British Girlguiding Overseas is part of UK Girlguiding. Units are based in many parts of the world, either in UK Overseas territories or in areas where it is impossible or inappropriate for reasons such as language or culture for the girls to join the local national organisation. Members make the same promise as in the UK, follow the current programme as appropriate to their Section and wherever possible follow the policy and rules of Girlguiding.
After last year's successful event we are again inviting BGO units to meet up virtually over the Thinking Day weekend.
The 2022 event will take place from 18 - 21 February. This is across a weekend and should give plenty of opportunity for units to meet across different time zones and weekend days. Please register by 23 January. For all details please go to International Opportunities.
On Saturday 15 January there will be a Leaders' Internet cafe to find out more.
The proposed BGO residential and camping event at Girlguiding Waddow Hall is now planned for 24 - 29 July 2022. Brownies, Guides and Rangers will have the opportunity to enjoy a packed programme of activities. There will be possibilities for our adult volunteers at Waddow. You can find out more on the Outdoor Opportunities page.
SHARE YOUR FAVOURITE PLACE – FLORA & FAUNA - WITH EVERYONE IN BGO
Email a photograph of your favourite place to keepintouchbgo@gmail.com by 10 January 2022 and it could be used in the Friends’ new calendar or reproduced as a painting for notelets.
Visit the friends page for more information.
BGO have been invited to take a patrol to the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea in 2023. Guides, Young Leaders and Rangers are invited to apply before 6th December. All details and an application form are on the International opportunities page
A newsletter is available for this Autumn
Hello everyone Well what another year we have had! Some units have yoyo-ed between virtual and face to face meetings, others have only met face to face (aren’t they lucky?!) while some have remained on Zoom as country restrictions have remained at maximum levels. However, throughout it all, BGO volunteers have stayed positive and offered whatever kind of guiding experience they could to our…
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Hello everyone I hope that you had a great summer and are ready for a great guiding year? The excellent news this September is that a growing number of BGO units are able to return
to face to face guiding around the world :) This means in depth risk assessments being
submitted to district, division or county commissioners before units can meet and everyone
getting back into the swing of…
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As I write this blog, I hope that you are all continuing to keep well. For those who have seasons, Spring is now firmly in place and it’s nice to be able to sit outside and see trees, shrubs and bulbs bursting into life and some colour coming back into the garden. Since my last blog, I’m happy to say that more units have been able to return to face to face guiding and this is so encouraging…
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Hello everyone December ended on a high - first heartfelt congratulations to Carol, our Safeguarding lead volunteer, on being awarded Guiding’s highest honour, the Silver Fish Award. It’s not often we see Carol lost for words but on the 19th December that’s what happened during the presentation via zoom. Many thanks to Girlguiding North East England for inviting Hazel and me to the presentation…
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How the world has changed since my last blog. I hope that you are all staying safe and healthy? I was disappointed to not maintain my planned visit to Singapore to meet the leaders and girls as well as sleep at the zoo with leaders and girls from Jarkarta and Malaysia due to restrictions that were put in place for Covid and little did we realise then, that restrictions and then lockdown were going…
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