Frequently Asked Questions
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What happens when a girl joins Guides?
When she joins, a new Guide should receive a Welcome Pack and a Starting Guides information and registration form. She may wear Guide wear.
How does a Guide become a unit member?
When she is ready, she signs her unit’s Guidelines and receives a ‘G card’ (this usually happens after two to three weeks). She can choose to make her Promise, which will be made at a time and place of the girl’s choosing, and wear the Promise Badge.
Does a girl have to make her Promise to be a Guide?
A girl should make her Promise or be working towards making it. To be a member she needs to sign the Unit Guidelines and receive her G card, which is her sign of membership. However, a Guide must make her Promise to be eligible to work towards the Baden-Powell Challenge.
What is the G file?
The G file is the essential organiser for a Guide and contains all the facts she needs to get the most from guiding. The G file covers Patrol-led guiding, residential events, Community Action, the Baden-Powell Challenge and much more, as well as providing pages for the Guide to plan and record her experiences.
Where can Guides wear their interest badges?
Badges can be worn on the gilet, attached to a blanket or stored in any way suitable for each individual.
My Guide is 13 and a half – what’s next?
As a Guide nears her 14th birthday, it is important that she is encouraged to move to the Senior Section whenever she is ready.
If she is interested in developing her leadership skills and wants to work with young people, she could become a Young Leader.
She could join a Ranger/Senior Section unit, or she could become an In4mer, learning new skills to educate her peers!
