Girls In Edinburgh Celebrate As Girlguiding Unveil 72 Exciting New Badges
- Nikki Miller
- Jul 22, 2025
- 3 min read
Girlguiding UK has today launched 72 new badges offering even more amazing opportunities for girls aged 4-18 in Edinburgh and across the UK to grow in confidence, learn new skills, have fun and adventures, and help them know they can do anything.
Among the new badges, Rainbows (age 4-7) can giggle their way towards completing the Laughter badge; Brownies (age 7-10) might share the love for the Kindness badge; Guides (age 10-14) can creepy crawl their way closer to the Entomology badge; and Rangers (age 14-18) will be waxing lyrical about their favourite things with the Fandoms badge.
The 72 new badges were co-designed by more than 20,000 people including over 15,000 girls.
Over 4,000 badge design ideas were submitted by girls and volunteers, and 11,000 girls from 753 Girlguiding units across the UK helped to test out the badge activities.
The development of new and the evolution of existing badges was a response to girls’ requests to add even more choice to the guiding programme given the popularity of the first wave of overhauled badges released in 2018, with a phenomenal 1,551,087 completed across all four Girlguiding sections since then.
Lindsey Devin, County Commissioner for Girlguiding Edinburgh said: “Our members are really excited for the new badges! We love being able to provide opportunities for girls and young women across Edinburgh to learn new skills and this will help towards that. I’m looking forward to hearing how they get on when they return after the summer.”
Badges that have never been seen before in Girlguiding’s 115-year history include:
Interior designer:
This badge will see Guides planning, designing and decorating. They will discover the skills to transform spaces and let their creativity run wild.
Courage:
Rainbows will learn to find their courage and know that trying new things doesn’t have to be scary.
Food critic:
Guides will embrace their inner critic to discover which flavours and foods make their heart sing - and which aren’t their thing.
Calm spaces
Rangers will find some inner peace and unwind. They will discover what makes them relaxed and create their own calm space.
Rainbows
Bee Rescuer - Girls told us they want more activities to do with animals and helping the environment which is exactly what inspired this bee-utiful badge.
Brownies
Celebrations – A reinvented version of the old favourite Hostess badge. From activities and food to decorations and invites, this badge is sure to get you having a party.
Book Reviewer - This bookish badge encourages Brownies to review different books and review them in an exciting way! We know from our programme review that arts and crafts are the most popular type of activity for Brownies.
Wayfinder - As part of our Have Adventures theme, the Wayfinder badge is about getting girls outdoors and exploring nature.
Guides
Thrift - Customising, repurposing and recycling. That’s what our new thrift interest badge for Guides is all about!
Bookworm - Created in collaboration with the Children’s Book Project, this cute bookworm badge will get you making your perfect book nook to relax and unwind.
Rangers
Nostalgia - We hope this badge will help to tackle intergenerational loneliness which we know affects lots of people.
Booktivist - Rangers will take their reading habits to the next level by exploring what empowers them through books.
For more information about all the new badges and about how to get involved with Girlguiding Scotland visit www.girlguidingscotland.org.uk
