Christmas
At Christmas we met up with some of the Holiday Brownies for a day of activities. The girls learnt all about the new promise and worked towards their Number Fun and Disability Awareness badges.
Half-term
During half-term the girls were also invited to an activities day at Cowley to give feedback about the Holiday Brownies programme and take part in a range of outdoor activities including Tunnelling, Low Ropes, Mountain Biking and Bush Craft.
Where are we now?
All of the Brownies from last year's programme are now happily in Brownie Units and having a brilliant time. So lovely to see them at different Guiding events and find out how they're getting on.
One thing we have said from the beginning is that being a Holiday Brownie will not change where the girls are on the waiting list BUT it will allow them to enjoy the benefits of being a Brownie and taking part in Guiding events either until they join a unit or if they wish to continue as a Holiday Brownie (similar to a Lone Guide). In the time between Holiday Brownies and joining a unit girls were given the opportunity to have 'personal Brown Owls' who would see how they were doing with badges and update them on any relevant information. We've been amazed and delighted at how many badges some of our Holiday Brownies have achieved!
Spreading the message
Since the success of Holiday Brownies last year we have visited other counties and regions to inform them of Holiday Brownies and help them to develop a similar scheme in their area. Hannah and Charlotte gave a presentation at County Planning Day and Emily and Charlotte represented the team at the region Growing Guiding Conference! Helen also took our ideas to Anglia Region to help inspire Holiday Guiding there too (they were even able to Facetime one of our Holiday Brownies to find out first-hand how brilliant it is to be a Holiday Brownie!). We are delighted to hear that Milton Keynes will also be running Holiday Brownies this year and other areas are also planning events in the near future.
Emily and Charlotte at the Growing Guiding Conference.
Anglia Region Facetiming one of our Holiday Brownies.
2014
We are running two lots of Holiday Brownies in Gloucestershire this summer, the first of which is next week! We'll be working towards the Big Brownie Birthday Challenge Badge amongst other things. Our parents meeting went well and we can't wait to meet the newest Holiday Brownies and welcome them to Girlguiding.
Thanks for reading and we'll hopefully update you again soon! Until then, don't forget to follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/HolidayBrownies
Charlotte
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