In autumn 2014 we were delighted to be invited to London to speak to the National Conference of growing Guiding coordinators. This gave Charlotte, Amy and Cerys the chance to share their stories with leaders from across the country. This was the first outing for our special purple and gold Holiday brownies neckers (bought as a discount job lot from One Stop Scouting and decorated with daisy lace)
The girls were made extremely welcome and did a superb job. Afterwards (having checked out "the poshest loos in the world") they headed out into London to track down Paddington Bears and see the sights.
The following week both of the girls headed to CentreParcs in Wiltshire where they spoke to a large Growing guiding Conference and met both the Chief Guide and the Chief Commissioner.
Following their appearance in London, invitations started to flow in for the brownies. Where possible we like them to be able to go and speak in person, but we decided we'd need to make a video we could use when that wasn't possible so on a cold Saturday morning, Hannah, Meg and Amy created a very funny video about their experiences.
In January we enjoyed an action packed weekend. It started with 3 of us flying to Belfast to speak at their conference. Emily and Hannah talked about the benefits for them as students of having real leadership roles in Guiding. It was also lovely to present Hannah with her Leadership Qualification that evening in front of over 100 Ulster Guiders. She had achieved this solely with Holiday Brownies showing it is flexible for leaders too.
On the Saturday Hannah and Emily headed off to explore Belfast while Helen caught an early plane home to her County Conference.
On the Sunday, it was back in the car again and this time we headed north to Leicestershire where the Midlands conference awaited us. 2 very hungry brownies (Matilda and Cerys) who by now had the measure of conference centres, arrived and after a quick set-up, grabbed breakfast before their talk.
Afterwards there was a real buzz around the conference and we presented packets of sunflower seeds to everyone to remind them of our desire to grow Guiding - each sunflower creates many, many more seeds.
the girls then enjoyed an afternoon treat at Twycross Zoo where they were able to complete large parts of their Friend to Animals badge.
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