We are always very busy in Derbyshire. To find out whats going on either follow the page links on the left or look below at the diary.
Go Cook It 2012
A challenge to ALL Guide and Brownie Units in Derbyshire
Final to be held at Matlock Green Scout & Guide HQ, Sunday 1st July 2012
Brownie Teams: A Team of 4. At least 1 must be under 9 on 1st July 2012
Guide Teams: A Team of 3. At least 1 must be under 13 on 1st July 2012
Brownie Section Challenge: Final will take place on the morning of 1st July 2012
To produce a THEMED picnic lunch for four brownies consisting of four dishes (one dish can be a beverage) with no cooking involved
- Overall cost per head should not exceed £4.00
- Time allowed will be one hour
- Hygiene, taste, healthy dishes, use of local ingredients and presentation will be the main elements judged
- The themed picnic lunch will be presented on a table with resources, if desired, relevant to the theme
Guide Section Challenge: Final will take place on the afternoon of 1st July 2012
To produce a THEMED three-course meal for two people i.e. Starter, Main and Sweet.
- Overall cost no more than £12.00
- At least one course must be cooked
- Time allowed 1 hour 30 minutes
- Cooking will be executed on a two-burner gas stove.
- Hygiene, taste, healthy dishes, use of local ingredients and presentation will be the main elements judged
- The themed meal will be presented on a table with resources, if desired, relevant to the theme
To download booking form click HERE
Have a go at the County Challenge
This Challenge has been designed to fill the void left after all the Centenary Celebrations of the last year!
We've all had a really busy and frantic time and we thought a challenge, to be completed at your own pace, was required.
It has been designed for us to explore and find out about the wonderful County we live in.
The challenge has 5 zones, just choose one challenge out of each zone.
Complete a scrapbook to record your challenges and send in to County Office with a completed badge order form & cheque.
That's it - Challenge completed.
We hope you enjoy! Dont delay visit the website NOW http://www.countychallenge.btck.co.uk/
Derbyshire - a County of contrasts and a wonderful place to explore
Midlands Region Get about Challenge
This challenge is open to all sections. It is designed to encourage you to get out and about into the great outdoors.
A copy of the challenge is available on the Region website (www.girlguiding-midlands.org.uk) under Events, News.
GirlguidingLondon LaSER Challange
Welcome to the Girlguiding LaSER London Challenge - all the places to visit have connections with Guiding and some may have a special meaning in the Centenary year e.g. Crystal Palace Maze, Centenary exhibition. You can visit as many as you want in a day or over a period of time. Senior Section may wish to do as many as they can in a day, whilst Rainbows may want to visit one or two in a day - the choice is yours. There are other activities that can be done in Unit meetings.
We hope you have fun completing the Challenge - please ensure that Girlguiding UK rules and ratios are adhered to when visiting London with your Unit.
Once you have gained 100 points then you are entitled to be awarded your LaSER London Challenge Badge. Badges will be available from LaSER Region Office at a cost of £1.20 each which includes postage and packing. Cheques should be made payable to Girlguiding LaSER.
To download the information sheets click HERE to download the record card click HERE
Beat the Clock 2011
We really enjoyed 'Beat the Clock' – especially because it was our first outing as a group. We really enjoyed the incidents as they helped us to work better as a team and realise each others skills. The morning activities were really helpful and esigning/decorating an egg was great. We went for a farmyard theme with a chick, a cow, a pig and a cat which we carefully carried around the whole hike until we scrambled them at the end. Very Tasty!
Our favourite incident would have to be peeling a potato blindfolded, tricky but good fun. Also the 'water on a spoon obstacle race' was challenging but enjoyable. We clambered over benches and squeezed behind telephone boxes whilst trying to keep as much water on our spoons as possible.
We were really pleased to have done the hike in such a good time and sharing the sweets with everyone was another favourite bit!
We would definitely like to do somethng like this again, it was a brilliant day and we are very grateful to everyone who helped to make it happen – thank you!
Heather, Becca, Emma and Alex,
1st Heanor Harlequins
Centenary Letterboxing
Thank you to everyone that took part in the Centenary Letterbox Challenge and helped to make it a success. Especially to the volunteers that were guardians of the boxes and to Sprint Sports and Leisure for providing the badges.
It has taken a while to get all the information together but now we have it here are a few facts.
Forty people were given badges for collecting at least eight stamps. The youngest was Elise Thornhill who is a Brownie at 3rd Oakwood Brownie Pack.
Visiting dignitaries in the form of Colin and Val, The Region Walking Advisors completed the challenge and thoroughly enjoyed discovering different areas of Derbyshire.
The most visited box was Egginton, with a total of 66 visitors, closely followed by Linacre Reservoirs and Youlgrave.
The least visited box was Edale, but then it was always going to struggle to be top in the leader board as it was in a very out of the way place in the county and apparently very difficult to find, (believed to be missing on a number of occasions, but actually safely tucked away being looked after by the moth people!)
A number of random non-guiding people found some of the boxes and wrote some lovely comments, especially at High Peak Junction (Cromford).
Anyone that went out looking for the boxes would have to agree that the most difficult to find was Elvaston Castle – but at least you all know what a yew tree looks like now!
Sue Featherstone got her Dartmoor letterbox stamp out of retirement and took part in the challenge – hopefully it brought back many happy memories of feeling around under rocks and gorse in the mist and rain on Dartmoor!
Keep watching for other new ideas coming from the Walking Team next year
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