Be prepared!

Wow - doesn't time fly when you're having fun? Over the past couple of weeks the Girlguiding UK delegation has been frantically reading virtual reams of paper to try to get up to speed with what will be happening at the WAGGGS Europe conference in Berlin.To help us prepare we've had a couple of phone conferences and this Saturday we had our first meeting.

As it is a 'green' conference we first had to challenge ourselves to move away from our beloved paper. The first test was to get the right apps and memory sticks to ensure that we could actually find the confernce papers on our various devices once we had downloaded them! We took the opportunit to get to know each other, as some of us hadn't met before and to get up to speed with WAGGGS Europe, understanding the different types of Member Organisations (MOs), the ways of working and how we work with WOSM.

Having discussed the papers and motions, and what we will be doing for the intenational evening and the european market, we also discussed how we can support Girlguiding member Amanda Medler in the election for WAGGGS Europe committee. We are very proud of what Amanda has achieved in Europe since she was elected onto the committee at the last conference and are excited to be supporting her again.

In the run up to the conference all members of the delegation will be posting a little intro to themselves on this blog, and then once we are at conference we'll be trying to blog as we go so you can get a flavour of our discussions.

(L-R  in the picture: Jo Hobbs, Caroline Davis, Laura Cottey, Amy Binley and Pip McKerrow. also on the delegation is Gill Slocombe, Chief Guide, who was unable to attend the meeting this weekend.)