BC Girl Guides: Awards

BC GUIDERS ARE GREAT!

"Everyone likes to be recognized and appreciated for
making contributions to an organization"

Let's Recognize and Reward their work as often as possible.
There are four ways to do this:

FORMALLY:

Did you know you can nominate anyone for an award? Get in touch with your Commissioner or Awards Adviser. Commissioners and Awards Advisers, please use the R.3 (pdf) to apply for an award listed in the Guiding Essentials.

EXTERNALLY:

Other organizations recognize volunteers in your community... Check to see which Guider might fit the criteria. Your Awards Adviser has a list of opportunities. Your local paper may have a "Local Hero" column. BC Guiders ARE heroes.

INFORMALLY:

There are a number of ways to say, "You are valued and appreciated" using "warm fuzzies." Get in touch with your Area Awards Adviser. She has endless ideas about how to do "FUN", appropriate things to easily recognize Guiders' work; i.e.- tie a ribbon around a light bulb with a note saying, "you really have bright ideas... thanks", etc. Gifts are good too - see the Girl Guide catalogue or Guide Store for ideas!

INTRINSICALLY:

Talk about the wonderful memories Guiders are making for the girls as you do special events, how they are passing on life-long skills as they teach girls how to camp safely and how they are teaching character as they expect girls to keep promises, be reliable, be honest, etc.

BC GUIDERS REALLY ARE GREAT AND DESERVE TO BE CELEBRATED!

Presented to BC Guiders in 2007 were:

8 Honourary Life Membership
1 Beaver
7 Medals of Merit
1 Fortitude
0 Letters of Commendation
12 Entries to Book of Honour
23 Gold Merit
43 Silver Merit
52 Bronze Merit
103 Gold Thanks Pins
1 BC Awards
47 Team Awards

By clicking on the awards below, find out who has received these awards during the past Guiding year.

BC Award	Book of Honour	BC Guider Appreciation
Honorary Life	Beaver	Fortitude
Gold Thanks	Bronze Merit	Silver Merit
Gold Merit	Medal of Merit	Team Award
Letter of Commendation

Adult Awards Information/Forms

Information on Awards (Guiding Essential-Section 5)

Timeline for Award request and presentation

Click here for the easy to read BC Awards Flow Chart. (MS Word)

Awards Application Form (R.3) (pdf)
Awards Application Form (R3) (Word)
Changes to Member Records (A.4) (pdf)
Changes to Member Records (A4) (Word)
Awards Purchase Order Form (BCGSI) (pdf)

BC Guider Appreciation Award (new)

BC Guiding recognizes and appreciates the efforts and contributions of its adult Members. This award was created to honour these women.

BC Appreciation Award Application Form (pdf)
BC Appreciation Award Application Form (MS Word)

Book of Honour

The Book of Honour is another way to recognize special BC Members: It was created to recognize outstanding BC Guiders and girls who exemplify the spirit of Guiding through keeping the Promise and Law.

Book of Honour - Criteria (pdf)
Book of Honour - Application Form (pdf)

A Duplicate of the Book of Honour
can be borrowed for display at workshops, annual meetings, ceremonies or other Guiding functions
reservation form (pdf)

Provincial Award

The BC Award may be given to a BC Member who has done specific work which affects the nature of Guiding throughout the province. Nominations may be sent to the Provincial Commissioner by any Member of BC Council.

Provincial Awards Display Case Reservations

The Provincial Awards Committee has prepared display cases of sample Award pins, which are available nationally or provincially and a number of informal warm fuzzy ideas. These cases are available for areas to borrow. For information and reservation forms, click on links below.

Informal Awards Case Reservation Form (pdf)
Formal Awards Case Reservation Form (pdf)

Youth Awards Information

Specific Awards achievable by Youth Members (MS Word)

High School Credits for Pathfinders and Senior Branches.

Canada Cord Certificate

Canada Cord Certificate Request Form (MS Word)
Canada Cord Certificate Request Form (pdf)