Girlguiding London South West County Blog

Our planned trainings for 2013/14 have now been confirmed and can be found here. To book simply email info@girlguidinglondonsw.org.uk. Bookings need to be made at least 2 weeks in advance to ensure we have enough participants to make the course worthwhile and avoid...

We've had participants all over the place this summer - our LSW Romania trip will send us their story soon but Lizzy from our Putney District went on an amazing Guiding Service trip to Madagacar - read her story and see some pics here

We may be one of London's Guiding counties, but it doesn't mean we don't go out to the country ever! 6th Streatham are a very busy and active unit and in July they took a trip  down south and walked along a portion of the South Downs Way. The trip included promise...

3rd Upper Tooting Brownies made their Bank Holiday even more special by spending a long-weekend on Brownie Holiday. The timing was perfect they had three days of amazing sunshine and lots of chance to play outside! Over 20 girls stayed in Faurefold near Guildford...

One of the most exciting new units has just been opened within London South West - a joint venture between Scouting and Guiding - the 1st Evelina London Children's Hospital Scout and Guide Unit.Its the coming together of 4 organisations  (Girlguiding, Scouts, Evelina...

June 13th 2013 saw London South West share a Jack Petchey Award evening with London South East at the fantastic venue of the Purcell Room in the Royal Festival Hall. Quotes from the night from Tora Shand, our County Commissioner: "It was wonderful to see so many of...

  Blacklands Farm here we are!Guides from Tooting, Southfields, Putney and Balham (along with a few Senior Section from Tooting who didn't want to miss out!) all came together for Camp over May half term and as ever experienced the weather for all seasons! They...

One of the highlights of the Brownies' year in London South West is our Brownie Boating Day which is held in mid May. As ever, this year it dawned a rather cloudy and cold day, but this did nothing to dampen the Brownies' spirits as they arrived in Wimbledon Park for...

2 girls from 9th Earlsfield Guides gained their Baden Powell Challenge awards and were presented with their certificates by our County Commissioner Tora Shand. Below are Eleni Papachristidis and Hebe Lawson being presented with their awards - VERY WELL DONE!!  ...

Following the success of our Croatia trip back in 2011, London South West Guiding is off again! Our next scheduled trip is for Guides and Senior Section in the summer of 2013 - click here to find out more about their plans and follow their journey in preperation and...

4th Clapham Park Brownies and 9th Clapham Park Guides enjoyed a weekend at PGL, Windmill Hill in November. We had a jam packed weekend including BMX, Archery, Abseiling, Climbing, Zip Wire, Aeroball, Challenge Course and the famous Giant Swing (our favourite!!) The...

In some districts within London South West there are annual events run for the different sections, and in Balham and Tooting we have our yearly Brownie Adventure Day. Held on a Saturday in September, all the Brownies from our district come together for an afternoon of...

We just couldn't carry on without our leaders and some of them have given a lot of years to Girl Guiding in London South West! Julie Mason has been with LSW for 30 years - here she is receiving her award from the Balham and Tooting Commissioner Pat Ottway.  ...

301 Brownies and 90 leaders came together at Cudham for Lark in the Dark on the weekend of 15th September in the beautiful late summer sun! A full report can be found here and more pictures will follow soon  - here's where we were!

London is still reeling from the success of the Olympic Games and some of the LSW Leaders were part of the never ending list of people who helped to make it a success. Neva from Clapham and Clapham Park and Belinda from Battersea both were chosen for the role of...

The Olympics may be taking the world by storm, but LSW Leaders are busy elsewhere....... Cat Ottway from Clapham and Clapham Park took part in the Tall Ships advenure - click here to read about her amazing trip!

As we know, Olympic fever is spreading throughout London, but we had our own little slice of torch action within London SW Girl Guiding. Zoe Jones from 1st Clapham Park Senior Section was lucky enough to be a torch bearer through Brixton on 26th July!