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he county commissioner, Jan Knight, and her assistant, Chris Skinner,
came through the frozen roads on Monday night (6th Feb) to visit 2nd
Epping (St John’s) Brownies and to present their Young Leader, Caroline
Sundberg-Downey, with her Chief Guide Award.
Caroline’s former Brown Owl, Sylvia Hepton, was also present and she was
surprised when Caroline turned the tables and presented her with her 50 year
long service award.
The Brownies and visitors then tucked in to two special celebratory cakes
which had been baked specifically for the occasion.
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At the end of the autumn term
1st Newport Rainbows and
2nd Newport Brownies held a
cupcake themed coffee
evening to complete the
Cupcake Challenge badge.
They invited family and friends
and raised £100 in just under
one hour. In order to “Spread a
little bit of Guiding Happiness”
they purchased craft materials
for the childrens wards and
clinic at Addenbrooke’s
Hospital, Cambridge. Sarah
swapped her nurses uniform
for her Guiders uniform in
order to present the craft materials to the play therapist
leader and one of the younger
patients in the Paediatric Day
Surgery Unit. Sarah Connell
Rainbow and Brownie
Leader
Opening of the new Hallingburys Scout and Guide Hall in Little Hallingbury
by H Sally C Bentley.
n the 3rd of March 2012 the new Scout and Guide Hall was opened by John Salmon who before retiring was Hatfield
Forest Scout District Chairperson. Helping John out in cutting the ribbon were Eleanor Cox; a Little Hallingbury
Brownie and Thomas Harding a Hallingburys Cub, the hall is in memory of Pearl Hutley Cub Scout Leader in the village
for many years.
Cliff Pedder gave thanks on behalf of the Hallingbury Scout & Guide Supporters Committee to all of the organisations and
individuals for the donations given to them towards the new building plus the Pantomime Group who over a period of 29 years
raised funds for the maintenance of the old building and subsequently for the future hall.
The Scout Association was represented by Peter Lambert who is the Acting District Commissioner for Hatfield Forest
District’s, Anne Matthews from GirlGuiding Essex West plus Jo Stewart, Division Commissioner for Harlow. Peter gave out two
Scouting Merit Awards to Cliff Pedder - Chairperson of the Supporters Committee and Anne Row – Secretary of the Supporters
Committee. Sally Bentley in her position of Group Scout Leader – even though she was in her Guiding uniform – gave out
three Thanks badges to Lionel Britton, Ann Hooker and Julie O’Brien for their involvement in helping to raise funds via the
Panto group for the last 29 years.
A little history about the old building, it was already second hand when it was put up in 1974 and had been a canteen for
contractors of a stadium for a London Premier football team; the previous
hut was a small corrugated building just big enough for around 15 children
who sat on various bits of camping equipment as there were was only a
couple of chairs and very little room to hold games inside. The building which the writer of this article remembers attending the Hallingbury Guides
there - was erected in 1958 on ECC ground but was the property of the Boy
Scouts Association and was administered by Trustees in the village. As the
population in the village grew so thoughts of a larger building became more
urgent and were resolved in 1974.
Everyone involved in Scouts, Cubs, Brownies – and maybe Guides again
one day plus the Supporters Committee - would like to thank everyone for
all of their help and support whilst we were homeless for six months, particularly Stuart Padfield who loaned us the use of one of his stables to store all
of the tentage and various other bits of equipment.
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SPRING 2012
County Commissioner visits Epping for presentations
Christmas Boxes for the troops
Our troops overseas were not forgotten by youngsters in Corringham who together filled more
than two dozen shoeboxes which were shipped overseas in time for the Festive Season.
Contributions were made by all sections at the 2nd Corringham Group who clearly enjoyed
playing their own version of Father Christmas
GGEW NEWS
Hi my name is Chloe Capp, I am 13 years
and a member of the 1st Elsenham Guides
In August 2011 my mum, dad and I went to
Africa for 3 ½ weeks. Whilst we were out
there we went and visited two different
orphanages. One of them, Lioness Cubs
Childrens home, has a sponsor back here in
England and has many people go and visit
them they also have a nice house with a
large garden for them to play in.
The second orphanage, Cannan Childrens
home, has nothing. They have a tiny little
house which includes a school and they don’t
even have a garden just a patch of mud
where all the locals live. We went and visited
the Cannan twice as we felt that they would
benefit from our help more, we brought them
loads of food and water both times, after our
first visit we found out that not all of the
children had mosquito nets to cover them at
night, I asked dad could we get them for
them and he said yes. This was a very
moving experience for both me and my parents; we have all learnt a great deal from this
and appreciate the things we have at home.
We as a family also support Felstead Aid,
throughout the year and have been for
several years now. It is a small, local charity.
Their aims and objectives are to help sick
and under privileged children throughout the
world, but more especially the children who
are still suffering from the results of the
Chernobyl disaster of 1986.
I turned 13 in January this year. Both mum
and dad decided that for my birthday I could
have a party to help celebrate. As my
birthday is so close to Christmas and I got
everything I wanted, and more, there was
nothing that I wanted or needed, I wanted to
do something different; that would help
someone else. I decided to make a “wishing
well” and ask my friends and family to donate
money to my “wishing well” and I would then
split the money between the two orphanages
and Felstead Aid. My mum and I made a
beautiful “wishing well” for the donations to
go in and sent a text to my friend’s parents
an d our family and told them what we were
doing. She got many messages back saying
“what a wonderful thing your daughter is
doing!” One lady said “That’s very commendable at her age – what a lovely idea” another
was “Let’s hope its starts a trend”. Mum and
dad were so proud of me.
My party was held on the 14th of January,
it was a great success; I had many friends
and family turn up. I really enjoyed myself
and I can honestly say it was the greatest
night I’ve ever had. The following evening I
counted up the money that was in the
“wishing well”. We had an amazing total of
money, £280 pounds which we then split
between my three chosen charities.
Dad got the bank details from the two
orphanages and sent the money off to them
out in Africa. Allan, the man who helped form
Felstead Aid, came round to my house and I
gave him the £100. He gave me a lovely
certificate. About a week later a parcel came
through with my name on and I was a bit
shocked as I never get anything through the
post! In the parcel was a little letter from
Lioness Cubs thanking me for my kind
donation with a little lucky elephant to keep in
my school bag and a wonderful secret
‘African’ box, named because it was in the
shape of Africa, you can remove ‘Kenya’, a
little peg, which then lets you remove the lid, I
also was given a wonderful DVD of all the
children in the home. On the letter with the
box I was told about Milly, the youngest of
Lioness Childrens home, had just started
kindergarten school, Milly is the youngest at
this home, she followed me everywhere I
went whilst I spent time with them. I also
received a wonderful email from Zach, the
caretaker of the Cannan thanking me for the
money and telling me what the money was
going to be used for, they were going to buy
some school shoes, water and water purifier,
medicine, books, food and some rent.
Mum and I sent a thank you message to all
of my friends and family, to let everyone know
what a wonderful thing that they had helped
me do by donating the money.
I hope that one
day in the not too
distant future we
will be able to go
back to Kenya and
revisit the
orphanages to see
how they all are.
Here is a photo
showing my “wishing well” and the
picture board I put
with it, a photo of
my little African
box and certificates.