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Village Voice February/March 2021
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Guiding in P&TG
My first article for 2021 and I wish it was one
filled with much more to say, but we’ve
snowballed through all the tiers to a third
lockdown! Our Guide pack did manage to
squeeze in a few meetings between November’s
lockdown and finishing for Christmas. They had
a campfire evening in the car park, along with
sparklers, hot chocolate with marshmallows,
glow in the dark sticks, singing round the
campfire and a bonfire night quiz. They had to
make a glow stick work before they could wear
them and I think we all need a ‘Guide’ right
now, to navigate ourselves along such a
challenging path.
During the last lockdown the girls have been
doing challenges at home ranging from painting
a remembrance picture to taking part in the
Children in Need/Girlguiding challenge called
Act Your Age in which you had to do something
for your age. One of the Guides was due to
cycle 11k (her age) but did 14, another jogged
17k even though she was 14 and Linda, their
leader did 51,500 steps following the trend, so
they all did fantastically well! They have been
working on craft ideas at home and I look
forward to hearing how they get on.
The Kingswood Trefoil Guild managed to
visit all of their members at Christmas with a
cyclamen and card, which were received with
great pleasure! They continue to stay in touch
with their monthly newsletter, quizzes, crafts
and poems. They are encouraging their
members to keep in touch if life gets too
difficult. Friendship and support are right at the
heart of what the Trefoil do and they are
working hard to keep that there for all their
members at this time, particularly those who are
living alone or are a carer. I am currently
writing this whilst attempting homeschooling
again and for me, this must be the hardest
lockdown to date not helped by the weather and
shorter days. So, I am thinking of you all,
Village Voice readers, and hoping that in your
own way you are finding a path through this.
I have busied myself with trying to get back
into photography again and encouraging my 5
year old to have a go with me. If you have a
child at home who is emotionally struggling
with not seeing friends or family, Girlguiding
UK have help and support on their website.
Visit https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/what-wedo/adventures-at-home/mental-healthwellbeing-and-coronavirus/
scroll down and
click on the link for Thinking resilient: activities
for wellbeing. I sign off in the hope of better,
happier news in weeks and months to come, and
in the spirit of the Girlguiding movement, be
kind to others as well as yourself. Katie Barnes
P&TG Scouts
Christmas has historically been a busy time for
the group with Carol Concerts, Scout Post,
Santa’s sleigh and the like. This Christmas we
were forced to drastically curtail our activities.
This said we were still able to support some
activities by providing volunteers. The previous
Scout Post was organised in a different way and
provided a much liked local service. We
previously sold stamps and delivered cards in
the Penn & Tyler’s village area. This time,
thanks to scouting friends and families, we
managed to run a similar but quite different
service. There were no stamps sold, we just
32 www.pennandtylersgreen.org.uk