My goal is reached!

Thanks to craft sales, cat sitting, folding what seems like 100s of cranes, generous donations from family and sponsorship from Bakewell & Calver District Guiding I have reached my fundraising target! 

I have to say I've really enjoyed the fundraising, particularly standing on the craft stalls and talking to people about the guide experience and what a Jamboree in Japan might be like. I was touched when some people gave me a donation and didn't even buy any craft.

It's made me aware of the effort of the guiding community to raise funds for many activities that young women can benefit from. I was happy to donate some of my Christmas money to a young guide in M&S bag packing, they were raising money for camping equipment.

The journey so far with my new unit has been amazing. Getting to know new people and learning new skills has been great. For practicing going to Tokyo we went on a fantastic trip to London. It was a great way to bond as a patrol and we met Paddington.  I'm so excited to be going to Japan!

Training weekend...catching up with the unit

This weekend was training weekend with my Japan Unit the 'Highflyers'. I really enjoyed catching up with people. 

We were given a tube of smarties which I ate and a post it note on arrival. The post it note turned out to be for nothing but the smarties tube, we have to see who can collect the most smarties tubes with 20ps in! Chocolate and fundraising - what a good combination. Get in touch if you would like a tube of smarties!

Our first activity was patrol time which involved us deciding on a name for our patrol - our unit of 40, is divided up into 4 patrols - we came up with 'The Trolley Dollies' - not sure why!

We were given a present from our leader Ali of a small origami star and were given a chance of making one. I was hoping my crane folding would help but I didn't manage it. I did make a crane from the post it note though.

The year 11s spent quite a bit of time burning their revision notes on the bonfire! I managed to grab some helpful business studies notes before they met the flames!

Part of the weekend was training with the RAF  - they had us doing team building skills with our patrol. We learnt about communication, trust, team work and co-operation.

OK Paperclip time!

I have been given a paperclip to help raise funds. I have until September to trade it for bigger and better things, hopefully ending up with something more valuable to sell to contribute to my Jamboree fund. 

So the question is...anyone want to swap a paper clip with me? All offers considered! 

Cranes take flight

Last weekend I took some cranes to the local primary school as they were having an art fair. It was such lovely weather me and my mum set up a table outside to make cranes. We thought we would sell them for 50p, but the stings we had made were the most popular. We ended up selling these for £1.


There was a bit of interest from the children at the fair so we decided to teach a few how to make them. They enjoyed it very much but it took quite a while as their folds weren't that accurate! I was proud that they came out with something that resembled a crane at the end.


We showed some adults and they weren't much better! We made cranes on demand with people choosing their own colours. Quite a few people had walked there and we showed them how to fold up the crane for safe transport home.

Under Construction

This weekend I will be making origami cranes for a 50p donation at Curbar Primary School. They are having an Art Show and are happy for me to set up a stall.

CURBAR ART SHOW 2014 is held at

Curbar Primary School, Calver, Hope Valley, Derbyshire, S32 3XA

The show is open from 10.30 - 16.30 Saturday and Sunday 17 & 18 May.