Welcome to our Brownie Days
15 & 22 February 2015
Aim of the session
The aim of this event is to help you to
Grow Good, Flexible, Brownie Guiding in
your area
Objectives
At the end of today, you will have had the
opportunity to:
• Work with other Brownie Guiders
• Think about your local issues and priorities
• Identify some solutions for your area
• Develop an action plan
• Ask questions
Format of the day
• Presentation about Growing Guiding
• Workshops:
– Flexible Brownie Guiding
– Excellence everywhere: Good Guiding
– Brownie Adventure
– Moving on: Brownies to Guides
– GO & Join Us
ACTION!
Growing Guiding – Underpinning Principles
• Our overarching aim is long term
growth of youth membership
National
• Any drive to increase volunteer
numbers derives from this
• Every girl should be offered the
chance to participate in the guiding
Regional
programme. If this cannot be
delivered in a unit setting, it should
be offered in a different format
Growing Guiding – Underpinning Principles
• Retention of existing & recruitment of
new members is equally important
National
• Consistently high quality delivery critical
Regional
• Growing (good)Guiding
Growing Guiding – Underpinning Principles
National
Local ownership is important
Regional
What is Growing Guiding?
• Something every member is responsible for
• Removing barriers, myths & legends, outdated
practice
• Quality is important – Good Guiding
• Innovative ways of delivering Guiding and getting
everyone in who wants to join
Growing GOOD Guiding
I’m Guiding in 2015.
What year are you Guiding
in?
What Growing Guiding is not…….
• Not about ‘more leaders, more units’
• Not just numbers - quality is always more
important than quantity
• Not a PR recruitment exercise
• Not a ‘training’ session
• Not just more of the same
Winnie the Pooh, coming down stairs
The Region will……………………..
Give support
Provide information
Develop resources
Develop the website
Deliver training which changes attitudes
and practice
• Develop quality assurance
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The Counties/Islands will………
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Appoint a coordinator
Work to demolish the barriers
Identify priorities
Produce an action plan
Actively find new ways of delivering
Guiding
The C/I coordinators will………
• Work with C/I team
• Help identify priorities and produce an
action plan
• Make contact with communities
• Identify support needed from Region
• Meet regularly with Region coordinator
Your role
• Local solutions to local issues
• Innovation & imagination
• Removing myths, legends and barriers
• Taking action – getting on with it!
What are your priorities?
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Numbers of 7/8 year olds
Moving on to Guides
BME communities
Rural areas or city centres
Venues
New housing developments
Poor quality Guiding
Your tasks
• Think about your priorities
• Think about radical, innovative solutions
• Resources (remember no ‘more leaders,
more units’!)
• Selling it – to parents, girls, leaders
Steps forward
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Practical and pragmatic
Action-based plan
Innovation & imagination
‘Get your retaliation in first’
Be informed - FAQs
Sell the benefits
Positive, forward-thinking, and proactive
The longest journey
starts with the first
step…