We stared the year by joining over 3000 other Dorset scouts, cubs and beavers for a parade through Dorchester and a St George's Day service at Maumbury Rings. The county chaplain conducted the service with an address by the Bishop of Sherborne.
In May we joined in the District Camp at Buddens Farm and in July we went on the District visit to Brownsea Island and later in August some of us went to the County Centennial camp at Buddens Farm, where every imaginable activity was available.
Since then we have been doing more badge activities and in January cubs and Beavers were awarded 17 badges between them. We end the year with out Founders Day service at St Marks. We meet every Tuesday at the Heatherlands Centre at 6.15. For more information contact Mrs Christine Coleman on 895641 or Eric Stevenson on 875316.

THE TREFOIL GUILD
Keeps you in touch with Guiding

The flowers in St. Mark's on the weekend of May 10th are part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of The Trefoil Guild. In 1957 Olave Baden-Powell wrote to the Daily Telegraph: "There are thousands of former Guides who once spent many happy hours in Guiding but are now too busy with other jobs to continue actively within the Guide Movement. These former Guides have an organisation of their own called the Trefoil Guild which enables them to keep in touch with the active movement." The Trefoil Guild is part of the Guide Movement but not of Girl Guiding UK (the new name for the Guide Association).

The Aims and Objectives of the Trefoil Guild are:

To keep alive among members the spirit of the Guide / Scout Promise and Law
To carry that spirit into the communities in which members live and work
To give practical, financial and moral support to Guiding and Scouting.
Full membership is open to former members of the Guiding / Scouting Movement and anyone who agrees with the aims of the Guild. Active Guiders can be Associate members. There are 18 Guilds in Dorset at present. The local ones are:.

Kinson Guild, which meets on the 1st Tuesday of each month at East Howe URC Hall.
Contact Betty Raymond Tel. 874260
North East Forest Guild, which meets on the last Thursday of each month at Ferndown Guide Hall
Contact Joan Holt Tel 871803