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GGEW NEWS
WINTER 2012
GGEW NEWS WINTER 2012
Thinking Day – past and present
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f you are thinking of throwing away
the “Merlin Group” leaflets you
receive in guiding publications,
don’t!
I responded to their advert to win
a free group day out and got 10 free
tickets to Chessington and then
booked the rest of the group with
Leaders and parent helpers for a
great reduced price of £12.50 per
ticket, just for quoting Girlguiding,
they also gave one free leader place
for every five children.
7th Brentwood rainbows had a great day out, most of them had never been before nor
would have got the opportunity to go. To see their faces on Bubbleworks was such a treat.
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s a young Guider I remember feeling very privileged to spend thinking Day at Our Chalet
never expecting to travel anywhere outside Europe. Many years later I was able to celebrate the day at Our Cabana and closer to home at Pax Lodge.
While travelling in Australia a few years ago I met up with some Guide Leaders in Hobart
and was invited to an amazing thinking day breakfast so it seemed only right and proper to
complete the set and be at Sangam on 22nd February.
As you can see from the photographs, 2012 was the year I completed my own personal
challenge. I should perhaps explain that one photo is of Jane Rogers and I at the opening
ceremony of the World Thinking Day 2012 session whilst the other is celebrating WAGGGS
centenary- so good it took 3
years!
Rosemary Jeffery
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Lorraine Cowley
he 4th Upminster Guides were expecting to spend
their summer camp in the normal way - under
canvas and on a campsite but the weather put
paid to that idea so the girls went to Went House,
Bulphan instead! undeterred, they even managed to
hold a campfire - just shows how adaptable Guides are!
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Leader makes her promise
at Went House
hadwell and Tilbury Leader Claire Hollington’s family
have a long history at Went House, the Upminster
Division pack holiday house in Bulphan.
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unmow District Rainbows and Brownies meet Chloe
Rogers, Olympic bronze medalist hockey player at the
Dunmow Carnival. The District also won 1st place for
best walking group for dressing up as sheep for the nursery
rhyme Little Bo Peep.
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“I wanted to get enrolled at Went House because I have a lot
of history there to do with my
family. My mum used to go to
Went House for pack holidays
when she was a Brownie in
the 60s also my nan used to
do lots of pack holidays there
with her other Brownie packs.
My nan was also District
Commissioner of South
Hornchurch after working her
way through the Brownies (as
Tawny then Brown owl) Also
as a Rainbow, Brownie and a
Guide myself, I stayed there a
lot.”
Claire Hollington
ABOVE:- Claire shows her family photo albumn to other
Guides who came to see her make her promise.
RIGHT:- Claire with some of her historic badges
Help save
Lady Baden Powell’s Badges
uring the summer the Romford Trefoil Guild held a
fundraising lunch for the project to ‘save’ the badges
of Lady BP.
We had all read about it in ‘The Trefoil’ (March 2012) but
it was Olive Buckley’s inspiration to invite us to her house
and provide us with lunch. It was well attended and Stella
Horton ,County Chairman, and some Hornchurch members
joined us. We paid for our lunch and after cakes were sold
too, a sum of £200 was donated to the fund.
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Natalie
Webber,
who is
organising the
campaign
was
interested in
Olive’s
idea for
fundraising and travelled up from Eastbourne to join us and bring the
actual set of badges for us all to see and admire.
It was a lovely occasion, impromptu and spontaneous
and proved to be a very happy day and a great success.
While we were having lunch we discussed how we could
help the campaign in Essex West as it seems that the
Guides of today appear to have very little awareness of the
importance of Lady BP to the Movement. So we set about
getting our story in the Romford Recorder, and they used a
nice story and picture
The Trefoil Guild would like to issue a challenge to the
Guides of today - to ask them to try to match or beat the
amount raised for this cause?
A full story can be found in the March 2012 issue of THE
TREFOIL, Page 34, and it tells the story and why the money
was to be raised for the badges - it’s all part of a sum of
£10m. fundraising effort for WAGGGS called the ‘Global
Girls Fund’.
Deirdre Marculescu
Website: www.girlguidingessexwest.org.uk