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Girlguiding Impact Report 2023

Girlguiding is the UK's largest youth organisation dedicated to girls, supporting over 300,000 members aged 4–18 through Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers. Their impact report evidences the charity's positive effect on girls' confidence, wellbeing and life skills, and the wider benefits of volunteering for the 70,000 adults who support them.

Report snapshot
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Rainbow, Brownie, Guide and Ranger units; Girls' Attitudes Survey; No Wrong Door youth participation; Queens Guide Award; Duke of Edinburgh's Award; outdoor adventure and residential programmes; volunteer training Custom geography from upload: UK

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 300,000+ girls aged 4–18 active members across the UK
Key Metric 2 70,000 volunteers supporting local units
Key Metric 3 Girls in Girlguiding are 28% more confident than the UK average and 15% happier

Key Outcomes

  • Girls aged 10–15 report up to 23% higher confidence than the UK average for girls
  • 91% of girls in guiding say they have fun at their weekly meetings
  • Girlguiding volunteers report higher levels of happiness and life satisfaction than the average UK adult who does not volunteer

Geography

UK-Wide

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
Key Metric 2
140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
Key Metric 3
373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
Key Metric 2
45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
Key Metric 3
95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
Key Metric 2
Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
Key Metric 3
Education programmes engaged 63,000 young people (69% of the total), the largest share of delivery
In the UK, 71% of Employment and Enterprise completers achieved a positive outcome, including 39% into employment or self-employment
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
851 students supported through the In2STEM programme in 2024, from 2,036 applications
Key Metric 2
27,447 hours of in-person STEM placement experience provided to participants
Key Metric 3
94% of participants know what it means to work in STEM after the programme, up from 69% beforehand
97% of alumni who applied to university were successfully offered a place, based on UCAS data from 1,760 alumni