Victorian Rovers

The Victorian BRC Marketing Officer is currently updating the Marketing resources (as some photos are as old as Baden Powell)  and is looking for photos from Rovers and Crews participating in the Rover Program.

After unfortunate delay, the Crew Resource Folder Update compiled during March 2012 is now available for distribution.

Rovering's Greatest Adventure is an annual competition ran by the National Rover Council with the aim of encouraging Rovers to go and have “adventures”... with the incentive of a $1000.00 prize for the winners.

For many people, when they think of Mudbash they think of Mafeking Rover Park. For some Rovers, Mudbash would be the only time each year they make the trip up to the Park. However, it wasn’t always like this. Rovers did not always have their own park to use to host their motorsport events. With the help of some of…

On behalf of Victorian Branch Rover Council, we are pleased to announce that the ‘I want to be a Rover’ program that came into effect in 2007 is to be relaunched in 2012. The program has undergone a re-vamp and now covers Joeys Scouts, Cub Scouts and Scouts.  The aim of this program is to develop relationships between the younger…

Bill Waters, Headquarters Commissioner for Rovers from 1930 until 1965, for whom the National Rover Service Award is named in Victoria was recently honoured by the official naming of a waterfall discovered in 2005. Bill was one of the first people to use the high country for recreation, leading Winter Parties from 1932 and building the Bogong Rover Chalet in 1940…

Following an indication from the Mt Baw Baw resort that the site rental fees are going to jump by approximately 30%, the WF Waters Ski lodge has had to propose an increase in the prices to accommodate this higher than expected increase. Therefore the fees will be as follows: Rover weekend - $120 per personOpen weekend - $140 per personVenturer…

The 2012 Victorian Rovers Calendar is now available online Attached to this article is a two page PDF version of the calendar suitable for printing. The online interactive event calendar (found under Events -> Event Calendar) will also contain your VicRovers events for 2012 and you can use it to import events into your personal Google Calendar/iPhone/Outlook, or subscribe to…