Girl Guiding Archives - Stoke Gifford Journal

The Stoke Gifford Journal website was retired at the end of 2024. It is being retained for the time being as a historical record. Looking for something specific? – Try using the Search function.

Photo of Brownies taking part in the nature orienteering trail at Three Brooks Nature Reserve, Bradley Stoke.

Wednesday 2nd January 2019 SH (Editor)

Could a volunteering opportunity in Guiding be your New Year’s resolution?

By Alix Evans, Frome Valley Division Commissioner and leader at 2nd Stoke Gifford Rainbows. By the time you’re reading this you’ve probably eaten all the turkey and mince pies you can stomach, and you may be thinking of some changes you can make for the New Year. One of the best decisions I ever made was to return to Guiding

Monday 16th April 2018 Laura Mortimore

Work begins on Rainbows’ community toy library

The 2nd Stoke Gifford Rainbows have been busy recruiting volunteers to help renovate a disused telephone box with the aim of transforming it into a community toy library. The group of 5 to 7-year-old girls first put out an appeal at the beginning of the year, looking for carpenters, glaziers and cast iron welders to give up some of their

Photo of girls from the 2nd Stoke Gifford Rainbows gathered outside the disused telephone box.

Tuesday 27th March 2018 SH (Editor)

Appeal for tradespersons to help transform phone box into toy library

Do you know a carpenter, glazier or cast iron welder who could help transform a disused traditional red ‘heritage’ phone box into a valuable facility for the local community? The 2nd Stoke Gifford Rainbows would like to transform the phone box at The Green, North Road (near the Beaufort Arms) into a community toy library, filled with good quality second-hand