Queen's Birthday Honour for Chief Guide
15 June 2010
Girlguiding UK’s Chief Guide, Liz Burnley, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Speaking on behalf of the Europe Region WAGGGS, Penelope Cooper, Director said
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I am delighted to send our congratulations to Liz on belhalf of the Region. It is wonderful to see that all her hard work keeping Guiding relevant to girls and young women in the UK has been recognised with such a high honour |
Liz has spent a lifetime in guiding and has held the post of Chief Guide since 2006.
Commenting on the award, Liz said,
| Receiving this honour is a privilege which compares only with that of leading Girlguiding UK's 80,000 fantastic adult volunteers. The combined value of their work is genuinely priceless. In our Centenary year this is a wonderful recognition of everything that I, like every single one of them, am striving to achieve. |
Girlguiding UK Chief Executive Denise King said,
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We are all truly proud of Liz. She has worked tirelessly for the organisation during her five year term of office, and during this our Centenary year she has taken us to new heights. Girlguiding UK is very fortunate to have such an able leader to take them forward in the service of girls and young women in this country at the start of our second century.” |
