Hundreds of Brownies from across the Island joined their leaders for the last of the special events which have celebrated the BIG BROWNIE BIRTHDAY-100 years of the Brownies during 2014. After the Masked Ball held in January at Cowes Yacht Haven and Star Quest held at IW Steam Railway, Havenstreet

Girlguiding IW member Jenny Smart has become one of the first recipients within the South West Region of Girlguiding to receive a new Award. Recently introduced The Compass Award is presented to those Girlguiding members who ‘go that extra mile’ for the charity and Jenny’s Award recognised her dedication to Girlguiding on the island. A special ceremony was held

Members and leaders from Island Guide Units attended an International Camp in Berkshire during the school summer holiday. Entitled ‘Wings’ and held at Windsor Great Park the camp saw Guides from around the world undertaking special activities as well as learning camping skills. Before their trip all the Guides were

In celebration of the Girlguiding Centenary in2010 an exhibition was arranged in St. George’s Church Arreton.  Since then the exhibition, on all aspects of Girlguiding, has proved very popular with visitors to the church. Comments in the Visitors Book have been very positive, many remembering happy times undertaking Girlguiding activities.

  Rainbows and Brownies from Parkhurst together with their Leaders have had some fun outings in the hot sunshine this summer. The Needles Pleasure Park was the venue for the Rainbows where all the girls enjoyed filling the glass decorations with Alum Bay Sand, visiting the various demonstrations as well

Girls from 4th Sandown, 5th Sandown and 1st Lake Brownies and Lake Guides together with leaders entered Sandown Carnival as part of the Big Brownie Birthday. In the Children’s Procession they won 3rd prize. For the main procession the next day some of the girls were wearing some uniforms from

Lauren Ringer (16) from Gurnard Guides has been working on the BP (Baden Powell) Award for the last 2-3 years. For one of the challenges she undertook a 4 night trip away with St. George’s School and as she had never been away from her parents before this was a

1st Lake Brownies have had a busy time recently celebrating the Big Brownie Birthday with other Brownies from around the Island at Starquest held at the IW Steam Railway, Havenstreet. This was followed by a Stay Away sleepover with 4th Sandown Brownies. At the end of term a picnic at Lake

A newly formed Girlguiding unit from Gurnard recently came up with a novel way to make their Girlguiding Promise – from the canopy of a tree! Gurnard Adventurers,  part of Girlguiding IW’s Senior Section, was set up by Kathrine Pilcher and Jenny Peddar and they wanted to find an unusual

Parkhurst Brownies have been busy undertaking the Friends to Animals Badge. They made a visit to ‘Pets At Home’ to look at their animals and fish and a mum of one of the Brownies visited the unit with her bearded dragon and a corn snake. They also had a visit