Girl Guides Tasmania is a voluntary community organisation aimed at girls and women. Membership of Girl Guides Tasmania is open to girls from 5 to 17 years of age, and women 18 years and over. The Girl Guides officially formed in the UK in 1910 and grew out of the male only Scout movement. The key activities of the Girl Guides range from outdoor adventuring and skill development, to social action and volunteering activities, to personal, social, and leadership development. Members of the Guides have at times held different names including - 'Gumnut Guides', 'Brownie Guides', 'Ranger Guides', and 'Brown Owls'.;;Girl Guides Tasmanian is part of the wider Australian Girl Guides organisation. Girl Guides Tasmanian began as a branch of the New Zealand Peace Scouts, transferring to the 'Girl Guides' in 1911 following a meeting at Government House, Hobart. In their early years, the Guides were also organised as the junior Red Cross branch of Tasmania. By 1915 over 300 girls had enrolled in Hobart and Lindisfarne, and about 80 in Evandale and Hagley. Mrs Henry Dobson was the first Chief State Commissioner of the Tasmanian Girl Guides.;;In Tasmania the Girl Guides is divided into four regions - North West, North 'McIntyre', 'South East' and 'South West'. As at 2018 there were three ways to be involved with the Girl Guides in Tasmania - as a Guide, as a Leader, and as a member of the adult section of the guides the 'Trefoil Guild'.;;Girl Guides Tasmania utilises two main camp facilities - 'Orana' in the south and 'Nindethana' in the north. Orana campsite at Roches Beach has been owned by the Girl Guides Tasmania since 1967. Nindethana, at Deviot in the State's North, was established as a camp site in 1939.;;;;Records of the Girl Guides Tasmania Association were originally deposited in the Archives Office in 1976. All records were returned to the Girl Guides in October 1995. Almost all the records were destroyed in a fire in Hobart 2013. Records that are now part of this Agency registration are those that were rescued from the fire or donated to the Association.