Girl Guides of Canada Camp or Event
Girl Guides of Canada offers transformative camping experiences and large-scale events like provincial camps, national gatherings, and international opportunities (such as international camps or Our Chalet trips). These multi-day experiences develop outdoor skills, leadership, teamwork, and global citizenship. Participants take on planning roles, mentor younger Guides, and engage in service projects while building lifelong friendships with Guides from across Canada and around the world.
Building your Award:
Review the example goal, Assessor and reflection to help you build your Gold Project
For my Gold Project, I will complete a significant Guiding experience and extend its impact: prepare by completing required training, taking on a planning committee role for my unit’s participation, and setting personal leadership goals, fully participate in my provincial Guide camp by engaging in all activities, taking on a leadership role with younger Guides, contributing to our unit’s service project, and documenting the experience through journaling and photography, then share my learning by creating a recruitment presentation for local schools, mentoring Sparks or Embers in my community, and developing a ‘Camp Ready’ resource guide for first-time campers in our district.
Guide leader, camp coordinator, district commissioner, or provincial event organizer
My provincial Guide camp was five days that changed how I see myself as a leader. I was nervous about being responsible for a group of younger Guides during activities, but watching their confidence grow throughout the week showed me the impact of patient, encouraging leadership. Our service project. building bee hotels for a local conservation area, taught me that meaningful contribution doesn’t have to be complicated; it just has to be done with care. The most unexpected lesson came during a challenging hike when weather turned bad. Our group had to problem-solve together, and I learned that real leadership means staying calm when others are anxious and trusting your team’s abilities. Creating the recruitment presentation afterward helped me articulate why Guiding matters; it’s not just about camping skills, it’s about discovering you’re capable of more than you imagined. Mentoring younger Guides now feels like passing forward the gift that older Guides gave me.
