St Bees Guides will soon have a new badge to proudly display on their neckerchiefs, after a competition to come up with the design. They held a contest for its members to come up with a badge to be worn on their neckerchiefs, after young leader Ruth Taylor attended a Jamboree in Amsterdam earlier this year and discovered that most other guide groups already had a club badge.
She came back to the UK and set the challenge to the youngsters to design a badge of their own. After applying to the Cumbria County Foundation, who gave them £140, they enlisted the help of Lakes Collage, art tutor Shona Jones, who came in and worked with them on their designs.
Shona said: "They have all done very well, and have produced really creative ideas."
Copeland Mayor Anne Faichney judged the contest, along with David Andrews from the Cumbria Community Foundation.
Mrs Faichney said: "I think the designs that the girls have come up with show that they take a real pride in the village; they obviously care about it very much and enjoy living here."
The competition was won by Keren Rudd, who came up with a fantastic design, using the letter G as an outline and adding things around the edges that made her proud of St Bees, such as a flower to represent the village’s success in Cumbria in Bloom.
Her prize was an MP3 player, provided by Sellafield Ltd. The runner up was Georgiana Oldham, and Sylvia Wadsworth and Courtney Deakin were highly commended.
The guides take girls from the ages of 10 to 14 and they currently have four vacancies.

Left to right: Ruth Taylor, David Andrews, Copeland Mayor Anne Faichney, Sylvia Wadsworth,
Georgiana Oldham, Courtney Dekin and Keren Rudd.

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