Guides Celebrate

The Centenary year is a year long celebration of 100 years of guiding.
It’s been 100 years since the rally at Crystal Palace where several small groups of girls approached Lord Baden–Powell and asked for ‘something like the Scouts’ but for girls only.

During our Centenary year, Guides are spoilt for choice with a host of events and holidays designed just for them. A chance for you to have more fun than ever before!

The Great Guide Getaway will give Guides the chance to explore and experience new things in the UK and overseas, with lots of laughs along the way!

Venture Abroad is proud to be a sponsor of The Great Guide Getaway and to be working in partnership with Girlguiding UK to create an exciting and memorable tour to Switzerland for the Centenary year.

There are many overseas Get Away trips – some are for groups of Guides and some you can go it alone, making lots of new friends along the way. 
Destinations include:

As well as some great trips abroad, closer to home there are some great days out at popular attractions like Alton Towers, PGL adventure centres and to ICANDO in London.

There are also some great weekend getaways at the Girlguiding UK Training and Activity Centres (TACs) such as Film making and Motor Mayhem at Foxlease.

Not to mention the extra special Centenary Big Gig in October 2009 and the Centenary Camp in 2010.

Take a look through the events calendar to see all the events especially for Guides during the Centenary