Camp Cottermouth

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Camp Cottermouth

• GROUNDBREAKING
• 24 September 2005

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OVERVIEW

• Greg Irvine, President, Scouts ACT
• Strategic Objectives
• Acknowledgement of supporters

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INTRODUCTION

• Today Scouts ACT enter the new millennium at
  Cotter with
• A vision to take us forward
• A plan to enact this vision
• Enthusiasm to get the job done
• And a determination to succeed
• This day has arrived not by chance but through
• Commitment
• Partnership
• Community Consultation

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COMMITMENT

• Scouts ACT are committed to the on-going success
  and viability of Camp Cottermouth
• Today would not be possible without the efforts
  of our
• Cotter Development Board
• Cotter Board of Management
• Branch Executive Committee
• Members
• Scouts Australia
• And our partners

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PARTNERSHIP

• Scouts do not have the financial capacity to go
  it alone and this projects success depends upon
  the generosity, commitment and support of our
  major partners and sponsors and we acknowledge
  your invaluable assistance
• The ACT Government
• The Arthur Shakespeare Foundation
• The Masons
• Rotary, Lions and Apex
• The Master Builders Association
• Weathershield, Randbuilt and Blue Scope Steel
• The Australian Army
• Planning for People
• Alastair Swayn of Daryl Jackson Alastair Swayn
• GE Shaw and Associates
• Peter Gatley, Matthew Willis
• Plus many more

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COMMUNITY

• Scouts recognise that Camp Cottermouth is no
  longer a Scout Facility
• its a community facility run by Scouts
• For the use of ALL
• An integral part of the Cotter Precinct

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GROUNDBREAKING

• Peter Wurfel, Chair, Camp Cottermouth Development
  Board
• How we arrived at this point
• Our planning
• The way forward

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GROUNDBREAKING

• 2003
• The bushfires
• The review
• Planning for People (Janet Mackay)
• The decision

Camp Cottermouth Development Board
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GROUNDBREAKING

• 2004
• The master plan
• Alastair Swayn
• Liaison
• ACT Government, the Rotary Round Table, and SOTIG
• Greenhills
• YMCA
• Some steps..
• Performance stage, and 20,000 (ACT Government)
• Shade structures, and 20,000 (Masons)

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GROUNDBREAKING
Shakespeare Centre
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GROUNDBREAKING
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Kangaroo Flat
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GROUNDBREAKING

• 2005
• The new planning needs
• Bushfire risk assessment
• The leases
• Land Management Agreement
• The relationships
• ACT Government
• ACT businesses, and neighbours
• The plans
• Priorities meeting April
• Performance stage
• Services facility and s (ACT Government and
  Arthur Shakespeare Foundation)
• Shade structures
• Training facility, including accommodation
• Tented accommodation
• Adventurous activities

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GROUNDBREAKING
Services facility/ workshop
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GROUNDBREAKING
Permanent tents Camp Cottermouth Development
Board
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GROUNDBREAKING

• The post January 2003 paradigm shift
• A master plan
• Business cases
• Acknowledge and meet ACT Government planning
  needs
• Develop partnerships/relationships
• Greenhills, ACT business, ACT Government agencies
• Be commercially successful
• Delivery of high quality services to scouting
• And to the broader community

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GROUNDBREAKING

• The post January 2003 paradigm shift (cont)
• Cultural change by Scouts ACT
• A shared vision
• Enhanced business planning for the ACT Branch
• Develop (commercial) partnerships with the
  community
• Develop and/or acquire technical skills and
  capabilities commercial, financial, legal
• Camp Cottermouth in the 21st Century
• Delivering quality services to scouting and to
  the broader community
• Providing a return on the communitys investment
• Working with our neighbours in the Cotter precinct

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GROUNDBREAKING

• Next steps
• Implement
• Shade structures, services facility, performance
  stage
• Business cases
• Training facility, tented accommodation
• Continue to build and develop relationships
• Develop capability
• Seek funding
• Fund raising, grants, etc.
• Delivery of high quality services to scouting
• And to the broader community
• Be commercially successful

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GROUNDBREAKING

• Essential support
• ACT Government
• Masons, and other community groups
• The Arthur Shakespeare Foundation
• Private individuals, and industry
• Members of the Camp Cottermouth Development Board
• Technical, legal, financial experts
• The scouting community

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GROUNDBREAKING

• Daryl Jackson Alastair Swayn Pty Ltd
• Planning for People
• GE Shaw and Associates
• Weathershield
• Ranbuild
• Bluescope Lysaght
• MBA
• Peter Gately
• Bushfire Planning Services
• Land Architecture Australia
• Greenhills
• The Australian Army
• ACT Government agencies (ACTPLA, Environment ACT,
  LDA, Chief Ministers, Sport and Recreation)

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