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Baden Powell Challenge

(With suggestions for those with disabilities)

The Baden-Powell Challenge Award is the highest award a Guide can achieve.

To start the Baden-Powell Challenge you need to have:

• Made your Promise

• Gained at least 2 Guide Challenge Badges

• Gained at least 2 interest badges

The Baden-Powell Challenge is divided into 5 zones, each containing lots of different clauses. You should do 1 clause from each zone, then 5 more from any of the zones. You need to complete 10 clauses in total. Up to 2 of them can relate

to your Country, Region or Girlguiding UK. You will find more information about the Baden-Powell Challenge in your G file.

To finish the Award you need to take part in a Baden-Powell Adventure. These are usually residential events organised by your County or Region.

Colour coding for adaptions:

Learning difficulties

Visual difficulties

Physical difficulties

Hearing difficulties

Allergies I Medical problems

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Zone 1: Healthy Lifestyles

Aim: To encourage Guides to lead a healthy lifestyle by promoting physical, emotional and spiritual well-being

Original Clause 1. Organise and run a Patrol cooking

competition. You could provide ingredients and challenge the Patrols to produce dishes in a set time.

2. Set yourself three personal fitness goals and keep a diary for a month to show how you have worked towards them.

3. Run an activity session for your Patrol on an issue which concerns young people today.

4. Help to organise a sports competition with another Patrol or another Guide unit.

Possible adaptions .. .. system to try ar

:>oast the confidence of the girls running :his while promoting their

Depending on their physical disability the buddy system could also be appropriate. Provide written instructions for Guides You need to be aware of food allergies, vegetarian/vegans and religious beliefs which influence their food choices (check with Leaders). Make sure they complete this clause to their own ability and there is a challenge element. Ensure the written record is in the medium they are comfortable with e.g. photos, Dictaphone or Braille.

Ns they can n m evening on their disability, they :ould even prepare this and allow someone else to deliver it. They could even create a short video clip on it if they lack confidence speaking to a crowd. This could boast their :onfidence and self-esteem.

5. Complete one of the following Please adapt as you feel necessary for badges while working towards your each badge. Baden-Powell Challenge Award: Agility, Cook, Healthy Lifestyles or Sports.

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6. With your Patrol, plan and carry out a 'Reflections' session around a chosen theme. You could include a relaxation or meditation aspect or use mime, readings, music, dance or slides.

7. Organise a sponsored fitness event for a good cause.

8. Produce a cookbook of healthy recipes appropriate for Rainbows, Brownies or Guides to use at an event, holiday or camp.

Zone 2: Global Awareness

~pending on their ability, they cou )reduce it as a bullet point list or a .eries of photos for the recipes. They .:ould also collect a range of recipe cards or print off a range of recipes. The number of recipes included could be reduced depending on their literacy ability. This should be produced using a

This could be produced using Braille and if relevant tactile diagrams. This would depend on their ability. This could be a series of photos of the different stages if motor control is difficult.

Aim: To increase awareness of global issues and of the contribution each Guide can make

Original Clause Possible adaptions 1. Find out about the life a child from a

country in the global south (the developing world) leads. Share your findings with your Patrol.

2. Organise an activity for your Patrol or unit which will help somebody from a country in the global south (the developing world). Let your local international Adviser know what you are doing.

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3. Complete one of the following badges while working towards your Baden -Powell Challenge Award: World Cultures, World Guiding or World Issues.

4. With your Patrol, organise an You will need to consider food allergies international evening with games, and any latex allergies when preparing crafts, food or music and dance. the food.

The dance may need to be adapted to fit the needs of the girls.

5. Design a poster on a current global issue and use it to make a presentation to your unit.

6. Use the Internet or your local library to find out about fair trade. Survey what fair trade items are available in your area, for example in your local supermarket. Organise an activity about fair trade with your Patrol.

7. Find out about the Guide Friendship Fund or World Thinking Day Fund and hold a fund-raising evening to support their work.

Zone 3: Discovery

Aim: To challenge Guides with new experiences and adventure

Original Clause 1. Make a bivouac and spend the night

in it. Make your own breakfast the following morning.

Possible Clauses _ J spend some tin

showing them photos or examples of bivouacs. They may also need help understanding any recipes they have to

They will need help to cook their breakfast to ensure their safety. They may also need help accessing the toilet in the night as they may not know their way to it. The location and surface of the ground may need to be considered. A buddy system would be very appropriate for this clause to support the guide undertaking the activity.

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2. Start a new hobby or craft, or extend This would need to be recorded in a an existing one and work on it for at medium appropriate to the individual least 3 months. You could try glass e.g. photos, Dictaphone or Braille. painting, learning a musical instrument, football, candle making, rollerblading or stargazing. Find out about your hobby's origins, history and rules. Do a presentation your hobby for your Patrol in a way that is new to you.

3. Attend a residential event somewhere new to you, e.g. in a youth hostel or on a narrow boat. Your Baden-Powell Adventure cannot count for this clause.

4. Complete 1 of the following badges while working towards your BadenPowell Challenge Award: Outdoor Pursuits, Survival, Community Action.

5. Visit a city farm, rescue centre or nature reserve. Discuss with your Patrol why it is important to have theses and who benefits from them. What could you do to help?

This could take another form of a discussion if they struggle to communicate with the other members of their Patrols.

to be recorded in a medium appropriate e.g. photos,

6. With friends attend an event such as This would need to be recorded in a theatre, ballet, an open air concert medium appropriate to the individual or a pop concert. Record your e.g. photos, Dictaphone or Braille. thoughts and impressions and share them with your Young Leader or Leader. Stay safe when you are out and about.

7. Use ICT skills to make a new resource for your units. What about making a 'Welcome to Guides' pack, a 'Guide to Camp' or a songbook? You could use photography, video, computers etc.

8. Complete the Guide Camp Permit while working towards your BadenPowell Challenge Award.

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Zone 4: Skills and Relationships

Aim: To develop Guides self-confidence and self-worth and to improve their interpersonal and life skills

Original Clause Possible adaptions 1. Organise a party for someone outside

your unit, such as your local Brownies, your family or girls not normally involved in guiding; or hold a bring-a-friend party at Guides.

2. Organise a cooperative games evening for your unit, e.g. parachute games.

3. Help organise a trip with your Patrol You will need to consider transport and to see something of interest to you. access arrangements for the girls. Go on the trip and report back to your units. Stay safe when you are out and about.

4. Find out what there is available for young people in your area. With your unit, organise a discussion to find out about local issues which affect you and what young people can do to assist.

5. Complete one of the following badges while working towards your Baden -Powell Challenge Award: Communicator, Independent Living, Personal Safety, Water Safety.

6. Organise an activity based on today's clothing. You could do an analysis of what is suitable for certain activity, what's currently fashionable and what makes you feel good. Present your findings in an interesting way.

7. Raise money to take part in your Baden -Powell Adventure. Could anyone else benefit from your fund-raising?

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8. Complete the Active Response or First Aid badge while working towards your Baden-Powell Challenge Award. Hold a First Aid evening for your unit, including incidents and fake wounds to demonstrate your new skills.

Zone 5: Celebrating Diversity

1r some girls who have severe learni1 iifficulties, they may struggle to retain he information in the correct equence. They may not be able to espond as quickly. This could knock heir confidence if they are very weak.

Aim: To promote active citizenship among Guides, developing their awareness of rights and responsibilities for all

Original Clause Possible adaptions 1. With your Patrol or unit, celebrate a

festival from a culture other than your own e.g. Diwali, Harvest Festival, Chinese New Year, Thai Festival of Lights.

2. Organise a disability awareness activity evening or invite someone to your unit to talk about disabilities.

3. Find out about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Organise an activity to share what you have found out.

4. Complete one of these badges while working towards your Baden-Powell Challenge Award: Culture, Discovering Faith.

5. Take part in a practical activity to The location of the activity will need to benefit the environment in your local be considered to make sure it's community, such as tree planting, accessible. This could be made easier nature conservation or bulb planting. by planting things in pots and then

transferred to the final locations e.g. planting a hanging basket for a local hospice.

6. Take part in a WAGGGS initiative. 7. What is 'being you' all about? Make

a collage to reflect your culture and lifestyle. Share this with your Leader.

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8. Look at guiding in your area and think about units that may not be as fortunate as yours. Think of ways you could offer them assistance. Carry out your ideas and tell your Commissioner how you were able to make a difference.

All these adaptions are only suggestions and the Leader should feel able to make any reasonable adaptions they feel necessary to assist the Guide, but also to challenge them at the same time.

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Deciding on what to do

What clause do you like the sound of? (Circle the ones you like)

Zone 1: Clauses 1 ,2,3,4,5,6, 7,8

Zone 2: Clauses 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Zone 3: Clauses 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

Zone 4: Clauses 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

Zone 5: Clauses 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

Under the headings below, write in the clauses you have picked and why?

Zone 1: Healthy Lifestyles

Zone 2: Global Awareness

Zone 3: Discovery

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Zone 4: Skills and Relationships

Zone 5: Celebrating Diversity

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Record templates for completing each zone

Zone number: .................... Clause Number: ................... .

What do I want to do and why?

What help and equipment will I need?

Who will I do it with? And who do I need to contact about it?

What will you need to prepare before the event?

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How long will it take to set up, complete the activity and tidying up in the venue?

Setting up will take: ................... .

Completing the activity will take: ................... .

Tidying away will take: ................... .

Total time: ................... .

Recording the BP adventure weekend

Where I went?

When I went?

Who I went with? Who I met?

Highlights of the Adventure

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Zone 1: Clause 2

Set yourself 3 personal fitness goals

My fitness goals are I will do this by

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Diary

Date What I did How did it help you meet your goals from above?

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