The Girl Guides
Rainbows - Girls age 5-7years.
6th East Grinstead (St Mary's) Rainbows - Thursdays
The Unit started in Sept 2007, and has been at capacity since, with activities away from the hall including:bowling in Crawley, visit to ICANDO Girlguiding UK's London Activity Centre, joining 80 other Rainbows to celebrate the 21st birthday of the section, walks with 1st Copthorne Rainbows, to Playworld with 2nd St Luke's Rainbows and a trip behind the scenes at the EG Library.
In the hall they have done: indoor camping, made pizzas, put on a puppet show, played games, sung songs, had parties, made loads of crafty items, put on a junk orchestra performance...The Rainbows have done their Right to be Me badge, Olivia's favourites badge, Roundabout, and others! They are looking forward to the next busy year!
The group are looking for another adult helper to come along each week for an hour.
Contact Fiona 01342 322414 for waiting-to-join lists or to find out more.
Brownies - Girls aged 7-10 years.
3rd East Grinstead (St Mary's) Brownies - Fridays
The Pack have been on nights away both indoors and camping, they play games, do craft and badge work whilst having fun!
To join a waiting-to-join list or for more infomation phone Lorrayne 01342 327567.
6th East Grinstead (St Mary's) Brownies - Tuesdays
The Brownies have recently done: their Artist badge, had a BBQ and been on a picnic and games evening. They have been on Pack Holiday to Blackland Farm with the theme of Peter Pan.
The group are looking for a weekly helper to cope with increasing numbers, to find out what's involved please phone Liz 01342 324110.
To join a waiting-to-join list phone Jill on 01342 328066.
Guides - Girls aged 10-14 years.
6th East Grinstead (St Mary's) Guides
Recently the girls have been to Blackland Farm to camp, use the activities and take part in a Sport Relief sponsored Abseil!
The Guides have been on a chip walk round town to asses the taste of our chips, been to K2 to go swimming, visited the Fire Station for their fire awareness badge, joined the other Rainbows, Brownies and Guides visiting the Hawth for Panto and gone to WS2008, an international camp for Scouts and Guides from West Susex and all over the world held at Ardingly every 4 years.
The girls take part in varied activities, from games to Go for It!'s, Chocolate badge to circus skills.
The group are looking for a weekly helper aged 18-65 to assist the other leaders with activities.
To put your daughter's name on a waiting-to-join list please phone Karen 01342 717050.
As you can see, all the units at St Mary's are very active, and offer great programmes during the year. All units at present are at capacity, or very near, so it is advisable to put your daughters name down for a unit as soon as possible, there are girls on the Rainbow waiting-to-join list as young as 3 months old!
Anyone wishing to support the units financially when they do their online shopping can do so for free at www.easyfundraising.org.uk/6thegguides for the Guides or www.easyfundraising.org.uk/6thegr for the Rainbows.
All the units join together to collect both the Sainsbury's Active Kids vouchers and the Tescos Sports vouchers, the Church Hall is a collection point for both. Thank you.
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