What makes guiding special?
Girl space with no boys around
We all need some
space without boys around sometimes! With Girlguiding UK girls can
just be themselves - making friends, learning new skills and having
fun.
All girls are welcome
Guiding is for girls of all
backgrounds, abilities and nationalities.
Girl talk
Girls like to talk,
and in guiding we encourage them to tell other people about the
things that matter to them.
It's girl-centric
Girls lead the way
in guiding, so the activities are what they want to do.
Surprising facts!
Girlguiding UK is
the United Kingdom's largest voluntary organisation for girls and
young women. It has
around half a million members including about 100,000 trained
volunteer adult Leaders and supporters.
The half a million
girls would:
fill 8,333
double-decker buses
fill the Royal
Albert Hall 90 times
fill Wembley
Stadium five times, Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium seven times and
Celtic Park eight times
fill more than
1,200 Boeing 747 jumbo jets
fill 500
25,000-tonne cruise ships.
If all the girls held hands in a straight line, the line would be 850 km long. That would be longer than 8,095 buses parked end to end! They could also stretch around the M25 four and a half times and reach from Bristol to Inverness.
Countries which
have smaller populations than our number of members include
Barbados, Iceland, the Bahamas, the Maldives, Malta, Luxembourg,
Tonga and Equatorial Guinea.
More than 14 per
cent of 6-year-old girls are in Rainbows.
Around a quarter of
all 8-year-old girls in the UK are Brownies.
One in ten of all
11-year-old girls in the UK are Guides.
Girlguiding UK has
half a million young members aged 4 to 25.
Adult volunteers
give on average 120 hours a year.
