The Jarman Centre is designed to add to the enjoyment throughout the year of members of Girlguiding UK whatever their age. It is also available to schools and other organisations when not in use by our members – mostly daytime and some evenings during the week.

The Centre, which opened in 1988, is an attractive yet simple brick building, with an overhanging roof providing covered areas to link activities inside and outside. The main hall is open to roof level with high windows giving extra light. It is set in 13.5 acres of woodland, where there are four campsites, an archery area, and extensive tracks and trails.

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Girlguiding Cambridgeshire East bought the site using proceeds from the sale of Haddenham Halt, a converted railway station that had served as a Brownie pack holiday home and Guide centre for 13 years. The County’s building fund was augmented by generous gifts from Cambridge City Division and Cambridge City Trefoil Guild from their bequests from Miss Marjory Jarman, so loved as ‘Jammie’.

MARJORY ALICE JARMAN 13 August 1900 - 1 January 1981

• was enrolled as a Guide into the 12th Cambridge Guide Company in 1916;
• was County Camp Adviser from 1942 until 1953;
• was a member of the Guide International Service (GIS) in World War II, in the Egyptian desert, in a Cairo hospital, and in the Displaced Persons Centre in Piraeus;
• was awarded the WVS Long Service Medal in 1961 for 22 years of service, 40 duties a year;
• started the 14th Cambridge Land Ranger Company in 1920 and was its leader until 1957; and founded the Cambridge Trefoil Guild in 1943.

Her life was one of service to the wider community as well as to guiding.

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