Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting is a high quality non-formal educational programme, focusing on girls and young women. Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting enables self-development and growth which allows girls and young women to make informed and responsible choices and decisions. Girls and young women are given the space to lead and to determine Girl Guide/Girl Scout programmes in a supportive environment, enabling them to develop and learn life-skills which can be used in all areas of their lives.

Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting is based on a core set of values, enabling young people to develop life skills and attitudes to become active citizens of their local, national and international communities.

Through Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting young people can:

• learn to be independent and the importance of taking responsibility for their actions;
  
• develop new skills and abilities which will help them in later life;
  
• appreciate the concerns of others;
  
• become committed to a set of values, a cause or an ideal;
  
• acquire decision-making and leadership skills and how to work as part of a team
  
• find out more about the environment and the wider world
  
• confront new challenges and discover new experiences
  
• have the opportunity to travel, and to understand about other cultures
  
• make friends and have fun!