Pinkneys Green guide leader celebrates 50 years of girl guiding

A girl guiding leader was presented with a prestigious 50 year bar award at St Marks Methodist Church on Friday.

Angela McNabb, a girl guide leader from 1st Pinkneys Green (Miss Baden Powell's Own) company has been with the guides for more than 50 years and celebrated the occasion with a party.

She also received her bronze voyage award, which is part of the Trefoil Guild – guiding for adults.

She said: “I joined brownies when I was seven-and-a-half years old because my mum was a girl guiding leader.

“At aged 11 I joined guides and I became a leader at 17 in 1965.

“Sometimes it’s challenging. It’s changed a lot over the years, when I was younger everyone went to guides because it was something to do but now there is much more for girls to do, like gymnastics or ballet, so we have less and less guides become leaders.

“We do lots of activities – next month we are carol singing and last month we went pond dipping at Braywick Park.

“I’m now working towards my silver and gold voyage award which should take me a couple of years.”

1st Pinkneys Green (Miss Baden Powell's Own) company was the first girl guiding group to be registered worldwide in 1909.