Bailiwick commissioner Colette Merrien said that without volunteer leaders, the girls who attend would not have the opportunities to go on trips and learn new skills.
‘We give them exciting adventures and residential trips and that gives them the confidence to learn new skills. Without the volunteers to help them with that, the girls just wouldn’t learn all these valuable skills,’ she said.
Colette said that the leaders are a mix of former Guides and parent helpers.
‘Myself and a lot of others have been in guiding since we joined as a Rainbow or a Brownie and have just stayed and become leaders. Others have just seen our campaigns out there for new volunteers and have joined us and I think it’s given them an insight as to what guiding was about,’ she said.
‘Some of them have said that they were Brownies before but didn’t go up to Guides, or they left as a Guide and stopped there and didn’t go on as leaders.
‘Some of them have come from outside and also joined us from doing Duke of Edinburgh.
‘The average is about one and a half hours a week for a unit. Some volunteers do more than one unit, but you can be flexible with that because we need volunteers maybe to help with the accounts, or do the shopping, because you can be a unit helper, or you can go on and become a leader.’
Some units around the island are currently in need of volunteers to be leaders or unit helpers.
n For more information, visit www.girlguiding.org.gg/volunteer/.
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