· Have made your Promise.
· Have at least two Guide Challenge Badges.
· Have at least two Interest Badges.
To do the Baden-Powell Challenge you must complete at least ten clauses. Complete at least one clause from each zone listed below. The remaining five can either be taken from any of these clauses or up to two can relate to a Country or Region or Association initiative.
Once the ten clauses are completed you must choose a Baden-Powell Challenge Adventure to take part in.
When you are ready to go for your Baden-Powell Challenge, you need to discuss with your Guider:
Your personal plan:
· What you have chosen from each zone - making sure each clause is a personal challenge to you.
· Over what time period you will do the Challenge
Your support plan:
· What help you will need from your Patrol/unit.
· What help you will need from your Guider.
· What help you will need from your family.
Healthy Lifestyles - to encourage in Guides a healthy lifestyle by promoting physical, emotional and spiritual well being.
1. Organise and run a Patrol competition based on the programme Ready Steady Cook.
2. Learn or make up a dance routine and teach it to your Patrol. Organise a Patrol dance session.
3. Run an activity session for your Patrol on an issue that concerns young people today.
4. Help to organise a sports competition with another Patrol or Guide unit, e.g. mini Olympics or team games evening.
5. Undertake a Patrol survey to compare what you eat. Find out how what you eat and your lifestyle can affect your health.
6. Learn how to massage your hands or feet and organise a manicure or pedicure session for your Patrol.
7. Plan and carry out with your Patrol a reflections session around a chosen theme using mime, readings, music, dance, slides etc.
Global Awareness - to increase awareness of global issues and of the contribution each Guide can make.
1. Find out about children from a developing country and the life they lead. Organise an activity for your Patrol or unit that will help somebody in a developing country, e.g. via Book Aid International, Tools for Self-Reliance, Intermediate Technology. Through your Guider, let your local International Adviser know what you are doing.
2. Complete one of the following: World Cultures Badge, World Guiding Badge, World Issues Badge or World Traveller Badge.
3. With your Patrol, organise an international evening with games, crafts, food or music and dance.
4. Design a poster on a current global issue and use it to make a presentation to your Patrol.
5. Survey what Fair Trade articles are available in your local area, e.g. in your local supermarket. Find out about Fair Trade on the Internet or from your local library. Organise an activity about Fair Trade with your unit.
Discovery - to challenge Guides with new experiences and adventure.
1. Make a bivouac and spend the night in it. Make your own breakfast the following morning.
2. Start a new hobby or craft or extend an existing one and work on it for at least three months, e.g. glass painting, learning a musical instrument, football, candle making, rollerblading, star-gazing. Find out about your hobby's origins, history and rules.
3. Stay at two youth hostels and share your experiences with your Patrol.
4. Visit a city farm, rescue centre or nature reserve and share your experiences with your Patrol.
5. Try an adventurous activity which is new to you, e.g. canoeing, sailing rock climbing or skiing - share with your Patrol what you enjoyed most. Know the safety rules relating to this activity.
6. Set up or further develop an existing unit or Patrol web site.
Skills and Relationships - to develop Guides' self-confidence and self-worth and to improve their inter-personal and life skills.
1. Organise a party for someone outside your unit, e.g. your local Brownies, your family, girls not normally involved in Guiding, or have a bring-a-friend party.
2. Organise a co-operative games evening for your unit, e.g. parachute games.
3. Help organise and go on a trip with your Patrol to see something special.
4. Find out about local community services available for young people. Get together with local young people and organise a discussion to find out about local issues and what you can all do to assist.
5. Organise a relaxation/meditation session for your Patrol. You could include music, poems, readings, slides of relaxing scenes, candles etc.
6. Organise an activity based on today's clothing, e.g. analyse what is suitable for certain activities, what's fashionable and what makes you feel good. Present your findings in a fun way.
7. Raise money to take part in a Baden-Powell Challenge Adventure.
Celebrating diversity - to promote in Guides active citizenship and to develop their awareness of rights and responsibilities for all.
1. Celebrate with your Patrol or unit a festival from a culture other than your own, e.g. Diwali, harvest festival, Chinese New Year, Thai Festival of Lights.
2. Attend an event with friends, e.g. theatre, ballet, open-air concert, pop concert. Record your thoughts and impressions and share them with your Patrol, Young Leader or Guider.
3. Prepare an activity for your Patrol on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, e.g. balloon debate, game etc.
4. Complete the Culture Badge.
5. Take part in some practical activity for the environment in your local community, e.g. tree or bulb planting or nature conservation.
After you have completed the clauses and taken part in the Baden-Powell Challenge Adventure, you should arrange to meet your local Commissioner. She will be pleased to know that you have completed the Baden-Powell Challenge and will talk to you to find out what you did and how you feel your understanding of the Promise will help you in the future.