Scouts Australia
Lone Scouts - South Australian Branch
Grants Coordinator/Cub Scout Leader: Bagheera (Lee-anne Whitehead)
PO Box 51, Brinkworth SA 5464
Phone/Fax: 8846 2047 Mobile: 0428 462 047
E-mail: lwhitehead@dodo.com.au
Web-site: Lone Scouts SA (opens in new window)
Why Lone Scouts?
Have you wanted to be a member of Scouts but found:
- Your Section closes but the Group is still functioning. You can come to Lones to achieve your Australian Scout Medallion or Queen’s Scout Award and be able to work it in with both your personal and study commitments. Lones gives you the opportunity to continue scouting rather than having to leave this valuable organisation and the friends that you have made.
- Regular attendance at meetings is difficult either through family circumstances; because or transport difficulties or due to sporting or study commitments.
- Due to low numbers, your Group closes.
- You live in an isolated community; in a town with no scouting or the Scout Group does not have a section appropriate to your age group.
- Then there is Lone Scouts!
Our operation is unique as we carry our scouting in a whole new perspective. At Lones, we conduct scouting by ways of communication by using one or all of the following methods:
- We write letters once a month and send the required scout work by post.
- We contact our members by phone and encourage them to do the same.
- More importantly, we contact our outer communities by the internet via Centra Symposium as least once a week. This allows our members from the outback to be as much a part of Lones as the next scouting member.
In return, we encourage our members to communicate with their Leaders on a monthly basis (as least). Adult helpers are a vital link to Lones and help support our members with their work under the guidance of the member’s Scout Leader. Their work is sent in to their Leaders which is then checked and made sure that it meets the requirements of Scouts Australia. If communication requirements are met, we are the only Group who issues a Communication Badge to our members for their efforts.
We invite our members to be a part of our Annual Camp that is normally held at Woodhouse in the Adelaide Hills, where all Sections, from Joeys to Rovers (6 to 26 years old), come and meet together for the first weekend of the September/October school holidays.
Landline Visits Lones, Lones Attend Field Days & Other Highlights
Prue Adams and the ABC’s Landline crew came to visit the SA Lone Scouts' Annual Camp in October 2007. The 11 minute segment was the first to air (22nd February 2008) to help celebrate '2008 – The Year of the Scout' in Australia and was viewed nationally. The children’s current affairs programme "Behind the News" (BTN) also featured a story on Lone Scouts, which was also viewed nationally. The Landline segment also aired once more in February 2009 as one of the highlights of 2008. This was a wonderful venture for SA Lone Scouts as many families, both country and city, view this programme and we had a lot of responses nationally and we would like to thank Prue, her crew and ABC's Landline for the wonderful story that they provided. This also helped bring together Lone Scout Groups from other states such as New South Wales and Queensland and together we will continue to provide scouting to those who are in isolated and outback communities.
SA Lones were successful in obtaining grants for its 2008 Annual Camp from the "Toyota National Country Music Muster" put on by the Apex Club of Gympie Inc. in Queensland. $2500 was granted through this organisation's "2008 Rural Aid Appeal" and went towards the running costs of our 2008 Annual Camp. SA Lone Scouts are always forever grateful for the funds that it obtains to help provide a quality Annual Camp for our members.
SA Lone Scouts are now attending the major Field Day sites at both the Yorke Peninsula and Eyre Peninsula Field Days. Here we provide the opportunity for those who are interested to come and ask us about Scouts and we can then provide them with the information of either joining their closest group or to join SA Lones.
Contact Us Now!
Main stream scouting cannot meet the needs of the South Australian community and that is what South Australia Lone Scouts is for … to fill in the gaps! That is why Lone Scouts in South Australia have been around since 1910! For further information or a membership application, please contact –
South Austalia Lone Scouts
PO Box 25
Fullarton SA 5063
Email: dc.lones@sa.scouts.com.au OR lwhitehead@dodo.com.au
Lones Scouts aren't lonely - They Belong!
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