Guides around the world share the same Promise and values of friendship, service, and leadership. This challenge helps girls learn about Guiding in Kiribati (pronounced Kiri-bas) and the Pacific region, and how Australian Guides can support their Guiding sisters.
In keeping with the theme of Our Friendship, GGA have put together a great pack of activities that leaders and Guides may choose to incorporate into your World Thinking Day celebrations.
The CSCF Activity Pack – Leader Resource has five child safe activities (with instructions and materials) for Leaders and Girl Guides to explore.
The activities begin with developing Unit and Camp rules and helping Guides recognise when feeling safe or taking safe risks might become unsafe – in Guiding and in life. There is then an activity to help Guides name a handful of trusted adults they can go to for support and another to create a plan for what to do in an unsafe situation.
We would encourage all Leaders to run the activities with their Guides on a regular basis.
Celebrated since 1926, World Thinking Day is a day of international friendship. It is an opportunity to connect with our global Movement and fundraise for over 10 million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 153 countries. This year, we are celebrating 100 years of World Thinking Day and the theme is ‘Our Friendship’! Get ready to have fun, build friendships and mark this special day with Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world!
Girl Guide Units can take part in clean-ups all year round – no need to wait for Clean Up Australia Day or the Great Spring Clean-up. This activity pack provides you with all you need to know to participate.
This year’s ‘Saluting Their Service’ ANZAC Challenge theme is ‘Communication’. Badges will be available from Girl Guide retail shops.
This resource has been created by TWINKL and GGA to support girls to better prepare for the unique social situation that is Anzac Day.
This ‘social situation’ resource includes short personalised texts, accompanied by visuals which can be used to provide reassurance or explain a new or unfamiliar situation.
Find out all about Share the Dignity’s initiative and see how our Olaves, Trefoil Guild and Girl Guides make an incredible difference to vulnerable girls and women each year by collating and donating bags!
Voices against Violence is an international, non-formal co-educational curriculum which engages girls, young women, boys, young men, adults, parents and the community in conversations about violence. The initiative is unique in that it addresses the root causes of violence against girls and sets the groundwork for real social change.
Navigating girlhood is tricky enough but managing a period while at camp or a sleepover is one of their biggest concerns say 68% of girls in our recent survey. 84% fear leaking through their clothes at sleepovers or camp which adds another layer of anxiety. As may as 1 in 3 girls decide not to stay at friends or at camp because of their period!
Not anymore! To give girls the confidence to be period-prepared, reusable leak-proof period wear brand Modibodi has partnered with Girl Guides Australia to change the conversation around camps and sleepovers – because Periods Don’t Pause Adventures!
Girl Guides Australia is committed to being a diverse and inclusive organisation which is a welcoming space for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls and women. GGA aims to empower all girls and young women to make a difference in the world. This first Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) provides direction and space for all our members to reflect, learn, acknowledge and embrace a more inclusive space through both personal and organizational growth.
WAGGGS are launching a global youth consultation to better understand our Movement and they would like to hear from all youth members. This activity pack provides leaders with all they need to know about running this activity within a Unit.
The Girl Guides Victoria Inclusion and Diversity Team have put together some different activities which you could utilise within your Units in honour of either of these two weeks or at any other time of the year when your Unit has chosen to focus on Australian First Nations culture. The activities will encourage understanding of Australia’s First Nations culture, our nations true history and inspire healthy reconciliation for the future of Australia which is something both of these themes share.
Keep track of your progress with this great resource. Keeping track of badges and awards you have completed is now easier to do with this simple A4 tracker resource. It can be downloaded by Leaders and Girl Guides, here, filled in digitally or printed out to fill in by hand.
This Action Badge challenges adults to get involved in a variety of Guiding activities – networking, developing new skills and having fun at the same time!
This year’s ‘Saluting Their Service’ ANZAC Challenge theme is ‘Life at Home’. Badges are available from Girl Guide retail shops.
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts International Women’s Day activity pack has activities in the following three categories:
Understanding Gender: exploring gender roles and stereotypes.
Women’s rights are Human Rights: exploring the concept of rights and why they are important.
Gender & Climate Change: exploring how climate change disproportionately affects women and girls.
Learn more about the badges, certificates and awards of the Girl Recognition System.
A resource full of meaningful and fun activities to empower mindful young leaders to take action to change their world.
The Olave Program is a community of young women (18-29) having adventures, learning new skills and making a difference in their communities.
Free Being Me (FBM) is an educational programme that promotes body confidence and a world free from appearance-related anxiety. Through relevant, exciting, accessible and learner-led activities, young people learn that body confidence and self-esteem come from valuing their bodies, challenging beauty stereotypes and advocating for a healthy body image in their friends, and communities.
Get the most out of the internet while protecting yourself online with the Surf Smart 2.0 program.
Explore the WAGGGS member countries with this fun series of program resources.
The Guide Your Money Program aims to increase financial literacy and wellbeing.