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Trefoil News October 2014 Issue No: 626 Published by: Irish Girl Guides, Trefoil House, 27 Pembroke Park, Dublin 4. Printed by: Richardson and Watts, 36 Thornville Park, Raheny, Dublin 5. The Editorial Team of Trefoil News reserves the right to edit material submitted. Publications Officer: Katherine Ryan. Contact : [email protected] A Word from Our Chief Page 1 Noticeboard Pages 2-3 Trefoil Guild / Dates for your Diary Page 4 IGG’s Age Bracket FAQs / Programme Review Update Page 5 TWIGG Application Form Page 6 Public Relations - Photo Competition Page 7 Finance Forms Pages 8-9 Charity Collaborations — Team Hope / Plan a Special Meeting— Day of the Girl Page 10 Spotlight on Road Safety Page 11 Free Being Me Pages 12-13 E.D.I. — LGBT Factsheet for Leaders Pages 14-15 IGG cottages, centres and campsites 2014 Page 16 Setting and Meeting Expectations Page 17 Out and About Page 18-19 Ladybirds Pages 20-23 Includes some outdoor Autumn themed games. Quick and easy Halloween activities plus easy Halloween crafts for all. Brownies Pages 24-27 Includes lots and lots of Halloween games, crafts and fun. Plus a final reminder to send in your 2014 celebration photos to Brownie Branch. Guides Pages 28-30 Includes a great outdoor idea you can use towards your Spruce Award, some quick and easy games to use at your meetings and a page of Halloween fun. Senior Branch Pages 31-34 Includes results from the recent Senior Branch survey, a report on the Learning Leadership programme so far this year and the application form for 2015’s Explorer Belt International Pages 35-36 Includes details of the revamped Timpeall an Domhain competition and two great International Opportunities - Helen Storrow Seminar & Roverway Head of Contingent Inserts Included: • Team Hope Flyer Cover Photos: Bray Ladybirds in newly opened Bray seafront playground - photographed by Órlaith Nic Aidhne A Word from our Chief... Hi All, Welcome to this month’s Dear Fellow Leader, Trefoil News. This issue sees the launch of our By now I hope you are all back into your Guiding year and our Units are working very exciting well. It’s great to be able to use the last of our Autumnal evenings for our Guiding Photography activities before we turn to greet the Winter months. Competition that I’d like to draw your attention to on page 7. Autumn is a time for Regional Conferences in the IGG calendar and these are great opportunities to come together with fellow Leaders to discuss, plan, review Photography Competitions like this are and learn about Guiding. Each Region’s event is often a refresher and an very important to us as they help us to energiser to keep you going. So I hope you can avail of the opportunity. This gather up great photos for future PR year’s conferences will also see training on the new IGG online census system material and publications. and the Free Being Me programme. I sincerely thank all the volunteers and staff who make the Regional Conferences possible. We’d like to encourage as many Leaders as possible to take part. You Every couple of years, IGG holds a Branch Weekend and a National Conference. take photos at events throughout the This year, we decided to combine these events into one wonderful weekend year anyway (that we can be sure of event. This is both from a financial and resource point of view and we hope 200 because of the wonderful things that of our Leaders will come together for the important event. Look for the booking come in for Out and About) so now details on page 6 of this month’s Trefoil News. we’re asking you to pick your very best — absolute favourite —photos that We are fortunate to work with girls and young women at an exciting time in their you’ve taken of Guiding moments and lives. It can also be a pressurised time for girls and young women as they grow send them in to our competition. and develop their own self-image. All too often the pressures of conforming and media imagery is directed at our youth. The Free Being Me programme is aimed There are great prizes to be won and at encouraging girls to explore this topic and to develop their self-esteem. It is you can read the full competition details supported by Dove, and their research indicates that 6 out of 10 girls will choose on page 7. not to participate in things they like doing, because of their self-image. This As somebody who’s taken a lot of means everything from not putting their hand up in class, to dropping out of pictures at IGG’s national events - If I clubs, to giving up sport, to not speaking in public. We are in a unique position in could give only one piece of advice for Guiding, to help our girls to overcome this and I am delighted that IGG is part of this competition (and let’s face it I only the Free Being Me programme and is partnering with Dove on this vital have room left in the column for one educational opportunity for girls in Ireland. Look out for further details of how to piece of advice) it would be this! get involved - for yourself and for your girls. Become a picture director, not just a My Guiding year kicked off with a great Executive Committee meeting last month passive picture-taker. Take control of where representatives from every Region and various National Committees your picture-taking and watch your came together in National Office to discuss matters that are important to the pictures dramatically improve. A picture running of the organisation. I thank this committee for their time and energy, director takes charge. A picture director especially as many of them are also running Units and are involved in other picks the location: "Everybody go teams and committees. Following that meeting, I travelled to Cork to visit outside to the green area." A picture Ventact. It was fabulous to be part of the discussions in the meeting about IGG in director adds props: "Brownies, hold up the morning and then to experience the practical aspect of our movement in the your balloons." A picture director enthusiasm and energy of the Senior Branchers that arranges people: "Now move in close, evening. I wish each Leader the same ‘warm and and lean toward the camera." fuzzy feelings’ for the rest of the Guiding year. Spontaneous candid shots are excellent too but if you’re a very good picture Yours in Guiding, director — you’ll be able to create that Helen. sense of spontaneity but captured in a perfect shot! Please feel free to contact Helen Concannon by Good Luck to everyone! Looking emailing [email protected] forward to seeing your photos already. Katherine Ryan, Editor [email protected] Trefoil News October 2014 Page 1 Notice Board Breaking News………………. Notice Board New Unit Information Storage Package – Online Guide Manager (OGM) The excitement about a new initiative is rising and it’s time to share this news with you before we burst with this excitement. A team of Leaders has been working hard on your behalf to develop a new Unit information storage package for all Units. Helen Concannon mentioned in September 2014 Trefoil News that the census will be completed online in January 2015 and this new package is what will facilitate this process. It is not just about returning the necessary census information it is also a way of Units recording information. How will it work? What will it do? This system will allow you to return your census information online through the click of a button; plus it offers the added bonus of a place to record contact details and programme/ badge information regarding your Ladybirds/ Brownies / Guides and Senior Branch members. This can even take place while at your meeting, and allows improved way of sharing this information among Leaders in your Unit. Each Unit will have access to the system through individual log in. This system will be linked to a national register, but information on the girl will only be accessible by the Unit. At present we return information on numbers of girls and adults in the Unit plus ages of the girls and any special requirements the girl may have plus numbers on waiting lists and this same information will be collected for census 2015 but now it will be completed online. Wow I hear you say! When will you be able to access this new system? In December 2014 after all the regional conferences have taken place a package with instructions will wing its way to the Unit Leader. An email will also be sent to the Unit Leader with the Unit’s log in details. So keep an eye out for both of these. For further information on this exciting development watch this space or attend your Regional Conference to see a demo in action. Page 2 Trefoil News October 2014 Notice Board Notice Board IGG Explorer Belt IRISH GIRL GUIDES Expedition 2015 ONLINE Looking for a personal challenge for next summer? Look no further… The Senior Branch committee is organising an Explorer Belt expedition to take place in early August 2015. The Explorer Belt Expedition, sometimes referred to as ‘The Belt’ for short, is kind of like the Chief Commissioner’s Award, except it’s bigger, better and foreign. You have to hike for 10 days, carrying all your supplies with you, and it all has to take place outside of Ireland.