1st Lenzie Girls’ Brigade

It has been a busy year at 1st Lenzie Girls’ Brigade for the start of our 50th anniversary year. As part of our service topic we planted bulbs in the memorial gardens on Victoria Road. The girls all enjoyed the event and we put up a plaque to commemorate this. We would like to thank Coda Estates for their continued support of the company and for their funding of the spring bulbs. We are celebrating the 50th anniversary with an afternoon tea in the church hall on Sunday 22nd February 2026 from 2pm to 4pm. Please email 1stlenziegb23@gmail.com to reserve a place.

The Commonwealth Games is the educational and physical topic this year. We discovered Finnie the mascot, named for the Finnieston Crane, who is a unicorn with an orange-and-white striped traffic cone horn, copying the cone that is always on top of the Duke of Wellington’s statue in Glasgow.

So far we have learned about the countries of India, Malaysia and Vanuatu and we still have more to come. We had pakora for our India session and also practised yoga. For our Malaysia evening we had sweet cakes called kuih bahulu and played badminton. We had a boxing exercise session with 2018 welterweight champion Ally Black – the girls enjoyed trying on the boxing training gloves and holding Ally’s championship belt. On our Vanuatu evening we did a weaving craft which is one of the country’s traditional crafts. It has been interesting learning about the foods, cultures and traditions of these different countries.

The spiritual topic is the fruits of the spirit and we are covering them all with Kim’s help. We have also enjoyed trying actual fruits to represent each fruit of the spirit. You may have seen the mural the girls have started to put up in the New Hall.

We are looking forward to our next few evenings as Christmas approaches. We have baking at home with Rhona, Christmas crafts, a Christmas movie night and our Christmas party!

We have a stall at Lenzie Meadow Christmas Fayre on Saturday 29th November so do come along and say hello!