Guides

What do Guides do?

Being a Guide is about belonging to a group, learning new skills, making friends and helping others. As well as camps and holidays, there is a wide range of outdoor activities from abseiling to walking.

Working together in Patrols

A Patrol is a group of four to eight girls, providing a ready-made group of friends and helping the girls to feel that they belong to something special.

Helping others

The Guide motto is “Be Prepared” so Guides are always ready to help when and where they can. Activities such as fund-raising for good causes and helping others in the community are all part of being a Guide. It is a tradition in Guiding to do a Good Turn every day.

Who can be a Guide?

Any girl aged 10 or over can join Girlguiding UK. The oldest Guides in a unit are usually between 14 and 15 years old.

Guide Promise

The guide promise: I promise that I will do my best: To Love my God, To serve the Queen and my country, To help other people and To keep the Guide Law.

We hope that all Guides will feel able to make their promise at some time, but it is not essential to being a member of the unit.

Worldwide Movement

Girlguiding UK is the largest voluntary organisation for women and girls in this country, with about 700,000 members. Guiding was started in 1910 by Robert Baden-Powell, following his success with Scouting, when he realised that girls wanted the same adventure. There are similar Associations throughout the world and Girlguiding UK is a founding member of the world organisation that unites them.

4^th Crofton (St John's)

We have a large, thriving unit, and many girls on our waiting list. In order to offer the fun that is Girlguiding to as many girls as possible, we have a rota of adults who help on a Friday evening. Helpers don't have to be parents, or female, but they do have to be over 18. Contact information can be found here.