- Girlguiding Scotland
Girlguiding Scotland is part of the worldwide Guiding movement. It is currently Scotland's largest voluntary organisation for girls and young women with 70,000 members in 3,500 units throughout Scotland.
[ [http://www.girlguidingscotland.org.uk/information/info_facts_figures.htm Girlguiding Scotland Facts and Figures] ]
Administrative Structure
Girlguiding Scotland has active units in six regions that cover all of Scotland:
Lothian & Borders Ayrshire & South West Central Grampian Strathclyde Highland & Islands
The six regions are further subdivided into a total of 38 counties.
Membership Statistics
There are currently 11,000 Rainbows, 30,000 Brownies, 16,000 Guides, 2000 Senior Section young women, and 40 Lones. More than one in three eight year old girls in Scotland is a Brownie, and half the women born in Scotland have belonged to Girlguiding Scotland at some point in their lives. [ [http://www.girlguidingscotland.org.uk/information/info_facts_figures.htm Girlguiding Scotland - Facts and Figures] ]
Charitable Status
Girlguiding Scotland is a charity recognised by the Inland Revenue in Scotland and is funded by membership subscriptions and a trading arm. [ [http://www.girlguidingscotland.org.uk/information/info_facts_figures.htm Girlguiding Scotland - Facts and Figures] ]
cottish Headquarters
Girlguiding Scotland’s headquarters is based at Coates Crescent, Edinburgh. [ [http://www.girlguidingscotland.org.uk/information/info_contact_us.htm Girlguiding Scotland - Contact Page] ]
cottish Chief Commissioner
Dinah Faulds became Scottish Chief Commissioner on 1st September 2007. [ [http://www.girlguidingscotland.org.uk/information/info_background.htm Girlguiding Scotland - Background] ]
Netherurd House
Netherurd House is Girlguiding Scotland’s training and activity centre. It is a Georgian Mansion in grounds amid the Border Hills of
Peeblesshire . The Centre is located 25 miles south ofEdinburgh and 42 miles fromGlasgow . [ [http://www.girlguidingscotland.org.uk/information/info_training_opportunities.htm Girlguiding Scotland - Training Opportunities] ]Blueprint
Blueprint is Girlguiding Scotland’s newsletter magazine. Published four times a year it contains news for members, events listings, and an “Around the Region” section.
ee also
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The Scout Association Notes
External links
* [http://www.netherurdhouse.co.uk/ Netherurd House]
* [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/134323 Photograph of Netherurd House and gateway]
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