Welcome from the County Comissioner 

Welcome to Girlguiding Lancashire Border, I’m Sharon Weaver your County Commissioner. I am proud to lead our wonderful County in inspiring, growing, developing and motivating girls and young women to be wonderful members of their community and the wider world.
In Girlguiding we give our members the opportunity to try new things, learn new skills, have adventures and be change makers in a safe environment led by amazing volunteers.
We are a small but vibrant County with volunteers who are dedicated to providing the very best experiences and opportunities to girls and young women. We are lucky enough to have members with huge amounts of experience; who have volunteered for over 60 years as well as brand new volunteers starting on their Guiding journey with us and lots in between, all working selflessly to enable our young members to experience all Guiding offers.
Lancashire Border offers an incredible amount to our young members but it also offers our volunteers fun, friendship, new adventures, life long learning and a wonderful feeling of belonging to the largest organisation for girls and women in the world!
Over the last year, we have faced challenges, but I am proud and delighted to say that our volunteers have risen to those challenges; providing virtual Guiding, sending out activities to girls, supporting in their local community, supporting each other and embracing new ways of volunteering. Nothing stops us in Lancashire Border! Belonging to this awesome organisation in our amazing County is truly an inspiring experience every day.

About Lancashire Border

Lancashire Border County covers the Bolton and South Bury areas. We are a small but very lively county, with 5 Divisions spread across a mixture of rural and urban populations. We have innovative programmes to excite the girls and young women in their care, and our leaders are proud to be part of Team Lancashire Border!

Our County is divided into the following Divisions and Districts:

  • Farnworth Division, encompassing Lever and Halshaw Districts
  • Bury South Division, encompassing Whitefield, Radcliffe and Prestwich Districts
  • Bolton Le Moors Division, encompassing Halliwell, Dunscar, Deane with Great Lever and Astley Bridge & Belmont Districts
  • Bolton Tonge Division, encompassing North and South Districts
  • Bolton Winter Hill Division, encompassing Westhoughton, Over Hulton, Middlebrook, Horwich and Blackrod Districts

This map shows all the currently active units in our county. 

Use the symbol in the top left to open the menu so you can switch on the layers so you can see which section you are looking for.

Red hearts show Rainbow units.

Yellow paw prints show Brownie units.

Blue moons show Guide units.

Turquoise balloons show Ranger units.

Open to full screen to turn the layers on or off, then you can see where our groups are currently meeting!