Anna Moody

Moody joined the Girl Guides in 1921 as captain of 1st Roeside Guide company.^[9][10] She attended the first World Camp) in 1924 as the Ulster representative. In 1933 she, as the Londonderry County commissioner for Girl Guides,^[11] and her husband, the district commissioner of the local Boy Scouts, were instrumental in the building of the Limavady Girl Guides' and Boy Scouts' Hall.^[12]

She was Girl Guiding's Ulster commissioner for camping in 1933.^[13] Between 1934 and 1937 she was Imperial commissioner for camping, in which role she organised an international camp at Dunmurry.^[14] She also held an "important position" at the Coronation Camp in Essex in 1937.^[15][16]

Between 1938 and 1944 she served as deputy chief commissioner for Ulster Girl Guides.^[17] After she resigned, because of ill health,^[18] she received the Silver Fish Award, presented by Rosalind Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn.^[19]

In the 1940s she played the following roles for Girl Guides:

• Londonderry County commissioner^[20]
• Limavady County commandant^[21]
• Limavady County secretary^[22]
• Dungiven and District Girl Guides' Association secretary^[23]

Moody was heavily involved in the Limavady Women's Unionist Association between 1927 and 1947 as hon. secretary,^[24] hon. treasurer^[25] and vice president.^[26][27] Between 1930 and 1944 she was a committee member of Limavady District Nursing and Child Welfare Association.^[28][29]

During WWII she was the chief organiser of the Londonderry County scrap metal and salvage campaign.^[30]

Other organisations she was affiliated with were:

• Ladies' Aid Guild, member^[31]
• Limavady Naturalists' Field Club, executive committee member^[32]
• Northern Ireland Physical Training and Recreation Act, advisory council member^[33]
• District School Management Committee, chair^[34]
• Roe Valley Hospital, ladies' committee member^[35]
• Limavady Rural Council, ladies' committee member^[36]