Girlguiding London South West County Blog
Our blog is full of stories about what our members get up to in their Guiding lives!!
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...
LSW Senior Section Winter Weekend
Scaling the climbing wall, making cocktails and presenting to the “Dragons” were among the activities tackled by LSW Senior Section at their Wintery Weekend at Blacklands Farm from 12th-14th December. Girls aged 13-19 from three LSW districts also braved the zipwire,...
10th Clapham Brownies are now “Highly Visible”!
In their new high-vis jackets, 10th Clapham Brownies can be out and about this winter and stay safe thanks to Specsavers! As part of their community work Specsavers donate high visibility jackets to schools and groups and 10th Clapham were lucky enough to be a...
Barcelona 2014
Five girls and two leaders from 1st Central Wandsworth Senior Section went to Barcelona in Half Term 2014. We were successful in our application for £210 from LSW County, for which we are very grateful. Everyone had a great time and we can’t wait to start planning our...
LBW Howzat!
On Saturday 11th October, over half the brownies from Girlguiding London South West County descended on the Kia Oval Cricket Ground for the closing event of their Big Brownie Birthday! The planning team had searched high and low for a special venue for the sleepover...
Fun at Funtastic!
Back in January the Brownies once again took over Butlins in Bognor Regis as part of their Big Brownie Birthday Celebration! Several units from LSW took a coach trip down for the weekend and had a ball! From Friday night's disco to making a huge Lego...
Laura Robson joins “a Brownie Unit in South London”……
And yep, you've guessed it, it one one of ours right here in London South West!!! Laura has joined Girl Guiding as a Big Brownie Birthday Champion and came to meet one of our Balham and Tooting District Brownie Units to find out all about it! The girls and their...
8th Upper Tooting Guides get some mail!
As part of the "Girls in Action" project, 8th Upper Tooting Guides wrote to their local MP Sadiq Khan with their views on girls' education around the world. Below is a set of documents including the response from him. On behalf of the girls he also wrote to Prime...