More than 20,000 girls and volunteers helped design the new badges and 11,000 girls tested out the activities that need to be completed to earn them.<\/p>\n
Girlguiding ambassador and TV presenter Angellica Bell said trying the new badges had been “a real blast”.<\/p>\n
She said the organisation helped build girls’ confidence “whilst tackling important issues impacting their lives such as online harm, sexism and misogyny”.<\/p>\n
“I know firsthand just how important it is for girls to have activities outside of school to educate but also have fun,” she added.<\/p>\n
The last time Girlguiding introduced new badges was in 2019 – 110 years after its founding.<\/p>\n
Originally called the Girl Guide Association, the organisation was founded in 1909 by Agnes Baden-Powell to give girls the opportunity to take part in outdoor activities like the Scouts had for boys (which was incidentally set up by her brother).<\/p>\n
Famous members include the late Queen Elizabeth II, who became a Guide in 1937 at the age of 11.<\/p>\n
Fatima, a member of Girlguiding’s youth steering group, said the new badges showed how the programme was “always evolving with us”.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old added: “It’s empowering to know our voices help shape what guiding looks like for the future.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 20,000 girls and volunteers helped design the new badges and 11,000 girls tested out the activities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-279175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114889607380994802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}