Spanish Federation of Girl Guiding

The Federación Española de Guidismo (FEG), commonly rendered in English as the Spanish Federation of Girl Guiding or Spanish Federation of the Guide Movement, is a federation of regional Spanish organizations involved in Guiding and, in several cases, coeducational Scout and Guide work. Rather than operating as a conventional consumer-facing brand, it functions as a coordinating and representative body for member associations. Its role includes maintaining a shared Guiding identity, supporting cooperation among regional groups, and providing an international connection for Spanish Guiding through the Comité de Enlace del Guidismo en España and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. The federation's documented membership has included organizations from Aragón, Valencia, Mallorca, the Basque Country, Madrid, and Galicia. As of 2013, the FEG was described as having five member organizations, sixteen local Guide troops, and approximately 1,500 individual members. The current-member organizations listed in that account were Asociación Guías de Aragón, Asociación Guías de Torrelodones, Associació Guiatge Valencià, Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca, and Euskal Eskaut-Gia Elkartea. Earlier or former participants included Asociación Guías de Madrid, which was reported as suspended and in dissolution, and Asociación Xuvenil Grupo Scout-Guía Vasco da Ponte, formerly known as Asociación Coeducativa de Escultismo e Guidismo Galego, which later became integrated into the Federación de Scouts-Exploradores de España. FEG's member bodies are geographically rooted and differ in size, history, language, and organizational development. Asociación Guías de Aragón serves Guide units in Aragón and reported eight local units in 2009. Associació Guiatge Valencià was founded in Moncada in 1964 and experienced substantial expansion in its early years before most units merged with Scout groups during the 1970s; the association subsequently became centered on its Moncada unit. Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca developed from the island's Scout and Guide movement, adopting its current name in connection with its search for international recognition and joining the FEG in 1995. Euskal Eskaut-Gia Elkartea serves Scout and Guide groups in the Basque Country and has also participated in wider Spanish and international coordination structures. The federation's shared identity is expressed through a common Guide law and a common Guide promise. The Guide law establishes principles including reliability, fidelity to one's principles, service to others, friendship, courtesy, care for and defense of nature, democratic conduct, optimism, simplicity, economy, freedom, peace, equality, and respect. The member organizations may adapt the wording of the promise, but the common law is described as not subject to alteration. This arrangement allows regional associations to retain their own cultural and linguistic identities while participating in a common national federation. The FEG is therefore best understood as a nonprofit civic, educational, and youth-movement federation rather than as a commercial product brand. Its activities are centered on local units, youth development, outdoor and community-oriented education, volunteer organization, and representation of Guiding in Spain. Publicly available reference material provides limited information about its legal structure, current officers, finances, headquarters, and present membership. Consequently, the federation's current operating status and contemporary organizational scale require verification from its official channels or current registry and movement sources.

The Federación Española de Guidismo is a national federation formed to connect regional Guide organizations in Spain and to give them a shared representative structure. The available reference material does not establish a precise founding year or identify a single founder. Its documented purpose is reflected in its relationships with the Comité de Enlace del Guidismo en España and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, through which participating Spanish organizations can maintain links with the wider international Guiding movement. The federation has operated through geographically distinct member associations rather than through a single centralized network of local units. The organizations associated with it have had different institutional histories. Associació Guiatge Valencià was established in Moncada in 1964. It expanded to approximately fifteen groups and around 500 active Guides by the early 1970s, but many of those groups subsequently merged with Scout organizations. By 1976, four groups remained, and the association later returned to a single founding unit in Moncada; a second unit established in Bétera in 1995 was dissolved in 2006. Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca traces its development to the island's Scout and Guide movement. It was founded in 1979 under the name Escoltes de Mallorca following a split from the Roman Catholic Moviment Escolta i Guiatge a Mallorca, which had been associated with the Movimiento Scout Católico. The organization joined the coordination body ESLAK in 1990. In 1995 it joined the FEG in pursuit of international recognition and changed its name to Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca, reflecting its combined Scout and Guide identity. Euskal Eskaut-Gia Elkartea represents Scout and Guide groups in the Basque Country. It became a member of ESLAK in 1994 and is described as serving five groups with roughly 500 members. Asociación Guías de Aragón represents units in Aragón and was reported to have eight local units in 2009. The federation has also included organizations from Madrid and Galicia. Asociación Guías de Madrid was later described as suspended and in dissolution, while Asociación Xuvenil Grupo Scout-Guía Vasco da Ponte, previously operating under a Galician coeducational Scout and Guide name, was integrated into the Federación de Scouts-Exploradores de España. A membership account from 2013 listed five current member organizations, sixteen local troops, and approximately 1,500 individual members. The listed members were Asociación Guías de Aragón, Asociación Guías de Torrelodones, Associació Guiatge Valencià, Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca, and Euskal Eskaut-Gia Elkartea. The account emphasized that all current member organizations were coeducational and accepted both boys and girls, showing how the federation's contemporary membership extended beyond a girls-only model while retaining a Guide tradition. FEG's shared constitutional and educational identity is expressed through a common Guide law and promise. The law presents the Guide as trustworthy, principled, useful, friendly, courteous, environmentally responsible, democratic, cheerful, modest, economical, and committed to freedom, peace, equality, and respect. Member organizations may vary the wording of the promise, but the common law is intended to remain consistent across the federation. This balance between common principles and regional autonomy is central to the federation's role. Public reference material does not provide enough information to document a complete institutional chronology, current leadership, legal registration, present membership, funding, or current activity level. The website supplied for the federation is therefore an important historical reference, but the present status of the organization should be confirmed independently.

• 2013

  Documented five-organization membership

  [1]Federación Española de Guidismoen.wikipedia.org

  A reference account recorded five member organizations, sixteen local troops, and approximately 1,500 individual members.

• 1995

  Mallorca organization joins the FEG

  [1]Federación Española de Guidismoen.wikipedia.org

  Escoltes de Mallorca joined the federation while seeking international recognition and adopted the name Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca.

• 1994

  Euskal Eskaut-Gia Elkartea joins ESLAK

  [1]Federación Española de Guidismoen.wikipedia.org

  The Basque Scout and Guide association became part of ESLAK before its later documented role in the FEG network.

• 1990

  Participation in ESLAK

  [1]Federación Española de Guidismoen.wikipedia.org

  Escoltes de Mallorca joined ESLAK, a coordination structure for secular Scout and Guide associations.

• 1979

  Formation of Escoltes de Mallorca

  [1]Federación Española de Guidismoen.wikipedia.org

  The organization that later became Escoltes i Guies de Mallorca was established after a split from the island's Catholic Scout and Guide movement.

• 1964

  Founding of Associació Guiatge Valencià

  [1]Federación Española de Guidismoen.wikipedia.org

  The Valencian member organization was founded in Moncada, establishing one of the regional Guide bodies later associated with the federation.

A coordinating and representative federation for regional, coeducational, and community-based Guide and Scout-Guide organizations in Spain.

1. 1Federación Española de Guidismoen.wikipedia.org
2. 2Federación Española de Guidismo official websitefeg.federacionguidismo.org