Thank You Lou!

Dear geebeejaybee, and anyone else who happens to be reading.

It is with sadness that I present a homage to our beautiful NJR Louisa Wallbridge, who has now finished her term as NJR for Great Britain. She's been absolutely wonderful, and given a lot to our little Junior Branch off the coast of continental Europe. Thanks for everything Lou, and we hope to see you again sometime!

However, it is also with great pleasure, that I announce our brand new shiny NJR, Jess Wanless! She's already been around for a long time and done a lot, and we're so lucky that we have her to do even more as NJR for the next 2 years. C'mooooon :) Our first joint blog coming soon, get excited!

With much love, and British hugs,

James (now Senior NJR GB haha)

From a train... (Year 9/10/11 & Other news)

This is reaching you via the wireless on the train between Cambridge and Leeds.

That's right, James is on his 6th train so far this year, heading back to West Yorkshire for the 17+ Weekend. I will also now stop referring to myself in the 3rd person. 

So I'm looking forward to this weekend, but what happened last weekend? That's right, the Year 9/10/11 weekend, in Bramhope. 14 people in those years joined us, along with 5/6 staff, for a weekend of fun and discovery.

The theme was nature, which meant we thought a bit about the environment and our responsibility, and this also involved a little bit of running around outside! Definitely not muddy. The group also got a chance to come up with their own activities, and most exciting of all, this minicamp is where we decide to have a GB JB Theme for the next year in JB! The reason for this is that many people felt at NJBF (see below) that a theme would help Junior Branches focus and plan better activities, so I am happy to announce that the theme for the coming year will be... *drum roll*

"Labels"!!!

Have fun thinking about that, and we look forward to lots of great activities and events to do with that!

All in all, the group got on very well, and we look forward to seeing you all again next year. Many many HUGE thanks to our staff team, especially Louise and Rich from North East, who totally made this weekend. Thanks to Simon for a lot of the organisation, and Dan and Dom from Leeds for stepping in late on. 

In other news, well there isn't much that Louisa hasn't told you from NJBF below, but at NJBF, it was our pleasure to reveal the new CISV logo, so here it is, in all its glory! :

Look forward to another post soon, after this 17+ Weekend!