1st Devonport Venturer Unit started up in August 2011
We meet at the Scout Den on Tuesday evenings from 7pm

The Venturer Unit is for 14-18 year olds. The activity programme is decided by the Venturers themselves, with a focus on achieving their Venturer Awards. The Award structure is similar to The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Aotearoa NZ / Hillary Award, meaning that many achievements count for both. The ultimate Award to aim for is the King’s Scout Award, which is presented by the Governor General of New Zealand.

Venturers have organised multi-day tramping & camping expeditions to Rangitoto/Motutapu (4 days), Dickey Flat (near Waihi, 3 days) and Lake Waikaremoana (5 days). Some expeditions are for awards and some not, but all are for fun!

Venturers are regularly out and about in the local community as part of our service ethos, and have helped with things like the Fort Victoria open days, Devonport Community Athletics, Devonport Rotary, the Devonport Arts Festival, the Sculpture on Shore Exhibition and the Devonport Food & Wine Festival. We have marshalled at the Rangitoto-Motutapu Dual and have done Amateur Radio link ups to JOTA-JOTI from our Rangitoto Bach. Let us know if you want help!

The opportunity is there for all Venturers to attend specialist National Schools during school holidays. These are residential courses for Aviation, Canoeing /Kayaking, Caving, Mountaineering, Photography and Snowsports. 1DSG Venturers have participated in nearly all of these schools and everyone reports having had a most excellent time.

Click here to find out more about the National Schools we can attend

Campfire at Dickey Flat

Climbing Mt Karangahake

Duke of Edinburgh Tramp & Camp on Motutapu

Fun night at the Den celebrating British Culture !

The Venturer's Hut !

"The 1st Devonport Venturer Scouts have been supporting the work of the Devonport Peninsula Trust for many years now. This began with our Kids Athletics Programme, where the Venturers helped as marshals for their community service. The Venturers continue to support Kids Athletics to this day.

Since then, the Venturers have also become a key partner to our Bayswater Halloween Trail event – they attend planning meetings, develop the trail  questionnaire and provide invaluable marshal support on the day. The Venturers have also helped at the Devonport Family Fun Trail, where they have organised activities at the event end point.

The 1st Devonport Venturers are always reliable and hardworking with plenty of initiative. They are frequently our first ‘port-of-call’ when seeking volunteers at our community events."

Maria Teape
Devonport Community Coordinator, Devonport Peninsula Trust
April 2017

"May I take this opportunity on behalf of Devonport Rotary to thank the Venturers for supporting us with the car parking at Fort Takapuna. They all turned up on time and made an important contribution to the management of the car parking. There were times when we were at capacity and without them we would not have achieved what we did. Will you please pass on our thanks to Richard, Michael, Joe and Theo Hoyte. They are all a credit to the Scout movement and ask you to pass on these comments to them. I shall be recommending to the Club's Board of Directors a donation."

Colin Cannon, President Devonport Rotary
November 2014

"I would also like to take the opportunity to thank the 1st Devonport Venturer Unit very much for your work for Devonport Peninsula Trust. You were always punctual, listened to, and followed, instructions and you worked very well with the children... without the support and help of young people such as yourselves, it would not be possible to put on this programme."

Maria Teape
Devonport Community Co-ordinator
March 2014

"The support provided by Richard and his fellow Venturers and Scouts at Kids Athletics this year made all the difference to Caroyn and me who organise and co-ordinate the event. So please pass on our heartfelt thanks to the Venturers and Scouts who helped out at Kids Athletics 2013 and we look forward to working with 1st Devonport Scout Group again next season."

Maria Teape
Devonport Community Co-ordinator
March 2013

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Venturer Scouts Richard deBoyett and Ryan Cundy who assisted Devonport Rotary over the weekend of 16th and 17th February (at the Devonport Food & Wine Festival) to support Rotary members working on the main entrance gates . They carried out their tasks with diligence . They didn't have to be asked to do things they just got on and did what was asked of them. I have no hesitation in saying that they are a credit to the Scouting movement."

Colin Cannon
President Elect Devonport Rotary
Feb 2013

"On behalf of the RIBCA Committee I wish to thank you for your assistance with the marshalling job at The DUAL last weekend. Your help was also much appreciated by the Motutapu Restoration Trust and the team from Total Sport. This forwarded email which was sent to the marshal leaders by Dave Franks , the course controller from Total Sport, expresses this appreciation."

Barry Tricklebank
RIBCA
April 2012

"Thank you for lending me your Venturer Scouts for our Athletics Series this year. They were very helpful, and showed some good initiative when needed. I would especially like to thank Peter, who stepped in when one of our more senior people wasn't able to attend at the last minute. I had a new "agility" activity this year. Peter helped me to run the first 2 groups that went through, then managed the marshalling for that activity for the entire series. He, in turn briefed one of his colleagues, and came up with some interesting and effective challenges for each of the age groups that came through. Each week two of the boys ran the sausage sizzle, and three of them assisted very ably with marshalling.

I hope that they found it worthwhile, and that their fundraising was successful.

Please pass on my thanks to the boys"

Regards
Carolyn Pomeroy
Devonport Community Coordinator
March 2012