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Vision - The Centenary Finale

20:10 20/10 2010

Registrations for Vision are now being taken using the online registration facility.

Register your Vision event.

 

What is ‘Vision’?

This is your invitation to reflect on a great year and look forward to the next 100!

The Centenary Celebrations will end at 8.10pm on 20 October 2010 – 20:10 20/10 2010.

The aim of Vision is to bring all members of Girlguiding UK together to share one moment in time. A time for reflection on the fun of the last year, what the Promise means to each of us, and to explore our hopes and dreams for the future.

Information for those organising Vision events can be found by reading the following:


Looking to the future

In October 2010, Guides from around the world will come together at the Young Women’s World Forum to discuss the Millennium Development Goals and their vision for the future.

The start of the next 100 years of guiding is a chance for members across the UK to think about their vision for the future – whether that vision is for them personally, their unit, their community, the UK or for the world. Girls may wish to take this further and to make a pledge for change.

Activity suggestions to develop these ideas are featured in the Autumn 2010 edition of guiding magazine.

Who, What, When?

Vision events can be organised at any level, we hope that all members of all sections will be able to get together as a Unit, Group, District, Division, or maybe even a County.

There will be a party at Heythrop Park, Oxford organised for the delegates attending the Young Women’s World Forum, which will be the focus for the Girlguiding UK celebrations. This event will broadcast the Chief Guide and guiding members from around the globe renewing their commitment to guiding. It is hoped that everyone will have the opportunity to watch this broadcast at the 20:10 moment using technology available in meeting places or in their own homes.

Vision has its own key themes, these are:

  • Review - the Centenary year, eg using a special DVD and local footage.
  • Rediscover - the worldwide dimension of guiding.
  • Record - for posterity everyone who took part in the Centenary year.
  • Reaffirm - or make the Promise, or make a commitment to guiding, at 8.10pm on 20 October 2010.
  • Reignite - our enthusiasm for guiding and our hopes and aspirations for the future.

Important information

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.

Information from the NFU (National Farmers Union) is available here. 

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Downloads

What's your Vision?
 - guiding  Spring

How to put on a Vision event
- guiding Autumn

Guidance for parents and carers

Vision Information for Event Organisers

Resources and Activities

 

Activate - January 2010

The January 2010 Activate covered many different aspects of the Centenary Celebrations and we have provided the Vision event activities from it as a download here.

Download the Vision pages of January's Activate.