Many national newspapers and broadcasters showed thousands of women of all ages coming together to mark the day when a group of girls asked Lord Baden-Powell for their own Scouting movement in 1909.
In reality, girls' youth work is under threat. An emphasis on using youth work budgets to address social ills such as crime and disorder, as well as targeting individual young people considered at risk, has led to a dramatic decline in girls-only groups in recent years. The situation is further exacerbated by Girlguiding UK suffering from an acute shortage of leaders, which has resulted in 50,000 young women being left on its waiting list.
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