| A little known fact: None of the people featured on this page receive any payment for doing what they do in Guiding. Most have 'real jobs' and all are volunteers, who give up their spare time to provide opportunities for the girls in their units. For them, Guides does not stop when the weekly meeting ends, as they are constantly planning the next activity or event, trying out crafts or visiting faraway campsites to make sure they're suitable...not to mention the paperwork...! |
| website designed, created and maintained by Sara Tucker email: fuzz@buckfastleighguides.org |
| Guider in Charge Recently spotted reliving her youth and swinging in the trees (letting in the breeze)! Kestrel has been with 1st Buckfastleigh Guides since 1985. |
| Assistant Guider Likes sheep and snorkelling but not the number 37. Fuzz used to be a Guider in Dorset before coming to Devon for University and, well, staying! |
| District Commissioner Back to Guiding after a (we'll just say 'long') gap! Alison oversees Guiding in the Ashburton District, which from what we understand mostly involves forms! She is also the Ashburton District Senior Section Guider. |
| Trefoil Guild A former Guider with 1st Buckfastleigh Guides, Badger is still a regular visitor, testing people for badges, helping with events and camping with us. |
| Guider in Charge with 3rd Newton Abbot (SA) Guides (and Bess the dog!) An inseparable pair, they often accompany us (and sometimes they bring their Guides!) on camps and trips. 'Kestrel 2' is also our Division Commissioner |
| Assistant Guider with 3rd Newton Abbot (SA) Guides Our infamous Camp First Aider (complete with a grand collection of hats and garden gnomes) likes to be in charge of the fire...should we be concerned?! |
| Mr Kestrel One of the great species - the 'Husband of a Guider' he has willingly sacrificed his spare room (and attic, and dining room table...) to the cause of Guiding and is invaluable to have around, especially for providing the latest weather forecast whilst we are in a wet field! |
| Unit Helper Flamingo has been helping 1st Buckfastleigh Guides for 18 years now - often ends up 'supervising' the kitchen-based activities but claims it's nothing to do with the free samples! |
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| Assistant Guider Buckfastleigh Guides is Blue Jay's initiation into the world of Guiding! She's been with us for two terms now, so we can't have scared her yet! |
| Young Leader Often having to be reminded that she is not a Guide, Glow-worm is zany and loves to have fun. One day she'll remember her neckerchief... |
| Ex Assistant Guider Highly competitive and with a promising QM career ahead of her, Kookaburra was once a Buckfastleigh Guide herself. Sadly for us she has moved away again, but she promises to be back to cook for us on camp! |
| Young Leader Quiet but certainly not shy, Firefly loves to have fun but has a serious side, too. Firefly represented Devon Guides on a trip to Switzerland in 2008. |