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Looking back 2012 - 1997
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| Christmas Dinner Party, Bowling & Sleepover 21.12.12. | |||
We met early, so some members could
make yule logs, then deliver them whilst others
cooked and laid the table, then having eaten, Awards
were presented, we played our left/right present
giving game and went glow bowling. Upon our return
we tidied away, partied, then slept
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 During the Autumn term we collected (in conjunction with Middle Barton Guides & Brownies) twenty backpacks for Mary's Meals, providing basic school equipment to children in Malawi and Uganda. |
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| Drop off Night Hike 9.11.12 - girls were blindfolded & dropped off in the middle of nowhere, given maps & told to walk to a Grid Reference where they found the leader team listening to Jazz at the Abingdon Arms at Beckley. Below: - going through the notices after the Hike, which they said 'Was way too easy!!' | |||
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| Halloween Sleepover at Oxford Unlocked 2.11.12 - below: - the Prison mug shots! | |||
 Alexis & Cheryl ran our Halloween Party at the old Oxford Prison this year, then Alexis ended up winning the prize for the best dressed. She did well!!   |
  We had a really good time with the usual bobbing for apples, flour cake & doughnuts on string type games. |
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| Autumn Term 2012 The Programme included: | |||
Celebrating the Chinese Lunar
Festival: Making a mosaic Pudsey Bear for a Children In Need Hobby Craft competition:  |
Working on the Together We Can
Challenge:   Looking at the Eight Millennium Development Goals, making a web of how they link together, playing games, sorting quizzes, tasting chocolate and painting Advocacy bags for the World Wildlife Fund, just some of the activities we participated in. |
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| 22-23rd September 2012 Bronze Expedition | |||
| Horizon joined by Aspire R.G.U. at
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| 21st September 2012 Annual General Meeting | |||
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The Unit holds an Annual General Meeting every September, usually before our leave-takers go off to Uni. The Chair runs the meeting, to which Parents, Guides over the age of 13 and interested adults are invited. The agenda includes reports from the Chair, Treasurer and Unit Guider and the opportunity for the girls to question Unit procedure and to propose motions to change the constitution, as well as the election of new Officers of the Executive Committee (Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer & Catering Officer). A Court of Award Ceremony (COA) usually follows the A.G.M. |
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| Climbing at Oxford Brookes 10.8.12 | |||
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 Before going off to Bosnia, Jasmine organised climbing for us. Many thanks to Chris Kirkham of Freeland for taking us. A very good evening. |
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| Summer Camp 28th July-4th August 2012 Guernsey | |||
 Above fish & chips at Poole, where they stayed the first night, courtesy of Mike Winchester of Hamworthy Scouts, having missed their ferry connection due to traffic diversions on the first day of the Olympic Games. Below on Brownsea Island.  Below again, on the boat, crossing over to Guernsey.  Whilst camping at Les Maingies Scout Campsite the girls visited the Little Chapel, La Vallette Hospital & Underground Military Museum & Victor Hugo's House.  They took innumerable bus trips, held a barbecue on the beach, took a boat trip over to the island of Sark where they hired bikes and cycled around and spent time in St Peter Port, picnicked and paddled.  Thank you Cheryl and Mim for taking the girls away! |
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| Bronze DofE Practice Expedition 14-15th July | |||
 Above the group, some of them
members of Aspire RGU, and right cooking their
supper at Green Hill Farm, Bletchingdon, having
walked from Kidlington.
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| Alternative cooking 13.7.12 | |||
Tin can pancakes, kick
the can ice cream, arm pit fudge and chocolate cakes
cooked in zip-lock baggies were all tried. Pancakes
worked the best!!! |
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| Sun Run at Cleeve Hill 6-8th July 2012 | |||
 Above, some of the gang who went from Horizon, below, the mud, top right an innovation this year were the animals and below right, cooking the stir fry. Becky ran the camp for us, Nette sat at home, missing it! Maria, Cheryl, Mim & Nikki, all drove and Holly, Clare, Becca, Lucy, Jasmine, Erika & Kayleigh attended. Not enough TOILETS and too much mud!!  |
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| COA & Bar-b-cue 22.6.12 -- no barbie as the weather was foul, again.. | |||
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Nikki's Gold DofE Award Presentation was a very small affair held at the Centre. Andrea Oughton, County Commissioner presented the badge and the girls were presented with lollipops and the badges and awards they'd gained since the last Court of Awards.   Unfortunately it was not well supported, but those who couldn't make it missed an excellent chocolate cake!! Well Done Nikki!! |
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| District Fete 16.6.12 | |||
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at the District Fete, a mixture of selling tickets
for a hamper & meal for two at the Highwayman,
the BBQ and some small games like marble roll &
the wire buzzer. In all (including the raffle) we made over £2,000 for the Rebuilding Fund. Brings it up to nearly £60,000. We were well supported & Gemma made a great job of supervising the cooking (as seen below).  Unfortunately wind surfing, the
week before, had had to be cancelled, partly
because it wasn't sorted in time and partly
because of the weather. However the Survival
Weekend at Beanwood, where four members battled
the elements with only a few necessities for
company was very successful. Whilst the Wide Game collecting scattered aircraft wreckage around the Village was slightly less so, especially as Terrorists, Rikki, Jemma & Destiny (from Middle Barton Guides) were never captured!! |
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| Survival Event 1-3rd
June at Beanwood |
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 Above the survivors, to the right escaping from a burning building and below making and using a rope ladder to find a birds nest full of eggs. They also found a chicken and dug up wild growing potatoes  |
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| Backwoods Cooking 18.5.12 & Drop Off Hike 25.5.12 | |||
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Brigid organised our Backwoods
Cooking Evening, with help from Mum, Louise, even
peeling the damper sticks for us. We ate those with
butter and jam, cooked chocolate cakes in oranges
(not enough hot embers to be really good!) and ended
with s'mores. The Drop Off Hike the following
week was mainly sorted by Nette. 3 Car loads of
girls were blindfolded and dropped off near
Woodstock. They were then given maps, had to
find out where they were and make their way to a
given grid reference, where they found the
Leaders relaxing in the Pub. Below, a diet coke,
notices and a natter to end the evening.
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| Gold DofE Presentations Clare, Cheryl, Suzanne and Lizzie with Court Of Awards 6.4.12 | |||
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On the 6th April we hosted another Court of Awards, this time featuring the Presentation of 4 Gold DofE Awards, to Clare, Cheryl, Suzanne and Lizzie. The picture on the left shows the girls with our Region DofE Adviser (Jean), Nette and County Commissioner (Andrea). Becca, Lucy & Louise were presented with their Silvers and Flic her Bronze. Families and friends supported the Event and all Rangers were presented with Awards gained since our last Court of Awards, these were attached to bottles of bubbles (pic. left below) labelled: Thanks
for all the many things you do with
all your Rangering
The paper jungle, people maze, the great ideas you bring. You rush to come to meetings, leaving things at home undone In order to ensure we all have memories of fun. In all the running round you do, we often fail to say, That we notice everything you do, on each and every day. So take a couple of minutes, and look way deep inside Get past the work and phone calls, to that little girl you hide. You might not recognise her, haven’t seen her for a while But she’s been there, just waiting, with your patient little smile. So grab this pot of bubbles, and you both go out to play Take all your troubles with you, and blow them all away!  |
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| Darts Tournament, Sports Evening etc. Spring 2012 | |||
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Despite having a full Programme we
don't seem to have many photos to show what we've
been up to this term. This is partly because Nette
was absent a lot recovering from a tendon shift
operation on her left foot. Rangers continued with
another brilliant Gang Show, an Animal Sanctuary
visit, letters written to Post Pals and a Great
British Bake Off! |
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| Court of Awards & Nikki's Queen's Guide Evening 6.1.12 | |||
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| Christmas Dinner and Sleepover 2011 | |||
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 Our annual Christmas Dinner Party and Sleepover was attended by almost everyone except our Affiliates this year, including a past member and a waiting to join Guide. As usual the newest members cooked the Turkey dinner, the right/left present giving game was played, followed by some silly party games (including eating a mars bar whilst wearing large gloves!!) with a lot of chat and laughter. No ice skating (it was thought to be too expensive), however an innovation this year was playing on the Wii. Most people slept well & shared a breakfast of cereals & croissants before cleaning, tidying up & leaving the following day. (Thanks Mim!!) |
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| London Shopping & Youth Hosteling & SSOX Challenge Preparation 2011 | |||
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 Left: Cheryl & Holly took a few girls to St Paul's Youth Hostel for a couple of days shopping in London (Thanks Cheryl). Above: Preparing our display for the Nuffield Hospital, whilst in the background Rangers update our SSOX Challenge Ruby scrapbook. |
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| November Meetings and our County Challenge | |||
 18.11.11 Collecting £42.45 for Children in Need and litter picking the Centre of Kidlington for our 2011 SSOX Challenge whilst dressed up as Pirates then working for the Pirate Badge. What an evening!! |
25.11.11 Our Ruby Murray Night. We
invited all the Units in the County to join us, but
Fridays aren't very popular and our only guests were
2 Leaders from Aspire RGU. Ate loads of different
types of curry, naan, rice & poppadoms and
talked Cockney Rhyming Slang as much as possible
whilst Nikki completed part of her Commonwealth
Award. |
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| Bonfire Night November 2011 | |||
 Above - Sparklers and toffee apples, right - hot soup to stop us freezing to death added to building a guy and a Bonfire Night Quiz. Lucy arranged a really good evening for the Unit. |
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| October 2011 - Wicked in London with the Region & Go Ape at Culham - just some of our activities | |||
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| Court of Awards September 2011 | |||
 All uniformed Members who attended our AGM 2011 Nette was presented with a beautiful crystal vase and flowers wishing her luck on her forthcoming op. |
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Neckers were distributed and worn at our
2011 AGM held on the 16th September, followed by our
COA Ceremony where Mim was presented with her
Queen's Guide Award (see our Achievements page) by
our new County Commissioner Andrea Oughton. Four
members said their good-byes, Katherine, Zoe, Louise
& Flic were all given Leaving gifts and wished
well. Awards were presented to all Members featuring the FUDGE poem: Thanks for being just like FUDGE!! Fun and friendly Unique and understanding Diligent in delivering good programmes Generous and giving Entirely enthusiastic about Guiding Maisie & Emily won the Most Meetings Attended Award (35 out of 46) and Katherine was Nominated as the Most Influential Member. Nikki was presented with her 75 Nights Away & Cheryl with both her Senior Section Leader Qualification and her Senior Section Campers License. Well Done all of You!! |
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| Windsurfing Summer meeting August 2011 | |||
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Not many turned up for
the Surfing evening in August but all who did not
only enjoyed themselves. They all managed to stand
up for a while!!!  |
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| Emily attended County & Region Selections and was chosen to join the Anglia Group to Uganda 2011 | |||
 Em in Uganda |
The Unit held it's annual punting expedition in July  |
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| Summer Camp 1-6th August 2011 Longridge, Marlow | |||
| Eight members attended Summer Camp
this year supporting Mim taking her Campers License. Longridge offered a deal where the girls got to have a go at sailing, kayaking and canadian canoeing. Unfortunately they had to cook on gas (they'd rather have used wood fires!!) but they did get the chance to have campfires with s'mores and a bar-b-cue one evening. They also explored Marlow, went swimming, had a fish & chip supper and spent a lot of time etching...    |
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| Cocktails & canapes July 2011 for County SSOX Challenge - designing our own ruby cocktail!! | |||
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| Leadership Skills Evening Summer 2011 | |||
| Mim ran a Leadership Skills Evening
as part of her Leadership Qualification for those
who needed it for their Chief Guide's Award.
Activities included Icebreakers; the Skittles Game
and Getting to Know You Catch.Teambuilders; Rescuing
the Duck from a holed standing pipe, Undoing a Human
Knot & Deadman's Swamp (getting your team from
one end of the building to the other without
standing on the ground). Finally, Barking Up The Wrong Tree (a self - discovery exercise) and a Promise Activity, Writing Your Promise on Your Hand. The evening went well & everyone had a go at some Leadership Tasters.  |
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| Jewellery Making for SSOX Challenge Summer 2011 | |||
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| Sun Run July 2011 - ready to party in the evening & playing during the day. | |||
 Nikki, Flic, Alexis, Becca, Lucy, Mim, Erika & Kayleigh |
Gladiator games  |
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| Queen's Guide & Gold DofE Celebrations June 24th 2011 | |||
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| Annual Review June 22nd 2011 | |||
 Held locally this year, Flic received her Chief Guide's Award, Cheryl, her Queen's Guide Award & Mim her Gold DofE Award. Nikki & Holly supported, Gemma kindly carried the flag and Nette's clutch went!! Two days later, we held a Unit Party for Mim & Cheryl, unfortunately Flic was unable to attend. |
We hoped for a
bar-b-cue, but it poured, so we were in the Centre.
What's more it was really badly attended, however
those who were there saw our special girls presented
with their Awards by the County Commissioner and
themselves had badges pinned to ribbons tied around
Animal Pens. |
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| DofE June 2011 - The Bronze Group at the start (left) and finish of their Expedition (right). | |||
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| High Ropes at Youlbury June 2011 | |||
 followed by a campfire with s'mores! |
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| DofE Practice May 2011 - in the local area | |||
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left: en route, below:
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| Pagan Wedding May 2011 - Rangers were given a donation to serve the food and generally help out. | |||
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| Dartmoor Gold DofE Expedition April 2011
- Nikki, Lucy, Lucy, Becca, Flic & Louise - Very
well Done! |
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| Cheryl's License Camp
- 18-20th April 2011 |
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  BBQ lunch in the sun. Thanks for the cooking Mim! |
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| Cheryl's Queen's Guide
was presented to her on 12th April 2011 by
the Speaker in the House of Lords |
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| Aunt Sally Evening with Witney Explorer Unit 25.3.11 + 18th birthday celebrations | |||
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| Royal Wedding Badge March 2011. Rangers made tiaras and cup cakes, learned more about the Royal family and posed for photos to gain the Royal Wedding Badge during one cold damp March evening. | |||
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| Celebrating Promises made at Pax Lodge February 2011. | |||
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We managed to crack open the
non-alcoholic bubbly only a few weeks later for
George & Alexis but it was a few months later
that we got around to celebrating Gemma and
Lucy's...... Hey ho!!
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 Sharing their non-alcoholic bubbly with others... |
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| London Challenge for Thinking Day 2011 | |||
 at Buckingham Palace  and at Lord & Lady B-P's memorial in Westminster Abbey |
 Half a dozen members of the Unit spent the weekend after Thinking Day celebrating by working for LASER's London Challenge. We ate lunch & shopped at CHQ, visited Downing Street, Lord & Lady B-P's memorial at Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London, the Monument, the Maze at Crystal Palace and Covent Garden. We spent the night at Pax Lodge, ate Gourmet Burgers for supper and invested four new members: Alexis, George, Lucy and Gemma. Result!!  |
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| Snow-tubing on a Friday evening at
Bracknell |
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| Valentine's Day 2011 | |||
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Delivering our Baby Basket to the
John Radcliffe Maternity Hospital just
before Valentine's Day 2011. We'd been unable to
deliver it at Christmas as planned due to the
heavy snow!!
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 Also, handing over our the
hyacinths we'd planted for delivery at Christmas.
Even though they were slightly tall the residents
of our local home for the Elderly were delighted
to receive their Valentine gifts.
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| Christmas 2010 | |||
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As usual, our newer members cooked the meal, some Christmas cakes were delivered, a few ex-members attended, awards were presented, the left right game was played with secret santa gifts and we followed it up with ice skating and a sleepover. Then when we got up on Saturday there was SNOW!! It took one member over six hours to get home!!!  |
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| Halloween Party - at Beanwood 2010 | |||
We haven't been to visit this Girlguiding Oxfordshire camp venue set in the beautiful surroundings of Wytham Woods for some time, but it does make a perfect setting for a spooky Halloween Party. There's no electricity or water laid on, nor any vehicular access - and the access there is wends its way through what appears to be encroaching woodland. A perfect meeting place for various witches, wizards and black cats!! |
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| Vision 20.10.2010 - remaking our Promise at 20.10 hours. | |||
  Heythrop Park Holly with Liz Burnley |
Our Division Vision Event was held at
49 Church Street, Kidlington. Over 400 members
attended, socialised, painted jam jars, sang around
the fire and remade their promise to the words
streamed from Heythrop Park where Liz Burnley (Chief
Guide) were joined by Holly & Cheryl at the
Women's World Forum (photos on left). An Event to
remember! Afterwards some of our newer members remade their Promises adding the 'Be of Service to the Community' part and celebrated with non alcoholic bottles of wine  |
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| Unit Meetings - Autumn 2010 | |||
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Autumn meetings included welcoming
new members and saying farewell to old. We
celebrated Zoe's Promise Ceremony, finished off
Adventure 100, held a bin-bag fashion show, made
(and decorated) Christmas cakes, and started Books
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| Our Unit's own Ultimate Adventure - Barcelona 23-28 August 2010 | |||
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| Oxfordshire County Centenary Camp - Quest 2010 - scenes from City II Subcamp - 6 Unit members there. | |||
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| Just a couple of scenes from Fusion 4.8.10 - the street performers in particular were superb!! | |||
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| Great Guide Getaway August 2010 | |||
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Centenary Camp at Harewood House, Yorkshire We tried our hardest to persuade the Rangers either to apply for STARS (the Senior Section Subcamp Staff) or to come just for a day or two as part of the Great Guide Getaway, but in the end Holly and I went on our own and had a brilliant time, gaining not only a tent but the opportunity to explore and marvel at the workings of such a well run enormous undertaking. Here we are at breakfast with another Oxfordshire Leader (Caroline) and Leaders from the States. |
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| Adventure 100 Evening July 2010 | |||
 Trying on 1910 clothing with hobble skirts and parasols, forming the figure 100 out of badges, tie dying cotton socks, uploading our photos onto Twitter for 'Catch the moment' and making a dish out of black ingredients occupied one rainy Ranger evening - nearly completed the Adventure Challenge 100!! |
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| Punting 9.7.10 | |||
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| 2nd - 4th July 2010 Sun Run |
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 It was a football themed party on Friday night. |
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 Lovely weather this year!! |
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| 28th May 2010 Court of Awards Barbie - awards were pinned to ribbons hanging from Centenary balloons | |||
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 Maria cutting her
Gold DofE Celebration cake
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Other recent meetings included
taking
photos of our ducks  and participating in the 'End Malaria Campaign'  |
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| 15th May 2010 Oxfordshire's Centenary Party at the Palace - running the Outdoor Cooking Base at Blenheim | |||
 Toasting marshmallows on brazil nuts |
 Frying chapattis on buddy burners |
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 Making cakes to bake in cardboard box ovens |
 Cooking dampers on sticks |
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 Pancakes on tin cans |
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| 17th April 2010 County Centenary Service for Adults at Dorchester Abbey | |||
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carried the County Standard.
It was a lovely day!  Especially as we were honoured to have 3 Chief Guide's Award Certificates presented!  |
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| Gold Practice Brecon Beacons April 2010 below left: Just off! & below right: Relax, we're all FINISHED!! | |||
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| Recruitment 2010 | |||
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Recruitment games evening last night, in an effort to attract new members. Unfortunately none of the expected Guides came but a Young Leader from a local village joined us, as did our two new girls from last term. So a good turn out and a successful evening with a variety of games interspersed with programme planning, our chocolate fountain and bouncing on the space hoppers for one of our Adventure 100 Challenges. |
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| Oxford Gang Show March 2010 | |||
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Five Unit members in the Oxford Gang Show this year and three of them were in the Dance team as well. That's Sunday mornings as well as the ordinary rehearsals on Monday evenings - September to March - that's six months!. Dedication!!   |
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| Christmas Good Turn & Centenary
Recruitment 2009 |
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We made individual Christmas cakes in baked bean tins & planted hyacinth bulbs for the 16 inhabitants of Helen House Hospice (our Changing the World Charity), then took them over just before Christmas. Below: just about to hand them over.  |
To celebrate the Centenary we made up
a baby basket filled with goodies such as nappies,
talc, creams, bibs, baby-grows and other related
products all wrapped in cellophane, loaded with
Girlguiding PR material & tied with pink
ribbons. We handed this over to a Staff member at
the JR Maternity Hospital to be given to the first
girl born in 2010. |
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| Christmas 2009 No ice rink visit this year, but usual meal, party and sleepover. | |||
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| Remembrance Parade 2009 | |||
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suffering with sciatica so not marching but once
again we were at the Kidlington Remembrance Parade
which this year we combined with a narrow boat trip.
As usual loads of Brownies and Cubs at the Parade -
not as many Guides and Scouts. The Charitable Trust that runs the Venturer is run by an ex-Scouter who is known to a lot of us through his connections with the Gang Show. This means he gives us a very reasonable rate for the use of the boat. We were out for three/four hours and cooked & munched pizzas as we motored along the canal, then back along the Thames. The start of our Adventure 100 Challenge!!  |
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| Court of Award Ceremony November 2009 | |||
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14.11.09 was a special occasion for Horizon with our County Commissioner, Carol Dunne, presenting five Chief Guide's Award Certificates. A member of the Unit made her promise and various badges and other awards were presented stapled to bags of gold coins. These reminded all the girls they were all worth their weight in gold!!  |
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| Silver DofE Expedition New Forest October 2009 | |||
One member who completed her Silver Practice in the New Forest ages ago, two who came with us to the Peaks in July and one member from another Unit who completed her Practice in the New Forest in May of this year called for a completely new route and different campsites for this highly successful October Expedition. |
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| Summer Camp Italy 2009 | |||
 We threw coins into the Trevi Fountain.....  To ensure we all go back sometime!! |
Our aim is to go abroad every three years & though we originally talked about Cyprus, and the numbers weren't very good we ended up in Italy this year. Six days camping at B-P Park near Bassano Romano, including a Fiesta called 'White Night', spending time with Italian Scouts, paddling in Lago di Bracciano, eating at a traditional restaurant and visiting Viterbo. Then onto 4 days in Rome staying at Roma 60, a Scout House in the suburbs. There we visited the Colosseum & Palatine, saw the Pantheon, had an audience with the Pope at Castelgandalfo, threw coins in the Trevi Fountain, visited St Peter's (where we experienced a mutiny), Vatican City & museums, the Spanish Steps, lots of pizzerias & restaurants and participated in an open top bus tour. Loads of shopping & pasta, temperatures in the 40's. BRILL!!   |
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| Friday meetings Summer 2009 | |||
 such as barbies, hikes, crazy golf, gardening, playing Aunt Sally & punting as well as our usual kayaking. |
We try to get out as much as possible
during the summer, and this year we're participating
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| Silver DofE Practice July 2009 | |||
A couple of our members joined up with girls from LASER region on a Practice Expedition in the Peak District in July. Based at Glenbrook Guide Association Training Centre the expedition was organised by our one time Assistant Guider, Helen, who is now a DofE Adviser in London. |
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| Sun Run July 2009 | |||
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Unit dressing up in neon for the Toga Party at Sun
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| Court of Award Ceremony June 2009 Brill
Hill |
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We try and hold a Court of Award
Ceremony 3 times a year, at Christmas, in the summer
and at our Unit AGM in September. A few years ago we
climbed Brill Hill for one of our mountain top
moments and in June 2009 we decided to go again.
This time we invited our Division Commissioner, Sue
Moss, to present the awards & badges, which were
pinned to ribbons tied around pinwheels.
Unfortunately the windmill on the top of the hill
was under refurbishment, with the sails down and the
area surrounded by security fencing. However we took
a picnic supper with us and sat and watched the
sun-set whilst eating. Then Awards were presented,
including 3 hard won Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award
Certificates. |
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| District Fete June 2009 | |||
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Unit members manning our stall at the District Fete in Church Street in June 2009. Nearly £1,000.00 was raised for our Guide Centre Rebuilding Fund. |
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| Silver DofE Expedition May 2009 | |||
Horizon were joined by a couple of Rangers from a new Unit in Oxford run by Mim's Mum & ex-Ranger Maria (LINK Chair). Georgia and Lucy joined our Louise, Nikki, Becca and Lucy in the New Forest for the three day two night 24 mile Expedition. They were really lucky with the weather and completed on time walking perfectly (apart from one slight mishap) to their route cards. Brilliant... |
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| Gold DofE Expedition April 2009 | |||
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The Gold D. of E. Award group April 2009, having just completed their expedition on Dartmoor. Their Assessor, Jamie, seemed impressed. He certainly gave them glowing reports. Just the Residential to sort for most of them, then they're done!! Well Done!! |
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| SSOX Challenge February 2009 | |||
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Sadly, our presentation for the
SSOX Challenge was a complete disaster, due to
technology issues, but we still had a great laugh
and took some of the funniest photos known to
Ranger kind. One day
perhaps we can show the video documenting our
entire journey around the world/Oxford!! |
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| Cheryl's Chief Guide's Evening 3.1.09 | |||
On the 3rd January 2009, Cheryl was presented with her Chief Guide's Award by the County Commissioner Carol Dunne. Various other awards such as Cheryl's Senior Section Camp Permit, Becci's Commonwealth Award and various kayaking and Bronze DofE were also presented. A very pleasant evening. |
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| Christmas Dinner & Nikki's Permit Camp 2008 | |||
The Unit Christmas
dinner, ice skating at midnight, snowglobes,
christmas cards and decorations. Nikki organised her
Senior Section Indoor Permit the weekend just before
Christmas and with Holly, Cheryl, Clare, Emma, Zoe,
Lucy and Mim to join her the result was a fantastic
time. And of course she passed! Well Done Nikki. |
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| Innovate 2008 |
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Only two members at Innovate this year, but both Mim and Cheryl had a great time in Scotland. |
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| Kayaking 2008 | |||
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Once again we kayaked all summer, culminating in Maria, Ali, Catherine, Becca, Louise, Lucy and Mim attending a one night, two day course at Longridge Boating Centre at Marlow and gaining their BCU combined 2 Star Awards. They're stars. |
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| Mim's International trip to Slovakia August '08 | |||
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Our Mim attended the County International Selection two years running. In 2007 she was selected and joined the County trip to Poland with Jenny (an ex-Ranger), where she made her Promise. In 2008 she got through County Selection again and went to Pax Lodge for a weekend Regional Selection where she was chosen to rpresent Anglia Region Girlguiding UK at an International trip to Slovakia. |
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| Summer Camp 2008 | |||
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was once again held at Kirkby- le-Soken at the Essex
Jamboree. Nette & Holly were joined by Nikki,
Mim, Becca, Lucy and Flic from 26.7.08 - 2.8.08. Whilst there we visited Frinton on Sea where Becca, Lucy and Flic made their Promise. It was windy!!  Other activities included It's A Knockout, visiting the Global Village, kayaking, etching, listening to loads of bands, dressing for a recycled Fashion Party and spending time in the paddling pool. Kidlington Guides came to visit for the day during the week, we advertised Oxford by giving away samples of Coopers marmalade and we raised money for endangered animals by running a Lucky Lolly stall. |
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| Decopatch July 2008 | |||
One of our Friday evening activities - covering picture frames with paper scraps, then varnishing them, all done at the Pottery Place in Witney,one of our favourite venues. |
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| Sun Run
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Horizon and OSAGTO LINK at Sun Run Saturday lunch in the rain. Members who attended were: Ali, Lizzie, Amy R., Chris, Olivia, Sheena, Amanda, Becci, Clare, Zoe, Catherine, Nikki, Becca, Lucy, Louise, Flic, Maria and Nette. As usual a brilliant weekend, but no runners at all!!! Shame about the volleyball - again!! And the weather was rubbish. |
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 Our new Bronze group at the start of their second day, they were camping at Green Hill Campsite at Bletchingdon. |
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| District Camp 2008 | |||
Every couple of years our District try and hold a camp that involves everyone, a chance for the Rainbows to visit, the Brownies to sleep indoors, the Guides to practice their camp skills and the Rangers to camp alongside and join in or not as they wish. Meanwhile Leaders get an opportunity to swap good practice and socialise!! Left: Rangers working on their Books of Inspiration, below Holly emerging from her tent and below right most Rangers came on the Friday for a bar-b-cue  |
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| Gold DofE Practice Expedition April 2008 | |||
Our Gold group at Glenbrook at the start of their practice expedition. It rained, the clouds came down and they got soaked and nearly lost, however they survived, managed to get their kit dry and completed. Getting stronger, more organised and more proficient each time. |
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| Gang Show 2008 |
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 We always manage a few members in the cast (usually of about 200) of the Oxford Gang Show and this year nine of our girls participated. Its quite gruelling in that there are Monday evening rehearsals from September to March plus Sunday morning rehearsals for those members in the dance team and extra Sunday afternoon rehearsals in the weeks leading up to the Show. The Show itself takes place in the New Theatre Oxford and runs from Monday to Saturday with both a matinee (beloved by local Cubs and Brownies) and a quieter evening performance more in tune with most of the parents. |
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| Cheryl's Permit Camp February 2008 | |||
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 Clare, Emma, Nikki, Jade and Katherine helped Cheryl gain her Senior Section Indoor Camp Permit. As well as making God's eyes and pinatas, the girls visited an archaeological site in Egypt, panned for gold in Australia and had a visit from a Nigerian Missionary.  |
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| Christmas Party 2007 | |||
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The Christmas Dinner is usually one of the most popular events of our year. However we had to bring the date forward in 2007 which meant very few LINK members could attend as they were still at Uni. Added to that the Ice Rink muddled our booking (again), and we clashed with someones party. However after delivering yule logs, about 15 of us sat down to an excellently cooked turkey dinner followed by the left/right present giving game, party games and a sleepover. |
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| Halloween Party Autumn 2007 | |||
It used to be a tradition that we'd go up to Wytham Woods and to our Girlguiding centre there for our annual Halloween Party. However there's no vehicular access, and over the last few years we've had a group of girls who dislike the spiders and find the whole idea of a cottage in the woods too adventurous so hence a much tamer (and cheaper) affair at our local Guide Centre. The games, dressing up and fun haven't changed!!  |
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| High Ropes Autumn 2007 | |||
We're lucky in that we have one of the Scout Association's Centre of Excellence, Youlbury, only a few miles down the road and in 2007 they installed a high ropes course - so of course we had to try it out. Some of the Rangers were really good and managed it easily, some didn't like it at all and a few of us didn't even try!! Whilst there we bumped into Kelly, one of our ex-members, who is now on the Service Team there. |
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| Kayaking Summer 2007 | |||
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We had problems with finding an Instructor for our kayaking course this summer so in the end did without, not running a course at all but inviting all our 1 Star girls back to hone up their Skills, read the syllabus and spend a lot of time practicing. Ali who has her 3 Star and Canoe Safety Test came and gave us a hand. Here's Davie at the Assessment, when Becca, Mim, Lucy and Catherine gained their 2 Star. Thanks go to both Ali and Dave. |
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| Summer Camp 2007 | |||
Summer Camp 2007 was once again held at Haven Holiday Park at Perran Sands. Nette, Becci, Amy, Sheena, Nikki, Mim and Jade plus Manda who came for a couple of days. Weather was very mixed with a couple of nice days but some rain and it was quite cold. Trips included a visit to Lands End, shopping at Newquay and an afternoon on the beach there, pony trekking locally and a meal out and Jade's Promise Ceremony at Sunset on the beach in Perranporth. The highlight was probably the visit of the RAC man after we discovered a hole in a tyre. Then he found the spare was also punctured!! Luckily we were reimbursed!  |
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Emma got through County International Selection, then Region selection after a weekend at Pax Lodge and joined the Girlguiding Anglia group on their visit to Poland in Summer 2007. |
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GOLD is: GUIDING OVERSEAS LINKED WITH DEVELOPMENT Holly decided to go for GOLD as the saying goes and attended an INTOPS (International Opportunties Selection) at Durham at the end of 2006. She was lucky enough to get through and was chosen as a member of a party of six to go to Russia where the Girl Scout Association (RADS), is still in its infancy. Their brief was to train members of RADS Senior Section and Young Leaders on the skills necessary to develop their Girl Scouting such as programming and team building. The Group from the UK stayed on a campsite for two and a half weeks where most of the training took place. They also got to experience home hospitality, staying in Russian Girl Scout homes for four days. Holly says: I discovered so much about myself and made some great friends. It also taught me what a well developed organisation GirlguidingUK is. |
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Friday nights are
taken up with work on the Look Wider Programme,
outdoor activities such as visiting the gym, wide
games, drop off hikes, scavenger hunts and high
ropes. Badge work, such as for the Anglia's First
Things First or the Outdoor Challenge or Make
Poverty History badge. Crafts, such as Jewellery
making, fantasy flowers or pictured here painting
ceramic pots at Witney. Other nights are spent on
self esteem activities, assertiveness, International
meals, talking about life choices, starting a book
of Inspiration or creating life maps. The promise is discussed and made, we kayak every summer, cook a lot and laugh even more, as to the parties!! Any excuse - the fun never stops for us! |
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| Sun Run 2007 | |||
Runners of the Moon and Sun Run 2007. All runners completed. Members who attended were: Ali, Chris, Dave, David, Sheena, Anna, Becci, Becky, Emma, Clare, Jemma, Olivia, Jade, Nikki, Mim, Maria and Nette. As usual a brilliant weekend. Shame about the volleyball - again!! BUT - THE GOOD NEWS - WE WON... Jemma, Sheena, Davie and Phil - THE FASTEST MIXED TEAM EVENT! (4 hrs. 33 mins.) |
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Our Senior Section in
Oxfordshire Committee sets a Challenge most years
and all the Units compete for a Shield. In 2006-7,
we competed in a "Movie Challenge" and had a choice
of approximately 80 activities to try! As you can see below Horizon had a go at the phone booth photo, making sandals and bin bag fashions, amongst other things. The Shield was presented at an "Oscar Ceremony" in June at our County HQ. Older members of the Unit loaned out their dresses, then most of Horizon met early for cocktails and canapés & our DC and her Assistant chose the eight girls they felt had taken the most trouble with their appearance and these got to travel to the event in our stretch limo. Upon arrival at the venue we were all greeted by the paparazzi & a red carpet, beautifully decorated tables, red & gold balloons, stunning food and loads of alcohol free drinks. Soft lights, sweet music, a chocolate fountain, gold envelopes, a humorous MC, loads of categories, the chance to make your acceptance speech upon the dais and a flower to take away all contributed to the ambiance. A highly successful evening which ended with a Disco and loads of bubbles. Our thanks to the Organisers!! |
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| 25th May 2007 Queen's Guide Party | |||
Our County Commissioner kindly presented Becky with her Queen's Guide Award at a bar-b-cue we held at the home of one of our local Ambassador's. All Parents were invited and we took the opportunity of holding a Court of Awards Ceremony presenting Rangers with white flowers, tied with ribbons, with their badges stapled on. Our District Commissioner presented Becci with her 5 year Award and various girls with their First Aid Certificates, whilst our D. of E. Award Adviser presented Silver Awards to Lizzie & Jennie and Bronzes to Clare, Emma and Cheryl. |
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| Duke of Edinburgh Award EXPEDITIONS 2007 | |||
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The Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award Expedition Group preparing to leave Burley Youth Hostel Campsite in the New Forest on day 2 of their actual Expedition in June (they'd completed the practice a month earlier). |
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The Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award Practice Expedition Group preparing to leave the Guide Centre in May. It rained !! and rained !! However they completed the actual Expedition a month later in glorious sunshine. |
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The GOLD Expedition Group coming in at the finish of their 4 day Expedition on Dartmoor in April. Beautiful weather, excellent time keeping, glowing reports. |
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| March Camp 2007 | |||
Members visited a Guiding & Scouting Museum as one of the activities on "Winterish Camp" at Youbury. Members here are posing wearing a variety of Guiding & Scouting hats. Archery was another very popular activity. |
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| Jamming Spring 2007 | |||
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Jamming session at a Friday evening meeting. |
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| Thinking Day 2007 | |||
Getting ready to help Rainbows, Brownies and guides light the candles at the District Thinking Day Ceremony 2007. |
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Members of the Unit, posing in their creations made of bin bags and other bits and pieces, one of the Movie Challenges set by the County. Spring 2007 |
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The 2006-'07 SSOX (Senior Section in Oxfordshire) County Challenge was a movie challenge. In June 2006 we had had a Photographic Evening, which included taking a picture of as many Rangers as they could squash into a telephone kiosk. We were delighted to discover this same clause incorporated into the Movie Challenge, so went out and repeated the exercise.. Other challenges included making our own sandals, punting, kayaking, bowling, participating in a First Aid Training, etc. |
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AGM & COURT OF AWARDS Sept. '06 Becky's GOLD D. of E. Award Celebration |
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Our Unit Annual General Meeting was once again held at the end of September. Sadly we had to say good-bye to Ali and Lizzie, both off to University, but members were thrilled with the badges awarded, mostly for "Nights Away", a new scheme introduced this year. Just after the AGM, at the beginning of October Becky was presented with her GOLD Duke of Edinburgh Award by the County Commissioner at a small party at the Guide Centre. PLEASE SEE OUR
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| 2006 Summer Camp |
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Summer Camp for 12 of us in August 2006 was the NORDJAMB Jamboree in Iceland. We spent 10 days in the Country, arriving at Reykjavik and spending the first couple of nights at a Salvation Army Hostel, where we explored the city, shopped and went out for a traditional Viking dinner of shark, lamb shank and cloud berries. We then moved on to camp at Ulfljotsaven, the National Campsite near Pingvellier where we met up with the 250 odd other participants of the Jamboree. We spent a couple of days acclimatising and networking then various groups went off on different activities, the majority of Horizon choosing to cycle around the lake. The last days of the Jamboree were spent back at Ulfljotsaven, exploring the local area, swapping badges and crafts with other participants and attending a workshop about Icelandic folklore and myths. We ended the Camp with a tree planting ceremony at the Pingvellier Friendship forest. The last couple of days of the trip were spent at Jotenheimar, the Icelandic Scout Building in Reyjavik, here we all attended a pizza party, went swimming in the Blue Lagoon, where we were treated to a really good lunch and where Cheryl & Clare made their Promise & Ali renewed hers.  |
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| 2006 District Camp at
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 Only four members of the Unit managed to support the District Camp but Myrriam made her Promise at the bar-b-cue on the Friday evening, when the whole Unit went over to help set up.. |
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| 2006 Ulster Innovate |
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Older members enjoying themselves at Innovate Ulster. They also took the opportunity to explore the area whilst there. |
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| 2006 Bronze Expedition
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Having done their Training and completed their Bronze Practice Expedition last year Clare, Emma, Cheryl and Maryanne eventually completed their fifteen mile Expedition staying at Youlbury and looking at the state of paths bordering different types of waterways. |
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| 2006 Bell Ringing |
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One of our Friday night meetings in April 2006 was spent bell ringing at St Mary's Church in Kidlington. Practically the whole Unit attended and everyone had a go, thoroughly enjoying themselves. We're very grateful
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| 2006 Award
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Our annual Duke of Edinburgh Award Presentation was held at Oxford Town Hall in March 2006. Laura, Alice, Lizzie, Holly and Sheena were all awarded their Silvers. All, except Sheena, who worked for at a Red Cross Charity Shop, had helped with Brownies for the Service Clause and are Young Leaders. |
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Cheryl, Holly, Ali, Lizzie and Amy helped Becky with the organisation of the District Thinking Day Event at the Guide Centre |
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| 2005
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As usual our Christmas Dinner was well attended. Everyone loved their gifts, party games were played and most people slept over. However this year instead of the usual ice skating we managed to book "broom balling" at 1.00am. Great fun was had by all. |
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| 2005
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Learning to knit at Rangers (a clause of the SSOX Challenge 2005) October - November 2005 |
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SSOX stands for Senior Section in Oxfordshire. Its an umbrella term used in the County to cover all Rangers, Young Leaders and Senior Section members. In fact all those 14-25 years of age. Most years the Senior Section Adviser, or the SSOX Committee, devises a County Challenge which can be competed for by all SSOX members, as we own a rather beautiful shield donated by "the Commissioners" in 1922. |
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In 2005 the Challenge included clauses on "holding a party in a high place", "biviing out", and "walking to see the sun rise". We rolled all these challenges into one weekend at the beginning of September. Above: - "partying in a high place" - on Jarn Mound, Boars Hill, Oxford and left: - eating breakfast having bivvied out at Youlbury International Scout Activity Centre, then risen early and walked to a high place to watch the sun rise. |
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| 2005
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Becky, Manda, Jaye, Lizzie, Ali and Holly attended Innovate and all were inspired by the "buzz" engendered by the event. Here are some of them, all dressed up for the evening entertainment. |
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Eurojam |
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Becky and friend,
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3 Leaders and 9 Rangers attended the County Camp at Standlake in August. Traditionally Oxon's County Camp is held every five years with most Divisions running their own subcamps, the Senior Section manning a Service Team Camp and a Central Camp for all the organisers. However this year everyone camped with their Division. It was nice to camp alongside our District Guiding team and good to set the Guides an example but we did miss the camaraderie of the other Senior Section Units. We hosted some Russian Boy and Girl Scouts during and after the Camp. Above left shows some of them with us at our final night Party with the older Guides. Left - some of our members on the beach at Bournemouth on our day outing. |
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Watching the Presentations at Sun Run 2005. Attended by AJ, Ali, Amy, Amy, Becci, Becky, Emma, Holly, Kelly, Manda, Maryanne, Olivia, Sheena and Nette. We didn't bother entering the Sun Run this year but did have a team in the Moon Run. And for the first time ever we won a Trophy. The Fastest All Female Team in a time of 3 hours 44 minutes.. Well Done all four of you. You did us proud. |
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In May four of our girls completed their thirty mile Silver Expedition in the New Forest. We're just awaiting their reports. |
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CONGRATULATIONS to Lizzie and Holly completing their Chief Guide's Challenge Award and to Nette for her 25 year Service to this Unit. We held a big Party in April to celebrate and invited back all our former members. It was lovely to see people again. |
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2004 Our Annual Christmas Dinner is traditionally cooked by the newest members of the Unit. Whilst they're cooking other Rangers deliver the Christmas cakes we've made to the elderly in the village and yet more members will lay the table and decorate it. We rarely sit down to eat before 9.00pm and some years its later. The dinner is always followed by one of our Court of Awards Ceremonies then the giving of presents. Most years we play the right/left present giving game and this is followed by party games before we go ice skating at about 1.00am in the morning. This year one of our Assistant Guiders remade her Promise at the Ice Rink at 2.00am after our Christmas Party. We went on back to our Centre afterwards and slept over. |
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2004 With AJ's help it was possible to run 2 Expeditions in the October half term. Five members walked east to west across the Forest being assessed for their Silver Award by a member of the New Forest Expedition Panel and four Rangers walked south to north for their Practice Expedition. The weather was dreadful and most people not only got soaked but covered in mud. We pride ourselves at Horizon on the number of Bronze and Silver Awards we gain. However so far we've only had two Golds in the Unit and one of those was AJ. However being associated with OSAGTO LINK Unit does give us the opportunity to keep the girls involved for longer. |
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2004 Ten members of the Unit attended Summer Camp in 2004 as participants of the Essex Jamboree. We were on Athena Subcamp and participated in some amazing water activities as well as the more usual "its a knock out" and evening discos. We spent an afternoon on Clacton seafront, participated in the Challenge Hike and some of the girls gained their International Friendship Awards. Dressing up in the evening was very popular and one day we entertained some Scouts from Ghana giving them both breakfast and an evening meal. Three members made their Promise whilst at camp. Jade, Sheena and Kelly all made their Promise whilst in the sea at Clacton. Traditionally they cracked open a bottle of perry to celebrate the occasion and we then held a bar-b-cue on the shingle and partied till sunset. |
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2004 Another action packed Sun Run in July. Only 19 attended this year though (including LINK). Amy & Nicky managed to pick up some guy from Wales in order to enter the 26 mile Sun Run which they both completed (although the Welsh guy walked off with our map & one of our compasses) and Becky, Leo and Maryanne completed the 13 mile Moon Run. We once again completely flunked the Volleyball but all enjoyed the inflatables and the kareoke. All loved the Discos. |
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2004 We visited the Forest of Dean in June, Kayaking on the River Wye was the main reason for not going to the Peak District this year. It turned out to be only a small group of us even though we were joined by some LINK members. We stayed at Holly Barn, had a meal out at a local hostelry, went mountain biking one afternoon and of course did a lot of kayaking. Jennie said "It was absolutely brilliant" |
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| 2004 In May Jade, Sheena, Laura & Jessie all completed their 15 mile Practice Expeditions at the beginning of the month, in the surrounding villages to Kidlington. Then at the end of the month they were joined by Olivia and went on to complete their actual Expedition camping overnight at Youlbury. Well Done all five of you. |
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2004 Becky's Holiday Licence Camp took the form of a Murder Mystery weekend. A camp of Cocktails, 1920'S outfits and mystery it took place at Hill End Environmental Centre, Oxford for the weekend. Other activities included an expert from St Johns Ambulance Service teaching us how to create gory fake wounds on ourselves, won't our mums be proud!!! A video board game called Atmosfear, golf at Didcot Driving Range, swimming and horse riding. We had to guess who the murderer was and we made yet more crafts... We all had great fun. Fiona says it was really great... the activities were good and there was always something to do. Also the food was good, and all the Rangers seemed to enjoy themselves. And of course, Becky gained her Holiday Licence. |
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| 2004 Our first overnight event of the year was a Fantasia Extravaganza February half term. This included a visit to Cadbury's World, which was really good. Then we spent all day Thursday doing crafts, and played chocolate games, and had a fairytale tea party. In the evenings we watched videos and had massages with aromatherapy oils. We went home early Friday morning. |
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2003 December saw us in London for the weekend. We spent the first evening shopping in Oxford Street, followed by a meal at Pizza Hut and a visit to the Trocadero. We spent the nights at Baden Powell House. The next day we visited CHQ then Pax Lodge for a tour of the building. We also had a new Ranger make her Promise in the grounds. On the Sunday we went to Harrods for some more shopping, then we returned home to rest our aching feet. A weekend enjoyed by everyone. |
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| 2003 October saw our annual Halloween Party and a scary night for the guides that joined us. The party included music, traditional games like apple bobbing and eating mini doughnuts hanging from string, and yet more party food. We drank a witches brew of mulled wine and everyone came dressed up. |
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2003 Our Summer Camp was a fantastic 10 days at Kandersteg in Switzerland. We visited attractions such as the Trummelbach Falls, Our Chalet where some Rangers made their Promise, took a ski lift to Oechininsee where yet more Rangers made their Promises knee deep in the (freezing) waters of the lake and Berne. As we were present for Swiss National Day, we marched into the town with all the others from all over the world, singing and waving flaming torches. An unforgettable experience. |
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| 2002 Another Summer Camp and yet another Promise Ceremony. This time at Lands End whilst camping at the Haven site at Perran Sands in Cornwall one of our favourite holiday destinations. |
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2001 At Horizon we have a tradition of having three Court of Award Ceremonies a year. Usually at Easter, the September A. G. M. and at Christmas. As there are not many Awards that the girls can work towards and they love getting badges we give participation patches and certificates for camps attended and jobs well done. The pic. on the left shows some of the girls with their Awards pinned to balloons at the Christmas Dinner Party 2001. |
| 2000 Our first International trip for a while was to New York. Here you see Rangers with Helen (former Assistant Guider) at the Yankees Stadium in New York watching the New York Yankees playing the Canadian Blue Jays at baseball. The Yankees won! |
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| 1997 We've frequently camped at Haven Campsites, enabling the Rangers to party in the evenings in a "family" safe environment and having the advantage of loads of facilities on site. Perran Sands in Cornwall is one of our favourite sites and they're very good about accommodating us. The pic shows Rangers after a Promise Ceremony - Aug. '97 |
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