Cub Scouts, Scouts BSA, Exploring, Venturing, Sea Scouts
Unit-Level Journey to Excellence Continues in 2024! Each year, Scouting Units are encouraged to complete their Journey to Excellence (JTE) scorecard, to help identify their successes and challenges. Each annual scorecard helps a Unit create plans for program improvement in the year ahead using a graded scale for objectives like planning and budgeting, membership, program, …
2024 Merit Badge March Madness – Starting March 1st! March Madness Fans, the Sweet 16 of the top most-earned merit badges of 2023 are competing for the title of “Heart of Virginia Council’s Most Favorite Merit Badge.” Visit our Facebook page (@ScoutingVA) and/or Instagram Page (@hovc_bsa) to cast your vote each day on one or …
An Update to 2023–2024 Membership Registration Changes, Effective April 1st Effective April 1, 2024, the Boy Scouts of America will eliminate the $25 one-time joining fee for new program participants in Cub Scouts, Scouts BSA, Venturing and Sea Scouting. They have also increased the regular annual registration fees by $5.00 for youth in Cub Scouts, …
Top 10 Reasons Why Your Troop Needs to Go to Summer Camp at T. Brady Saunders in 2024 10. We’re ignoring inflation. Our camp fees for 2024 are unchanged from 2023 levels. 9. Have your Scouts seen the Patty Dunn Climbing & Rappelling Tower? 8. The food will be fantastic. Don’t believe us? Ask the …
Effective Sept. 1, 2023, Cub Scout packs who are conducting their own overnight camping activity may now camp up to two consecutive nights. Cub Scout packs who are conducting their own overnight camping activities must continue to have at least one registered adult leader who is trained in Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation (BALOO), oversees …
