Ways to Support Us
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    We are looking for volunteers to help us run Dudsbury Guide Camp 
    If you have the necessary skills and want to know further information
​    please do get in touch, email:- help at Dudsbury 

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Dudsbury is the only Girlguiding owned campsite in Dorset and is run by volunteers both active within Guiding and outside of Guiding.

In order to do this we rely on usage of the site, grants, fundraising and donations to carry out projects and activities that we have planned.   Without funding we would not be able to carry out the work that we do to support girls and women in Guiding.

Fundraising
​We rely on voluntary contributions from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations or grant giving bodies in order to provide both indoor and outdoor camping facilities for girls and young women.

We are signed up to easyfundraising, please consider us when making online purchases.  
​https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/dudsburyguidecamp/


BH Coastal Lottery
We are part of BHCoastal Lottery, 

Donations
The generous donations that we receive every year help us to continue to provide great opportunities for all of our members. From helping our adult members to gain new qualifications, to supporting girls and young women on their first trip away from home.   We simply wouldn’t be the organisation we are today without the public’s help. If you’d like to make a donation either from you, or on behalf of a loved one, then we have a variety of different options. Contact us today :- [email protected].  

On Site Service Projects
We have compiled a list of on site service projects if you have some spare time, do let us know if you can. (Contact us at:-  [email protected]
 for more information.​)
Can_you_help_-_on_site_service_projects.pdf


Legacies 
Legacies are a gift which is left in a will; this can include money or property. You can generously mention charities in your will. Legacy donations allow us to continue providing the support and activities that we do. Recent legacies have been the girls bathroom in The Chalet.  
​Your legacy gift will mean that we will still be able to support girls and women in years to come

We are always looking for fresh fund raising ideas, and always have several wish lists available.  
Listed below are three items for major development.  If you can help in anyway, please do get in touch  by email:  or [email protected]
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​FRIENDS OF DUDSBURY GUIDE CAMP are exactly that….a group of people who become friends through our love of our beautiful Dudsbury. We primarily raise  funds for the small and larger additional things needed at Dudsbury Guide Camp.
We support a bedroom and bathroom in The House, have brought camping equipment, shelters, games, equipment and supported larger projects.

Friends of Dudsbury was started in 1965 by a Bournemouth Guider,  Kitty Simmons. Kitty rode her bicycle to collect donations from supporters of Girl Guiding and people interested in Dudsbury 
In 1973, Friends of Dudsbury became an official group with Joan Sturton, another Bournemouth Guider, taking on the role of Chairman and Kitty continued to ride her bicycle around Bournemouth to collect monies for Dudsbury.

Friends of Dudsbury continue today and we love welcoming new members. Members are anyone interested in Dudsbury Guide Camp. The Friends meet several times a year. We hold fun fundraising events and help out with projects at Dudsbury.

*   To find out more and how you out can become a Friend of Dudsbury, please check out our website www.friendsofdudsbury.weebly.com
*  contact us via email at [email protected]
*  or follow us on Facebook - friendsofdudsburyguidecamp

Anne's Meadow

• We own a strip of land that has fallen in to disuse which neighbours on to the Dudsbury Golf Course.  We would like to develop this area for campfire and other types of outdoor cooking and space for other activities for the girls to enjoy such as geocaching, orienteering and archery but the field needs to be cleared of weeds and nettles.  We would also like to explore the possibility of using some of this land for over-flow car parking.

Reflections Area

• We would like to develop a 'quiet contemplation area' in the woods with a circle of tree stump 'seats'.

Campfire

• Our Campfire area on the slope down to the river used to have raked seating and be much larger but has become overgrown and can now only accommodate cramped smaller numbers of children at any one time. It would be great to clear and reinstate the seating area into a much more recognisable space once again.