The Girlguiding association is carrying out its biggest ever overhaul on badges to make them more relevant to digital life in the 21st century. The overhaul could see the introduction of a range of ...

Girl guides can now earn badges for activities such as "fandoms", being a "booktivist" and sharing their "guiding sparkle". For only the second time in Girlguiding's long history, new badges have been ...

Girlguiding is replacing its traditional badges with new ones such as vlogging and app design. In an attempt to make the organisation "more relevant" to the lives of its members today, the ...

Whitsun 1971 and I was delirious with excitement. At 11 years old, I was about to go on my first Girl Guide camp. I can still remember the musty smell of the canvas ridge tents as we tugged them out ...

A public vote is to be held on the new badges GIRLGUIDING first aid and camping badges may soon be joined by new ones for skills such as app design and vlogging. Others suggested by the organisation’s ...

Think of typical activities for Girl Guides, and the likes of bird watching or knitting might well spring to mind. Going to festivals and mixology (the art of mixing cocktails) probably wouldn’t. Yet ...

The new badges were unveiled today as part of the new Girlguiding programme GIRL Guides are axing traditional badges and swapping them for new skills such as vlogging, mixology and meditation.

Girl Guides at the Hutton Quarry Manor Home for the Aged. L to R: Margaret Osborne (16), Barbara Wood (16), Linda Barends (16), Irene Walkley (15), Janice Cooper (14) and Susan Ball (15). (Picture: ...

In what it describes as the biggest overhaul in its 110-year history, Girlguiding UK has introduced 800 new badges and activities to “reflect the diversity of girls and modern life in the 21st Century ...