100-Year-Old Woman Still an Active Volunteer

100-year-old Betty Lowe spends her days shifting between volunteering at a charity WRS shop at a hospital in her native Salford, England, and helping out with Britain's version of the Girl Scouts, the Girl Guides - a group she's been a member of for 89 years.

By Kathryn Hawkins. Posted on August 25 2008

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People have all sorts of excuses for not volunteering their time to charities. “I’m too busy.” “Gas is too expensive to drive anywhere I don’t need to go.” “I’ll just send some money instead.”

You won’t hear any such thing from Betty Lowe. As Great Britain’s oldest active volunteer, 100-year-old Lowe spends her days shifting between volunteering at a charity WRS shop at a hospital in her native Salford, England, and helping out with Britain’s version of the Girl Scouts, the Girl Guides - a group she’s been a member of for 89 years.

“I’ve been in the guides since I was 11. I was very interested in it and I used to go camping and walking. I was a bit of an outdoor girl when I was younger,” Lowe told the Telegraph.<

Lowe isn’t quite in shape for camping these days, but she still keeps busy with her volunteer activities. When she’s not volunteering with one of her favorite groups, she’s helping out friends and family, and is known as a supreme birthday cake chef.

Lowe just turned 100 on Monday, and more than 100 friends and family members showed up at her birthday party to wish her well. It sounds like this charitable centarian was happy to blow out the candles with a smile: “I think it’s very good to be 100,” she said. “I’ve enjoyed all my life.”

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