OUR COUNTY NEWSLETTER

Published monthly, our newsletter contains news and updates for members

Latest edition – February 2025

age from your county commissioner

February is always a big month in the Girlguiding world, with annual subscriptions and Thinking Day suddenly round the corner! Please make sure you are keeping in close contact with your commissioner if you are worried about annual subscriptions, as there’s lots of support out there that can be accessed.

February is also the month we celebrate “love” in the form of Valentine’s Day. At the end of January, Emma & I were reminded why we “love” Girlguiding so much, when we spent a whole weekend with our region team colleagues. We looked to the future, shaping the regional strategy, which will in turn shape our county strategy for the next five years. With that being said, we want each of you to be feel able to tell us what you would like to see over the next five years. To start with, please make sure you complete our very quick anonymous survey below to tell us what events and activities you want and don’t want to see! We want to hear your voice!

Hannah Cook

County commissioner

First Response Training

We are running a full First Response training on the following dates:

The FR training on Saturday 8 February 2025 is now full. 

The next training will be held on Saturday 12 April at WRH
The cost of the training is £5. If you’d like to book a place email Elizabeth

 

 

 

SAFER GUIDING – THE NEW SAFE SPACE TRAINING

Safe Space training has changed to Safer Guiding. Information has been sent to all members by HQ.

  • All LDP and Safe Space level 4 webinars are bookable on the learning platform
  • Safer Guiding Webinars are bookable on the learning platform
  • Safe Space for 14-17-year-olds webinars are bookable under the events tab on the region website, and are open for bookings now
  • There will be an option to run in-person Safer Guiding trainings  at county level if there is a demand for this. Please contact Elizabeth  if you need an in-person safer guiding training.

SAVE THE DATE

St George’s Day 2025 – Sunday 27th April, more information here

York Pride 2025 – Saturday 7th June, this year we will be taking part in the parade as well as running a stall, more details to follow

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