Guides
1st Bo’ness Guide Unit – St Andrews Church
Meeting during school term time
Tuesday’s 7.30pm – 9pm in the Church Hall
Girls aged 10 years – 16 years welcome
Contact: Becky Evans 01506 824625
1st Bo’ness Guides are part of the Girlguiding UK organisation, which in turn is a member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. Guides are aged between 10 and 16 years and meet on a regular basis in small groups to take part in a range of activities.
1st Bo’ness Guides currently have 4 patrols – Thistles, Eiffel Towers, Dolphins and the Panda’s. Each patrol has between 4 and 8 guides in it and as well as working together in their patrols the guides also take part in full unit activities and district, division and county activities. Wider activities may be just for the guide section, but may also be with the other sections of Girlguiding – Rainbow’s, Brownies, Senior Section, Guiders, Trefoil Guild.
On a weekly basis the guides will take part in a range of activities, some of which are listed below;
Baking
Cooking – pizza making, cold cookery and more
Crafts – Card making, pinflair, scrap booking, jewellery making, sewing, cross stitch and more
Games – indoor and outdoor, board games etc
Quizzes, puzzles
Badges, Challenges, Go For It’s!
Sponsored events and fundraising
Walks, community projects
BBQ’s
Outings – Disney on Ice, Ice Skating, Swimming, Bowling, theatre, Zoo
District Concerts
Other wider activities with other units/sections include;
Trips to the Zoo/Safari Park
Science Centre
Dynamic Earth
Castle’s
Concerts
Disco’s
Indoor Holidays and Sleepovers
Camps (district/division and County)
Competitions – Swimming Gala, First Aid Comp, Cooking Comp, Flag and Shield comp, Quiz Nights, Bowling
So why not contact Becky or come along one Tuesday evening to see what you could be getting involved with. Guiding does not just stop in Bo’ness and by being a member of 1st Bo’ness Guides you will open a wide range of opportunities. One Guide member from Bo’ness was fortunate to be picked to travel to Holland to represent Scotland as a member of Girlguidng back in 2006. Also Becky and Lynne (District Commissioner) have travelled to Mexico, Switzerland and London to stay in the World Guide Centres and have met a lot of new friends by being part of Girlguiding. Another member of Girlguidng for Forth Valley County was picked to represent Scotland for a Ghana Project trip working within a community for 6 weeks helping them to build a school. And this year a member from another district has been picked to go to a camp in Austria. There are also opportunities to sit on the Youth Council, take part in musical activities and much, much more!!