Guiding continues to grow (From The Northern Echo)
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Nigel Dowson writes about his hometown of Cockfield. Nigel, who was born and bred in Cockfield, owns Jigsaw Hair Salon in Darlington.
Guiding continues to grow
1:13pm Tuesday 27th July 2010 in
CHILDREN came up with a blooming great way of celebrating the guiding movement’s centenary in their village.
Witton-le-Wear Rainbows and Brownies planted a beech tree on the village green in Witton-le-Wear, near Bishop Auckland, last week.
It bares a plaque to commemorate the landmark 100th anniversary of the movement, which started when a group girls asked Boy Scouts founder Robert Baden-Powell for something for them.
Guiding is now a global youth movement with more than 10 million members and more than 500,000 five to 25-year-olds regularly taking part in activities in the UK.
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