Join us on July 1st for Family Scouting Night at Shepherd Stadium! Watch the Tri-City Chili Peppers take on the Martinsville Mustangs and enjoy the entertainment, food, and activities throughout the stadium. There will be Fireworks after the game and a sleepover for interested youth that are age 5-18 and have a parent or guardian with them. Gate opens at 5:45pm and the game starts at 7:00pm. Each ticket comes with a meal voucher!

[Family Scouting Night Tickets!]

Join us for a brief presentation (in-person at the Leadership Center or via Zoom) that will help you host a Parent's Meeting that will turn your parents into AMAZING volunteers! This special FREE event is geared toward Cubmasters and Pack Committee Chairs, takes place Thursday, July 13th at 7pm, and is expected to last between 45 minutes to an hour.

[Register Today!]

The Richmond Flying Squirrels invite Scouts of all ages to come out on July 28th for Scout Night at the Diamond! Gates open at 5:30pm. A Scout Parade (wear your uniforms and bring your unit flags) at 5:45pm, then the game at 6:35pm. For $10, you'll get your ticket, as well as a commemorative patch, the pre-game parade, and a movie and campout on the field.

[Take Me Out to the Ball Game!]

Scout Weekend at the Richmond Raceway is back! Come out the weekend of July 28th - 30th for Family Camping at the Scout Village Campground, a commemorative Scout Patch, access to the NASCAR Cup Series Race, and the Scout Track Walk on Sunday.

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Changes to program fees will take effect beginning January 1, 2024. It's important for all Packs, Troops, Crews and Posts to review the announcement below ahead of their annual program planning.

[Read the Full Announcement]

We're excited to announce Venturing Crew 711, scheduled to meet the first Thursday of each month at Shady Grove United Methodist Church on Pouncey Tract Road. What is a Venturing Crew? Venturing (co-ed, ages 14 to 20) is a youth-led program that’s all about building adventures with your friends. Choose to do activities that matter to you and develop essential skills like leadership, event-planning, organization, communication, and responsibility while having a blast!

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[Learn More About Venturing]

Please note that our Scout Shop email address has changed. Moving forward, all emails to the Scout Shop should be sent to scoutshophovc@scouting.org, and that the mailbox for the prior email address will no longer be monitored. Thank you for updating your contacts and for utilizing the new address! Your Scout Shop team looks forward to hearing from you soon.

[The Good Details]

The Heart of Virginia Council Scout Shop, located in the Leadership Center at 8090 Villa Park Drive, is offering a Patch Sewing Service to save you some time and frustration (especially if you don’t own a sewing machine and the thought of hand stitching or using Badge Magic on those patches makes you shudder).

[Take Patches Off Your To-Do List]

Congratulations are in order for Cub Adventure Camp on passing their National Camp Accreditation with flying colors! Pirates... Arghh! Summer Camp Registration remains open for session 3 (July 7th - 10th) and session 4 (July 10th - July 13th) - we hope you'll dare to join us! You can attend as a family or just as a parent/Scout pair. Meals are served in our air-conditioned Dining Hall, and you can stay in our Tent Village or in a Western Frontier Fort, Yurt, or Cabin.

[Register, Ye Scallywag!]

Avast, all ye leaders, and beware! A brand new 2023 Summer Camp Leader's Guide has been posted to the Cub Adventure Camp website. It be the real code, not just guidelines, so there's no excuse to show up as landlubbers or scallywags. Pack Leadership, make sure you've downloaded a copy and check the website often for updates!

[Get Ye Bounty!]

Registration remains open for our Dorey Park Day Camp, taking place the weekend of August 12th - 13th. We hope you'll join us for an organized program built specifically for Cub Scouts that combines program advancement, shooting sports, and summertime adventures! The cost is only $75 for an exciting weekend at beautiful Dorey Park. See you there!

[Have Fun at Dorey Park Day Camp!]

The National Summertime Pack Award is made to encourage a Pack to be active when school is out for the summer, by doing one activity per month in June, July, and August. This is an individual recognition for Scouts; however, a Pack can qualify for the certificate and flag streamer by planning and conducting three summertime Pack activities. Our National Summertime Pack Award Unit Planner has been updated for 2023!

[Start Planning Your Summer!]

Our Weekend Experience at Cub Adventure Camp is a program designed for you, by you, and to meet the needs of your Pack. Come out for the morning, come out for the afternoon, or come out for both. Pick your program for your Pack and participate in one activity or two. Come out just for the day or make a weekend camping adventure out of your Experience.

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More accolades are due with the good (but not surprising) news that Camp T. Brady Saunders has also received their Boy Scouts of America National Camp Accreditation for 2023! We hope you'll congratulate our TBS team in person by joining us at camp this summer!

[Attend TBS Summer Camp!]

A great way to honor your Eagle Scout is to sponsor a personally engraved Eagle Brick. The cost is $200 per brick which includes engraving of up to eighteen characters per line (letters, space and punctuation) with a maximum of two lines. To be included in the 2023 Eagle Brick Unveiling Ceremony, brick orders must be received by July 7th, 2023.



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Summer Camp at T. Brady Saunders is right around the corner! Unit Leadership, swing by the Camp website and download a copy of the 2023 Summer Camp Leader's Guide. Don't forget to visit the camp site often for updates, and get your unit registered for camp!

[Go Camping!]

The purpose of the YLT course is to teach Scouts with leadership positions about their new roles and how to most effectively reach success in that role. It is intended to help Scouts in leadership positions within their troop understand their responsibilities and to equip them with organizational and leadership skills to fulfill those responsibilities. Registration is open now for Dogwood District Scouts, and will open to all districts next week!

[Register Today!]

Scouts who are working on the requirements for the Engineering merit badge learn about the process of building and creating products and structures. They investigate the variety of careers available in engineering. Scouts explore how engineers use a step-by-step approach to make improvements for society. Come out November 11th at the Beach Community Grange in Chesterfield to earn this exciting merit badge!

[Register Today!]

Save the date for the Days of Vikings Camporee at Cub Adventure Camp the weekend of November 17th - 19th! This special event is for Scout BSA Troops only (not Cub Scouts, to include Webelos), and includes 3-D Viking Archery, Kubb, Hatchet Throwing, Land Navigation Competitions, Dane Oven Cooking, Wall Scaling and Zip Lining, Fire Starting, Tower Building, Attire Competitions, and more!

Our Weekend Experience at T. Brady Saunders opens parts of camp for weekend use! Weekend primitive camping opportunities are available at S. Douglas Fleet from August through May, based on availability. We offer Troops the opportunity to customize a program specifically tailored for their Scouts. Come out for nature, fishing, shooting, STEM, and more. We even have canoes available for rent!

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A brand-new Camping Unit Roster Form has been added to the TBS Summer Camp Leader's Guide and the CAC Summer Camp Leader's Guide! This fillable PDF needs to be completed by unit leaders before arriving at camp check-in. A link to the standalone document can be found on all Camping pages of both the TBS and CAC websites in the "Documents" sections.

If you love the Virginia State Park (VSP) Trail Quest, you're going to want to check out their new Wandering Waters Paddle Quest program! Participate at any of the 31 parks with paddling amenities and earn prizes, just like Trail Quest. Get more details, including a matrix of qualifying parks, using the link below.

[VSP Wandering Waters]

Welcome to your favorite summer job! We have plenty of openings available for the summer at Cub Adventure Camp (CAC), and are excited to spotlight two very important summer camp roles! Join our team as a Food Service Support Staff Member, or even a Counselor in Training! There are lots of openings available. What are you waiting for? Come spend your summer with us.

[Apply Today!]

We're seeking an Aquatics Director for Summer Camp at Camp T. Brady Saunders! Candidates must attend National Camp School and commit to working at camp from June 18th through July 22nd. This paid position includes housing in an air-conditioned cabin, three square meals a day, an awesome tan, and the opportunity to give local youth one seriously epic summer experience. We have many employment opportunities at Summer and Day Camp available for applicants 16 years of age and up.

[Apply Today!]

Summer Camp is a core part of Scouting, and we're excited to provide an awesome program for our Scouts in 2023! We Are Hiring for Cub Adventure Camp (CAC) and T. Brady Saunders (TBS), as well as Day Camp. Brand-new staff applications, and a new online application, have been posted to our camp websites and are linked below.

[Get the Job Details and Applications]