Background Information
What is Guiding?
Guiding is a game - with a purpose. It provides opportunities for girls and young women (aged 5 - 26) to:
- be challenged by new adventures and experiences and achieve a sense of pride in accomplishment
- develop self-awareness, self-respect and self-confidence
- develop a personal faith and values to give life meaning and direction
- think for themselves, govern themselves and make their own decisions
- make friends and have fun in the family of Guiding
- develop a sense of tolerance, justice, kindness and honour, learn teamwork and acquire leadership skills, working with and for others
- appreciate the environment and how to live in it
- understand and learn about the world, its people and cultures
Our Mission & Vision
Girlguiding Scotland, as part of a worldwide Movement, enables girls and young women to fulfil their potential and to take an active and responsible role in society through our distinctive, stimulating and enjoyable programme of activities delivered by trained volunteer leaders.
Our Vision is to be recognised as the leading organisation for girls and young women and to widen and increase our membership.
Personal Achievement
Our members are individuals - and it is not Girlguiding Scotland's aim to make them conform to a standard mould. Each girl has her own talents, skills and interests - unique to her. Guiding challenges her to use and extend these abilities in a positive way.
The scope and flexibility of the programme, designed to meet the needs of each girl, reflect this emphasis on personal achievement. Guiding is about doing one's best, not about meeting set targets in a strict time limit. As Baden-Powell said, 'The only standard that counts is the amount of effort on the part of the individual.'
Guiding is for Everyone
Our members come from all kinds of backgrounds. Guiding is open to every girl or young woman - regardless of race, faith or personal circumstance - provided she is able to understand the Guide Promise to the best of her ability and is willing to make it. The Promise is a three-fold commitment which asks that a Guide should do her best to:
- seek spiritual development
- contribute to society
- live by a simple code - the Guide Law.
Guiding respects the special requirements of each girl's faith or culture, such as dress, diet, holy days and so on.
*Source: Girlguiding UK.
Read more about:
- Rainbows (aged 5 - 7)
- Brownies (aged 7 - 10)
- Guides (aged 10 - 14)
- Senior Section (aged 14 - 26)
- Adults (aged 26 - 65)
- Trefoil Guild (includes 65+)
- Ambassadors
The Scottish Chief Commissioner
Dinah
Faulds begins her new appointment as Scottish Chief Commissioner on 1st September, 2007.
Of her new role, she said:
"Guiding brings the support of sisters and friends everywhere.
In times of apprehension I will draw on the messages of kindness and encouragement from all
four corners of Scotland. I am humbled by members' trust and strengthened by their confidence."