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The enrolment of our company took place in May 1922, (disbanded in 1979 & re-started again in 1984), making a total of 81 years of service in Falkirk.
 
Present day meetings are held in Hallglen Primary School on Thursday nights, with numbers of girls varying from 11 to 35 in the last decade. 20 - 25 being the average in the past few years.  Since our topic this year has been "Animals in the Bible", all our games have had an animal theme to them.
 
As a company, we try our best to help our church friends as much as possible.  From crepe paper daffodils in spring time, to Christmas cards  &  Easter cards for the housebound members of our congregation.

The call from Blythswood  Care for `filled shoe boxes` was met with great enthusiasm  last year with 4th Falkirk GB filling & delivering 21.

For some lucky  ex-homeless person who has now been given the chance of a home of their own, we donated a  complete `home starter pack`.
 
Our big fundraiser is our Christmas Fayre in early December, the preparation for which takes almost a year. There are stalls of hand made Christmas goodies & we seem to rise to the challenge of making lots of new things from year to year.

Juice & Christmas munchies are on hand for all to enjoy.

"No more than 20p a week" is the cry for our tuck shop which the girls stick to very well. (Parents can spend as much as they like), our profit per year is usually between £50 & £60.
 
This session saw the return of an officer after a break & the commissioning of a new officer, both of which is great for the morale of the company.