Come and join Dural Venturers!
14-18 years
Tuesday nights, 7.00 - 9.00pm
Tuesday nights, 7.00 - 9.00pm
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It's YOUR life... Get on with it!
Bored? Feel like doing something with your life? Don’t know where to start? Try Dural Venturer Scouts. You need no previous experience with Scouts or Guides. It’s a do-it-yourself mix of fun, adventure and personal challenge that will bring you together with other young people who feel the same way. You may find yourself exploring wilderness Australia, skiing or camping above the snowline, or diving on coral reefs. You could be abseiling into a limestone cave or climbing a sheer rock face. Perhaps you’ll learn white water kayaking or ride your mountain bike on an expedition across real mountains. Whatever your challenge, there will be trained and highly experienced adults to guide you through the experience, to teach you the necessary skills and safety techniques. Venturers get the opportunity to travel overseas and to organised activities, to live with a different community to provide service to others. |
Manage your own program
Venturers don’t just develop physical skills. You will manage your own Venturer Unit, where the adult leaders are there to provide advice, not rule your life. The Unit Council makes the decisions, plans and runs the activities, drawing on expert help whenever it is required. You can even develop your own website to promote your activities.
You’ll have the opportunity to become involved in staging professional shows, learning how to act, sing or play an instrument. Perhaps you’ll make videos, become a sound engineer, develop your own photographs or contribute your writing for publication.
You will learn responsibility for the environment and work on service projects, helping other people in the community. And don't forget.... the unforgettable experience of AV2018, where excitement and experience meet, on QLD's Sunshine Coast, between 2-13 January, 2018.
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Look Wide
There are leadership and management courses that will help you in your career and personal life, when you have to make all the decisions. You’ll learn how to meet new challenges, deal with new situations, and develop your own independence. Your achievements will be recognised, with the ultimate goal the Queen’s Scout Award, which employers regard very favourably. Venturers really is the pathway to success. Get a social life The Social side of Venturers is up to you. There will be camps and discos, outings and shared interest so you will meet new people and have plenty of time to get to know them and make lifelong friends. Venturers are serious about having fun. Venturer Scouts is for young people from 15 – 18 and you don’t have to have experience in Scouts or Guides first. It’s your call – please come and meet us at anytime during the school term. |
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The Venturer Uniform consists of the dark blue shirt with the section colour, which is Maroon, across the sleeve, yoke and collar.
Below the waist, Venturers wear (grey/light coloured/navy blue) shorts, trousers or skirt Dural Scouts also wear our royal blue, red and white Dural Scouts scarf, and a woggle. A guideline for Venturer badge placement is available below. 
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What is Waratah?
Waratah is the annual GWS Region Venturer Camp, held in mid-November of each year. Its aim is to provide participants with a large multi-faceted problem that requires Venturer Scouts to use a wide variety of Scouting Skills to solve. It is also a chance for participants to socialise in a unique and fun-filled environment. |
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Billed as the Challenge of a Lifetime, Waratah is built up from the ground each year and provides Venturer Scouts with unique activities that they may not experience in their day to day lives. It also promotes a vision of teamwork and inclusion both through its program and through a long standing open invite to Venturers throughout the state to join us. Over the last several years, Waratahs following has grown significantly and now forms a major feature of the GWS Venturers Calendar. Venturers from all over Australia are welcome to attend.
Waratah each year is put together by a talented team of Leaders, Rovers, Members of the Waratah Scout Activity Fellowship and Supporters.
Venturers is all about learning by doing. It is about practicing skills and then applying them to practical situations.
In GWS Region, the Venturer Scout Section and the Waratah Scout Activity Fellowship have combined forces to develop an event that specialises in giving teams of Venturers a unique, custom built, multi-faceted problem full of twists and turns that will test their skills to the limit.
Of course such an event should also be fun and we build in activities, stunts and gimmicks to ensure that our participants walk away from this event with great experiences, new friends and the satisfaction of having achieved the Challenge of a Lifetime.
GWS Waratah is one of the largest and fastest growing annual events in Scouts Australia. While GWS Region takes pride in building and running this event, Waratah is open for all Venturers, Guides and in most years, Scouts over the age of 14 to come and experience this truly awesome and awe-inspiring event.
Venturers is all about learning by doing. It is about practicing skills and then applying them to practical situations.
In GWS Region, the Venturer Scout Section and the Waratah Scout Activity Fellowship have combined forces to develop an event that specialises in giving teams of Venturers a unique, custom built, multi-faceted problem full of twists and turns that will test their skills to the limit.
Of course such an event should also be fun and we build in activities, stunts and gimmicks to ensure that our participants walk away from this event with great experiences, new friends and the satisfaction of having achieved the Challenge of a Lifetime.
GWS Waratah is one of the largest and fastest growing annual events in Scouts Australia. While GWS Region takes pride in building and running this event, Waratah is open for all Venturers, Guides and in most years, Scouts over the age of 14 to come and experience this truly awesome and awe-inspiring event.
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Waratah 2017 - The TAH Vinci Code.This is a Sydney-wide event, where your sleeping locations are part of the event mystery.
Each Team should consist of between 4 and 7 youth members over the age of 14. Scouts over the age of 14 are eligible to attend with a maximum of two Scouts per team. |
What's on this year?
2017 Venturer Scout Event List
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Do you have more questions about joining Dural Venturers? Check out our FAQ here.