Looking for badge and programme ideas to introduce to your unit? Find our resources below...
Information and the syllabus for official interest badges can be found on the appropriate section pages of the national website. However, Girlguiding Nottinghamshire also has a few local badges you can introduce to your unit. Find local badge ideas below:
Notts CC Challenge
A badge just for leaders to build community and communication in our county.
Build your guiding community – Girlguiding works best when we know, support and learn from people beyond our own unit.
Discover Girlguiding Nottinghamshire – there’s a lot happening across the county. Explore the places, events, resources and opportunities available to you.
Help guiding grow – develop yourself, help other volunteers grow and contribute your skills to the future of Girlguiding.
Amazing things happen across Nottinghamshire every week – help make sure the people, achievements and stories behind them are seen and celebrated.
Girlguiding Eco Award
The Eco award has been designed to give members the tools and knowledge to take collective action on climate change issues within their local communities. This award gives girls across all sections the opportunity to find small ways to look after the environment around them – that could include people, animals, plants and nature.
Great Guiding Pottery Throwdown
GREAT GUIDING POTTERY THROWDOWN
It’s nice to get creative and messy! This is a great badge for unit time or great for a themed weekend away.
It’s a badge that can get you to dig up dirt in your surrounding area and turn it into something brilliant!
Click on the link for more information.
4 Elements challenge
Thank you for supporting our unit by taking part in our challenge and purchasing our badge. This was created for our summer camp 2025, due to our girls picking a theme where we couldn’t find a badge, we love a badge and I’m sure you do too!
Hence the 4 Elements challenge was born. Our girls love science, creating, playing games and helping our community and we hope that you do to.
The money we raise will help us with future residentials and unit adventures.
Enjoy and have fun!
International Questmaster
A group of Girlguiding Nottinghamshire members are off on an international expedition to Iceland in August 2025! To help with fundraising for the trip, this resource and badge have been created.
The challenge is suitable for all sections and can be completed over a night (a fun night at the start of term) or a weekend by adding the longer challenges.
Spa Party
5th Radcliffe Brownies are hosting a Spa Party Challenge badge. More information can be found here: Spa Party Booklet.
Skydive Challenge
Are you looking for a new challenge for the next term? Izzy and Abby, Rainbow leaders from Hemlock Castle division, are taking part in the Girlguiding Midlands’ ‘Jump for July’, a fundraising event for the region. They have created a resource and badge to help with their fundraising, which includes activities around fundraising, craft and adventure. Full details can be found in the attached resource.
Machu Picchu Challenge
This challenge was created by a leader from 1st Keyworth Brownies to help fundraise her trek to Machu Picchu in September for the Meningitis Research Foundation. This activity pack is suitable for each section of guiding and includes lots of fun activities and resources that aims to raise awareness of meningitis and the charity and educate about Machu Picchu and the importance of fundraising!
I’m a Physicist
Welcome to the Institute of Physics, I am a Physicist challenge! Girlguiding Nottinghamshire have teamed up with The Institute of Physics to bring you a resource that is designed to introduce girls to the fascinating world of physics in a way that is accessible, fun and educational. Packed full of exciting experiments for you to do in your units. We hope you enjoy taking part.
Challenges from the Midlands
Nights Away is a record of the number of nights girls have spent away with Guiding, badges are awarded depending on how many nights a girl has spent away with Guiding. Out & About is a challenge badge, open to all members, to encourage them to get out and about in the great outdoors.
Comic Superheroes Badge
Created by Mansfield Powell Rangers. Welcome to our Comic Book Superheroes Challenge! We have created this badge to help raise money towards two events this year that our members are taking part in.