Month: January 2023

Stretching across our 477-girl strong division, we have been very busy these past few months leacing up to 2023. We’ve been having lots of fun in our unit meetings, fantastic trips out and adventurous residentials.

1^st Woodlesford Brownies had a visit from the Prickly Edge Hedgehog Rescue Centre, who taught the girls how to take care of hedgehogs and what to do if they were to come across them during the daytime. The unit also did a fantastic fundraiser collecting money and items for the centre and raised a grand total of £500! We are very proud of their fundraising efforts.

1^st Kippax Rainbows have created some fantastic rainbow mobiles, which helped them introduce the promise to the new members of their unit. To commemorate the passing of our patron, Queen Elizabeth II, they remembered her with a reading next to the Diamond Jubilee Tree in the grounds of their unit meeting place. They also painted silhouettes of the Queen. More recently they created poppy wreaths and poppy suncatchers, as part of our Remembrance Day activities.

3^rd Garforth Guides have been very busy over the past few months, participating in activities in and out of their unit place and have been on multiple pack holidays! They have taken part in: an Oscars party, land yachting, quad biking, a rowing challenge, a cave bus, CPR & AED training, a silent disco, a drumming workshop, been to a Euro football match, GoApe & Zip Wire and even a game of human hungry hippos!

Oulton Rainbows visited The Wonkey Donkey Centre in Knottingley. They fed the goats and got to cuddle the small donkeys in the paddocks.

3^rd Rothwell Brownies went to Skelton Grange to get stuck in with learning about bush crafts, building shelters and even cooked popcorn on an open fire, Yum!

20 girls from 1^st Garforth Brownies went on pack holiday to Thorntwaite Scout Activity Centre. They had a Kite Workshop, where they made and later flew their kites. They also used the centre’s traversing wall and completed Disney themed activities and the camp skill builder!

Our division has been enjoying being back face-to-face after covid and the excitement of all the activities we have been doing and are yet to do!

We are very thankful to all the volunteers in our division who make all this possible.

The Rainbows, Brownies and Guides from Tarnheights Division have planted a hundred trees from the Woodland Trust at the local Parkinsons Park along the Jubilee walk, as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy project. We planted elder, blackthorn, hazel, dog rose and rowan.

The girls brought their parents or leaders to help armed with spades. The ground wasn’t the easiest to drive a spade into and two Brownies teamed up to solve this problem. With a foot on each side of the spade and arms wrapped around each other, they used their combined strength to push the spade into the earth.

Parkinsons Park had also been given some daffodil bulbs to plant which they asked for us to plant too.

We look forward to revisiting Parkinsons Park in the spring to see how the trees are doing and all the daffodils that will have popped up to let us know spring is here.