Our Centenary Story continues ......

Even as the guiding year comes to an end the girls are still packing in the activities to help celebrate our centenary.

George Street as it was never seen before on a Saturday in June, hundreds of Rainbow Princess entering the elegant ballrooms of The Assembley Rooms.

A number of Edinburgh Brownies travelled to Scone Palace for the Carnival Express.  The girls all had a fantastic time taking part and watching circus workshops, stilt walkers, fire-eaters, musicians and Clowns to name but a few.




On the 18th of June saw the Guides from Clermiston District 239th Unit, officially open the this years display of the Flower Clock in Princes Street Gardens, which celebrates 100 years of Guiding. 




I was delighted to hear the this years Lord Provost Award for Inspiring Volunteer of the Year 2010 was presented to Elizabeth Bisset, a recently retired Brownie Guider from Abercorn Division.  Liz has recieved this award for her involvement in Guiding in the Craigmillar area of Edinburgh for over 50 years and for the work she does for the Richmond Hope, a project for bereaved children. You can see a video about Liz on YouTube .

Congratulations to the 'Caley Ducks', a group of Edinburgh Guiders, for  successfully completing the Caledonian Challenge.
They completed the 54 miles in 19 hours and 33 minutes,  coming in 31st out of 179 competing teams which is an amazing feat considering this was the first time they had compeated and ad many of the other teams compete on a yearly basis.


Our own headquaters in Melville Street, will be part of the Edinburgh Fringe this year.  This is the first time we have opened the house to the public as part of the Fringe, so please come along and find out more about Guiding in Edinburgh and /or just to see our beautiful Georgian house that we all love so much.  The house will be open in August on the following dates:

  Friday 13/Saturday 14   Friday 20/Saturday 21   Friday 27/Saturday 28
 
Fridays 7-9pm  and Saturdays 2-4pm.


Margaret Winter
County Commissioner