Lakelands Scout County

02/06/2026

Best of luck to all youth members who are sitting their Junior or Leaving cert exams tomorrow

01/06/2026

Well done to Lakelands Scout County ventures, two weeks ago Portlick Scout Campsite invited the county Venture Scouts to come to portlick for Monster Jam and help staff... Ventures from 3 groups Mullingar Scouts - 1st/10th WH 2nd Westmeath Scouts Moore Scouts all rose to the challenge and did us proud!

Thank you so much to John, Phillip and team for this incredible opportunity for them. And Conor our Cpc too !!

29/05/2026

Our dedicated and hardworking CPC has just been announced as Rover lead! Conor O'Regan we are so proud of you, congratulations!

🟢 Rover Team Lead Appointment 🟢

We are delighted to announce that Conor O’Regan (2nd Westmeath St. Mary’s Athlone) has been appointed as Rover Team Lead.

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24/05/2026

Another 3 Woodbeads or 2nd Westmeath Scouts ...Massive congrats Patrick, Peter and Sean!!

17/05/2026

Lakelands Scout County held its first County Camp in over 8 years last weekend. What a gathering of the county?!

We had over 250 beavers, cubs, scouts, ventures, Rovers and scouters on site, with 6 of the 7 groups of county represented.

Thankfully the weather was amazing and this added to the electric atmosphere of this LONG over due gathering of the Legends of Lakelands!

We opened the ceremony and held a youth led and completely run Table quiz, Followed by an amazing day of Portlick Scout Campsite finest activities, between this an incredible young member of Mullingar Scouts - 1st/10th WH was presented by Eoin the Chief Scout with a Silver Honour award, the first ever awarded in Lakelands.

Phillip Gillen entertained the masses with some seriously great games and craic, followed by the Campfire Chief and legend Ger Hennessey, Scouters and youth members really got into this and there was some really fun skits.

Our Venture Scouts held a Darkness in to Light Kayak raising over €1400 for the charity!

To top all the activities off our youth reps held a very well attended youth Forum on Sunday morning before break of camp!

There was a dedicated Sensory room, and a Heritage Room displaying the history of our groups to support the Legends of Lakelands also.

Thanks goes to all the incredible scouters and parents who supported the weekend but especially to those who worked endlessly throughout the weekend ensuring site safety and logistics were achieved, most of the volunteers involved in these roles were also double jobbing as Scouters on their own Group sites so the dedication given to ensure County Camp was a success is greatly appreciated.

It was great to chat with John Butler from Portlick Scout Campsite after the event and to hear him praise the youth of our county. We are so fortunate to have the factility and we are greatful to John, Phillip and all the campsite team for all the support shown to us over the weekend.

Heres to many more future county camps in Lakelands.

27/04/2026

County Cub Challenge!
A bit of fun , a bit of challenge, alot of learning and alot more tea...well done to our cubs for a super happy cub challenge!

Well done all.

27/04/2026

Shield 2026 : Where would we be without the comms team! Thank you to all the amazing scouters, rovers and ventures who made this weekend possible. Cubs up next!

17/04/2026

Know your county officers.
We thought it’d be important for our youth members to know their county officers, and see who’s doing all the important work behind the scenes, so here’s our team.

County Commissioner: Deirdre McGiveny
Deputy County Commissioner: Jodie O’Rourke
County Chair: Charney Weitzman
County Treasurer: Mark Hollmann
County Programme Coordinator: Conor O’Regan
County Secretary: Jack Doyle

31/03/2026

Moore Scouts are organising a monopoly run in Ballinasloe on the 11th of April. It’s a fun event for all ages to get involved in. You can register a team through the link in their bio. We hope to see you there!!! For more information please go to their socials.

30/03/2026

Massive well done to all the scouts who took part in the county skills camp this weekend in Lough keel campsite. It was trying weather even if the pictures don't show it and there was still lots of smiles. Huge well done to Jack from who was camp chief and did an amazing job. Thank you to all the ventures and scouters who helped out this weekend .