About Guides
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*What are the Guides?
Guides are usually aged between ten and fourteen, although some Guides like to stay until they are older. Any girl over the age of ten can become a Guide as long as she is able to understand, and wants to make, the Guide Promise.
Being a Guide is all about belonging to a group, learning new skills, making new friends and helping others. Each Guide is encouraged to 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 leader. A Patrol plans its own activities with the support of the Guide Guider so that each Guide learns to share in decisions that affect herself and others in the Patrol.
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
The Guide Laws
- A Guide is honest, reliable and can be trusted.
- A Guide is helpful and uses her time and abilities wisely.
- A Guide faces challenge and learns from her experiences.
- A Guide is a good friend and a sister to all Guides.
- A Guide is polite and considerate.
- A Guide respects all living things and takes care of the world around her.
The Guide Motto
Be Prepared
Uniform
Each Guide chooses the uniform she wants to wear from the range of options available in the Guide uniform collection, which is a range of mix-and-match items. Each girl decides which items she would like to wear. This choice allows Guides to be themselves but also makes them feel part of the Unit.
*Source: Girlguiding UK.
Scotland
There are 16,000 Guides all over Scotland with Units from Shetland to the Borders.
If you are interested in finding out more information about joining the Guides, you can -
1. Make contact with a leader for this Section in your County.
2.To apply to join today, please call us on Freephone 0800 1 69 59 01 or Email: Please fill out the enquiry form