Author: Girls Take Action

Our project T shirts have arrived this week and look lovely! Exciting! We're looking forward to giving them out to everyone at our next briefing meeting on Sunday 2nd Feb.  

That is the question...   As always every doctor gives different advice. To add to this, there's a national shortage of yellow fever vaccine and typhoid seems hard to get too! Hopefully everyone will get what is needed within the time we have left! Happy jab hunting!

Several team members have now raised all of their money, a couple have even been able to donate more, which means we can do even more good work on our projects! Only 4 months to go! :)

We had our first team briefing today - exciting times!! We started with introductions then did some getting to know you and team building activities. This included a challenge to build famous places out of pasta & marshmallows - can you guess what they are?! Egypt - Pyramids Wimbledon - Tennis Court Stonehenge Angel of the North Eiffel Tower The London Eye   Then we heard about 5...

Our first team meeting is fast approaching! During this time we plan to get to know each other with a few team building activities, tell the team a little bit more about where we will be staying and what to expect in The Gambia and we will also discuss and finalise the project(s) that we would like to undertake. A kit list will be distributed and there will also be some t-shirt samples for team...

Megan from Girlguiding Wirral was interviewed by Crash radio today (7th September), talking about her fundraising event on 21st September to raise money for her trip - great PR Megan!   

Hello and welcome to the blog for the trip to The Gambia in April 2014, for members of Cheshire Forest plus neighbouring counties Cheshire Border and Wirral. We hope you enjoy reading about our trip and that it inspires you to travel with Girlguiding too!

We had a great fundraising evening at India Garden in Frodsham. A great 3 course meal, raffle, plus an insightful talk from Alagi who we work with on all our projects in The Gambia. We are delighted that we raised £280 for the Women’s Rising peer education group who we support.