Cleveland Den Officially Open!

On Saturday the 19th of October, his Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC, Governor of Queensland opened the new Cleveland Scout Den. What an amazing day, even with the rain! Some tears were shed as we remembered and reflected on the old Den and now, we have an incredible future in our new building. Thank you for everyone’s help today, we could not have pulled this event off without you.

A special thank you to all our major project sponsors you helped make the new scout den a reality.

• Gambling Community Benefit Fund – for funding most of the commercial kitchen.
• Liona Constructions – Cameron Macron – for delivering a quality building at a great price.
• Capalaba Rotary – for fundraising and making a significant financial contribution to the project.
• Ashcroft Architects – Brad Ashcroft – for coming us with a great building design.
• Redlands Foundation – for providing funding for appliances and floor coverings. 
• Redland City Council – Cr Wendy Boglary – for personally fundraising for our turf and funding all of the new furniture.
• Brisbane Alarm Monitoring Services – Jeremy and Virginia McEvoy for supplying and installing a security alarm and camera system. 
• A1 Certifier – Michael and Karlie Van Dyck – for doing the building certification.
• Hammelmann Pty Ltd – Mark Bridger – for providing shipping containers for storage while the rebuild was underway.
• Capalaba Lions – for providing funds and the new flag pole and access pathway.
• Colonial Landscape Supplies – Scott Middleton – for proving our new turf at a great price!
• SS-Signs – Steve Lambourne – for providing all of our building signage and custom canvas artwork.
• A&T Surveying – Allan & Tania McLaughlin – for carrying out the site survey for construction. 
• John Gaskell Planning Consultants – for providing planning advice. 
• Claymore Contractors – for doing the new carpark re-profiling and surfacing.
• Jessica Stroja – PhD Candidate (History and migration) at Griffith University – for researching the history of the group to create our historic artworks.
• M S E Security Services P/L – for providing monitoring services while the site was being redeveloped. 

Here are some photos of today’s event.