Seven intrepid Guides and three of their leaders from Broughton in Furness Guides braved
the freezing temperatures to sleep under canvas at Girlguiding’s extreme winter camp.
They joined hundreds of other girls at Sparkle and Ice, a weekend event held at Girlguiding’s activity centre Waddow Hall near Clitheroe in early February.
After pitching their tents, the group had great fun with activities which ranged from roller
skating to crate stacking. And at night, they had the choice of ditching their welly boots for
dancing shoes to enjoy the onsite disco or having a hot chocolate whilst stargazing before
layering up to endure plunging temperatures to take on the challenge of winter camping.
It rained all day Saturday so there was lots of mud and then the very wet tents froze
overnight. The girls had real trouble taking the tents down as the poles were frozen to the
tent.
Guide leader Samantha Addington was very pleased with her charges: “The girls had a real adventure and coped really well with the conditions.” 12-year- old Caoimhe France thought the weekend was “great fun, despite the fact that my feet froze” and 10-year- old Lily Tracey agreed: “It was really fun in the tents but it was really
cold too and you got quite muddy.”
This is the second time Sparkle and Ice has been held following last year’s successful launch.
A thousand girls and young women joined three camps which happened simultaneously
across Girlguiding’s activity centres in Lancashire, Hampshire and Sussex. The event wassupported by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery.
Sparkle and Ice is the first of three weekend events to be held at Girlguiding’s activity
centres during 2018 for girls and young women from across the country, with Magic and
Mayhem and Wellies and Wristbands coming up in the summer.
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