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 UsACTION!

Growing Guiding – Underpinning Principles

• Our overarching aim is long term growth of youth membership

• Any drive to increase volunteer numbers derives from this

National

• Every girl should be offered the chance to participate in the guiding programme. If this cannot be delivered in a unit setting, it should be offered in a different format

Regional

Growing Guiding – Underpinning Principles

• Retention of existing & recruitment of new members is equally important

• Consistently high quality delivery criticalNational

• Growing (good)GuidingRegional

Growing Guiding – Underpinning Principles

National

Regional

Local ownership is important

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• Removing barriers, myths & legends, outdated practice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

The Counties/Islands will………

• 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?

• 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

• 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…