Funtastic! Photo Competition Winner
Thank you to all who entered the Funtastic! photo completion, who knew LaSER had so many great photographers! After a bit of deliberation, the winner has been selected - the winner is Eirini Garoufalia, Leader in Training, 3rd South Battersea Brownies. Congratulations Eirini!
Here are a few tips to get you started…
Tip 1: Try a Chip Chomp - a walk-round your local chip shops, 1 bag of chips per Patrol and then decide which ones are the best
Tip 2: Sandcastle building in the sandpit of the local park
Tip 3: Have a try of geocaching, many National Trust properties have them on-site for you to try.
If an activity is not listed in the A-Z…
If an activity isn’t listed in the A-Z in the Guiding Manual and it’s not on the list of Prohibited Activities, that doesn’t mean you can’t do it. Is it similar to an activity listed in the manual? Can you use the flowchart to help you decide whether the activity can be run safely? If you are in any way unsure about any activity, please contact Girlguiding Activities (activities@girlguiding.org.uk) or your local Outdoor Activities Adviser who will be happy to help you.
Where will you be in 2020?
It can be easy to get into the habit of thinking only one week (or one term) ahead, but to make sure everything Girlguiding does is taking us in the right direction, a longer-term plan is needed as well. To make sure it’s something everyone can get behind, Girlguiding would like as many members as possible to contribute to it. What should we be doing differently by 2020? How can we prepare girls to meet future challenges? This is your chance to tell Girlguiding what you think!
Challenge Pack Guidelines
Challenge packs are a set of activities on a topic put together by Volunteers for local guiding use. They can be produced for a variety of purposes including: to celebrate a local or national event, to raise awareness, to give girls a new challenge or adventure or even to help fundraise for a unit, campsite or trip. A challenge pack can be for a unit, District, Division or even a whole County! Girlguiding has just published Challenge Pack Guidelines providing tips for writing and producing an activity pack for local guiding. Please refer to them if you are considering producing a local Challenge.
#Getoutside
Following a weekend for County Outdoor Advisers and their teams, we asked on Facebook and Twitter what you do to get outside with your girls. Over the next few weeks, we will share with you ideas that you might use next term to ensure that you all get outside. If you have any further tips or ideas then please share them with us on our Facebook and Twitter sites.
‘What does adventure mean to you?’
In our 13 February edition Pip (Region Chief Commissioner) posed the above question after meeting LaSER’s new Ambassador Adventurer – Sally Kettle.
Lucy Dorkings from Girlguiding Sussex West County replied that she may not have climbed a high mountain but she has conquered the feat of becoming a climbing and abseiling instructor for guiding, she even ensured that she could instruct in time for WS2013. Lucy was one of the only women that took the test, there were so many men there that they started to think she wasn’t capable! Proving them wrong on her first day, Lucy was put in charge of the climbing tower. This whole experience made Lucy even more determined to show that women are capable, even better than men. She feels that through her experiences she is getting to the top of her mountain and hopes to reach it by helping other Leaders take their climbing and abseiling instructor qualification and get more children out there doing the fun activities that she is involved in.
What does adventure mean to you? Let us know by emailing the Region office (info@girlguidinglaser.org.uk).