1st Brookwood Guides

Being a Guide is all about 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 Patrol Leader. A Patrol plans its own activities with the support of the Guide Leader so that each Guide learns to share in decisions that affect herself and others in the Patrol.

Guides are usually aged between ten and 14, 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.

Adult Leaders work directly with girls and young women to run Rainbow, Brownie, Guide or Senior Section units.

Being a Leader is really enjoyable. It´s very rewarding to see young people take pleasure in events that you have organised, help girls and young women try out activities that they haven´t tried before, and watch them grow in confidence and ability as time goes on.