When you join the Brownies you make a promise
The Brownie Promise
"I promise that I will do my best, to be true to myself and develop my beliefs, to serve the Queen and my community, to help other people and to keep the Brownie Guide Law.
Well, one super Brownie Izzy Ceconi certainly served her community.
Izzy is 9yrs old and a 'sixer’ of the Imp Six from the 3rd Hamworthy Brownies, her ‘community’ warmly welcomed her to Poole Lifeboat Station on Saturday (February 9).
Izzy has been working very hard at gaining her badges,her sash is brimming with badges of all shapes and sizes, she is particularly proud of her skill builder badges, these are the hexagon shaped ones.
The new skills builder badges are designed to help girls develop skills as they grow older, from Rainbows, through Brownies and Guides, to Rangers, along side these badges you can complete interest badges and Izzy has been working towards her ‘Charity badge’.
Izzy chose to support Poole Lifeboat; as she has had a connection with the station all of her life as her dad Neil, has been a volunteer crew here at Poole and lately also a Helm at Chiswick lifeboat station on the Thames.
Izzy designed a campaign, ‘Pennies for wellies’ and baked some yummy shortbread biscuits, iced and decorated with yellow RNLI wellies. Izzy’s mum then took the biscuits and poster to work and asked people to purchase them with a donation, resulting in an amazing number of pennies - £18.44
Izzy visited the station to hand her pennies and a special handmade card to volunteer Helm Jonathan Clark and volunteer crewman Stirling Taylor.
Jonathan said:
“Fantastic effort Izzy, thank you from all of us at the station, the biscuits looked delicious, you obviously worked very hard and deserve your charity badge and we look forward to seeing it on your sash, well done’.
The RNLI charity saves lives at sea. Its volunteers provide a 24-hour search and rescue service around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland coasts. The RNLI operates 238 lifeboat stations in the UK and Ireland and more than 240 lifeguard units on beaches around the UK and Channel Islands. The RNLI is independent of Coastguard and government and depends on voluntary donations and legacies to maintain its rescue service. Since the RNLI was founded in 1824, its lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved over 146,000 lives.
