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Chief Guides Welcome

Guiding's Centenary is here!  It’s been 100 years since those determined girls marched into Crystal Palace and since then guiding has travelled all the way around the globe, with 10 million members worldwide, it is the biggest organisation for girls and young women in the world. Learn about the history of Girlguiding UK.

Many of you will have attended a Launch party local to you. Of course, these Launch parties only marked the start of our Centenary year! Read about Centenary Launch parties in your Region.

One World One Beat was a huge success. Many of you from all the different Countries and Regions took part in this exciting national festival of performing arts.
Take a look at the videos from each Region event.

Our Centenary year has been full of mountain-top moments so far, with many more to come and we want to let everyone know what yours was.
Visit the Your Experiences section of the website, to see photos from events, read blogs and discuss your Centenary moments in the Centenary forum.

Throughout our Centenary year we will be celebrating the impact guiding has had on girls’ and womens’ lives, and society in general, by looking at our heritage and sharing experiences from the last 100 years of guiding. Girls and young women can celebrate 100 years of memories by gathering and sharing guiding stories and add them to the Story Bank.

You can also reconnect with friends from guiding past and present on Guides Reconnected.

Preparations for Vision – the Centenary Finale are now in full swing. Vision has its own key themes and you can find out more by visiting the Centenary Finale section on the website. Don’t forget to register your Vision event.

If you have held a Centenary event in your unit, District, Division or County, don’t forget to tell us about your event by filling out a news-gathering guide and your event could appear on the Centenary website.

Centenary key messages card

A Centenary version of the key message card is now available to download. The card, which provides modern and historic examples of each perception key message, was included in the March 2009 issue of guiding magazine.

Girlguiding UK members can use the card, with local modern examples of the key messages in action, as a handy tool when talking about the Centenary. Download the Centenary key message card.

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