nathan (Vice Chairman), Emma (secretary), Joanna (treasurer), Marcus, Nicole, Tini, John.
Hello to all 12th Caulfield Group members. As the unit chairman I would like to warmly welcome you, and I hope you enjoy my formal report on the 2009 proceedings of our unit :]
Our unit holds a seemingly un-orthodox approach to scouting. Over the last twelve months at 12th Caulfield we have actually been surprisingly productive. In contradiction to public belief, our unit has organised numerous incursions and excursions.
A very special super duper mention should go to our very own David Haines who defied all odds and thrived in achieving a Queen Scout award through 12th Caulfield. I quote myself from the presentation ceremony.
"if David can manage to achieve a Queen Scout award within the 12th Caulfield venturer unit, I reckon he can pretty much achieve anything"
During the last twelve months, our unit's highlight has undoubtedly been the organisation and execution of our fundraiser event project 'giggy-gog-gig town'. During this event, multiple live bands played including our very own Silent Sound Check. The event raised hundreds of dollars, which we donated towards Melbourne Gang Show.
Complementing this pinnacle have been a whole smorgasbord of ravishing events. They are made up of the following.
- A week spent at the Mt Baw Baw rover chalet snowboarding and skiing.
- Attended the scout centenary street party in the city.
- Visited the Wilson brothers rally car factory, in which we have all lost a few percent of hearing range due to his SICK exhaust and air induction system.
- "Bring a friend camp" at Point Leo attended by a few non-ventures.
- Attended the two thousand and eight Vic Gathering, where Nick Love daringly dislocated his left shoulder attempting to prove his unicycle virtuosity.
- A few nights at the beach during summer soaking up the warm weather and playing various beach games.
- Organised a ride into Station Pier and back.
- Spent a weekend on the Murray River building a raft and paddling it fifty kilometres to the Torrumbarry weir. (Actually, we didn't paddle much at all!)
- Held a music night at Nick Love's where we successfully destroyed 'Imagine' by John Lennon. Reports on the ten o'clock news the night after claimed that a small earth tremor was measured from Lennon's very grave.
- Competed against 3rd Box Hill in laser force at Box Hill time zone. The 12th Caulfield Platoon demolish all foes then went on to draw in the world laser force competition with the British S.A.S.
- Over a few weeks, we painted a street style mural on the wall of our venturer den, which looks freaking sweet. This was truly a group effort and I personally think it shows off our unit's creative ability.
- The pool (billiards) night at Princes Sporting Complex proved to be entertaining with adults Andrew Holmes and Chris Love wiping all other players clean in competition.
- Joint night in the city catching up with our great pals from 1st Glen Waverley.
- Another night in the city included the red light district....nahhh, just kidding.
- We all competed in a photography scavenger hunt trekking between the C.B.D's monuments in order to attain the most impressive photo of each.
- Our Sing Star night was truly unforgettable by all those who were within audible proximity; according to the Guinness book of records we now hold the record for most out of tune notes performed within an hour. Honest.
- Adding to our contribution to the 2009 Melbourne Gangshow, we organised a jolly bunch of people to watch the show then attend the final show after-party.
- A special mention should go to three of our very own superstars Marcus, Marcus and Nathan who did a spectacular job in their leading roles.
- The joint night between the other units within our district made us realise how fortunate we were to have Andrew Holmes as our leader. The exhilarating events held on this night included blindfold navigation, tarpaulin folding, and silent ball...
- Crate stacking, where a Bytecraft rigging expert introduced us to the safety harness systems used in the rigging industry. We made use of the super advance equipment to undergo the relatively mundane activity of piling milk crates on top of each in order to reach the roof.
- Last week we held a subzero theme going ice skating on the Tuesday and then spending the weekend up at Mount Buller shredding up the slopes.
The future looks promising for 12th Caulfield. The program for the next few months set to outdo all others. Written high upon the official term planner white board in the den are......
- Construction night where we plan to put our engineering, construction and project management skills into place in order to build another contraption to add to the couch on wheels legacy.
- A bon fire camp which will most likely include a pyro-maniac no scratch that, I mean pyro-technics effects.
- Photography night.
And of course many business meetings to keep our unit organised and punctual... As usual
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