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Sectional news:
All done for 2010, all units are back the week commencing the 10th of January – Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all
There’s more to Guiding than having a good time. It provides opportunities for girls and young women to:
- Be challenged by new experiences and achieve a sense of pride in accomplishment
- Think for themselves and make decisions
- Undertake teamwork and acquire leadership skills
- Acquire self-awareness, self-respect and self-confidence
- Develop personal values which give their lives meaning and direction
- Do their best according to their abilities
- Seek spiritual development – whatever faith they belong to
- Contribute to society
- Live by a simple code- The guide law
Statement of purpose
GirlguidingUK enables girls and young women to develop their potential and to make a different to the world
Interesting facts
- GirlguidingUK is the largest youth organisation for girls in the UK today
- Almost half of the women in Britain have been involved in Guiding at some point in their lives
- Around 30% of eight year-olds are Brownies
- Celebrity former members include Cat Deeley, Glenda Jackson, Lorraine Kelly, Mo Mowlan, Anita Roddick, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Carole Vorderman, Deila Smith, Kate Moss and Cherie Booth
- GirlguidingUK strives to enable girls’ voices to be heard wherever decisions that affect them are being taken