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GGEW NEWS SPRING 2013
COUNTY ADDRESSES
COUNTY PRESIDENT
Avril Brampton
Carters Cottage
High Wych
Sawbridgeworth, Herts.
01279 724744
[email protected]
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
Jan Knight
24 McIntosh Road
Romford, RM1 4JJ
07973 144260
[email protected]
ASSISTANT
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
Chris Skinner
39 Brampton Close
Corringham
SS17 7NS
01375 671051
[email protected]
Ann Matthews
[email protected]
mobile: 07778 994543
The 1st Little Thurrock Brownies were ‘Kermitted’ to having a great weekend when they held a pack holiday at Went House,
Bulphan with a Muppets theme!
Big Brownie Birthday Bash not to be missed
lans are racing ahead to ensure that the County’s Brownies will have a
brilliant time when we celebrate the 100th birthday of Brownies in 2014.
More than 500 Brownies have already expressed their interest in coming
to the event at the Helena Romanes School in Great Dunmow on the 21st June
next year and the team organising the event are working hard to ensure
everyone has a brilliant day.
Exactly what is in store for them will be revealed later but enough to say there
are some ‘timbers to be shivered!’
The team have designed a mascot which is
currently being made and should be available
around September, but before then there will be a
Countywide competition to give our furry mascot a
name and details of that will be announced soon.
The team is sure that our mascot will take her place
alongside Crystal, the bear which was the County
mascot for the Centenary in 2010 and we hope to
see all sorts of pictures of her in all sorts of places,
just like Crystals Travels!
So, keep the date free- 21st June 2014- and
watch out for more details
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COUNTY SECRETARY
Daphne Richards
146 Knights Way
Brentwood
CM13 2ER
0787 511 2357
[email protected]
COUNTY TREASURER
David Brampton
Carters Cottage
High Wych
Sawbridgeworth, Herts
01279 724744
[email protected]
COUNTY OFFICE
NEW ADDRESS
Girlguiding Essex West
Suite S1
Bates Business Centre
Church Road
Harold Wood
Romford, RM3 0JF
PERIODIC NEWSLETTER FOR GIRLGUIDING ESSEX WEST
SPRING 2013
Ongar District Senior Guides take on Red
Nose Day Challenge with Helen Skelton
he Girls of the Ongar District
Senior Guide Section proved
they were up for a challenge
by backing Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton’s bid to set a new world
record while raising funds for Comic Relief. The fundraising wonder woman
has set herself seven
magnificent challenges which she has
vowed to complete in only seven weeks –
and she offered Girlguiding members a
unique chance to lend a hand.
The Ongar Senor Section was
chosen from thousands of groups invited
to come up with their own fundraising
events – the wackier the better - to back
the daredevil presenter’s campaign in the
run-up to Red Nose Day.
The group of seven girls, all aged between 14 and 18, chose to arrange a Sponsored
hike dressed in pyjamas in the cold and dark! Nathalie Elston –Hooper 17 said: “It was a real
challenge and we all enjoyed it. It’s great to think that, by working together and having fun, we
can make a difference to people in need.
Veronica Riches , Senior Guide Leader, said: “The girls were really excited about this
project, we have done lots of fund raising for local and world wide groups before but having a
TV crew and Helen with the girls made it that much of a special event. The girls and myself
have had to keep the filming quiet, this has been a task on its own especially for teenage girls!
We do not have a total of what the girls have raised yet, but I’m sure people have been
generous , it was pitch black across the fields and with the wind chill factor got down to -2 “ It
shows what a difference girls in guiding can make.” Girlguiding
groups nationwide have also been hard at work crafting their own
giant fabric triangles to help create the world’s largest bunting
line, which Helen – a former Brownie herself - displayed along the
2,200-metre Humber Bridge as one of her Magnificent 7.
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THE GIRLGUIDING ESSEX WEST NEWSLETTER is published three times a year
for Leaders, Advisers, Members and supporters of Girlguiding in Essex West.
Editor:- David Henderson, 26 King Edward Drive, Grays, Essex, RM16 2GG
e-mail: [email protected]
and printed in-house by Girlguiding Essex West, Suite S1, Bates Business Centre
Church Road, Harold Wood, Romford, RM3 0JF
PUBLIC RELATIONS and
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