Girl Guides

Description: Being a Guide is all about learning new skills, making new friends and helping others. Each Guide is encouraged to ... more

Girl Guides ... achieve her own personal goals through a progressive programme with the opportunity to work for a wide variety of badges. This allows the girl to mature and develop at her own pace. Guides work together in Patrols, groups of four to eight girls, providing a ready-made group of friends and helping the girls to feel that they belong to something special. They elect their own Patrol Leader. A Patrol plans its own activities with the support of the Guide Leader so that each Guide learns to share in decisions that affect herself and others in the Patrol.

Newest Review: ... where girls learn to sew and bake and make bizarre crafts. Instead they are a place where girls can be just that - girls, away from parents, boys and other distractions. Guides can earn badges, but these are on a whole number of subjects with something to suit everyone, from the ever popular chocolate badge, to film lover, agility, world culture and craft. Activities that go on with in ... more

... guiding are also varied and include archery, swimming, climbing, kayaking, rafting and many more. Guides also have the chance to have sleepovers, holidays and camps, sometimes even being abole to take part in large scale international jamborees, camping ...more

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Girl Guides: Girl guides - (186 words)
by - written on 02/12/08 (Very useful, 37 readings)
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I hve been a girl guide, and i am setting up a new unit in january! Girl guides have changed an awful lot in comparison to the common misconceptions people have about them. They are not a club where girls learn to sew and bake and make bizarre crafts. Instead they are a place where girls can be just that - girls, away from parents, boys and other distractions. Guides can earn badges, but these are on a whole number of subjects with something to suit everyone, from the ever popular chocolate badge, to film lover, agility, world culture and craft. Activities that go on with in guiding are also varied and include archery, swimming, climbing, kayaking, ... Read the complete review

You Don't have to be mad to be a guide....but it really help ... (2146 words)
by - written on 13/09/08 (Very useful, 597 readings)
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**Overview** well this is something thats really close to my heart, I have been a girl guide or at least in girl guiding literally all my life (I was a rainbow, no i'm a ranger...i'll explain those a bit later on) **history..in brief** Robet Baden Powell the initial founder of scouting, saw that girls wanted to take part in the activities that guys in the scouts could do, but they couldn't because they couldn't join the scouts (well there are ewxceptions actually, but on the whole the weren't allowed) so he created a group for girls which was looked after in a sense by Agnes baden Powell (it's a family affair) Then two pamphlets and a handbook later ... Read the complete review

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