Congratulations Amanda

We are delighted that Amanda has been reelected to the WAGGGS Europe Committee. Amanda has worked so hard over the past three years and we are looking forward to seeing everything else she can achieve in the next Triennium.  Joining Amanda on the committee are Nina from Sweden, Corinna from Switzerland, Pascale from Belgium, Sharon from Malta and Eri from Greece.

In the picture below Amanda is surrounded by the Girlguiding UK delegation, keynote speaker Bijal and Nicola Grinstead, Girlguiding UK member and vice-chair of the WAGGGS World Board.

Raise your hands for Amanda Medler

The Girlguiding UK delegation are very excited to be supporting Amanda Medler as a candidate for the WAGGGS Europe committee. Amanda has spent the past three years helping WAGGGS Member Organsiations across Europe, finding solutions to problems and lending her hand to otherqs.  She works in partnership with others, the staff and the widere European team, as well as with WOSM.

Voting for Amanada is voting for continuing the great work of  the current committee to get the work of WAGGGS Europe coordinated and driving forward growth and quality in girl guiding and girl scouting in Europe.

Whilst Amanda comes form Girlguiding UK, a WAGGGS-only organisation, she has a strong understanding of the needs of Scout and Guide National Organisations and the benefit that they bring to WAGGGS in Europe.

If you are at conference and want to know more about Amanda just come and find any of the Girlguiding UK delegation. Today we are all in white polo shirts and red, white and blue scarves.

Amanda Medler for Europe Committee

Before we get to conference we want to take this opportunity to tell you why we're supporting Amanda Medler who is standing for WAGGGS Europe Committee.  Amanda is passionate about guiding and has dedicated herself to enabling more girls and young women to gain from thebamazing opportunities it brings. In the UK she has sat on the national board and been the lead volunteer for our programme development, as well as continuing to run her own Guide unit.

She has also been active on the intenational scene and has spent the last three years on the WAGGGS Europe Comittee, working closely with many countries to build capacit and to improve the guiding and scouting offer. You can find out more about Amanda and why she's standing here.

So join us and raise your hands for Amanda!

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.)