Horizons Commissioner Conference 2025
We’re excited to invite you to Horizons - Girlguiding London and South East England’s leadership conference for commissioners. We'll celebrate leadership, inspiration, and the power of girls and young women to create positive change.
This event will bring together commissioners, assistant and deputy commissioners and commissioner mentors, alongside lead volunteers and specialist staff from across the region to explore how we can grow together, strengthen our impact, and continue building a supportive and inclusive future to help all girls know they can do anything.
Whether you're experienced or a new commissioner finding your path, your voice and vision are vital to this conversation. The conference will feature updates on key topics from Girlguiding, practical workshops, and opportunities to connect with others who share your commitment to helping girls thrive.
Sessions
You'll be able to attend 3 sessions from the list below, as well as visit our marketplace where you can meet and ask questions of a range of headquarters staff representing departments such as risk, strategy, safe practice, digital futures and more.
- Managing shared roles
Explore the different ways that assistant / joint roles can work best - Difficult conversations
Build confidence in managing challenging conversations in Guiding - Working as a team
Explore different ways of getting volunteers in your district, division or county to work well in a team - GO for commissioners
Help for you to get the most out of GO - Growing our young members
Different approaches to growth in your district, division or county - Supporting the leadership development programme
Providing you with a working overview on the LDP - Running engaging meetings
Exploring ways to make your district, division or county meetings more engaging - Managing information
Helping you to make sense of all the information you get in your role and the best way to manage it - Inclusive complaints training
Build your knowledge, skills and confidence to help you deal with complaints - Keeping yourself safe whilst managing safeguarding and complaints issues
Providing techniques to ensure you are keeping yourself safe when managing safeguarding cases and complaints - Managing leaders and volunteers
Providing you with improved knowledge, skills and confidence when managing adults - Neurodiversity in Girlguiding
Helping you to support volunteers, parents, carers and girls who are neurodiverse to support an inclusive approach to Girlguiding - Succession planning for key roles (for county and division commissioners)
Considering the core roles in the team and how best to prepare to fill them - Time management
Supporting commissioners to make the most of the time that you give to Guiding - Volunteer recruitment 1 – what volunteers do you need?
Helping you to identify the roles you need in your team - Volunteer recruitment 2 – how to get the volunteers you want
Helping you to develop confidence in filling the roles you need
Accommodation
This year we are pleased to be able accommodation the night before the event as we know some of you may either prefer this to get the most from the day or have further to travel. This would be a legitimate expense for the district, division, county where you hold your role.
Supper, Bed & Breakfast - single occupancy @ £99.00 + VAT per person per night
Supper, Bed & Breakfast - twin occupancy @ £160.00 + VAT per room per night