Girlguiding London South West County Blog
Our blog is full of stories about what our members get up to in their Guiding lives!!
Rainbow Badge Day
We had 30 Rainbows join us for a badge day which was focussed around STEM careers and skills. We had a volunteer come and talk to them about her construction career and they tried on some of her hard hats and high vis jackets. We explored nature, planted seeds to grow...
Outstanding Leader Awards
These have been introduced to recognise Rainbow & Brownie volunteers to compliment the Jack Petchey Leader awards available to Guide & Ranger volunteers. Each District may give one award each year. The volunteer receives a badge and certificate and we’ve so...
British Science Association CREST Awards
We were very lucky to be awarded a grant from the British Science Association to deliver Crest awards to our young members. We had 2 Rainbow units and 3 Brownie units take part, about 100 young people. The Rainbows completed the STAR awards and the Brownies completed...
Tree planting activity days
This year, to coincide with World Thinking Day we ran a county event where we sponsored and helped plant a total of 4 trees on two commons in our county. Units then participated in a range of self-led activities to gain their Growing Up Wild in the woods PawPrint...
Night Hike
This is run on alternate years and is a 24-hour event for approx. 100 Guides based at Cudham campsite. Guides arrive on Saturday morning and pitch tents. After a packed lunch teams complete a number of activities, some for fun and others to learn useful skills for the...
County Thank You event
Our county Thank You event was held in April to which all adult volunteers and the Trefoil Guilds were invited. We offered a mixture of food, time to mingle, crafts & quizzes, the chance to show-case events, opportunities and activities, a slideshow, celebratory...
Volunteering with a Rainbow unit
Our volunteers come from a diverse and wide range of communities and we love meeting new people who would like to get involved in their local community. Some volunteers are brand new to Guiding, some have been members themselves and some volunteered a long time ago...
Girlguiding Fresher’s 2022: fantastic, flexible & fun!
As it gets to Freshers week again, find out why getting (or staying) involved in Girlguiding at University is such a brilliant idea.
#LeadWithLSW: What do you even do as a Guide Leader?
I joined my local Guide unit this April, after starting at university in September. I had wanted to take a break from Guiding to settle into university so had just been doing some chilled, behind the scenes work until I decided to volunteer in a unit. This is what I got up to this Summer…
Volunteer Thank You Event
In early September 2021 adult volunteers and members of the Trefoil Guild from Lambeth and Wandsworth came together to celebrate and say thank you to each other for the support and friendship that has been shared during the trying times of the last 18 months. The...
LSW Together Challenge Pack
The LSW Together challenge pack has been put together to help Leaders engage with topics of diversity, inclusion, inequality and access with their units.
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...
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...