Girlguiding Cambridgeshire West

Today is world emojis day?! Who knew!

Can you guess these campfire songs made from emojis? Comment below your guesses!

1. 🖤🧦
2. 🛬🩶🌳
3. 🔝🍝🧀🧆
4. 🚦(🚫🤒)🧷
5. ⛺🔥🕯️

We're all ready for the ! If you're coming come say hi and make yourself a lava lamp!

Join Guides, Rangers and Young Leaders from across the county for a day of water adventure! On two consecutive dates the 13th and 14th of July we will be running a Guide activity day which will include Kayaking, Bellboating, Firelighting and Pioneering.
This is open to girls to attend without their units so please share with your members!
More information 👉 https://www.girlguidingcambswest.co.uk/weekend-on-water

Are you joining us for the special inside out showing on on the 23rd of June?
We have special screens booked for our members and can't wait to see you all there!
More information and how to book: https://www.girlguidingcambswest.co.uk/inside-out-cinema-showing.html

Happy Earth day! Are you doing earth day activities with your unit? What's your favourite way of helping our young members understand how to look after our world? 🌍

Are you joining us for county camp? Its open to Brownies and Guide units, but also Guides can join us on their own without their units!
Closing date for bookings is the 1st of May so you'll need to get a wiggle on!
More information 👇
https://www.girlguidingcambswest.co.uk/2024-county-camp

1st Hilton Brownies completed the East Anglian Air Ambulance challenge alongside parts of their Charities badge last term. During their sponsored silence to raise money for them the girls made Easter/thank you cards. Here are the members of the team showing off they were sent cards we sent.

You asked... and we have delivered! We have booked the Peterborough Showcase Cinema, Cineworld Huntingdon and Cineworld St Neots for our exclusive screenings of Inside out 2, to coincide with the national showings. Join us and bring your units on the 23rd of June to your chosen cinema!
More information and how to book can be found on the website:
https://www.girlguidingcambswest.co.uk/inside-out-cinema-showing.html

✈️Calling all Rangers, Young leaders and Guides! If you will be 14 before July 2025 you are eligible to apply for our International opportunities day.
We've teamed up with Girlguiding Cambridgeshire East to put on at joint selection day on the 15th of June. You will get to meet other Guide/ Young Leader/ Rangers from across both Girlguiding Cambridgeshire West and Girlguiding Cambridgeshire East. You’ll also be able to find out more about the international trips which Girlguiding Cambridgeshire West and Girlguiding Cambridgeshire East will be running jointly in 2025 and potential 2026.

For more information and to sign up check out the link below: https://www.girlguidingcambswest.co.uk/international-opportunities-day

Do you know someone in your community that makes a difference?!
Nominations close this weekend 🙂

🤔Do you know a local community group that deserves recognition?
🏆Nominate them for a BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Make A Difference Award.
📱 Go to bbc.in/makeadifference for more details.
⏳ Nominations close this Sunday at 11pm.

An invitation for our local badge collectors to a meet up in Sawtry! More details 👇

One of my favourite parts of camp is when all the girls have gone to bed and us leaders can natter over a cuppa. Connect 24 will be a whole weekend of this with the added bonus of no cooks or hygiene patrols!
Join us for a fun weekend with friends old and new at Hautbois activity centre. Bookings are closing soon so grab your tickets while you can.
👉💙https://www.girlguidingcambswest.co.uk/connect-24

What a Thinking day I have had. Tonight I was lucky enough to be joined by Lizzie and Charlotte from Papworth Brownies and Guides and we went along to Huntingdon Community Radio to chat to Norman all about Thinking day. Lizzie and Charlotte were brilliant on air and deserve a great big THANK YOU for joining me! If you listened you'll know Charlotte loved looking the part with her big headphones on!
You can listen back to Normans 'Over to you'd show 👇
https://www.hcrfm.co.uk/on-air/listen-again/

Happy Thinking Day to all our members, and to our Girlguiding and Girl Scout sisters across the 152 member countries of
This year is the 98th time Thinking Day is celebrated and the theme this year is 'our world, our peaceful future'. In 2020 WAGGGS asked members under 18 from across 100 countries what issue they were most concerned about and the environment was number one. This year's theme is the final part of a three year journey for Thinking day to have an environmentally aware theme.

Thinking Day falls on half term for us this week but I'm sure many units will be celebrating over the next week or so, how are you celebrating?

Great news! We have a new group of volunteers ready and willing to re-launch the Duke of Edinburgh scheme in our county.
They are planning a launch meeting on the 13th of March. To register your interest check out the page below 👇
https://www.girlguidingcambswest.co.uk/duke-of-edinburgh-scheme

Listen out on Thinking day from 7pm till 8pm to and maybe we can all renew our promise together 🤞💙🥰
Rudy and some young members will be chatting with Bill all about Thinking Day and how we celebrate.

📻 Listen out to Huntingdon Community Radio this Thursday to hear Rudy and hopefully some young members talking all about Thinking Day and how we celebrate it! 💙

This months newsletter is out now, it includes more info on county camp, first response training dates and our exciting Connect 24 event! Check your inboxes or follow the link 👇
https://mailchi.mp/9c16fbcaaca5/girlguiding-cambs-west-march-newsletter-16053484

If you were at the award ceremony on Saturday did you, like me, enjoy Ann's wonderful talk about the heraldry of our standard? Did you know we reproduced the county standard badges back in 2020 and you can buy your own copy in pin and woven versions 👇

County Specific Badges - Shop

Well done everyone we've made it to the end of another fun and adventure filled term!

How many of our end of term bingo can you check off? Do you get a full house!? Share the post with your results or comment below 👇

Some of our members have had a real adventure today as they attended Girlguiding in London.

They had the red carpet treatment, were treated to special entertainment and even bumped into the Chief Guide!
Members were invited to attend if they had earned their Queen's Guide, Silver Fish, been nominated to attend or in Sues case to celebrate her Laurel Award! 🏆🌿

Loves Farm Guides had an incredible night for when Cllr Lara Davenport-Ray joined them for the evening.
They had some hearty debates, learnt all about the different levels of government and shared their ideas about the local area.
Hopefully they inspired the next generation of local councillors!