Create your own celebration

The Ways to Celebrate catalogue and the centenary website help you to ‘book and go’ on a wide range of exciting organised activities and events.  Although we've organised masses of opportunities, to make sure that everyone has that magic moment we need YOU to be creative too.

Take a look through Activate - Create Your Own activities - May 2009 (3MB) for some great ideas inline with the section themes.

Adventures following the themed ideas for each section can be organised at unit or District level as well as the larger scale events arranged by Divisions and Counties. 

To find out about events being organised in your area, ask your County Centenary Champion or your local Commissioner.

Lots of creative ideas and practical tips and hints about how to ‘create your own’ themed Adventures have been included in guiding magazine and on the Centenary website. Visit the Decision Making page to get some great ideas on helping your girls to make decisions.

These ideas will help you to organise something locally which is appropriate to each age range and enable everyone to feel part of an overall Girlguiding UK celebration event.

If you are new to running events, or are running a larger event than before and would like additional support with organising your event, please see the online resource Centenary Event Planner, which is available in the Members’ area of the Girlguiding UK website. Even those with a lot of experience may find the Planning your Centenary Event document within the Planner a useful point of reference.

Branded promotional materials will be available to event organisers via County Centenary Champions.

Create your own:

Rainbows Go Wild!

Big Brownie Take Over

Great Guides Get Away

Ultimate Adventure

Adults and Trefoil Guild members

Of course, there is no reason why you should not give yourselves the treat of a Centenary Adventure. The only limit is your imagination!

Take a look at the Create Your Own Adventure merchandise

Looking for something to give your Adventure that extra Centenary sparkle? Girlguiding UK Trading Service is releasing a range of new items created especially for Centenary Adventures.

In October a new range of Adventure t-shirts for Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Senior Section will be released which will cost £6.50 - £9.50. Rainbow and Brownie Adventure slingbags which are £2 each will also be available in the coming months along with a Brownie Adventure notebook.

If you’re thinking of giving your girls a badge then look no further – there will be Adventure badges for each section available from September. The cloth badges will be 85p and the metal badges £1.20.

Further details will be available from Trading Service and on the Online Shop over the coming months.

Balloon Releases

Environmentally, balloon releases do a lot of damage and can affect farming and marine habitats in an adverse way. If you have already planned to hold a large balloon release we would advise you to ensure that the balloons are bio-degradable and ask that you do not attach string, ribbon or tags to the balloons. We would strongly recommend that this type of spectacle is avoided if at all possible in your future plans.

Sky Lanterns / Chinese Lanterns

These, like balloons, eventually fall to the ground and can cause considerable harm to wild life and the environment. The wire element of the lantern in particular could kill any animal that eats it and causes damage to farm machinery. We would strongly recommend that this type of spectacle is avoided if at all possible in your future plans.