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Hear from girls, volunteers and supporters about their adventures with Girlguiding

Read some of our favourite stories about guiding

Have you taken on an incredible challenge, supported us with a special fundraising event or had an inspiring experience during about everyday guiding? Whatever you've done, share your story with us.

Guiding’s given me skills for life

3 December: Poppy shares how guiding has given her skills for life and why she's now passing them to the next generation

I saved my local unit from closing when I was 18

Leader Ellie, 18, tells us what it's like running a unit at a young age

Brave Brownie Poppy is a Guiding Star

Poppy, 8, from 13th Hastings Brownie received our Guiding Star award for showing courage and initiative in an emergency

'I want to carry on with Silver Duke of Edinburgh when I’m a Ranger!'

Guide Sakari and her assistant leader Rozzy share their experiences of DofE and why you should give it a go too

Choosing their own path

As we develop our new offer for young women, members aged 18 to 30 share their favourite guiding adventures

I'm saving my village hall with the help of guiding

Alice, 15, is on a mission to save her local village hall. She shares how Girlguiding is helping her.

I took on the 2018 London Marathon for Girlguiding

Beth fills us in on the highs, lows and heat of the 2018 London Marathon

Action for Change has given me a voice

Catherine shares how Girlguiding helped her launch a campaign to get more women into engineering

Guides can make their Promise anywhere

Find out what PGL activities the 2nd Bingham Guides tried out. Leader Dee Smith tells all.

We went around the world with guiding

100 Girlguiding members. Five countries. One big adventure. Follow Girlguiding Staffordshire's trip around the world.

Guiding has been my life saver

Leader Lauren shares how guiding has added smiles and adventure to her life living with Ehlers Danlos syndrome

These Guides and Brownies love our activity holidays

Find out why Girlguiding Keyingham has so much fun on their PGL trips, as Leader Dianne shares all

Our County is getting recruitment ready

From unit health checks to a County conference: Lancashire South East, are running with our Recruitment Bootcamp

How it feels leading my local Brownie unit

Carol finds it can sometimes be difficult for others to understand why she gives so much of herself to Girlguiding

I loved running the 2017 London Marathon for Girlguiding

Mum of two, Katherine, took on the 2017 London Marathon in order to bring adventure to even more Girlguiding girls

I saved our Brownie unit when I was just fifteen

Meet inspiring Guiding Star Laila who, after her mum’s sad death, stepped in to keep her local Brownie unit open

Our survival camp diary

Sleeping outside, gutting fish and finding their way through the forest - could you survive the 1st Bodicote Guide camp?

Brownies is different from school

Ellena talks about what Brownies means to her, and what makes it so special

I want to see every member out on or in the water at least once

Sue realised she had time and experience going spare, and that Girlguiding could be the perfect solution

Working with the Outdoor team is my dream job

When Ellen Wilson saw a role that was looking at outdoor activities development, she jumped at the chance.

I get girls and Leaders out onto the snow

Lauren Stead realised the Snow Sport Specialist role was perfect for bringing together her two favourite hobbies

Our shopping-centre campsite attracted new members

60 girls descended on Crossgates shopping centre to cajole shoppers into their make-shift campsite - and into guiding!

You can find adventure everywhere in guiding

For Leader Michelle, adventure is about looking for opportunities for girls to experience new things in everyday places

We got enough volunteers for three new Rainbow units

How Helen used her Division’s data to create new units and welcome lots more girls into Rainbows

I'm learning skills to take action on important issues

Ellie, Action for Change participant and Guide Leader, joined Action for Change to make change in her own way

I'm a Leader in Training and I'm still at school

Katie, Leader in Training, 1st Loughton Guides, balances her Leadership Qualification with her studies at school

My overseas adventure taught me about being a leader

Sophie, Assistant County International Adviser and Assistant Rainbow Unit Leader, learned about leadership in Aruba

Girls of all abilities can be leaders

Emily, Peer Educator, says that girls of all abilities can take on leadership roles in guiding

Guiding has shown me anyone can lead

Emma, Queen's Guide and Assistant Rainbow Leader, explains why believing in yourself is key to leadership

We tested the new Girlguiding programme

To get the new programme right we've been asking units all over the country to try it out, here's what they thought

Rainbow and Brownie Units United

4th Rochester Rainbows and Brownies share Leaders, a meeting space and even activities - we join them for a session

My mum supported me through cancer to get back to my Guides

Meet Natalie and Sheila, the mum and daughter duo who were determined to keep their Guide unit going whatever the odds

Grandmother, mum and daughters: we go to Brownies together

Girlguiding is a family affair for Grandmother Sheila, Mum Emma and girls Charlotte and Alice

Girls Can in the Caribbean

Where’s Aruba? Sophie tells us about how her trip to the Caribbean island with GOLD kick started adventures back home

GOLD: Taking peer education to Peru

The peer education movement is spreading! Dawn tells us how she inspired girls in Peru to lead on her GOLD trip

These Brownies got stuck into science at our How Does it Work? day

Brownies and their Leaders tell us about their day of colourful scientific experiments at Activity Centre ICANDO

I won a competition to go to Activity Centre Foxlease

When Ruth saw a competition on People's Postcode Lottery's Facebook page to go to Foxlease she never thought she'd win!

The Queen's Trust helped us open a Rainbows unit

Support from The Queen's Trust means that 1st Woodside Rainbows unit has opened- local Leaders tell us more

We gave Guides a taste of The Senior Section

Leader Ellen explains how her taster sessions makes moving up to The Senior Section less daunting

A Legacy gave our girls more opportunities

A gift in a Will, or legacy, made a lasting impact in Sharon's District - Newquay St. Columb

Why I love to volunteer for Girlguiding

She might be new to volunteering, but Leader-in-Training Rosemary has helped open a growing Brownie unit!

A Legacy of £500 made a difference to girls in our Division

Pam, from Girlguiding Rutland Division, tells us how a legacy of £500 is making an impact on the lives of girls

Things I can't tell you about Go for GOLD

Dawn Pavey tells us everything about the top-secret Go for GOLD selection weekend for our international trip

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