Dear Reader,
At Guides, your daughter will have the chance to earn badges, such as Performing Arts and World Cultures, Go For Its, and challenge badges, as well other awards such as her Commonwealth Award. Guides go on lots of camps, trips and get involved in art, craft, outdoor cooking, sport and even volunteering - should you daughter wish to become a Rainbow or Brownie helper!
Some Guides get the opportunity to go on international trips - such as to Disneyland, or one of our World Centres. As well as the potential to go away to a jamboree, a week long camping event where she will meet Guides and Scouts from all over the world.
In meetings, Guides work both in their unit, and in their patrols - small groups of girls lead by a Patrol Leader and a Patrol Seconder. In these groups they will carry out activities, discussion and planning around badges and future activities.
In my own time as a Guide, I took part in many camps, and trips - including a Christmas themed camp, and district trip to Africa Alive zoo. I also earned many interest badges such as Traditions of Guiding, Music Zone and Communicator, which I was able to display on my uniform - and now reside on my camp blanket - as well as challenge badges such as Anglia 13.
In the summer months, we held our own sports day outside on the field, and experienced outdoor cooking. Around Christmas time we would make decorations for the local tree festival and every meeting we were able to channel our energy into games or discussion. At Guides, girls get to make lots of decisions about the content of the meetings, and badges and activities that they want to do.
As a Guide, you can complete badges at home, and at school, as well as in meetings. If you do a particular sport, you may be able to get your coach or instructor to help you do the things you need to complete your Agility, or Sport badge. If you decide to take up a new hobby - such as guitar lessons, it will be easy to complete your Hobbies badge.
Once a girl is approaching the end of her time in Guides, she can begin to explore the Senior Section, who can still follow the guide programme, but also have their own programme - Look Wider, which enables more opportunity for volunteering, creativity and earning badges, known as octants.
Quite often, the move from Guides to Senior Section may be a simple one, as the units may run alongside each other, or be run by the same leadership team.
Want to register your daughter? https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-for-parents/register-your-daughter/
Want to join us as a volunteer? https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/get-involved/become-a-volunteer/register-your-interest/
Is your daughter keen to earn badges and awards?
Does she enjoy camping, and using her skills to make a difference?
Take a look into Guides!!
Guides is for all girls aged 10-14, who enjoy making friends, challenging themselves, getting their hands dirty and developing new and existing skills.
Guides is for all girls aged 10-14, who enjoy making friends, challenging themselves, getting their hands dirty and developing new and existing skills.
At Guides, your daughter will have the chance to earn badges, such as Performing Arts and World Cultures, Go For Its, and challenge badges, as well other awards such as her Commonwealth Award. Guides go on lots of camps, trips and get involved in art, craft, outdoor cooking, sport and even volunteering - should you daughter wish to become a Rainbow or Brownie helper!
Some Guides get the opportunity to go on international trips - such as to Disneyland, or one of our World Centres. As well as the potential to go away to a jamboree, a week long camping event where she will meet Guides and Scouts from all over the world.
In meetings, Guides work both in their unit, and in their patrols - small groups of girls lead by a Patrol Leader and a Patrol Seconder. In these groups they will carry out activities, discussion and planning around badges and future activities.
In my own time as a Guide, I took part in many camps, and trips - including a Christmas themed camp, and district trip to Africa Alive zoo. I also earned many interest badges such as Traditions of Guiding, Music Zone and Communicator, which I was able to display on my uniform - and now reside on my camp blanket - as well as challenge badges such as Anglia 13.
In the summer months, we held our own sports day outside on the field, and experienced outdoor cooking. Around Christmas time we would make decorations for the local tree festival and every meeting we were able to channel our energy into games or discussion. At Guides, girls get to make lots of decisions about the content of the meetings, and badges and activities that they want to do.
As a Guide, you can complete badges at home, and at school, as well as in meetings. If you do a particular sport, you may be able to get your coach or instructor to help you do the things you need to complete your Agility, or Sport badge. If you decide to take up a new hobby - such as guitar lessons, it will be easy to complete your Hobbies badge.
Once a girl is approaching the end of her time in Guides, she can begin to explore the Senior Section, who can still follow the guide programme, but also have their own programme - Look Wider, which enables more opportunity for volunteering, creativity and earning badges, known as octants.
Quite often, the move from Guides to Senior Section may be a simple one, as the units may run alongside each other, or be run by the same leadership team.
Want to register your daughter? https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-for-parents/register-your-daughter/
Want to join us as a volunteer? https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/get-involved/become-a-volunteer/register-your-interest/
I promise that I will do my best, to be true to myself and develop my beliefs, to serve the Queen and my community, to help other people and to keep the Guide Law,
Yours,
The 16-Year-Old Brownie
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