Helmdon Community Groups
Girl Guides (1st Helmdon)
Girl Guides meet on Mondays during term time in the reading Room.
Contacts
See Girlguiding UK website for more information about the Girl Guide organisation.
For more information locally please speak to Eleanor Shepherd (Unit Guider) or Rachel Wheeler. Alternatively, please email helmdonguides@gmail.com
Girl Guides
Being a guide is all about learning new skills, making new friends, helping others and having fun. Guides are usually aged between ten and fourteen, although some Guides like to stay until they are older.
Guides provides opportunities for girls and young women to:
- Think for themselves and make decisions
- Undertake teamwork and acquire leadership skills
- Acquire self-awareness, self-respect and self-confidence
- Develop personal values which give their lives meaning and direction
- Do their best according to their abilities
- Seek spiritual development
- Contribute to society
- Live by a simple code – the Guide Law.
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, allowing her to mature and develop at her own pace.
Brownies
Brownies is for all girls aged seven to ten
Girls in Brownies have incredible experiences together, make brilliant friends and discover the world around them. Every time they meet up, groups of Brownies learn new skills and take on challenges as they work out what they want to be and do in the future.
Rainbows
Any girl aged five or over can be a Rainbow and when they reach seven they are eligible for Brownies.
Rainbows have fun! They take part in indoor and outdoor activities as part of their programme called the Rainbow jigsaw.
The Rainbow Jigsaw is the name for the renewed Rainbow programme, which has been developed for the 21st century Rainbow and is comprised of four areas:
- Rainbows Look
- Rainbows Learn
- Rainbows Laugh
- Rainbows Love
Their meetings are full of games and activities, which provide challenging opportunities for Rainbows to think for themselves and take an active part in unit decision making. Everything a Rainbow does helps her to develop.
A Rainbow is a member of Girlguiding UK, the largest voluntary organisation for girls and young women in this country. It has about 600,000 members.
Rainbows make this simple promise that they share with members around the world; “I promise that I will do my best to think about my beliefs and to be kind and helpful.”