LOCAL Girl Guide Sophie Greville has achieved the highest award for a Girl Guide, the Queen’s Guide Award, the first to do it from the local guide chapter since 1990.
Ms Greville said completing a set of activities was what had earned her the award.
“So things like leadership development, we do a section on guiding traditions, and then there’s a bigger section on service. So I did service hours with Foundation Broken Hill. There’s also a resource kit we have to make, which can include things like doing general first aid activities with the girls and creating information kits,” she said.
“Then we do outdoor activities with the girls, like world guiding and the patrol system. So it’s sort of showing them how to do that and the different roles within patrols.”
Ms Greville also ran activities about Nepal and other guiding countries with different socioeconomic environments to that of Australia.
At just 18, Ms Greville is a junior leader with the Girl Guides, a role she’s been in for almost three years.
She said she’s been with the Broken Hill chapter since the age of six.
Currently, Ms Greville studies dietetics and nutrition in Newcastle, but still remains involved with the Girl Guides.
“I’m going to Jamboree, which is a national camp this year,” she said.
She said she plans to move back to regional Australia once her degree is completed, depending on where work is available.
“The plan is to work regionally somewhere, whether that’s Broken Hill or a different regional area will depend on job availability,” she said.
Ms Greville said that the lessons instilled in her through being a Girl Guide have also been beneficial to life outside of Guides.
“All the leadership stuff particularly has been really useful in my own life,” she said.
“Dealing with managing people within jobs that I needed to do, and that sort of perseverance as well.
“These were beneficial when doing things like I did a student traineeship with Far West Health District for Year 11 and 12, and receiving awards like commitments award with my school.
“I think growing up in Guides has put a lot of confidence in me when doing any activity.”
