Sleepover for Rainbows & Brownies
Rainbows and Brownies from Binstead recently enjoyed a sleepover. In fact all the girls and leaders enjoyed it so much that now another sleepover is planned.
Rainbows and Brownies from Binstead recently enjoyed a sleepover. In fact all the girls and leaders enjoyed it so much that now another sleepover is planned.
Around 50 Guides who are members of Girlguiding Isle of Wight attended a ‘Badge Day’ on the 1st February. Held at St. George’s School, Newport, the day was organised by Guide leaders and was planned to enable the Guides to improve their knowledge on a selection of topics. All the
Three members of 1st Ventnor Guides have achieved their Baden Powell Awards the highest award for girls of this age. Catherine Idle 15years old, Beth Hammond 13 and Sydney Pitts 13 completed a range of different activities. Two helped at Brownie meetings for two terms and one helped at the Children’s Centre. They also ran a First Aid evening, made song books and ran activities and games together for the other
As the first major festival of the summer, The Isle of Wight Festival organisers have now revealed fourteen more acts for this year’s event. James, Imelda May, Paul Oakenfold, Courteeners, Suzanne Vega, Ash, Sharon Corr, Foxes, Lightning Seeds, Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band, The View, UB40’s Ali Campbell, Astro and Mickey Virtue, Ian Anderson plays
Island residents and those on the mainland with a view of Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth will be able to view it in a blue light on January 30th thanks to Girlguiding IW’s Island Commissioner Deborah Meadows. At present Spinnaker Tower can be illuminated by floodlights from dusk through the evening to
On Monday 12th January entry was opened at 12 noon for this year’s RORC Rolex Fastnet Race to be sailed out of Cowes on the 16th August. There was so much interest for the 90th anniversary of this event that within 24 minutes of entries opening all places had been
Members of 1st Gurnard Guides, along with several Brownies from Northwood and Gurnard have enjoyed a magical visit to Warner Brothers Making of Harry Potter Studio Experience in Hertfordshire. This visit was arranged as a grand finale to the All Things Magical Challenge Badge the Guides had been working on
Sophie Moore from the Senior Section’s Sandown Bay Ranger Unit was selected to go to Mexico in 2014. International trips are always great adventures. Sophie- let everyone know about your trip by writing something for this website.
Carisbrooke Rangers (part of Girlguiding’s Senior Section for young women aged 14-26yrs) took part in a fundraising bag pack with the kind support of Sainsbury’s supermarket recently. This was a return visit to the Newport store for the Rangers who had packed customers’ bags for 2 hours about a year
Organisers of The Isle of Wight Festival, the first major festival of the summer, enjoyed the exciting announcement of Fleetwood Mac headlining on 14th June recently. The Prodigy, The Black Keys, Pharrell Williams and Paolo Nutini are also up for the 2015 event. Now, organisers have announced a further 10