Your responsibilities

Helping you cover the basics of being a good commissioner

Understanding your responsibilities as a commissioner in guiding

From signing off risk assessments to planning for the future - there's a lot of different elements to your role. Here's our advice on the things you're responsible for and the processes you should consider.

Your team

A good team makes for great guiding - find out who you need in your team and how you can all work well together

Managing risk in your county

Managing risk through risk assessments and continuity planning

Safer guiding training and criminal disclosure checks

Making sure our volunteers have the necessary checks and training

Approving residential events: REN forms

What you need to do with a residential event notification (REN) form

Finance and budgets

You don't need to manage finances all by yourself, but you do need to understand the basics

Having a public presence

How being the 'face of guiding' can help find more volunteers, recruit more girls and raise the profile of units

Resources for property managers

Information, guidance and policies for anyone who manages property for Girlguiding

Resources for commissioners

Search for and download documents to help you in your role as commissioner

Useful pages for commissioners

Managing your team

How to build and lead your team including recognising their achievements and handling problems with behaviour

Policies

All our policies A-Z – including safeguarding, inclusion, marketing, comms, complaints, insurance and finance.

Safeguarding and risk

What we all must do and what we must know to keep our members safe - including our Code of Conduct

Growing our membership

We've got plenty of ideas to help you find new girls and volunteers to help at your unit

Girlguiding's strategy

Explore Girlguiding's strategy for the future