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Guides Race Around Melbourne

Our girls from Ballarat District joined 870 other Girl Guides in Melbourne for the Race Around Melbourne event. What an excellent way to celebrate World Thinking Day.

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Water Balloon fight with Scouts and Guides

Our Guides have joined with the Scouts for a night of friendly-fire in the form of ballistas and water balloons.

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Girls Rock 2017

Many Ballarat Guide Leaders attended a special Leaders conference where they heard from several guest speakers talking about Resilience. Girls Rock is an annual conference providing Leaders with current information and skills to start the new year.

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Emu Award for Erica

Our Region Leader, Erica Ferguson, has been presented with the Emu Award at the annual Guides Victoria Girls Rock conference.

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Australia Day Awards 2017

Local Girl Guides have provided the colour party at Ballarat’s Australia Day Awards and Citizenship Ceremony. The Guides handed out Aussie flags and helped Mayor McIntosh with the Citizenship presentations.

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2017 Visit from Japanese Girl Guides

We are currently seeking families to host girls from a unit of Japanese Girl Guides visiting Ballarat in 2017. Are you interested in this great experience?

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Guides trying new things

Our Guides had a great time playing arcade games, billiards, pinball machines, air hockey, table tennis and karaoke.

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Cardboard Classic Train Race

At the Ballarat Show, local Scouts and Girl Guides joined together to participate in the annual Cardboard Classic. They made their own trains and competed in an obstacle course.

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Lest We Forget

Local Girl Guides have learnt about Remembrance Day at Ballarat’s iconic Arch of Victory. They learnt all about the Arch and the Avenue of Honour from Bruce Price, a relative of those involved in these projects.

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Remembrance Day Poppies

Ballarat Girl Guides have helped the Sebastopol RSL to sell poppies and collect donations in the lead up to Remembrance Day. The RSL provide assistance to those affected by war – particularly widows, orphans, veterans and their families.