Guiders' staff room - tea, wine, chat and optional dancing around the toadstool

Hi all

Is anyone else going to the Anglia/LASER training tomorrow (outs self). Looks to be good, but I'm to say that I'm going mainly to catch up with some guiding mates I haven't seen I'm a while.

Have you all seen this survey about a new piece of uniform for Guiders?
www.surveymonkey.com/survey-taken/?sm=_2FRGK7wvMqadEYHsbedJRhPm3Q8_2BsItcE_2Bq7CIfpWRENaHn64mpGhAvE5UQlSHEAHuXWdcI6HxqXFinYFO7sZqw_3D_3D

I've not looked further into it Maud.

All turned up tonight. We made snow globes for Mother's Day which was fun. The girls loved it. We had one zebra fall over but settled him back with the glue gun.

Has anyone here done Free Being Me with their unit? I'm trying to find out what the Take Action projects (which you do after the peer educator sessions) are - the link on the webpage seems wrong, as it goes to other optional projects to do beforehand.

I scared some parents at pick up when they wandered into an old Austrian by way of the bog song

I think Baby Bumble Bee was the start but Alice the Camel tipped them over. I keep seeing that wide eyed brownie looking at me in horror.

Eh? I always thought this thread was the MN Guiders' meeting, rolling on from month to month.

@Groovee children forced to listen to my cater wailing is the one thing they can't take away from me.

Which song was it do you think? Does it have actions?

@MyNightWithMaud Thank you for agreeing to organise the activities for the first MN Guiders meeting.

November - February sounds perfect for a spot of moonlit canoeing Hands up who wants to design the event badge?

Thought I'd scared our new brownies off with the singing last week. But low and behold they turned up 30 mins late as one of the mums had the wrong time.

Oh yes, I've seen it and contributed to it. It may have been a misunderstanding, but the beginning of the thread really did seem to be suggesting moonlit canoeing.

By the way, have you guys seen this thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/extra_curricular_activities/2314733-Guides-Moan

Had to log on to my laptop to find this thread! My phone is refusing to play ball.

We're pushing interest badges at home this term and did the agility badge in the meeting tonight - Very knackered leaders and girls

Well, if it was a bug going around the holiday house, I doubt the parents would have wanted the girls to hang around and risk catching it.

Just had a 2 hour sleep .

They were great bunch of girls, gutted that we were having to finish early but they did what was needed before the parents arrived. Parents were fab too.

That was a good turn. And, much as we might roll our eyes at all the admin and faffing involved with the home contact system, it shows it works.

Hope you've got your feet up with some and a . Maybe someone will even give you a bunch of .

I've done my good turn. Phone call from a friend on pack holiday, asking if I would mind cooking breakfast as 2 leaders were poorly. Got there and my poor friend was ill too. Got my dh to drive back home and get her hubby to drive her home, and I cooked breakfast while the young leader contacted parents and home contact as we decided to send the girls home early.

Hoping it's more smoother next time lol.

Well just in case HQ are popping in to spy on this... me getting a mentor was delayed by an entire year by someone messing up on GO, the new Guide uniforms still haven't grown on me and no they don't look any better on the guides than they do in the pictures and why exactly did you design leaders polos that i swear get shorter every time I wash it? I have to wear a top under it otherwise i show everyone my tummy every time i put my hand up.

I'm not disclosed for brownies but am for other roles...
I think what you are talking about is the same as for something else (not the CRB thing but something else) the insurance covering JUST the finances only would be invalid (so not the public liability etc) if I ran off with the money/defrauded in anyway...which I'm not going to...(But I know people do and therefore it is a risk for an organisation)
(The other thing I have more control so I cover my back completely - so no-one else in the organisation could defraud...obviously when I leave/move on that has to be covered.)
Also these are small sums of money -if push came to shove and the brownies lost all their money through internet fraud etc and it wasn't covered by insurance because of me I'd donate the lost amount to Brownies...
But I have looked at becoming official -for several reasons it is a bit like pulling teeth....

Just stick her on Go as an occasional volunteer (no census) and get her DBSd. It's only necessary for overnights and finance. in the manual and therefore a rule so should be followed to stay within GGUK guidelines.

momb eek, tell me more! One of my Rainbow parents has just taken over the accounts as she's an accountant, she's not on GO as a volunteer though - my DC is aware and hasn't mentioned it? She doesn't have access to the bank account - can't sign cheques etc, just keeps the money in/out up to date.

Unlucky: if you aren't on GO are you CRBd/DBSd? If you aren't and you are assisting with finances/have access to the bank account, then the unit insurance may be invalid unfortunately. Whoever is new Brown Owl needs to speak with her DivComm and get this sorted. Sorry :-( I agree with you about GO being less than ideal.

Oh if HQ is spying on the thread....GO was a factor in the last Brown Owl giving up - she hated it with a passion...she was pushed for time anyway and said she just didn't have the time to mess around with it...literally she cried over it once...
(Think this might be confession time ....I'm not on GO. Long story - been an unofficial occasional helper for several years. New BO had a family crisis, couldn't face sorting out the subs ..so I've been helping her with it just to get it sorted for this year....and just doing that with her I can see why it may well be tear inducing...)

Yes, the xxxx part of my invoice number of xxxx/2015 matches our unit number. Anyway, I haven't seen the covering letter and what you've done sounds perfect so I'm sure it'll be fine. Everything to do with Go! Is (in my view) the devil's work.

(I do hope people at HQ spy on this thread from time to time).

I would say you are right unlucky ! Am sure it will be fine