Cans go a long way

THANK you for this bigger picture snapshot of the 10c can and bottle container deposit scheme (January 16, pg. 5). As District Commissioner I have only seen it in a really local level like the Tarwin Junction Rover Crew Unit of Leongatha who were given 4500 cans that they recently returned to the Wonthaggi depot to add to fundraising for the 2024 programs they are running for youth aged 18 to 26. 

Not all returns in scouting have been big, but I know of many youth collecting up items around their community and returning these to fundraise for the 2025 Jamboree in Queensland. These young people have also enlisted grandparents and extended families to keep a box at home and pass on their 10c item. 

I’d be foolish not to take this opportunity to ask wider community members to donate to scouting with their returns, either passing on the physical cans to us, contacting your local group to arrange, or when returning to machines, collection points or the big depos turning that return into a donation searching in the app or on the machine for a local scout group or giving to our state body “Scouts

Victoria” which still has a positive impact on scouting in the South Gippsland district.

Wombat Lyons, Scouts Victoria