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Awards &

Achievements:

D of E – Silver Award • Madeleine Phillips –

Pembrokeshire

Lucinda Randell – Cardiff

Hannah Leney – Gwent

Arian Howells – Gwent

Shannon Golubovic - Gwent

Anneka Thomas – Central

Glamorgan

Wales

Appointments:

• Helen Barham – ALQ Co-

ordinator

Trainers

Qualification:

Mandy Bruce

Dawn Gethin

Jane Stubbs

‘Your Voice’ – ‘Eich Llais’

Nant Ffrancon Brownies from Bethesda are celebrating after they received a Big Lottery Fund Awards for All grant.

The grant of £1,036 will help the unit to fund a number of events and activities. This includes many 'firsts' for the 25 Brownies, which include a Brownie sleepover, crazy climb, low ropes course and mountain walks. New resources such as a play parachute, crafts and cookery items are also in the pipeline thanks to the funding.

Nant Francon Brownies Receive Big Lottery Grant

Caitlin Price, 9, said: ''I can't wait to go to Crazy climb, I've never been climbing before so this is really exciting".

Leader Lucy O’Donnell said, “We are absolutely delighted that the Big Lottery Fund is supporting Nant Ffrancon Brownies. We are a fairly new group, we've been running for a year now and already full with a waiting list of girls wanting to join - so this money will do so much for us. I'd really encourage other Units to apply.”

Meet Cadi, the Girlguiding

Cymru Mascot

Follow her on Twitter

https://twitter.com/CadiGuide

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Take your shoes and socks off and walk over pebbles, through bark and sawdust, across “crystals” and through gloopy mud! Some sort of Senior Section challenge for International Selection? No! This was the first (and most popular) challenge faced by 1st and 2nd Chepstow Rainbows on their visit to The Wild Place near Bristol. The “Barefoot Walk” was definitely the most popular part of our visit, undertaken as part of the Rainbow Big Brownie Birthday Challenge. A close second was seeing the baby lemurs being fed, plus, of course, having a picnic lunch and visiting the shop. Not to forget the “meadow”. How many times in your life do you get to run through grass almost as high as you? “The best bit was the gooey mud on the barefoot walk” said Freya. “The baby lemurs were soooooo cute” said Evie. “I thought zebras were make believe but now I know they’re real!” said Mollie.

1st & 2nd Chepstow Rainbows visit the Wild Place near Bristol

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1st Llanfairpwll Senior Section held a Macmillan coffee morning on Saturday, 28th

September and raised £165.02p. Well done girls!

Guides from across Wales were dazzled by some of the biggest names in UK pop as they headed to Wembley Arena for Girlguiding’s BIG GIG on Saturday, 4 October 2014.

The Guides joined a girl-only crowd of more than 10,000 at the event, held exclusively for Girlguiding members from all over the UK.

The girls, all aged between 10 and 14, enjoyed performances from a stellar line-up including chart toppers - Little Mix, Tinie Tempah and Rita Ora; street dance superstars - Diversity, girl group - Neon Jungle and four-piece boyband Union J.

Unit Leaders, Rachel Morris from Swansea and fellow Guide Leaders led the girls on their adventure to Wembley in London.

She added: “This was the girl’s first real adventure with Guides as this is the first year that our unit has been running. The girls

hadn’t been to a live gig in such a huge

venue before. Being surrounded by so many

other Guides made the atmosphere even

more special! The girls had a fantastic day

and they cannot wait to do it all again next

year!”

Guides Join 10,500 Others at Wembly to See UK’s Biggest Stars

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10th Barry Guides looking smart all kitted out in their new Guide uniform

3rd Milford Haven Rainbows opened at the beginning of the year and received a new unit grant to help them on their way. This proved to be a great help in setting up the new Rainbow Unit. The first meeting opened with 18 Rainbows and by the 20th February they had 25 girls. After spring '14 they had 28 girls so the Leader decided to split the group and run two sessions one after the other as she felt smaller groups at Rainbow age would be better for all. Now they have two parallel groups with 17 in one and 14 in the other. The Leader, Julie has been amazed by the need for Rainbows in the area. She decided to start a Rainbow Unit as her grand-daughter was on such a long waiting list that she would have been of Brownie age by the time she had a place. Julie is so glad she did and enjoys every minute. The sad thing for her now is that they now have a waiting list and that was the last thing they wanted although they are hoping this will only mean a delay of a term for the girls on the list. The Rainbows have had a very enjoyable first two terms adults and girls alike. Their highlight was a day trip to Clerkenhill Adventure Farm Park and the photos below show what a good time

the girls had.

New Unit Success in Pembrokeshire

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Girlguiding Gwent Celebrate the Big

Brownie Birthday

Girlguiding Gwent has had been very busy celebrating the Big Brownie Birthday. This included a takeover of Techniquest in Cardiff, complete with sleepovers. There was also a Brownie Starquest day with Brownies from all over the county enjoying lots of activities such as archery, bouncy castles, a climbing wall, planetarium, face painting and nail art. Even the Chief Guide came along to see what was going on.

Millie Leadley, from 16th Newport West Brownies, and her mum got to spend a day at Buckingham Palace in June with HRH the Countess of Wessex and tennis star Laura Robson. They enjoyed a tea party on the lawn as well as giant Jenga and tennis and a very special Birthday cake.

Millie was one of 50 Brownies from across the

UK, lucky enough to be invited to the tea

party.

Girlguiding Gwent Brownie Spends

Day at the Palace

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What’s On in Brief by Section?

Rainbow Leader Training Friday, 21st November – Sunday, 23rd November 2014 £75 Brownie Eco Warriors Friday, 8th May - Sunday, 10th May 2015 £65 Brownie CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) Friday, 13th November – 15th November 2015 £65 BP Adventure “Movies & Oscars” at Broneirion Tuesday, 17th February - Thursday, 19th February 2015 £70 BP Adventure “Good Game” at Broneirion Friday, 17th April – Sunday, 19th April 2015 £70 Guide Badge Weekend – “Flash, Bang, Goo” at Broneirion Friday, 5th June – Sunday, 7th June 2015 £65 4 Peer Education Topic Training “Free Being Me” Broneirion Friday, 14th November - Sunday, 16th November 2014 Grant Funded CHILL FEST 2015 – Winter Camp at Broneirion Friday, 23rd January – Sunday, 25th January 2015 £45 Senior Section Leader Training at Broneirion Friday, 23rd January – Sunday, 25th January 2015 £75

Further information and booking forms for all these events can be found on the Girlguiding Cymru Website www.girlguidingcymru.org.uk

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WOW 2014 – Centre Picture are members of 1st Rhayader Guides making their promise

Biggest Ever Sleepover at

the Millennium Stadium

Some of our young

members at the Royal

Welsh Show

Guinness World Record

attempt at WOW Camp

2014

Out and About

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Girlguiding Cymru The Coach House Broneirion Llandinam Powys SY17 5DE Phone: 01686 688652 Email: waleshq@girlguiding.org.uk

Website: www.girlguidingcymru.org.uk

If you have any news from your Unit, District, Division, County that you would like to share, please email to: waleshq@girlguiding.org.uk

Partnership News

Cotswold Outdoor - our recommended partner for the great outdoors in Wales All Girlguiding UK members can receive a discount at Cotswold Outdoor in any of their 67 stores nationwide, online or over the phone. 20% Discount for Leaders (including tents) – Proof required to obtain discount is your Membership Card. 15% Discount for Youth Members – Proof required to obtain discount is Promise Badge. Cotswold Outdoor also provides expert advice and kit talks from their friendly staff and free use of the space in their stores for meetings, training or badge evenings. Recently we have held volunteering and recruitment events in stores across Wales.

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