CWFF
Canadian World Friendship Fund (CWFF)

The Canadian World Friendship Fund consists of money raised by all Members of Girl Guides of Canada-Guides du Canada. This money is used for many different worthwhile projects that help Canadian girls and Guiders as well as our sisters in Guiding worldwide! Contributing to The Canadian World Friendship Fund (CWFF) can be on-going, all year. For 2004, BC Members contributed $34,011.25.
CWFF money is used to support:
  • Disaster relief
  • Twinning projects
  • Mutual aid projects
  • World Centers
  • WAGGGS
  • International travel
  • In/out travel grants
  • Western Hemisphere region work.

More information about these projects can be found on the Girl Guides of Canada and WAGGGS websites.

CWFF Resources:

Fun calendar for collecting every day over a month
Think CWFF every month! (Ideas for each month of the year)

Do you have more ideas? We’d love to hear from you. Send us an email us at info@bc-girlguides.org

Every Day is World Thinking Day!

Are you looking for ways to raise CWFF money with your girls or councils? Below is a list of ideas for you to try. Of course, the possibilities are only limited by your imagination. Let the sky be the limit! For a pdf copy of this list, click here.

  • Collect loose change at meetings in a globe bank.
  • Hold a potluck AGM, tea or other get together with admission, by donation, to CWFF.
  • Hold a silent, or live auction.
  • Charge admission to an International dinner or breakfast.
  • Hold a dessert and entertainment night.
  • Donate a nickel for every year you have lived.
  • Hold a block–a–thon.
  • Girls get pledges to see how many trips around the block they can make.
  • They could skip, walk, run, hop.
  • Hold a baking contest and sell the baking after.
  • Hold a cake decorating contest and finish with a cake walk.
  • Hold a kidnap breakfast where participants have to pay for a ride home.
  • With your unit, plan and run a district, division or area carnival.
  • Hold a garage sale.
  • Hire your unit out as a clean up crew.
  • Hold a hop scotch–a-thon.
  • Hold a skip–a–thon.
  • International market place.
  • Hold a fashion show and charge admission.
  • Paint store windows at Christmas, Halloween, Easter, etc.

More Collection Ideas

  • Get a large piece of paper and have your smallest (or largest) girl lie dawn and trace around her. Have the girls and leaders bring pennies and glue or tape them onto the paper until the entire outline of the girl is filled in.

  • Have the girls bring an empty can, size to be determined by unit to the unit meeting. I have seen this done with soup cans all the way up to hot chocolate sized cans. If you chose something like a hot chocolate can have the girls bring the plastic lid also. Using construction paper cover the can or the girls can just paint directly on the can. Allow the girls to decorate their can however they like. The girls take the cans home and when they have filled them with pennies, they bring them back.

  • Glass jars can be etched with the Girl Guide logo. Logos can be downloaded from the National website. Older girls can do smaller individual jars or leaders can do one large jar for the whole unit. Buy glass-etching cream at your local craft store and follow the directions on the container.

  • Get a plastic floor hockey stick with a hollow handle. Take off the top cap and have the girls put in any pennies they have collected each week. When stick is full, empty it and start again.

  • This idea can be used after a parent/girl banquet. Feed everyone well. After dinner weigh all the fathers. The fathers then contribute a penny a pound to CWFF on their daughters’ behalf. (Fathers are usually more willing to be weighed than mothers are)

  • Draw a large tree on a piece of paper. Have many small branches at the ends of the larger branches. Cut out numerous leaves from different shades of green construction paper. As the girls bring in their contributions (pennies, nickels, dimes etc.) glue or tape the coin on a leaf and then glue or tape the leaf to the tree. As contributions come in, your tree will “grow” many green leaves.