What Guides Do

Who are Guides? 

• Girls who are 9 ½ to 12 ½ developing leadership skills as they become more independent in making decisions. Guide activities are more challenging to reflect the growing levels of confidence in this age group.
• Being a Guide is about challenging girls to achieve personal goals while having fun in a safe and supportive environment.

What do Guides do?

• Guides is fun because there are so many activities to do together with your Guide friends and Leaders or challenges you can do in your own time.
• If you haven’t been a Pippin or Brownie, that’s okay - you can join Guides and catch up fast and won’t miss out on the opportunity to make your Promise and receive the special silver Promise Badge which shows you are a member of a world-wide organisation for girls and young women.
• Guides have fun in smaller groups called Patrols and are led by Patrol Leaders and their assistants. Patrol time is a lot of fun when all the girls in the patrol plan what they would like to do as a patrol and at Guides.
• If you are keen to achieve, you will begin to plan how and when you will do the badges and certificates along the way to the highest awards.
• Just like other Guides and Girl Scouts around the world, the Guide motto is Be Prepared and Guides in New Zealand know to be prepared for new adventure! Guides are also prepared to help others and enjoy community action – everything from cleaning a river bank to entertaining the elderly!
• During your time at Guides you may be lucky enough to go to a New Zealand jamboree or even an international event!
• Girls will never be bored at Guides. Some of the most exciting and interesting things to do at Guides include:
  
  • Camping
  • Outdoor adventures
  • Learning leadership skills
  • Earning badges, patches and certificates
  • Community action projects
  • Jamborees on the air and on the internet
  • Cultural awareness activities.
• The highest award for Guides is the Aoraki Award.