Guiders Staff Room Part 2

Congratulations lucysmam

Pool noodles in poundland at the moment. Much cheaper than decathlon!

Haha, she could have been my door greeter tonight. We had an epic turn out of mums, dads, brothers, sisters and even grandparents for our 'show'! Our little room was crammed to bursting. The girls did so well & I was really surprised by how many came.

Only downside was that the leader I'm taking over from had said last week she might be away this week but would let me know & then hasn't turned up this week with no message or anything & one parent didn't turn up because my text didn't get to him

My LQ book is done!!!!!!!! & we got to the bottom of who didn't pay last week too. Good night in all

AP maybe you can suggest to that mum that she becomes the official greeter for you as it's so important

Thanks lucysmam. Think I might just go from my records. I can't prove who did and didn't pay from before so don't want to get in any bother. The accounts have scarred me for life!

Um, yeah...no. Not happening!

Haha yes it has a bit Lucys, but also not in others, was still in sixth from when I started so life has changed a bit in the meantime.

Still can't know what I am doing though, got told off by a new mum last week for not meeting the girls at the door and telling them what we are going to do. All 32 of them, individually? umm. Apparently I will understand when I am older and have kids of my own

I meant to ask and forgot; how do you all word emails asking for donations? I have no idea what to write!

Have any of you ever applied for a Wilko Helping Hands grant? It's been three weeks since I took it to the store & haven't heard anything so wondering if it's not made it to where I wanted it to go or they're not going to donate or whatever but no idea how long these things take.

Someone on the FB group said they still get very hot, so I'll have to check them - otherwise we can just use UHU or double sided tape for the eyes and mane. Won't be as secure but I don't suppose the girls will mind!

I really want to do the horses Rue! That looks fab. Will have to look up cool melt glue guns, never knew they existed.

I bet that 10 years has flown Albus! I know it certainly doesn't seem like I've been at it almost 2 already.

Imfine, I'm just going from last half term - the LiC I'm taking over from can't find or has destroyed a lot of her records and the odd ones she has are too much of a jumble to make any sense of. Much easier (for me) to stick with my own system that I understand and could explain if needed.

That looks awesome Rue! You could use pipe insulation instead as it's pretty cheap( but not a very nice colour )

Congratulations AP That is a massive achievement. Think of all the girls who have benefited from your 10 years - wow!

Has anyone actually set up gift aid? I know that you now have to have the updated gift aid forms for the parents and I've made all my older members fill this in as well as the newbies. I have a clear register and receipts for subs paid as of Jan when I became LiC. Prior to that I have the old style forms/a hodge podge of registers which are not consistently filled in/no consistent record of subs paid.

Should I just ignore the past 4 years and apply for gift aid as of this Jan or will they accept the mish mash of before?!! Oh, and all the older gift aid forms have been printed back to back with the starters form so I will have to Sharpie pen out all the data that shows!

I made my test version of the pool noodle hobby horse tonight, Rainbows are making it in a couple of weeks time once the cool melt glue guns arrive am very chuffed with how it's turned out!

Need to email local store managers and see if we can beg some pool noodles for free, otherwise I'll have to order them from Decathlon - wonder what my postman will make of 20 arriving through the door? :o

Haha I only got my ALQ badge last year Rue so by that you have four years to go

Congratulations!

I think I'm due a 5 year one later this year. Maybe that means I'll finally get my ALQ badge?

DC coming to give me my 10 year service this week, cant possibly be old enough for that!

Thanks for the support guys. It will get better I think. Hoping it's just a blip.

First time I've been involved in it, we don't do Remembrance parades here (at least Guiding doesn't at the mo), although we attend church parade 8 times a year as an open sponsored unit. Our town centre is pedestrianised, we met in a park, paraded down the High St, and the police provided a rolling roadblock on the road back to the park. Then there was an open air service with deputy mayor and local vicar presiding. Marching band to play the hymns. And it only rained/sleeted a bit! Am still freezing

Also, wibu to have worn my Rainbow Leaders make it happen hoodie and made the Guide sign during their service?

I think I should get bonus pints (ha, that's an autocorrect from points, but I think I'll keep it!) this week - not only did I help out at Brownies, with enrolments and flying some up to Guides over the toadstool on Friday, I spent 2 hours this morning at our local Scouting St Georges day parade.

Am quite tired now, though...

And the thread on aibu about St George's Day parade is annoying me, too. Groovee you're being remarkably sanguine about it all!

Oh dear Becles, that doesn't sound good

Having a bit of a why do I do this week. The hardest part isn't dodgy parents or the girls it's other leaders .