Recruitment and growth toolkit

Ideas, tools and guides to help you run effective recruitment drives and create targeted plans for growth

Invite girls and volunteers to join Girlguiding

We’ve collected our best ideas, tips and resources to help you create a growing, thriving guiding community in your area. So every girl you know – and the volunteers you're yet to meet – have the chance to come on adventures with us. 

Creating a growth plan

Creating a growth plan

Looking to strengthen and grow guiding in your local area? Create a growth plan to get started.

Running a recruitment drive

Running a recruitment drive

Tips to help you plan, deliver and evaluate recruitment drives for girls, young women and volunteers

Recruiting volunteers online

Recruiting volunteers online

More people look online for their perfect volunteer role. Make sure that your opportunity is there when they search

More on promoting guiding

Create a resource

Create a resource

Whatever you want to create - a poster, banner or badge - you'll find relevant guidelines and downloads here

Fundraising and communications skills

Fundraising and communications skills

Support Girlguiding and get brand-savvy

How to use our brand

How to use our brand

We need to communicate what we do and why it’s amazing, in an effective way. Our brand identity helps us to do this

Online Print Centre (OPC)

Online Print Centre (OPC)

Create great-looking, localised resources for your area with our online design tool

What you do for girls is worth it

Cassie
Brownie Leader
'I've had so many amazing opportunities through Girlguiding but most of all I love working with the Brownies in my unit and the girls I meet through Free Being Me. Every girl is so inspiring – girls are the reason we do all this! '
More inspiration from Cassie
Cheyenne
Brownie
'Our Leader helps us. Like when we were making owls at St George’s, she helped us cut out, she made us templates, and when we were having our Harry Potter evening, we got loads of word searches, we got to draw a dragon and use gold paint.'
Why Cheyenne enjoys every part of Brownies
Humera
Leader in Training
'The more I volunteered, the more I enjoyed myself and the more confident I became. Since volunteering, I've found out just how important Girlguiding is for young girls. It helps them discover things about themselves through what they enjoy.'
How Humera gives girls confidence
Jo
Rainbow Leader and parent
'My daughter Nancy, who has Asperger's syndrome, has been a Rainbow for over a year and she loves it, especially as many special schools and autism youth groups are boy-dominated.'
Jo and Nancy's story

Join the Recruitment Bootcamp

In autumn we’ll be running our first ever national volunteer recruitment campaign to enlist new volunteers. And we need you, our current volunteers, to make it a real success.

Get fit to recruit