On Saturday 2nd April, over 70 leaders from Girlguiding Durham South, attending their first face to face training day in over 2 years, at the TCR The Hub. Due to the pandemic, the leaders regular training has had to be either postponed or has taken place via Zoom. The morning session was split into the […]
Past Events
Brownies learn First Aid
2nd Chester Le Street Brownies invited Jess from Working Well Training to come along and deliver some First Aid training. The girls had a absolutely brilliant time learning key aspects of Frist Aid such as CPR and what to put in a first aid kit. They also covered what to do when calling 999 as […]
Mindful Monday
2nd Chester Le Street Brownies had a lovely time with Jess from Karma life who ran a yoga session. The girls had such a fabulous time learning different yoga positions, like downward dog, as well as practicing some mindful techniques. We would highly recommend having a session with Jess. We received fabulous comments from parents […]
Brownies Lend a Hand
Some of the Brownies from Chester-Le-Street have acted very quickly to collect and donate items to go to Ukraine via our local Costcutter in garden farm (Costcutter Carlingford Road) who are acting as a local drop off point. Well done girls, we are very proud! It’s great to see the girls putting our Brownie Law […]
A fairy good time!
6th Chester-Le-Street have had a fabulous time at Camp house for their Rainbow Sleepover. They arrived to find a fairy tea party in the dining room where they found fairy dust. They then went on a fairy hunt walk around the lovely grounds of Camp house. They found sticks that they turned into wands. Every girl […]
Great News for Camp House
Thanks to County Durham Community Foundation supporting us with funding from the Community Grants Funding Programme. This will enable us to replace the stairlift at Durham Camp House, giving full access to all our users. […]
Big achievements within the 6th Durham City Brownies
Last term was very busy for 6th Durham City (St. Oswald’s) Brownie Unit. We managed a full term of face to face meetings after a term on Zoom. We welcomed 6 new Brownies to our Unit this term. We had 6 make their promises (1 started 2 weeks before lockdown and didn’t zoom, 1 tried […]
Freya and Izzy get Gold!
Freya and Izzy from 3rd Haughton-le-Skerne Brownies completed their Brownie Gold Award over lockdown, meeting over zoom and outdoors while we waited to get back into our meeting place. The Brownie Gold award is the highest award a Brownie can achieve, completing all 6 theme awards along with 3 Gold challenges. This is a fantastic […]
National Scout and Guide Symphony Orchestra (NSGSO)
Florence and Eilidh from Birtley Rangers had a day with NSGSO (National Scout and Guide Symphony Orchestra) last weekend. They had applied for the 2020 intake which did not happen, so instead were offered a 1 day experience. There will be a concert of some kind soon. “The NSGSO was a great experience where lots […]
Chester-Le-Street Remembrance Display
The 2nd Chester-Le-Street Brownies and The 6th Chester-Le-Street Rainbows would like to show their amazing work. They have been busy creating beautiful Poppies for everyone to see when they walk past Chester-Le-Street Guide HQ. The girls were given time to draw out their own poppy then painted it in their own style. The girls have created beautiful, […]