Bring Girlguiding to life in your area

From funding and fundraising to exciting challenge badges and finance info, this is the place where you’ll find everything you need.

Subscriptions

Units charge ‘subs’ to cover the cost of equipment and hire of the meeting place. Find out more about the costs involved and how subs are used.

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Scottish contacts

Find out more about how Girlguiding Scotland is structured or download a map of our counties and regions.

Scottish contacts >

The guiding manual

The Guiding Manual is regularly updated and contains everything you need to know to make guiding happen, from our Promise to planning camps and activities. It also has information on awards, complaints, child safety, fundraising and much more.

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Event planning support

Support planning residential events, camps and sleepovers. Browse our activities to do with your unit page or follow us on Pinterest to get inspiration on themes, activities and more for holidays, sleepovers and camps.

Planning residential events, camps and sleepovers >

For Commissioners

Useful information for commissioners at any level, district, division or county, including the online county commissioners’ handbook.

For Commissioners >

Marketing and communications

Shout about it! Raising the profile of guiding in your County has many benefits, from helping people understand what we’re all about to attracting new volunteers.

Marketing and communications >

Volunteer recruitment checks – PVG

Information on and support completing volunteer recruitment checks.

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Membership system

GO (Guiding Organiser) is Girlguiding’s membership system that records all our member’s information. It is designed to help you keep your details up to date and manage information for the young members and volunteers in your area.

Our membership system

Growing our membership

Growing guiding is about increasing the number of girls who join and stick with guiding. It isn’t separate to normal guiding – all our members can play a role in helping us reach more people, keep our amazing volunteers and girls with us and deliver the best possible guiding experience.

Growing our membership

Shop and retail

A full range of uniforms, badges, gifts and publications for Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, The Senior Section, Leaders and Commissioners are available here in Scotland for you, plus our own branded products.

Shops and retail