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Volunteer voices: employer volunteering schemes
Did you know that many employers offer support for volunteering to their employees? Hear from leader Joanne who applied for a paid volunteer day to bring Guides and Rangers to Breakaway to Belgium.
Growing guiding: plans for 2024
Hannah Roberts, assistant chief commissioner for inclusion and impact, shares our plans for the coming year
Volunteers' Week 2023: Former Brownies become young volunteers
Girls can do anything – including volunteering! A Canadian visitor finds former Brownies volunteering in their old unit.
Volunteers' Week 2023: a message from our chief commissioner
To kick off Volunteers’ Week, we have a special message from Girlguiding London and South East England region chief commissioner, Amanda Teasel.
Bring a Friend!
The 8th Royal Eltham West Brownies and Guides were looking for opportunities to spread the word about the magic of Girlguiding, so they planned a Bring a Friend event to boost their membership.
Thank you!
Each and every one one of you make an amazing contribution to the lives of our members and local communities. During volunteers’ week, we collected messages shared by parents, young members and volunteers, to recognise and thank you for all the amazing things that you do.
Volunteers highlights
On volunteers’ week, we challenged our members to nominate and tell us the story of outstanding volunteers. Here are the stories of five volunteers picked at random.
Celebrating our members!
There are so many amazing people doing incredible things in Girlguiding both young members and volunteers! But sometimes it can be hard to thank people for their hard work or recognise their achievements. One way this can be done is via awards. Find out more about awards with Tash's blog.
Guiding doesn't have to stop in the school holidays!
Assistant leader Louise has been keeping her Rainbows active even in the school holidays. Find out what she does to make sure the fun doesn't stop!
10 Tuesday: Top 10 reasons to volunteer for Girlguiding
Thinking about volunteering for Girlguiding or want to know more about it? Read on to find out Sarah's top 10 reasons to join Girlguiding!
Flexible volunteering
In our new series, we're exploring examples of flexible volunteering to show that people who can't commit lots of time or make a regular commitment can still help out, and leaders can find support to help make running their unit easier. Find out how!
Top 5 reasons to volunteer while at university
University can be stressful, but Megan thinks volunteering with Girlguiding while she's there has helped her loads. Here are her top 5 reasons why you should volunteer at university - and afterwards!