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From the County Commissioners

It was great to see so many of you at County Day today and to match names and faces. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves and went away with something useful, either for your girls or for you. Thanks once again to Gail Wager and Gloucester Division, along with Ede Holyhead and Carol Evans for putting together such a splendid day. If you haven‟t completed your evaluation form, please do so, so we can start planning for next year. There is also an evaluation form for those who were unable to come. The link can be found at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q6C9VZ6 - thank you.

As many of you are aware, we are making come changes to the structure of the old County Committee. We are splitting the roles in to 4 teams, each with a team leader:

Adding Adventure: responsible for outdoor activities, indoor activities, local programme planning.

Val Thomas: 01452 501787 val.thomas2@blueyonder.co.uk

Marketing and Communication: responsible for external PR and local media,

internal communications with members and the website.

Pauline Merchant: 01452 721890 pauline_2@hotmail.co.uk

Adult Support: Programme and Training: responsible for growing guiding, developing adults & GO support.

Ede Holyhead: 01452 524562 ede.holyhead@virginmedia.com

Youth Participation: responsible for ensuring that the voices of girls and young women are heard and acted on.

Helen Brereton: 07976 915098 helenbrereton@hotmail.co.uk

If you feel you would like to help out on any of these teams either in the short term or for longer, the team leaders would be delighted to hear from you. Please do contact them.

All District and Division Commissioners are invited to the County Conference on Saturday 28th January, please see the flyer attached. Helen and I hope that you will be able to join us on that date, and look forward to seeing you then.

As this is the last Newsletter before Christmas, Helen and I send you all our good wishes for a Happy Christmas and peaceful New Year, and thank you for everything that you have done for Guiding over the past year. Do enjoy a well-earned break from Guiding over the festive season.

From the County Commissioners - Carole and Helen - carole.helen@yahoo.co.uk