Centenary
Girlguiding's brand new Centenary website is now live!
You can see it at the Centenary pages of the Giurlguiding UK website.
Our launch event has been added to this and there is information on Adventures, UK Centenary Camp, Fusion, World Thinking Day and much much more.
Events organised outwith county are found at 100 Years of Girlguiding and are bookable now.
Catch the Moment
We're looking for your top Centenary moment of fun and laughter - still photographs or 30 second videos that really capture your Centenary Celebrations!
This project will start in September 2009.
Keep checking the website and guiding magazine for more info on prizes and how to enter.
Forth Valley Centenary Sectional Events 2010
Click the links for more information on all the events we've got lined up for the next year...
Budding Photographers Wanted!
Girlguiding UK is running two photography projects in order to creatively record the fun and celebrations of our Centenary year.
Photo Pin Board
Girl members will be asked to send in individual photos of girl's faces, which will be used to create eye-catching mosaics for display at events throughout the Centenary. The project will started in Easter 2009.
Click here to go to the website for more info.
Changing the World
Girlguiding UK has teamed up with 19 charities to provide its ½ million members and volunteers with a challenge of Changing The World in the lead up to Girlguiding’s centenary year in 2010.
The Changing The World challenge was officially launched by Girlguiding UK’s President, Her Royal Highness the Countess of Wessex on 23 September 2008.
Changing the World will be Girlguiding’s biggest-ever community action challenge to date as it aims to encourage every member to get involved by a combination of raising awareness, taking direct action or fundraising for a selected charity.
The challenge will last for one year running from September 2008 to August 2009. The project will see our 70,000 members in Scotland support causes such as helping runaways and street children, building a girls’ school in Liberia, learning about HIV/Aids, working with vulnerable or disadvantaged children, preventing bullying and tackling climate change. Just think what can be achieved by Girlguiding members over the course of one year!
Girlguiding Scotland has commissioned a dance and music to celebrate our Centenary!
It’s called A Hundred Thousand Welcomes.
The dance features the left-hand shake with dancers revolving into the number 100.
Click here to go the Centenary website to see videos and instructions.
Scottish Centenary Camp
Netherurd 17th – 24th July 2010
Changing The World Partners...
Asthma UK, Barnardos, Book Aid International, British Red Cross, Camfed, Crisis, Friends of the Earth, Girlguiding UK overseas branches Associations, Help the Hospices, Kidscape, Mental Health Foundation, National Deaf Childrens Society, Plan UK, Railway Children, Save the Children, Unicef UK, WaterAid, WWF and Woodland Trust.
Each Changing The World partner has created a unique project for Girlguiding Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Senior Section girls to take on over the course of the year. The girls themselves will choose the partners they wish to support and the way they want to deliver support. In return the girls and volunteers will receive a special Changing The World badge to mark their achievements, and the satisfaction that each of their small contributions has collectively made a bigger difference in the world!
Amongst the 100s of exciting projects, Changing The World will see 1000s of girls: Taking a pledge to say no to bullying Launching their own businesses to raise funds for disadvantaged children Singing for change to bring clean water to villages in Nepal Receiving 'humanitarian passports' as they learn essential skills for an emergency Planting tomorrow's forests Collecting socks for the homeless Going green and becoming a climate champion.
For further information about the Changing The World challenge please visit The Changing the World pages on the Girlguiding UK website.
Click here to download an application pack to be a Centenary Volunteer!