Why Guides

Why should I join Girl Guides?

• • Its great fun!

  • You can try all sorts of activities

    • Camping

    • Ice blocking

    • Canoeing

    • Rock Climbing

    • Ropes

    • First Aid

    • Hiking

    • Camp cooking

  • You can challenge yourself in a safe space - Guides support each other - teasing/belittling/bullying is not accepted

  • You get a big say in what we do!

Why should my daughter join Girl Guides?

Guides is not your average after school activity

Guides helps build resilience by providing a safe place where girls can try new things, supported by kind and understanding friends and confident, strong, and effective female role models.

By teaching organisation, first aid, time management, fire safety, food safety, team work etc we give girls skills for life. Knowing how to cope on your own at something is a great way to help build resilience and self-esteem.

By modelling and encouraging positive relationships and behaviour we help girls develop a strong sense of self-worth as well as compassion for those around them.

We encourage girls to voice opinions, make their own decisions and extend themselves to their personal best.

While we support girls to succeed we also provide chances to experience failure (eg cooking didn’t work, activity didn’t run as they planned, everyone forgot what they had to bring etc). Experiencing, learning from, and getting through failure is an important part of building resilience for the future

Guides is looked on very favorably by schools and businesses

• • Multiple parents have reported to us that participation in Girl Guides was instrumental in their acceptance at the high school of their choice

  • Guide leaders references for first jobs can cover organisational skills, time management, character, life skills, ability to make sales and handle cash etc

  • Our peak achievement award, The Queen's Guide Award, is a great addition to a young woman's CV - it shows organisational ability, dedication, commitment, time management, leadership skills etc

‘Being a member of the Scouts or Guides during childhood is linked to a lower risk of mental illness in middle-age’ New Scientist 10th Nov 2016

Why should I volunteer as a Guide Leader/Helper?

Working as a positive role model, developing a long term (sometimes 5 years plus) relationship with girls and young women is incredibly rewarding.

Inclusion in a positive, supportive peer group of like minded women. We look after each other, work around each other's life commitments, pick each other up on bad days and celebrate the good days together

If you want to you can do what the girls do! eg Camping, hiking, rock climbing, attend a Jamboree, earn badges

Working with children checks (SAPOL Police Check + DCSI CRES) provided for free - once received you can uses these for work, school, other volunteering

You choose the amount of involvement which suits your life

• • regular leader (weekly or around shift work etc)

  • regular helper

  • irregular helper (once a month, just at camps and outings etc)

  • take a term off if needed / take maternity leave if needed

Great experience for your CV

• • if you plan on working in child care, teaching, social work etc then Guides is great experience

  • organisational skills, time management skills, leadership skills, team skills - all these are learned through Guiding and are applicable to a multitude of industries

Comments by Prospect Girl Guides

What's best thing about Girl Guides?

• • how we all come together and work as a team

How does being a Girl Guide make you feel?

• • Confident and excited to try new things