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AIBU to ask whether Guides trips abroad usually involve fundraising?

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Mumbythesea1 · 13/06/2026 10:16

My daughter has just joined guides. She is autistic but has found that the girls in her guides group are a lot like her which I’m pleased about as she never does clubs usually. We’ve just had details of the next guides trip which is abroad and is a cost of £1400 😬
can I ask if your daughter had been on one of these if they did fundraising to help pay for it?! We don’t have spare money that we can use to pay for this and have said we will help fund it as much as we can.
if your daughter did do fundraising what did they do?

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Mumbythesea1 · 13/06/2026 10:22

She’s only 11 and so lots of jobs are out because of her age. She wants to make and sell things but I don’t think we will get anywhere near the amount!

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EveryKneeShallBow · 13/06/2026 10:22

I agree with the other poster. I did buy a beautiful knitted doll that a teenager had made to fund a trip to the Andes, but that was because it’s lovely not just to give her money. I think it’s a life lesson. Not everyone can afford to have expensive holidays.

TallagallaPenguin · 13/06/2026 10:20

For scouts, there were sometimes trips abroad mentioned, but most trips were local camps with nothing like that sort of cost. The trips abroad (things like the global jamboree??) always seemed to include fundraising as part of it. In our experience only a small handful of scouts signed up to these ones, and they tended to be more at a district level.

One scout made “s’mores kits” nicely packaged and sold them at all the school / village fairs. That’s the only one I remember.

AnnaQuayRules · 13/06/2026 10:19

It's very hard on your daughter to be offered a trip you can't afford, but that's life. There's no way I'd give money to a fundraiser for a child's holiday.

If she wants to go then she needs to earn the money herself. Babysitting, car washing or getting a Saturday job.

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