Safer guiding - Part 1 Course 2

Our safer guiding training makes sure volunteers offer girls a safe space where they can have fun, learn and grow. Safety is at the heart of everything we do.

Because we know that when girls feel safe, they feel brave enough to do things they never thought they could.

Visit https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-for-volunteers/learning-and-development/safer-guiding/ to find out more about Safer guiding.

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Get your skates ready – the Girlguiding Cymru Ice Extravaganza returns for 2025–2026! Join us for two fantastic events on Saturday 11 October 2025 and Saturday 28 February 2026.

Bookings are now closed

Girlguiding Cymru’s Ice Extravaganza has become a much-loved tradition, bringing together Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Rangers, and volunteers for unforgettable days of skating, laughter, and friendship. Held at Vindico arena in Cardiff, these events have seen thousands of girls take to the ice over the years, some for the first time, cheered on by their units and leaders.

New date for Autumn 2025

Accounts Training for Leaders

The aim of the training is to give leaders confidence and ensure they are aware of their responsibilities concerning keeping accounts.

Brand new date for Autumn 2025

Using risk assessments means our activities are safe for girls and volunteers.

But risk assessments don’t need to feel like hard work - we'll walk you through the steps to follow when you’re planning activities, trips, residentials and anything else you do.

Our training will help leaders to create risk assessments with confidence.

New date for Autumn 2025
Level 4 – Managing concerns, allegations and disclosures – guidance for commissioners.
Virtual training delivered via Zoom.

Who for?

All commissioners and commissioner designates, trainers (wishing to deliver up to Level 4 A Safe Space), Safeguarding leads/A Safe Space advisers.

Safer guiding - Part 2 Course 1

Our safer guiding training makes sure volunteers offer girls a safe space where they can have fun, learn and grow. Safety is at the heart of everything we do.

Because we know that when girls feel safe, they feel brave enough to do things they never thought they could.

Visit https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-for-volunteers/learning-and-development/safer-guiding/ to find out more about Safer guiding.

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New date for Autumn 2025

This topic aims to encourage leaders to think about the bigger impact of communication – considering body language, tone, listening, and tone of voice in written communication too.

It will empower them to determine which style of communication is the best tool/media for communicating for their circumstances, and introduce the concept of managing difficult conversations.

New date for Autumn 2025

Let’s get mentoring training

Aim: for Girlguiding mentors to be both competent and confident in their role providing support to Leaders in Training working on the Becoming a Leader programme

 Outcomes: 

· Describe the purpose and skills of a Girlguiding mentor

· Explain the role and how it fits with the Leader development programme

· Complete check-in meetings effectively and complete Check in sheets.

 Limited places – first come first served

Safer guiding - Part 1 Course 1

Our safer guiding training makes sure volunteers offer girls a safe space where they can have fun, learn and grow. Safety is at the heart of everything we do.

Because we know that when girls feel safe, they feel brave enough to do things they never thought they could.

Visit https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-for-volunteers/learning-and-development/safer-guiding/ to find out more about Safer guiding.

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New date for Autumn 2025

This training will give you the theoretical and practical knowledge you need to make Girlguiding an inclusive and welcoming place for all members. 

 Objectives 

·Know which forms and funding can be used to support young members and volunteers

·Recognise examples of inclusive decision making and leadership

·Suggest ways to adapt activities and meetings

·Know how to report incidents of discrimination

Save the date - Details to be shared soon.
Location - Wrexham
https://girlguidingcymru.org.uk/training-events

Save the date - Details to be shared soon.
Location - Wrexham
https://girlguidingcymru.org.uk/training-events

New date for Summer 2025

This training will give you the theoretical and practical knowledge you need to make Girlguiding an inclusive and welcoming place for all members. 

 Objectives 

·Know which forms and funding can be used to support young members and volunteers

·Recognise examples of inclusive decision making and leadership

·Suggest ways to adapt activities and meetings

·Know how to report incidents of discrimination

New Gift aid training for Summer 2025

Aim of the session: To provide an understanding of Gift Aid and how to make a claim.

Gift Aid is a government scheme that encourages people to give to charity.
Under the scheme, money donated to charities – including Girlguiding subscriptions – is eligible for tax relief. That means units can increase their funds by claiming Gift Aid at no extra cost to our supporters! It's an easy and guaranteed way to raise more money.

New date for Summer 2025

This topic aims to encourage leaders to think about the bigger impact of communication – considering body language, tone, listening, and tone of voice in written communication too.

It will empower them to determine which style of communication is the best tool/media for communicating for their circumstances, and introduce the concept of managing difficult conversations.

New date for Summer 2025

This topic aims to encourage leaders to think about the bigger impact of communication – considering body language, tone, listening, and tone of voice in written communication too.

It will empower them to determine which style of communication is the best tool/media for communicating for their circumstances, and introduce the concept of managing difficult conversations.

New date for Summer 2025

This training will give you the theoretical and practical knowledge you need to make Girlguiding an inclusive and welcoming place for all members. 

 Objectives 

·Know which forms and funding can be used to support young members and volunteers

·Recognise examples of inclusive decision making and leadership

·Suggest ways to adapt activities and meetings

·Know how to report incidents of discrimination

New date for 2025
Level 4 – Managing concerns, allegations and disclosures – guidance for commissioners.
Virtual training delivered via Zoom.

Who for?

All commissioners and commissioner designates, trainers (wishing to deliver up to Level 4 A Safe Space), Safeguarding leads/A Safe Space advisers.

New date for Summer 2025

Accounts Training for Leaders

The aim of the training is to give leaders confidence and ensure they are aware of their responsibilities concerning keeping accounts.

New date for Summer 2025

Let’s get mentoring training

Aim: for Girlguiding mentors to be both competent and confident in their role providing support to Leaders in Training working on the Becoming a Leader programme

 Outcomes: 

· Describe the purpose and skills of a Girlguiding mentor

· Explain the role and how it fits with the Leader development programme

· Complete check-in meetings effectively and complete Check in sheets.

 Limited places – first come first served

Brand new date for Summer 2025

Using risk assessments means our activities are safe for girls and volunteers.

But risk assessments don’t need to feel like hard work - we'll walk you through the steps to follow when you’re planning activities, trips, residentials and anything else you do.

Our training will help leaders to create risk assessments with confidence.

Girlguiding have teamed up with Plan International UK to offer their Period Proud
Peers programme to Guide and Ranger units in Girlguding Cymru.

We’re looking for Guide and Ranger leaders who can support their young leaders and Rangers to become Period Proud Peers. These young leaders and Rangers will then deliver period related activities in their units and help to make their unit a period proud environment!

Find out more and register for our leader workshop below.

The Period Proud Peers programme aims to help young people learn more about periods and have open and honest conversations about them.

It does this by recruiting young people to become Period Proud Peers, who lead fun period-related activities with their friends. In Girlguiding, this would be others in their units.

Who can be a Period Proud Peer?

A Period Proud Peer is someone aged 13-19 who is supported to plan and run the period related activities for others in their unit. This could be a young leader in a Guide unit, or 1 or 2 Rangers who want to run the activities for the other Rangers in their unit. If you don’t have young leaders in your Guide unit, then older Guides (aged 13+) could also become Period Peers and run the activities instead.

There is a Period Peers handbook which they will be given with all the information needed to run the activities.

How long will the activities take to do?

There are 5 activities in the handbook, and the suggestion is that the Period Peers pick 3 to run. They could run all 3 activities together in 1 evening (each activity will take about 30 minutes) or they could choose to spread the activities out over a couple of meetings, if it’s a topic that your unit would like to engage with more.

Do we have to do anything after completing the activities?

At the end of the Period Peer’s session, you’ll need to support the members of your unit to complete a short anonymous survey from Plan International UK about their experience. This can be completed online by scanning the QR code in the letter with the handbook, or you can ask girls to complete the paper forms and then upload or return them. This data will be shared with Plan International UK, to help them evaluate the success of the programme.

Once the Period Peer has run the activities in your unit, you’ll need to let the peer education team at HQ know how many members took part in the session. We’d also encouraged you to do some follow-up activities such as having a period party and inviting friends or relatives or running a community event to reach more people.

Becoming a Period Proud Environment

A period proud environment is somewhere that supports girls and young people to manage their periods with confidence and reduces period shame and stigma. As part of the programme, you’ll be sent a Period Proud Environment checklist with some ideas of what you can do within your units.

New date for Summer 2025

This topic aims to encourage leaders to think about the bigger impact of communication – considering body language, tone, listening, and tone of voice in written communication too.

It will empower them to determine which style of communication is the best tool/media for communicating for their circumstances, and introduce the concept of managing difficult conversations.

New Gift aid training for 2025

Aim of the session: To provide an understanding of Gift Aid and how to make a claim.

Gift Aid is a government scheme that encourages people to give to charity.
Under the scheme, money donated to charities – including Girlguiding subscriptions – is eligible for tax relief. That means units can increase their funds by claiming Gift Aid at no extra cost to our supporters! It's an easy and guaranteed way to raise more money.

FAW have invited Girlguiding Cymru members to watch Cymru v Denmark on Friday 4th April (KO 19.15)

This will be the last chance to see our history makers in Cardiff before they head to Switzerland this summer for UEFA EURO 2025. Cymru qualified for their first major tournament ever in December and so there is no better time to get behind this team!

It is time to inspire a nation!

We are offering you discounted tickets thanks to our dedicated group booking scheme for clubs and schools. For orders of 10 or more, tickets are £3 for Juniors (16 or under) and £8 for Adults. 

We need YOU more than ever to cheer the team on, don’t miss this moment!

Interested? Complete the attached booking form in either English or Welsh and send it to tickets@faw.co.uk to secure your tickets by Friday 28th March!

If you miss the deadline, general sale tickets can be found here: https://fawales.co/4iFNfHe

In order to secure your tickets, payment must be done either by Debit/Credit Card by filling in your details on the booking form or via bank transfer. Please note, FAW are unable to issue invoices or accept cheques. 

Safer guiding - Part 2

Our safer guiding training makes sure volunteers offer girls a safe space where they can have fun, learn and grow. Safety is at the heart of everything we do.

Because we know that when girls feel safe, they feel brave enough to do things they never thought they could.

Visit https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-for-volunteers/learning-and-development/safer-guiding/ to find out more about Safer guiding.

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Fundraising session for unit leaders
Wednesday, 2nd April 2025 from 7pm to 8pm

 This is an informal information session for unit leaders on fundraising for your unit.  This is being led by the Girlguiding Fundraising team.

 Please use the link below to book your space:

New date for 2025

This topic aims to encourage leaders to think about the bigger impact of communication – considering body language, tone, listening, and tone of voice in written communication too.

It will empower them to determine which style of communication is the best tool/media for communicating for their circumstances, and introduce the concept of managing difficult conversations.

Safer guiding - Part 1

Our safer guiding training makes sure volunteers offer girls a safe space where they can have fun, learn and grow. Safety is at the heart of everything we do.

Because we know that when girls feel safe, they feel brave enough to do things they never thought they could.

Visit https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-for-volunteers/learning-and-development/safer-guiding/ to find out more about Safer guiding.

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