Guiding in Wivenhoe

11/10/2026

Girls and leaders from 1st and 2nd Wivenhoe Guides had an incredible time at BigGig yesterday, a GirlGuiding only concert at Wembley Arena with 10,000 other Guides and leaders 🥳

03/10/2026

2nd Wivenhoe Guides had a great evening at Mudlark Studio in Wivenhoe Business Centre. Caroline ran a session as part of The Big Draw - mark making art. Mindfulness and creativity was in action with the Guides and leaders using different paints, markers and tools.

Do check out their other sessions in arts and crafts Mudlark Studio Wivenhoe

27/09/2026

Leaders from Wivenhoe joined invited members and County Vice Presidents at the Girlguiding Essex North East annual review and awards afternoon tea.

Invited leaders had gained a county award or a length of service awards. Leaders attending had gained 5 years, 20 years and 40 years as a leader.

23/09/2026

🧠🍽️ QUIZ NIGHT IS COMING TO WIVENHOE! 🍽️🧠

Get your thinking caps on and join us for the 1st Wivenhoe Guides Quiz Night! 🎉

📅 Saturday 17th October 2026
📍 Wivenhoe Scout & Guide Hall
👥 Teams of up to 6 people
🚪 Doors open 6pm for a 7pm start
💷 £8 per person, including a light meal

Gather your friends, family or colleagues and come along for a fun night of questions, food, laughs and a little bit of friendly competition! 🏆

📩 To register your team:
[email protected]

Who’s ready to put their general knowledge to the test? 🤔🍻

22/09/2026

Volunteer roles with Units or supporting

22/09/2026

Friday Guides have spaces for immediate start available. Trial sessions. Updated meeting times

22/09/2026

1st Elmstead Rainbows and 1st Elmstead Brownies are running a Coffee Morning for MacMillan Cancer Support

Sunday 27 September from 11am at Elmstead Parish Hall.

Enjoy cakes, a raffle , hand knitted toys and crochet blankets for sale.

Last year raised around £400 for this amazing cause, help them raise even more this year

01/06/2026

All our leaders are volunteers

💙 HAPPY VOLUNTEERS’ WEEK! 💙

A tribute to the Girlguiding volunteers who regularly perform miracles that would concern medical science.

To the leaders who can:

🎒 Pack a minibus.
🏕️ Build a campsite.
🔥 Light a fire.
🎨 Run a craft.
🩹 Administer first aid.
💰 Manage a budget.
📋 Complete seventeen forms.
📞 Contact thirty parents.
🎵 Lead a campfire.
😴 Function on four hours of sleep.

…all before their first cup of tea.

To the volunteers who have spent an entire evening preparing an activity, only to be greeted with:

“Do we have to?”

And then twenty minutes later:

“That was the best thing ever!”

To those who have developed the supernatural ability to hear:

“Leader…”

from over 300 metres away.

Usually at a volume that could be heard from space. 🚀

To the volunteers who have somehow become:

Part-time teachers.
Part-time counsellors.
Part-time event planners.
Part-time chauffeurs.
Part-time detectives.

And full-time experts in locating items that were “definitely in my bag a minute ago.”

To the leaders who have crawled under bunk beds, untangled necklaces, comforted homesick girls, rescued burnt marshmallows, fixed broken costumes, sewn on badges at midnight and explained - yet again - that no, sleeping bags do not count as clean clothes.

To the people who have willingly spent their free time covered in mud, glitter, paint, sun cream, campfire smoke and mystery substances that nobody can identify.

To the volunteers who know that a successful evening meeting is approximately:

10% planning.
20% organisation.
70% controlled chaos.

And somehow still turn it into magic.

Because while the girls remember the adventures, the laughter, the friendships, the camps, the challenges and the memories…

They rarely see the late-night emails.

The risk assessments.

The endless spreadsheets.

The emergency runs to buy more biscuits.

The 11pm panic that you’ve forgotten something important.

Or the fact that someone, somewhere, is currently laminating.

For no obvious reason.

Because that’s what Guide leaders do.

So this Volunteers’ Week, thank you to every single volunteer who gives their time, energy, patience, weekends, annual leave, car boot space, sanity and occasionally their voice.

You are the reason girls believe they can do anything.

Even when you’re not entirely convinced you know what you’re doing yourself. 💙



Now if someone could tell us where the scissors are, that would be great. ✂️

22/05/2026

Look out for unit leaders from 2nd Wivenhoe Rainbows and Guides on the Girlguiding Essex North East County stand at Colchester Hospital radio fun day on bank holiday Monday. Fundraising as part of leader team at County international trip to Switzerland and Our Chalet summer 26.

Lots to see and do at the event

04/05/2026

On Star Wars Day here’s a shout out to all our fabulous and fierce girls & women!

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