Welcome
to the first blog from GOLD Team Aruba 2017! We’ve taken on the baton from last
year’s team – the first to work in partnership with the Aruban guides – and will
be running a three-week project in August and September this year. Our team of
six Girlguiding members come from across length of the UK and met up at our
first briefing weekend at the start of this month.
Over
the coming weeks and months we’ll be using this blog to share our journey with
you: our highs and lows, our top tips and our exciting discoveries. And we’ll
be kicking off with a series of introductory posts of individual team members
coming soon.
In the
meantime, Helen, Amy, Bridget, Laura, Pippa, and Rachel are hard at work
raising over £1850 each to fund the trip. You’ll hear more about our individual
fundraising activities in our introductory blogs, but time is of the essence
and if you’d like to support this year’s team there’s a number of ways you can
donate. If you’d like to support Amy, Bridget or Helen they each have
individual Justgiving pages you can visit:
Alternately,
Laura is taking on a huge challenge in a couple of months and will be running
her first marathon. She’s had a tough journey so far with an injury putting
back her training, and you can spur her on by donating at: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Laura-Bathgate-GOLD
Finally, is me, Pippa. I’m organising a ‘Postcards from
Aruba’ activity where, in return for a donation, I will send you updates and
activities to use with your group, as well a postcard from the island itself. There
are more details about it on my Justgiving page: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Pippa-Gardner-Aruba
Stay tuned for more updates coming soon!
Pippa
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