FOR generations, mothers and daughters have donned their brown and yellow uniforms, rolled up their sleeves and got stuck in to do their very best across the community.

The Brownies have been a staple group across many areas for more than a hundred years now, since their inception in the 1910s.

From humble beginnings, the group then known as the Rosebuds were organised by Lord Baden-Powell.

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They were first run as the youngest group in the Guide Association by Agnes Baden-Powell, Lord Baden-Powell's younger sister then by his wife, Lady Olave Baden-Powell in 1918.

The girls were renamed allegedly after the story "The Brownies" by Juliana Horatia Ewing, written in 1870 in which two children, Tommy and Betty, learn that children can be helpful Brownies or lazy boggarts.

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Now a leading charity for girls and young women across the UK, the group's motto is, and always has been to empower through adventure, friendship and fun and they are doing just that country wide to almost a half a million girls.

Last weekend, Urswick Brownies had their own significant get together and celebrated 40 years in the village with a special afternoon tea party.

Members past and present came to show their support for the movement which teaches girls aged seven to 10 to explore their place in the community and the world around them.

Urswick Brownies come together for 40th anniversary celebration