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Guides call for newvolunteers
GIRLGUIDING has launched an appeal formore volunteers to run groups acrossMaidstone. After more than 100 years in op-
eration, the movement’s Brownie group at Loose is at risk of closure as its current leader is going to uni- versity this year. The Brownie group at Shepway and Rainbows at Coxheath both say they are very short of people to run them. BoughtonValeDivision, based in
southMaidstone, is offering a vari- ety of flexible volunteering roles in the hope that they will fit with in- dividuals’ free time, from helping out at a meeting once a month, to supportingweekend events or run- ning occasional group sessions. Division commissioner Hilary
Carter says: “There are 16,000 girls on waiting lists in London and the South East whomay not be able to join without additional leaders, so it’s not just about the units that may close but also the need to open newones.” Jamie Bird, a young leader at
Coxheath Guides, said: “I’ve done so many things I wouldn’t have been able to do anywhere else, such as travelling abroad, climbing, abseiling and canoeing, which I love. I help out at a Guide group now because I want others to have the opportunities I had.” Research last year found that
Jamie Bird, on a Girlguiding Kent Weald trip toMexico
spending time with friends made 51% of girls (aged seven to 21) feel more positive, being creative (22%), being outdoors (22%) and one in five felt trying new things en- hanced their life - all core aims of the guidingmovement. Deputy chief guide Sally Illsley
said: “If you’re someone who would like to help inspire and em- power a generation of girls and youngwomen to find their place in the world, then volunteering with Girlguiding is the chance to do just that.” Anyone interested in getting in-
volved can contactHilaryCarter at boughtonvaledivision@girlguid-
ingkentweald.org.uk.
MP helps increase lorry fine “Along with tougher rules we
ILLEGALLY parked lorries tar- geted in a pilot scheme in Ash- ford have had fines almost quadrupled after an interven- tion by HelenWhately. Mrs Whately, MP for
Faversham and Mid Kent, wrote to the min- ister Jesse Norman on December 14 saying it costs £150 to clamp a lorry but the council was only allowed to charge a £40 fee. The minister has now agreed
to allow Ashford Borough Council to charge £150 fines while it is trialling clamping lor- ries. Mrs Whately said: “I’m
pleased that the government has listened and increased fines for illegally parked lorries. This will mean that the local council is no longer being left out of pocket for clamping more lor- ries.
needmore lorry parking spaces. I understand a number of com- mercial lorry parks in Kent are looking to expand and the government iswork- ing onwhether a perma- nent
solution to
Operation Stack can also be used to tackle fly- parking.” Ukip councillor Eddie
Powell – a fierce critic of lorries using the road-
sides as free parking –wants the scheme rolled out toMaidstone "without delay". He added: “The sooner the programme is
rolled out
throughout the country and es- pecially into Maidstone, where the problems are horrendous, the better.” Illegally parked lorries and
their drivers cause disruption, noise, unwanted litter and human waste where it occurs.
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