Girlguiding Mearns held an afternoon tea to celebrate 100 years of
Guiding in there area. An excellent display of local archives was on show
and many leaders from the past and today attended
. Well done Girlguiding
Mearns area.
Phil Glennie recently received his 10 year award from Anne Kelley on behalf of
Girlguiding Kincardine & Deeside. Phil has been involved with Girlguiding
at UK and Scottish Levels over the years lending his experience in First Aid
and Hillwalking.
Leaders from Stonehaven enjoyed a night out at the new Carron to Mumbai restaurant.
Their youngest member was very well behaved!
Girlguiding Stonehaven at the Remembrance Day Parade in November 2018
Sue Thomas County Commissioner has taken delivery of the badge books for Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and the record books for Rangers for every girl in K&D county. These will be delivered to the units by the DC’s soon. Thanks to the Aberdeen Depot for organising… let the adventure begin
This year’s Annual Event took place in October
This photo shows County Commissioner Sue Thomas with our vice presidents (who were also her guide leaders!).
2nd Portlethen Guide unit held a Halloween party which was organised by their eldest guides who w
ere leaving and moving onto Rangers. The girls had some unique costume ideas and arranged a night of games and activities that were enjoyed by all.
3rd Stonehaven Guides had a visit from Tropics Skincare Ambassador Nicky Lees who ran a skin care evening for the girls and their mums. Everyone got a chance to try and buy some of the products. Nicky organised a raffle and donated a prize to help us raise funds for some of our girls who have been chosen to experience an international event next year with Girlguiding Scotland. (Contact tropic@nickylees.com for more info).
As part of the “Grow your £5 challenge” to raise funds for the Sheiling 3rd Stonehaven Guides held a “Guides got Talent” night and Coffee Evening and invited their parents and District Commissioner to come along.
The guides did various activities including singing, a comedy sketch and a yoga demonstration.
They were each presented with a Braemar Sheiling badge at the end of the night. We raised £222.30 for the Braemar Sheiling Fund. Well Done Guides.
The Guides & Senior Section visited Stirling for an overnight, staying in the Youth Hostel. They visited the castle and took part in a local ghost walk.
The next morning the met up with the Brownies and Rainbows at Blair Drummond Safari Park where they had a fantastic day visiting all the animals, seeing the sea lion show, the Bird of Prey flight display and playing at the park.
They got a special badge for the event which was designed by one of the Brownies.
