Arrival Day Sunday 7th October 2007
Departure Day Thursday 11th October 2007
Opening Ceremony Sunday 7th
Closing Ceremony Wednesday 10th

Application forms:
Cost
Requirements to Attend
Cuboree Packs
Catering Facilities
Transport
Camping Equipment
Advance Parties
Food
The Environment
Pre-Cuboree Camp




Application forms:
Due dates for payments and other information is on the application form.
Go to the NSW State Web Site to download an application form.


Cost: Only $200 for Cubs and $180 for adults.
Day Workers: $30 per day for a maximum of two days
Your Group should be fund raising now.


Requirements:

Cubs	Invested member of the Cub Scout Pack & not born before 30th September 1996 Attended a Pre Cuboree Camp.
Scouts:	Must be an invested Scout and hold the Pioneer Badge. Must have camped under canvas as a Scout, for five nights. Must be recommended as suitable to attend by their Scout Leader, Group Leader, Regional Commissioner Cub Scouts and the Cuboree Director.
Venturer Scouts:	Registered members of a Venturer Unit and hold the Venturing Skills Badge by 1st October 2007. Recommended by their Venturer Unit, Venturer Leader, Group Leader Regional Commissioner Cub Scouts and the Cuboree Director as suitable to serve as a Service Leader.
Rovers:	Registered members of a Rover Crew at least 18 years of age, but no older than 26 years, at 1st October 2007 will be accepted as Service Leaders.
Leaders	Must hold a Certificate of Adult Leadership.
Other Adult Members:	Must be willing to act in any role in which the Cuboree Director and/or the Cuboree Executive considers necessary. In addition, other adult members must complete and satisfy a confidential police check in accordance with current State Adult Membership Application procedures.
	Youth member applicants are reminded that attendance at the Cuboree is a privilege, not a right, and that behaviour standards will be monitored over the period from point of application acceptance, to final application approval date, to ascertain attendance eligibility.

Cuboree Packs

The participants will be divided into troops of up to 50 members, each consisting of 36 youth, 7 leaders, 4 kitchen personnel and up to 3 activity youth helpers. These packs will be grouped in two sub camps consisting of between 25 and 30 packs each. Each sub camp will have a management structure including a Sub Camp Chief, Medical, Catering and administrative support. Activity leaders and general administration staff will camp on a third sub camp with dedicated catering facilities.

Each sub camp will have a designated building or marque (marque’s constructed as described below) for their Q M store. Near this structure will be located a cool room and freezer unit to store supply’s. All stores, including dry goods, frozen and refrigerated stores will be delivered the day before the youth members arrive. Milk and bread will be delivered daily.

Site 3 Catering Facilities.

Personnel not assigned to packs will be accommodated and fed on a separate sub camp from the packs. This facility will also cater for the advance and clean up teams. A Marque will be erected for a dinning area with one end closed off as the kitchen. A cool room and freezer will be positioned just outside the kitchen end of the marque.

This sub camp will have a central kitchen and dinning facility. This will consist of a large marquee, with one end divided off as a kitchen, with a cool room and freezer unit just outside the kitchen end of the marquee.


Transport.
There is no onsite parking or parking adjacent to the site. All Packs including Sydney Greater Metrolpolitan Packs will be transported by bus from designated pick up points. Packs will be transported off site to the same points at the end of the Cuboree. Under no circumstances will Groups be permitted to travel by other means.


Camping Equipment
All Cuboree Packs must bring:

•  their own lighting (battery NOT gas lamps);
• a first aid box (contents will be supplied);
• a lockable box for Cub Scout pharmaceuticals.
• All pharmaceuticals must be in original packs with Doctors instructions or in blister packs with instructions.
• If Cub Scouts are permitted to take paracetomol they should bring their own with written instructions from parents on quantity they may take and if necessary the circumstances. This should be kept in the pharmaceuticals box.
• Sydney Greater Metropolitan Cuboree Packs are to bring their own tables and chairs for dining and cooking.

Advance Parties

Advance Parties will be permitted on site from 1pm on Saturday to set up camp sites.

Food

·        First Gas Bottle deliveries commence at 10.00am.

·     Rubbish Bins will be distributed being one Sulo Bin for Recyclables and one for other waste.

·      Stores will deliver ice and provisions for Sunday Lunch. For advance parties that have placed Eskys in a visible location on their Pack Site, for example on a table under a Dining Fly, Stores will place the delivery in those Eskys.

The first official meal will be Lunch Sunday.

All food will be pre-packaged to Cuboree Pack Size (36 Cubs and 15 Adults)

Consumables will be supplied.

Special diets will be indicated by colour coded dots on  id tags.

·         The main meals alternate between ‘cook in pouch’ and those requiring use of a BBQ.

·       Each Pack will be issued with three 9kg Gas Bottles WITHOUT regulators

·      There will be 3 deliveries of provisions – after Breakfast, Afternoon and a later delivery of perishables for example, Icecream.

·D  Deliveries  of Ice, Tea, Coffee and Sugar will be made to Activity Bases and Packs.

The Environment
The Armoury is now an environmentally sensitive area next to the Parramatta River at Homebush. Food Distribution is designed to minimise waste and rubbish. All attending should bring their own drink containers and cups as disposables will not be supplied.
All rubbish must be removed from the site when campers leave.


Pre-Cuboree Camp
The pre-Cuboree Camp is compulsory for each Cuboree Pack attending.  It is important not just to check equipment, but to ensure that the packs are familiar with the equipment and each other, for the Leaders to determine whether their Cubs will cope with four nights away from home and that all are comfortable with camping.
The Sydney North Region camp guidelines have been distributed.
You can read these guidelines here.