First Day of Conference

It was a busy first day of conference - so busy we didn't have time to blog! Here is a run down of some of the things we got up to during the first day...


We opened the joint conference and confirmed the UK's presence! 

Once we had approved rules of procedure, recommendations and tellers we had an address from the Chairs of WAGGGS and WOSM; Nicola and Joao.

We heard from all of the candidates for the Europe Committees for both WAGGGS and WOSM. The candidates shared their vision for their European organisations, and told us the skills they can bring. We are supporting Laura who shared her passion for our patchwork region!

Between some of the speeches we took part in some interesting energisers... Here our friends at The Scout Association stretched out!

We set up our colourful exhibition stall; showing everyone what we are up to and how we are being our best!

Then it was time to open the WAGGGS Europe Region Conference! We welcomed guests - Albania Bulgaria and Croatia - who we are really excited to have join us.

We had a very interesting keynote speech from Dr Michele Paule on the WAGGGS Europe Gender Leadership project which the UK was proud to be part of in the form of Girlguiding Scotland.

We then heard from the Europe Region committee on the themes of the Europe strategy and work which had been done so far. The Region launched a short film to introduce their very exciting mainstreaming tool!

Overall, we had a very interesting and busy day, but it wasn't over yet...