Wishing all GeeBeeJayBee-ers
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Much love and lots of excitement for 2010,
JessieJames
Thursday, 24 December 2009
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Busy Busy GeeBees
Hey GeeBeeJayBee-ers!
So we have had a couple of pretty hectic weeks with 17plus and SMILE(JB training). Firstly we'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped us staff the weekends- we couldn't do it without you! Secondly thanks to those of you who came! We hope you laughed/learnt/loved the weekends as much as we did. It was great to see about 50 of you over the two weekends!
This weekend Jess also took the Saturday off SMILE to attend the second national council of the year, naturally lots of fun was had as ever. This meeting was important for you guys as it's where all the 16 plus activities are allocated - congrats to those who are going away this year!
So now it's time for a little Christmas break where we plan to come up with the most amazing fundraiser the world has ever seen!
We also plan to reprint the I heart GBJB tshirts in time for the year 7/8/9/10 weekend happening at Bramhope near Leeds from the 29th - 31st of January. Forms for these weekends are available from the CISVgbjb Googlegroup. Get then sent off asap as SMILE sold out and so some people missed out- we don't want this to happen to you this weekend!
We are also working on two other projects. The Wild West Weekend happening in early march. This is an international weekend for juniors in our neighbourhood. The places are now filled and we have a great bunch going. If you didn't get a place don't worry as there are other international weekends. Have a look on JBpedia to see what is around!
The other project is a JB/Chapter Development weekend we are working on with national council. More info on this should be out very shortly, but pencil in the 12-14th of Feb at Curly Hill (where 17plus was held).
Enjoy the last few weeks of school/uni/whatever other stuff you fill your life with... And you might just hear from us again before Christmas.
Much love,
JamesnJess
Your NJRs
So we have had a couple of pretty hectic weeks with 17plus and SMILE(JB training). Firstly we'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped us staff the weekends- we couldn't do it without you! Secondly thanks to those of you who came! We hope you laughed/learnt/loved the weekends as much as we did. It was great to see about 50 of you over the two weekends!
This weekend Jess also took the Saturday off SMILE to attend the second national council of the year, naturally lots of fun was had as ever. This meeting was important for you guys as it's where all the 16 plus activities are allocated - congrats to those who are going away this year!
So now it's time for a little Christmas break where we plan to come up with the most amazing fundraiser the world has ever seen!
We also plan to reprint the I heart GBJB tshirts in time for the year 7/8/9/10 weekend happening at Bramhope near Leeds from the 29th - 31st of January. Forms for these weekends are available from the CISVgbjb Googlegroup. Get then sent off asap as SMILE sold out and so some people missed out- we don't want this to happen to you this weekend!
We are also working on two other projects. The Wild West Weekend happening in early march. This is an international weekend for juniors in our neighbourhood. The places are now filled and we have a great bunch going. If you didn't get a place don't worry as there are other international weekends. Have a look on JBpedia to see what is around!
The other project is a JB/Chapter Development weekend we are working on with national council. More info on this should be out very shortly, but pencil in the 12-14th of Feb at Curly Hill (where 17plus was held).
Enjoy the last few weeks of school/uni/whatever other stuff you fill your life with... And you might just hear from us again before Christmas.
Much love,
JamesnJess
Your NJRs
Saturday, 10 October 2009
National Council October
Hey GeeBeeJayBee,
We're currently sat in the first National Council meeting of the year 2009-10, which means it is Jess' first meeting as NJR. Very exciting....ish!
National Council is a meeting that happens four times every year where a few seniors from each branch along with the big dogs (Chair, Secretary, NJRs -yeah)
This meeting is where all the big important decisions are made like what places each branch gets for Villages, Summer Camps and all the other programmes. There are lots of other bits that go on as well including reporting back from the summers Annual International Meeting, planning things like chapter development and leadership training, and addressing problems like new rules about safeguarding - it looks like if you're over 16 within JB, you'll be needing to be CRB checked soon.
Anyone can come along to these meetings and see what's going on - we'd really like you to come along too, the next meeting on 22nd November (same time as SMILE though...).
We're really excited about all the weekends coming up - 17plus and SMILE are only a month away so get your letter in fastfastfast to guarantee yourself a bed to sleep in. There are facebook events for both of them so have a search and if you want a copy of the letter just drop us an email at njr@gb.cisv.org.
The participation form for Wild West Weekend is out. The deadline is the 1st of November so the sooner you get them in the better. Again drop us an email at the above address if you want a letter. And if you don't even have the first letter, check it out on jbpedia: search Wild Wild West.
We're currently sat in the first National Council meeting of the year 2009-10, which means it is Jess' first meeting as NJR. Very exciting....ish!
National Council is a meeting that happens four times every year where a few seniors from each branch along with the big dogs (Chair, Secretary, NJRs -yeah)
This meeting is where all the big important decisions are made like what places each branch gets for Villages, Summer Camps and all the other programmes. There are lots of other bits that go on as well including reporting back from the summers Annual International Meeting, planning things like chapter development and leadership training, and addressing problems like new rules about safeguarding - it looks like if you're over 16 within JB, you'll be needing to be CRB checked soon.
Anyone can come along to these meetings and see what's going on - we'd really like you to come along too, the next meeting on 22nd November (same time as SMILE though...).
We're really excited about all the weekends coming up - 17plus and SMILE are only a month away so get your letter in fastfastfast to guarantee yourself a bed to sleep in. There are facebook events for both of them so have a search and if you want a copy of the letter just drop us an email at njr@gb.cisv.org.
The participation form for Wild West Weekend is out. The deadline is the 1st of November so the sooner you get them in the better. Again drop us an email at the above address if you want a letter. And if you don't even have the first letter, check it out on jbpedia: search Wild Wild West.
Much NJR love,
JesseJames
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Human Arrows!
That's right everyone, at NJB Day we made our own GBJB Human Arrow!To see our contribution with all the others check out the Youtube video, and to find out more about this big project visit the JBPedia page
Saturday, 19 September 2009
JesseJames get keen at NJB Day!
Hey everyone!
While at National Junior Branch Day, we decided to get keen and do our first video blog as you NJRs! Enjoy...
See you soon - much love from JesseJames (Wild West, here we come...)
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Hi from Jess!
Hey all,
So here we are nearly one week after my election as the new NJR. One productive meeting down.
You may have noticed you can now become 'a fan' of GeeBeeJayBee NJRs now on facebook or follow us on twitter. We decided to get technology happy this week so you guys can know what we're up to without having to trawl through long emails. Check us out and we'll keep you informed of anything exciting coming up!
In other Internet related news we are most viewed on JBpedia this month! Good work guys! We want to keep this up so make sure you keep googleing GB and why not check out some fellow GBJBers while you're there (like James and Jess)?
So it's NJB day on the 19th in Hull and we are really exciting about dressing up as 'Parrots and Pirates', can you guess which will be which?!
It would be great to see lots of happy faces there as the day after I move to Nottingham to university. Very exciting but a little scary!
The day after that, the 21st of September, is also a VERY important day! I do hope you know why! That's right - it's International Peace Day! Why not have a look on the Peace One Day website for some ideas about what you can do on the day. Big or small it all counts.
CISVers all over the world will be taking part in a project called 'Human Arrows' which aims to highlight one particular issue. This year they have chosen to raise awareness and draw attention to a new law passed in Lithuania that outlaws discussing homosexuality with minors, which is evidently against the freedom of expression, and an institutionalisation of homophobia. There is more information on our favourite friend JBpedia. Have a read and maybe try and organise a Human Arrow in your city. Feel free to email us at njr@gb.cisv.org if you need any ideas or help organising it or any other peace day project.
Well I think that's enough for my first blog,
See you at NJB day!
Jess (& James!)
So here we are nearly one week after my election as the new NJR. One productive meeting down.
You may have noticed you can now become 'a fan' of GeeBeeJayBee NJRs now on facebook or follow us on twitter. We decided to get technology happy this week so you guys can know what we're up to without having to trawl through long emails. Check us out and we'll keep you informed of anything exciting coming up!
In other Internet related news we are most viewed on JBpedia this month! Good work guys! We want to keep this up so make sure you keep googleing GB and why not check out some fellow GBJBers while you're there (like James and Jess)?
So it's NJB day on the 19th in Hull and we are really exciting about dressing up as 'Parrots and Pirates', can you guess which will be which?!
It would be great to see lots of happy faces there as the day after I move to Nottingham to university. Very exciting but a little scary!
The day after that, the 21st of September, is also a VERY important day! I do hope you know why! That's right - it's International Peace Day! Why not have a look on the Peace One Day website for some ideas about what you can do on the day. Big or small it all counts.
CISVers all over the world will be taking part in a project called 'Human Arrows' which aims to highlight one particular issue. This year they have chosen to raise awareness and draw attention to a new law passed in Lithuania that outlaws discussing homosexuality with minors, which is evidently against the freedom of expression, and an institutionalisation of homophobia. There is more information on our favourite friend JBpedia. Have a read and maybe try and organise a Human Arrow in your city. Feel free to email us at njr@gb.cisv.org if you need any ideas or help organising it or any other peace day project.
Well I think that's enough for my first blog,
See you at NJB day!
Jess (& James!)
Monday, 7 September 2009
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)
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