Category: Community Action

The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service

Girlguiding Greater Manchester West County has been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. We have been recognised...

• 2019
• COMMUNITY ACTION
• GALLERY

NHS Art Competition

To celebrate the NHS's 70th birthday this year, Northern Care Alliance NHS Group have a fantastic competition just for Girlguiding members. This competition continues our collaboration with the...

• 2018
• COMMUNITY ACTION

Nurses wear Girlguiding Greater Manchester West bee badge with pride

We are very pleased and proud to announce that the nurses we work with on the Comfort Bag scheme will be wearing our bee badge on their uniforms. Rachael Sullivan, Bereavement Nurse, Salford Royal...

• 2018
• COMMUNITY ACTION

1st Boothstown Brownies get Sugar Smart

When the Change4life ‘sugar smart’ challenge came to Salford, Salford City Council, Salford CCG and Salford Leisure were keen to find original, local, creative solutions to raise...

• 2018
• BROWNIE
• COMMUNITY ACTION
• GALLERY
• SALFORD

Altrincham Festival Fun!

On Saturday 1st July, the annual Altrincham Festival got underway with two entries from Girlguiding in the Grand Parade!  Timperley District Rainbows entered a 30th Birthday float with a nod...

• 2017
• ALTRINCHAM NORTH
• ALTRINCHAM SOUTH
• BROWNIE
• COMMUNITY ACTION
• GUIDE
• LEADER
• RAINBOW

Race for life success!

Sunday 9th July saw a huge amount of you head to Heaton Park for The Race For Life.  Dressed in uniform with lovely pink sashes telling everyone you were part of GMW Girlguiding, you all...

• 2017
• ALTRINCHAM NORTH
• ALTRINCHAM SOUTH
• BROWNIE
• COMMUNITY ACTION
• ECCLES
• EVENTS
• GUIDE
• LEADER
• RAINBOW
• RANGER
• SALE
• SALFORD
• STRETFORD AND OLD TRAFFORD
• SWINTON
• URMSTON

Timperley spread the word of our Comfort Bags scheme

3rd Timperley Rainbows, Brownies and Guides were filmed making labels and packing up some of the comfort bags for Trafford Hospital in January.  That's Manchester TV filmed the social action...

• 2017
• ALTRINCHAM NORTH
• BROWNIE
• COMMUNITY ACTION
• GUIDE
• LEADER
• RAINBOW

Community Action – Comfort Bags Update

Following our fantastic news to you in our last newsletter, we are pleased to announce that the 750th comfort bag has been donated to Salford Royal Hospital. Here is the latest news on our...

• 2016
• COMMUNITY ACTION