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Guides is for girls and women of all ages, cultures, faiths and abilities. There are many different ways of being involved no matter how old you are, whether it be as a Guide (age 5-18) or working with your peers or as a Leader.

At Guides, girls are able to experience exciting challenges with friends, learn new skills and have lots of fun. Every week will be a different experience. Guides get to try a wide range of activities appropriate to their age, abilities and interests.

Guides discover, decide, plan, participate and check their program with the guidance of a trained adult volunteer Leader.

Guide Units usually meet in a local hall, once a week during school term time.

Guide activities vary widely, from cooking and craft to adventurous activities such as kayaking, abseiling and bushwalking. There are many statewide events that cover a wide range of interests such as the environment, music, art and drama.

Check the lists below for your nearest Guide unit. Staff at Guide House can give you further details such as the location, day and times of meetings or other membership information. Phone: 1300 139 244

G is for growing as people
U is for understanding within the unit
I is for ideas supported, never laughed at
D is for daring to do our best
I is for independence that we gained
N is for never giving up
G is for the great times that we all have had

Jean, aged 16

"Guides has been one of the best experiences in my life so far. The skills I have learned are great it can really help me in my life, because I have learned skills that I wouldn’t have without Guides. The thing I enjoy most are the camps, like Patchawee and Quambatook because we get to meet lots of different people. I had never been camping before Guides so I have learned a lot about myself. I have learned a lot just like being able to co-operate and know that I am not always right. Guides is so much fun."

Danielle, aged 13

Guide Unit Locations

Northern Tasmania

Beaconsfield, Bicheno, Bridport, Campbell Town, Carrick, Cormiston, Deloraine, Exeter, George Town, Launceston, Mayfield, Perth, St Helens, and Westbury.

North West Coast

Burnie, Devonport, Latrobe, Queenstown, Railton, Sheffield, Smithton, Somerset, Ulverstone and Wynyard.

Southern Tasmania

Bellerive, Blackmans Bay, Brighton, Claremont, Clarence, Geeveston, Glenorchy, Glenora, Hobart, Howrah, Huonville, Kingston, Lenah Valley, Lindisfarne, New Town, Sorell, Snug and Triabunna.

How Guiding Develops Leadership Skills

Suzanne Bishop

Background

• Brownies - 1st Curry Brownie Pack
• Guides – Queens Guide
• Junior Leader – King Island Good Service Award
• Lone Ranger Guide – Victoria whilst attending Fahan for 2 years
• Scholarship ADFA- Canberra – study Mechanical Engineering – Navy
• 1st Posting – HMAS WARRMUNGA - been on the ship for 18 months.
• Sub Lieutenant - end of 2003 will be Lieutenant. Stationed in Perth.

Guiding has assisted by:

• Leadership role in Guiding helped at Academy
• Knotting etc.
• Basic skills of life / Communication skills/ at ease with socialising with different people
• Outdoor skills
• Guiding taught me to have a go and give it my best shot

Kate Johnson

I started guides as a very shy 7 year old. Mum was actually conned into coming along to help and then became Possum shortly after I started! I finished my guiding career when I was about 15.

The highlights of my Guiding years were probably when I received my BR award and going to the Great Guide Walkabout. I also attended several camps at Orana, meeting many girls from around the district. I was also a Pack Guide for about a year, which I greatly enjoyed.

I stayed on in Guides when I was 15 to help out with the unit, before study, sport and music took up more of my time.

I studied hard to achieve good results at school (Howrah Primary and Clarence High) and at Rosny College, after which I went to Launceston to study for a Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Tasmania.

Since finishing Uni at the end of 1998, I have worked at the Children's hospital in Adelaide, Alice Springs Hospital, Hobart hospitals and in the UK in Cambridge and Brighton. I am currently working in Sydney at Westmead Children's Hospital working in Paediatric Intensive Care.

How Guiding has helped me:
Guides has definitely helped my interpersonal skills by introducing me to so many people in units, districts, states and countries around the world. It has taught me how people live in other societies and cultures, and helped me to relate to them and be able to work in a team with people who may hold different values and ideas to myself. Guiding definitely taught me team skills, which is very important in my line of work.

Achievement of the BP award taught me about hard work and organisation, which assisted me with my studies.

Being a Pack Guide and patrol leader, organising and leading patrol camps etc. helped me gain leadership skills which I have been able to incorporate into my work. I have also used those skills when travelling; having to organise itineraries, accommodation, travel etc. for groups of friends.

I always knew that I wanted to work in a 'caring' profession and with people; perhaps my love of kids and wanting to help younger people, resulting in my chosen specialty of paediatrics, has stemmed from my involvement with Brownies and Guides.

Sometimes I stop and think back to shy seven year old I was when I started Brownies and compare her to what I am now. I have grown so much and have so much more confidence now in myself. I think the main advantage that Guiding has given me is confidence in myself and my abilities and I now know that I can take that with me anywhere I want to go and do anything I want to do.