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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