The National Youth Agency: Comment - A tale of Guides and Guiding,signifying lots

These can be boring and thus fail to do justice to the vibrancy of the work. Trust Girlguiding UK to find an imaginative way of telling some of its story over the past year. Take a theatre in London, use hi-tech video presentation, have a young leader as compere and then put hundreds of girls and young women centre stage - literally - to sing and dance and tell stories.

That was only a handful of the tales of the 620,000 members who put on a Guide uniform throughout the UK every week. The stories and performances were about the new skills girls had learned; about international camps and development projects with their guiding contemporaries across the world; about personal challenges set and achieved. Skilfully interwoven into a fast-paced show were other stories about recruiting new leaders in Edinburgh; about fundraising; about introducing new handbooks and uniforms in Ulster; about the continued success of Guiding's 'Take our daughters to work' day as exemplified by the Atomic Energy Authority.