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What Is The Brownie Movement All About?
What are the Brownies?
The Brownies are an all-girl section of what goes to make up the Girl Guide movement.
Formed in 1910 by Sir Robert Baden Powell – the driving force behind the Boy Scout movement – the Girl Guides was a movement dedicated only to young girls which he left his sister Agnes to run.
The Brownies are the movement that follows on from The Rainbows which is the youngest group for girls in the Girl Guide movement.
Brownies are normally aged between seven and ten years old and join the Brownies movement when they have completed their time as a Rainbow. However it is not necessary for a girl to join The Rainbows and she can join The Brownies at the age of seven if she so chooses.
What Do The Brownies Do?
Upon joining The Brownies a young girl will spend her first four to six weeks learning about the movement and how it operates. She will be allocated to what is known as a ‘six’ – this is a group of six Brownies who will spend time together bonding and building friendships. She will also learn the Brownie Promise and Brownie law.
As a Brownie nears the end of her time as a Brownie – prior to moving on to the Guides should she so wish – she will be given the opportunity to engage in other activities which are designed to help improve her skills as a team member and also to encourage her own decision making skills to come to the fore.
If you would like to know a little more about the history of 4th Kendal Brownies, please go to the 'About 4th Kendal Brownies' page.
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