As, Brigaders, we are the oldest members of the company, starting at 14 years of age or school years 10-13. We can work towards 3 seperate awards; The Brigaders Brooch, Young Leaders Awards and the Duke of Edinburgh Awards (see DofE page).

To obtain the Brigader Brooch, we follow a unique 4 year programme, encouraging the girls particpate  in a unique programme to build their skills, conifdence and understanding of the world around them from a number of options which could include First Aid, Sports, the Arts, Craft, life skills or GB Hertiage with a weekly bible based thems. We run this along side the Duke of Edinburgh & Girls' Brigade Young Leaders Award to gain maximum benefit.

 Our Brigader section is a small friendly group, currently lead by Jan and Rachel and we meet between 7:00 - 8:30pm.

Brigaders currenty wear;

Purple GB N:Spire Polo Shirt

Navey GB n:spire Hoodie, Fleece or Sweatshirt

Navy/ blackTrousers or skirts

and are advised to wear foot wear such as trainers, suitable for all the activites we may plan and enjoy. 

Click the button below to link to our own Duke of Edinburgh award page to find out more about this award, what we do and how this fits in to our programme.

Badge Bag layout for Brigaders

If we joined as an Explorer, our Brigaders Badge bag is starting to look very busy, but there is still room for our purple centered, Bronze, Silver and Gold Circle awards, Brigader Brooch, Young Leaders award and Duke Of Edinburgh Awards

We hope this will remind us of  many happy memories of our time in Girls' Brgiade and the all the activties and skills we have learnt along the way.

Brigaders have previously used Just Dance videos to improve our fitness for the Physical Badge, learnt First Aid for our Skills Badge, completed the Young Leadership training programme towards our Social Badge and joined in weekly discussions on the "Fruits of the Spirit" sharing of views and ideas of Christain faith to contribute towards our Spiritual Badge.

On turning 18, many become Young Leaders with Girls' Brigade, helping to shape our comapanies future.

During spring we joined the rest of the company to enjoy a Caneoing adventure along Beaulieu River and during the Winter planned, organised and hosted a murder mystery supper evening raising approx £250 for the Grass Roots charity and our company. We have now have taken on the planning and prepartion of the Teddy Bear Picnic event this year having joined companies from East Hampshire District for the next atage of our young leader training.

We are planning lots of activities for next term - come and join us!