Girlguiding London South West County Blog
Our blog is full of stories about what our members get up to in their Guiding lives!!
Virtual Volunteering
Girlguiding was a huge part of my life; from starting Rainbows at 5 to being a Young Leader at 18. I learnt new skills, made friends and had opportunities and experiences that normally a working-class girl can only dream of. As an adult I knew I wanted to be part of...
Egg-Ventures Virtual Sleepover
We started off our amazing sleepover at 5pm where we took the boiled egg (from our resource pack) as well as a variety of felt tips which we used to decorate and create our egg characters (I designed Totoro with No-face’s mask on). We decorated our boiled eggs before...
Guiding during a pandemic
8th Upper Tooting Brownies and Guides have been online and meeting outdoors during the pandemic. We started Zoom meetings for Guides after Easter with about half the unit participating, we completed Reflect 3 and Explore 4 Skills Builders and at their request...
Walkers and Talkers from Wimbledon to Richmond
Our Walkers and Talkers Trefoil Guild's 78 mile Capital Ring journey continues, this week they were walking from Wimbledon to Richmond and have taken some lovely photos of some of London's greenest areas - thank you to Anne for sharing! The walks have proved very...
Putney District Watersports Event
On a very hot summers evening in June, 70 brownies and guides from 4 Brownie and 2 Guide units took part in a variety of watersports down at the lake in Wimbledon Park. The evening was a great success with the instructors pulling out all the stops to make it a fun...
Tora’s Laurel Award
We are delighted that Tora Shand has been awarded her Laurel Award at Heyswood on 11th March 2017. Tora was joined by many Guiding friends for an afternoon tea and presentation, and the weather shone brightly so we also enjoyed the grounds at Heyswood and relived some...
LSW Senior Section celebrate on top of London!
Senior Section members and leaders had the privilege of celebrating the finale of one hundred years of the Senior Section at The View at Battersea Power Station. A crisp December evening, we were treated to beautiful views of the renovations to the towers. Senior...
Remembrance Day Parade
This year was the turn of London South West to provide the contingent to represent Girlguiding in the parade at the Cenotaph in Whitehall on Remembrance Sunday. Our group was made up of the two lead volunteers, Barbara & Hiral, our County Commissioner Neva, the...
Big Rainbow Art Attack Weekend & a Laurel Award!
Friday - Sunday 14th - 16th October saw nearly 80 Rainbows and Leaders from LSW descend upon a residential hall in Croydon for the Big Rainbow Art Attack Weekend. 2 nights of sleepovers and a day of activities including making stick men, a camp fire, countless...
Region Chief Commissioners Award for Millie
6th Earlsfield Rainbows and Brownies planned a big party to celebrate Young Leader Millie being awarded a Region Chief Commissioners Award. The evening started off with 'Millie Bingo' where everyone remembered all the things they had done with Millie at Rainbows,...
Walkers and Talkers are up and running!
Our new group - "Walkers and Talkers" meet on the last Sunday of the month to take a walk round places of interest in London. Click right here for details of their up and coming plans: And here they were on walk #1!
Southfields Guides at Wellies and Wristbands
August 2016 once more saw "Wellies and Wristbands" at Foxlease, and our Southfields Guides were lucky enough to go! They took part in a huge range of activities including Guiding's Got Talent! Here are a few pics of their time!
Region Chief Commissioner’s Award
On 22 June over 50 leaders, parents and former Guides – together with the Region Chief Commissioner Pip McKerrow, County Commissioner and District Commissioners - sprung a surprise award on Kaye Farmer who has led Brownie and Guide units in Streatham for 43 years....
Camp of ice and sun!
8th Upper Tooting and 5th Balham Guides had a lovely 2 night camp over May bank holiday with a bit of all weathers, except rain! Each morning we woke to find ice on our tents, but by the time breakfast was served, the sun was creeping across The Shaws Campsite towards...
Rainbow Sleepover @ ICANDO in London
20 Rainbows and 6 leaders from Clapham, Stockwell and Waterloo had their very first sleepover on Friday 22nd April 2016 at Icando in Victoria. We started the evening with a choice of activities from circus skills, puppet shows, challenging games and activities. The...
LSW International Fundraising
Two girls from LSW are fundraising for unforgettable, girl led adventure this summer in South Korea and Malawi. Grace and Elsie are joining other girls from across London and the South East on these once-in-a-lifetime trips this summer. The trips are part of...
Thanks to our outgoing County Commissioner
On Sunday 21st February, London South West County met together to improve our camping skills on a Camp Skills Day. This however was a ruse because we were in fact congregating together to celebrate the reign of our fabulous County Comissioner Tora Shand. Tora has been...
Pumpkin Challenge Camp 2015
What fun we had! 11am on Saturday morning saw 58 girls and 14 leaders assemble on Lavender Hill for 24 hours of fun and challenges. First task, put up some tents! After lunch the afternoon continued with various challenges including pumpkin carving (of...