Commissioners

Tools to help you in your role as Commissioner

This section of our website pulls together information and resources relevant to your role as Commissioner

If you're looking for guidance for Commissioners on a specific topic - such as how to work with Advisers and Coordinators - you'll find it in our collection of Resources for Commissioners.

For general guidance on things like recruitment and vetting checks, handling complaints and subscriptions explore our Making guiding happen section. Comprehensive guidance on being a Commissioner can be found in our Commissioners' handbook, and on the County Commissioner website. And if you're mentoring one of our Commissioners, you can download our helpful guidance on supporting them.

County Commissioners' website

A 'how-to' guide for new County Commissioners and a quick reference for important things you need to know

Handbook for District and Division Commissioners

Get this guide for commissioners from the Girlguiding online shop

Notes for Commissioner Mentors.pdf

Download our helpful guidance on mentoring Commissioners

Guiding Conversations

Tools to help you generate informative and thought-provoking discussions in your local area

New Commissioners

Congratulations on becoming a Commissioner! Here's what happens next.

Resources for commissioners

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

Being a Commissioner e-learning

What you need to know if you're becoming a Commissioner. This e-learning works best in Google Chrome

Recruitment and vetting procedures

Follow our procedure to make sure you carry out all the necessary checks on potential volunteers

Supporting leaders to run events

Commissioners' role in supporting and approving residential events

An overview of our subscriptions process

Our members pay subscriptions to collectively cover the costs of local and UK-wide guiding

Managing your team

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

Retirement

There is no official retirement age at Girlguiding - find out what that means for your team

Approaching sensitive conversations

How to have a sensitive or challenging conversation with a volunteer – including planning, discussion and next steps

Awards and recognition

Use our formal awards to recognise and celebrate your members and volunteers

Volunteer roles in guiding

Your opportunities as a volunteer - from working directly with girls to keeping things running in the office

Growing our membership

Ideas to help you recruit and retain more members and grow guiding across the UK

Policies

Volunteers must follow policies so that all guiding units are safe spaces for girls to learn, have fun and be heard

Safeguarding and risk

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

How we're being our best

More about the innovative work that we're doing to achieve our Being our best plan for 2020