The Trefoil Guild
All 195 Trefoil Guilds in South West England ranging from the Isles of Scilly to Berkshire and including the Isle of Wight and the Channel islands have been challenged to become involved in one of four TREFOIL TRAILS. Trefoil Trails aim to enable neighbouring Guilds to meet up with everyone being able to participate, and to use as many different forms of transport as possible. Special events are planned for link ups on County boundaries when some of the social hallmarks of the Trefoil Guild friendship, fun and food, are expected to be well in evidence..
The first Trail is planned to start on Giriguiding Thinking Day, February 22nd when two members of the Cornwall Lone Guild together with the South West England Trefoil Guild Chairman will fly by helicopter to Penzance then move up to the North Coast of Cornwall. Bristol and South Gloucestershire will welcome members from Somerset on 23rd February and again in April via the Suspension Bridge and will exchange tokens of friendship at the Guide HQ Westmoreland Road in Redland. They will then meet up with members of Wiltshire County at Westonbirt in Gloucestershire on St George’s day (23rd April) finally going to Swindon on 10th May to join up with the three other routes in Swindon for the Annual Region Meeting on 10th May.
To commemorate this event, a granite stone Trefoil Guild Badge will be assembled with every County contributing to the design.
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Sharing the wisdom!
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Are you ready for the next adventure?
Moving on
– YES
There is a role for you!
Sharing your skills, experience, wisdom, nurturing the young – keeping the fun and
adventure of guiding alive.
Helping others to enjoy better lives by belonging to Girlguiding UK.
YES – because it really is worth it!
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The aims of the Trefoil Guild
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- To live the Spirit of Guiding!
- To offer practical help to Girlguiding UK!
- To support Guiding worldwide!
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What is the Trefoil Guild? |
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The Trefoil Guild is a non-uniformed section of Girlguiding
UK. The Trefoil Guild enables men and women to maintain their links with guiding.
It aims to keep alive the spirit of the Guide Promise and Law and offers practical
help to Guiding. |
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"The Trefoil Guild
offers companionship, the opportunity to try different things with like-minded people
and the chance to be of use to others" |
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Who may join?
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The Trefoil Guild
offers a warm welcome to everyone, male or female, aged 18 or over, whether or not
they have previously been connected with the Guide Movement. Full membership is
open to anyone willing to make or renew the Guide/Scout promise and affiliated membership
to those who don’t wish to do so provided they subscribe to the aims and principles
of Girlguiding
UK. There is also associate membership for any adult still active in the Guide/Scout
Association. |
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"The best thing
about The Trefoil Guild is that it's so varied. We give service by fundraising,
working in local hospitals, helping out at Guide events and in so many other ways."
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Members of over 1,100 local Guilds throughout the
UK
enjoy all the tremendous benefits of belonging to Girlguiding
UK. Many Guild activities result in positive benefit to the community, but as any
Guild member will tell you, a large part of the programme is devoted to having plain
old-fashioned fun!
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“I’ll
always be a Trefoil member with its automatic membership to the International Scout
and Guide Fellowship (ISGF)” |
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So if you’ve recently left Girlguiding
UK
and want to stay involved with the Movement, or if you’ve never been a member but
would like to support Guiding in your area, The Trefoil Guild is for you. It’s the
chance to make new friends, help other people, develop your own skills and, most
of all, have fun... just as the Guides do.
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Why not give it a try?
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We’re waiting to meet you!
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For further information please contact admin@girlguidingbsg.org.uk
