IGG Centenary
How old will you be in 2011? The Irish Girl Guides will be 100 years old!
Read below to see what IGG has planned to celebrate our Centenary. You can also find out about the celebrations WAGGGS are having, and view their YouTube piece from the World Board Chairman.
Countdown to the Centenary - Calling all former IGG members
As the months tick away to the start of the IGG centenary, we are calling on former members to let us know their memories of their time in guiding. Do you have a special memory or activity? Did you camp or travel abroad? Did you do badges or have a favourite piece of the programme? What did you enjoy the most? Fill in the questionnaire below to let us know and give us a few sentences about your time with IGG.
Centenary Celebrations - diary dates
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New WAGGGS Centenary Video - "Changing Lives"
Double-click to see an enlarged version on YouTube
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Read here about April 10th and the WAGGGS 'Plant' theme
IGG is celebrating its centenary in 2011 and preparations are now well underway to organise an exciting programme of events in which all our members can participate. Guiding started in 1911 in Harold’s Cross, Dublin and is now to be found throughout Ireland with over 10,000 members from the youngest Ladybird to the oldest member of Trefoil Guild.
So, what will happen in 2011?
- We are planning a busy programme with monthly events taking place that everyone can get involved in. These will be both local and national activities. We also hope to have events that are branch specific.
- There will be a programme book full of ideas, challenges and activities for everyone. Groups will be able to pick and choose what they want to do and the main aim is to have fun, to celebrate the centenary of Guiding in Ireland and to look forward to the next centenary.
IGG is one of a number of Member Organisations in WAGGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts) celebrating its centenary between 2010 and 2012. Guiding spread quickly in the early years after Lord Baden-Powell after the Guide movement was established in the United Kingdom in 1909. In the initial 3 years the Guide movement spread to countries as far away as Australia and New Zealand, Canada and the United States of America, along with a number of countries in Europe including Ireland. Since these early years Guiding has grown and developed throughout the world, now being strongly established in 145 countries with 10 million members and it is still growing.
To highlight the centenary, WAGGGS has chosen a three-year celebration period with the theme of “girls worldwide say 100 years of changing lives.” In each of these three years there will also be a Centenary Celebration Day, which will take place on 10th April. WAGGGS has chosen this day, as it is the 100th day of the year. The theme for 2010 will be Plant.
The WAGGGS Centenary Celebrations will be linked into the IGG programme and we hope that many members of IGG will take part in worldwide activities that will be focused on the centenary.
Watch out for further details of the IGG programme of events as we finalise the plans and look forward to an exciting and challenging year in 2011 to celebrate the centenary of IGG.
Read the Centenary message from the Chairman of the WAGGGS World Board, Margaret Treloar
