Being a Guide leader or unit helper is fun and rewarding. Essentially, you need to attend once a week during term time, one evening a week for about 1.5 hours. You will also need to spend some time outside the meeting time for planning and preparation, but this depends on your time available.
One of the highlights is to watch the Guides grow and develop skills. At Guides, we help all girls know they can do anything.
To start, you will need to undergo a DBS & reference check, plus do two short online courses to learn about our code of conduct and safeguarding procedure. There is no cost to you for the recruitment checks and they will be done locally by another volunteer.
Guide leaders & unit helpers come in all varieties, we are 18 - 99 years of age, from different backgrounds, and have different skills. Some of us love the outdoors, others love crafting, many love both.
Guiding is a team activity and this means that if you have a penchant for spreadsheets, you might want to take on the unit accounts, but if you don't, there's likely to be someone else who will.
Ideally, we would like someone who is able to commit to attending on a term-time weekly basis (1-2 hours on a Tuesday evening), but if you're interested in being involved and not available at these times, please still get in touch as there are other units around Harrogate who would welcome extra help. Or you could help out with something other than the unit leadership, such as shopping, accounts, planning or days out.
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Girlguiding is the leading charity for girls and young women in the UK, with over 500,000 members. We are active in every part of the UK, giving girls and young women a space where they can be themselves, have fun, build brilliant friendships, gain valuable life skills and make a positive difference to their lives and their communities.
We build girls’ confidence and raise their aspirations. We give them the chance to discover their full potential and encourage them to be a powerful force for good. We give them a space to have fun.
Girlguiding North Yorkshire West County covers the Girlguiding North Yorkshire West covers the Harrogate, Knaresborough and Ripon areas of the Harrogate District and ensures that the Guiding opportunities provided are as varied as the interests of our members. We run Rainbows (5–7 years), Brownies (7–10 years), Guides (10–14 years) and The Senior Section (14–25 years).
