If you can’t be at the 2024 Great Escape, but you wish to support  our Girl Scout Camps, please donate to our auction now, by clicking on the Donate button.

Live Auction!

By popular demand – our amazing live auction!  GE Committee members will be making and donating wonderful gifts in hopes you’ll support our camps by bidding high!

Winning bids range from $25-$150. The auction benefits our Girl Scout camps.

What Happens To Our Auction Proceeds?

Since Great Escape has been keeping records of fees and donations, the Committee has donated over $18,000 for the use of the camps during underutilized time periods.  Great Escape, by running a fund-raising auction each year, raised more than $26,000, most of which was earmarked for Camp Wabasso, and will now benefit Camp WInd-in-the Pines as well as other camps.  

These proceeds have been used by Girl Scouts, Eastern Massachusetts to provide new tables, chairs, new chair racks and to purchase mildew-resistant paint, and a dehumidifier.  Other purchases included more than 25 new mattresses for the camp cots, $1500 towards a Challenge Course, $3,500 towards new cooking stoves and buying new cross country skis. A commercial washer and dryer for the infirmary was also purchased so that staff won’t need to leave camp to launder sleeping bags that meet with the unfortunate accidents that happen when campers become ill.  

In 2023 we were proud to purchase an electric golf cart, enabling summer camp staff to navigate this large property to assist and supervise campers more efficiently. It serves us well during the Escape to bring campers from site to site more quickly, while supporting those for whom the long walk between the EDC and dining hall could be a challenge. When you participate in our auction or purchase our merchandise, you are helping to support our Council properties and the staff and girls who camp there.

In addition to our monetary donations, Great Escape has provided hands-on service projects that have included breaking down the cots in the tent units, saving the Council the cost of hiring help to do this.  Furniture has been moved in the dining hall to make way for winter cleaning, a handmade quilt was created by Committee members and donated to the American Room at Foxlease in England.  Several Committee members have collaborated to make curtains for Camp Laurel Wood in Spencer where we have spent Committee retreats.

We remain grateful to all who have laughed and cried and sung and played with us at our weekends in the woods.  We look forward to having new Girl Scout Adults and High School Senior Girl Scouts join us, to help us be sisters to every Girl Scout.

September 2023 -Welcome to Camp WInd-In-The-Pines!