Council Facts

Facts About the

Five Rivers Council

 

  • We served a total of 1,649 Cub Scouts, 982 Boy Scouts, 98 Venturers, and 20 Explorers in 139 Units. That’s 2,749 lives that we made a difference in!

 

  • More than 292 of our Cub Scouts attended summer camp.

 

  • Over 75% of our boy scouts attended summer camp

 

  • Our scouts sold over $425,000 in popcorn – earning more than $300,000 to support their units and the local program

 

  • Our scouts collected over 90,000 food items for Scouting for Food

 

  • 45 of our Boy Scouts earned the rank of Eagle Scout  

 

  • We sent contingents to Florida Sea Base, the Summit and to Philmont, including our 1st ever female contingent to Philmont.

 

 

  • The #1 story in BSA National’s Scoutwire for 2016 was about our homegrown Eagle Scout Timothy Updegraff and his Eagle project creating an audio tour of Woodlawn Cemetery.

 

  • We continue to rank near the top in the country in both trained leaders and youth protection-trained leaders.

 

  • We have been chosen to host 2 BSA Regional Conferences in 2017: Strategic Training Planning Conference and Seabadge.

 

  • After years of financial challenges, we finished 2016 with a budget surplus and made great strides in developing a sustainable financial plan of operations.

 

  • For the 1 st time in our history we were recognized by BSA National as a Gold Journey to Excellence Council (this is the highest ranking that a Council can receive with less than 10% of all councils nation-wide earning the distinction