Guiding double award for Thatcham family

Katherine Stewart, aged 16, completed 10 challenges to receive the highest award that a Guide can achieve - the Baden Powell Challenge Award - through her work with the 2nd Thatcham Guides.
The challenges included learning more about world guiding, Independent Living & Disability Awareness, organising a party for Brownies and creating cookery and song books to use at Guide camp.
Her final challenge was to take part in a residential event with Guides from across Berkshire which involved a further series of challenges in Windsor town centre.
Katherine plans to continue her Guiding by becoming a Young Leader with a Brownie Unit.
To make the evening even more special, the aspiring teenager was presented with the award on Friday, October 10, by her grandmother, Mary Fromson, who had also received a Guiding award earlier that week.
Surrounded by her Brownies, Katherine surprised her grandmother by presenting her with a Long Service Award for her 50 years in Guiding.
Before getting involved in Guiding activities across the Kennet Valley, Mrs Fromson ran Guide and Brownie units in the Newcastle Area, becoming County Commissioner for North Tyneside.
Messages of congratulations came from her native Newcastle, where her former colleagues and lifelong friends, said: “Mary has been an inspiration to us all as leaders and to thousands of girls here in Newcastle.
"She is a big miss to Girl Guiding in the North-East but we are so pleased and proud that she has now completed her 50 years with you in Kennet Vale where her daughter Clare and grand-daughters Rebecca and Katherine have been so involved.”