I would like to express my most sincere and grateful personal thanks to all the people who wrote, phoned and stopped me in the street and shops to offer their encouragement during the recent situation that the 5th High Barnet Guides found themselves in.

To try to name them all would be impossible and to leave one out would be tragic.

I have great pleasure in confirming that our unit has found a new home and is thriving.

Thanks to efforts on our behalf by the Barnet & Potters Bar Times and Red Cross Centre in St Albans Road, Barnet.

I feel sure the guides, their parents and the Guide Association, who have been most supportive through this trauma, would add their thanks to mine for such wonderful widespread support, which has brought about the successful conclusion of this sorry episode.

Jenny Dodd