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12th Luton Brownies and Guides raise £162 for charity
12th Luton Brownies and Guides held a fundraising Entertainment evening on 18th June 2001. They raised £162.00 for the Luton and Dunstable Hospital Cancer Unit. The guest of honour was Her Worship the Mayor of Dunstable Counsellor Mrs Mary Biswell. Quote from The Herald and Post 21/06/2001 "We'll Stick at it. Brownies and Guides always promise to do their best - and these girls certainly did just that for our appeal. They raised a smashing £162 which has helped bring the Herald and Post Cancer Unit Appeal past that magic £30,000 mark"
Who said Guides can't be quiet
The 12th Luton Guides proved that they can be silent. The 20 girls and their leaders raised a staggering £318.83 for the National "Hold your Tongue Challenge in aid of Macmillan Cancer Relief. Well done to everyone!
12th Luton Guides and Brownies Hold a Bring and Buy
On Monday 3rd February 2003 the 12th Luton Brownies and Guides held a Bring and Buy Sale in aid of the Blue Peter Water Works Appeal. They raised £119.85 to send off to the appeal. Well done to all who helped make the evening a great success.
12th Luton Guides Visit to the 2003 Big Gig
The day of the 2003 Big Gig finally arrived following weeks of excited anticipation from the 13 lucky girls from 12th Luton Guides who managed to obtain tickets through their Guide Leader. The 12th Luton Guides made a weekend of it by arranging a sleepover at Woodcroft for the Saturday Night. The weekend started with a superb lunch of Chicken Nuggets and Chips followed by Ice Cream at Woodcroft. The group then went by luxury coach to Wembley Arena where they collected their souvenirs and then took their seats amongst the hustle and bustle and waited for the event to commence. The Arena exploded into a mayhem of teenage girls screams, whistles and popular music that did not let up until way after the final band had completed. The girls thrilled to the music of Atomic Kitten, Liberty X, Blazin Squad, and many more top contemporary bands and artists too many to mention. Despite the Guiders best attempts to calm things down during the sleepover the girls were still buzzing with excitement through Sunday and were still excitedly babbling as they left to go home late Sunday afternoon. A great time was had by all and even the Guiders secretly admit that they got caught up in the excitement of a tremendous show, this was reinforced by the pride of being part of a well organised Guiding event where all members behaved impeccably.
Luton Guide wins BIG GIG Competition
Following a really exciting time attending the Girlguiding UK BIG GIG 2003 Kirsty decided to enter the competition on the National Girlguiding website. The competition asked for the completion of the sentence 'The BIG GIG is great because…' in twenty words or less Kirsty a 13 year old Guide in the 12th Luton Guides came up with the following and was one of 10 lucky winners of the competition ‘ The BIG GIG is great because the bands were fantastic. The Guides can scream. Together we make a good team.’ Her prize consisted of signed CD's from LibertyX, Lemar and Mark Owen a Girlguiding light pen and a programme of the event signed by most of the stars.
Congratulations Kirsty from all in Bedfordshire
St Mary's District, Luton South, celebrate the Brownies 90th Year with a visit to Whipsnade Zoo.
The Brownies and Guides of St Mary's District celebrated the 90th year of Brownies on Saturday 8th May 2004 with a visit to Whipsnade Zoo. It was quite a wet day but event the rain could not dampen their spirit of Adventure. Whilst at the Zoo the girls saw many animals but their favorite was the Baby Elephant born in March of this year. They were lucky enough to find this marquee to have lunch during which one Brownie, two Young Leaders and one young Guider from 12th Luton Pack made or renewed their Promises.
After lunch the girls enjoyed the Bird Display, the Sealion Show and looking at more of the exhibits including this one of the chimps!
At the end of the day we went back to the marquee where we all enjoyed a piece of 90th Birthday cake and a drink of juice. The girls all thoroughly enjoyed the day.
12th Luton Brownie Guides, 38th Luton Brownie Guides and the 12th Luton Guides hold a Cat Walk for Girlguiding UK Walks for the World.
12th Luton Brownies, 38th Luton Brownies and 12th Luton Guides held a fun evening "Junk Cat Walk". The girls made items for a fashion show made out of junk. They really enjoyed themselves and once the clothes were made they took to the catwalk to the music of Walking Back to Happiness. We finished the evening off with a walking wide game and hotdogs and marshmallows cooked on an open fire whilst singing their favourite campfire songs. The girls donated money for the pleasure of joining in the evening and were pleased to send a cheque for £70.00 to the Girlguiding UK Walks for the World..
Girlguiding Bedfordshire Raise over £4,000 for Keech Cottage Hospice
A Rainbow, Brownies, Guides, Young Leaders and Adult Leaders from units in St. Mary's District were treated to a guided tour of Keech Cottage Hospice in Luton when they attended their open day. They were pleased to hand over a Cheque for £4,270.83 which had been raised over the past year by individuals and units all over the County. The girls really enjoyed the visit and were delighted to see the sort of equipment that their money had been used for.
BIG GIG 2005
A party of girls and leaders from 12th Luton Guides joined thousands of Guides from all over the UK to take part in this years Big Gig. As it was being held in Birmingham we set off from our meeting place at Haverings in Luton to travel to Birmingham. The girls were very excited to be traveling to the Gig and to see many stars including Friday Hill, Liberty X, Jenny frost, Jo O'Meara,Simon Webbe, Tony Christie, Lee Ryan and Girls Aloud. We arrived at the Birmingham NEC Arena in plenty of time so we had plenty of time to buy light wands,
badges, bears and t shirts. Once inside the Arena we took our seats and waited for the Gig to start. All of the Guides were in fine voice waiting in anticipation for the first act.
Tony Christie was the first act and things got better and better during the evening with Liberty X followed by Girls Aloud ending the evening. 2 1/2 hours of top class acts and lots of Guide participation in singing, clapping, screaming etc.
At the end of the evening it was back to the coach and the drive home to Luton arriving home at about midnight with tired but very happy girls. It is a pleasure to take part in an event with so many members and to see them all having such a good time.
12th Luton Guides raise over £300 for Luekemia
The 12th Luton guides and their guiders had decided to raise some money to help towards children with Leikemia. To do this the girls did a range of activities which as we decided were the chocolate challenges. We started with the history of chocolate and ended with making large cookies. Overall all the girls had fun. And they even got prizes depending on how much they raised. It was a good effort from all. Even the guiders took part. Well Done!!!
