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Irish Girl Guides

Assistant Leader Warrant Presentation

September 2026

Welcome to Guiding

• You have successfully completed the leader application and garda vetting process and its now time to consider gaining more knowledge on how to be a leader and run meetings in a safe and supported environment.

• This is the first step and is called the Assistant Leader Warrant.

• The information is these slides is to support your learning along your leadership journey. This is the beginning of that journey.

Make or Renew your Guide Promise

I promise on my honour, to do my best,

to do my duty to my God and my Country,

to help others at all times, and

to obey the Guide Laws.

You may have made this promise as a Guide or a Senior Brancher, and now its time to make or renew it in your Unit.

When you make the Promise as a Leader you receive the Promise pin and it is a time to think about what the promise means to you?

Guiding Principles and values

Whatever we are doing these are the principles that we supports all that we do:

• Progressive self development

• Learning by Doing

• Teamwork through small groups – sixes / patrols

• Service in the community

• Relationship with Nature

• Active cooperation between girls and adults

• International experience

Values are all found in the:

- Promise and Laws for girls and Leader

- IGG Motto is Be Prepared

- IGG Tagline is Giving Girls Confidence

Leader Responsibilities

• Uniform – Do wear your uniform correctly so you can demonstrate to the girls what is expected of them.

• What makes a great leadership team?

Punctuality – be there in good time to have set up and be ready to go at the start time

Preparation – have any materials prepared in advance

Leader absences – give plenty of notice that you cannot come on a certain night

Talk to each other and share the programme planning and also the leading of an activity on the night.

Listen to each other

• Communication is key between leaders and also with the group and with parents

Learn the Silence sign as it is so useful and saves any raised voices from the start. Give the girls time to respond to the sign.

What is the silence sign? It’s a piece of magic that is used. Raise your right hand into the air and as the girls and leaders spot it they also raise their hand and then you can share the next instruction / information

Be introduced to OGM for communication with families and invite families in to see what you are doing.

Do you have access to Online Guide Manager?

• Yes – happy exploring the possibilities

• No – ask the Unit Contact Person (leader taking the lead role) for access.

What records and forms do we use in Irish Girl Guides(IGG)?

• Personal Registration Form – completed annually by parents which ensures that we have the most up to date contact information, medical and health information, plus consent. This should be received in hard copy format and stored for a year. Then it should be shredded.

• Annual Census return to IGG – completed in January each year through Online Guide Manager (OGM)

• Unit Attendance Records – IGG uses OGM and this stores the contact details for the leaders and girls. In this system we can take note of attendance. This is important to know who was present should there be any challenges in the future.

What records and forms do we use in Irish Girl Guides(IGG)?

• Unit Accounts – all income and expenditure must be recorded and IGG have an excel accounts package for doing this. All receipts must be kept and all bank statements must be available. Each January these are sent to IGG for storage and checking.

• Programme Records. Each Leader and Girl has a record on OGM. For leaders this is in the leader section and is an area to record the IGG qualifications you have completed.

Each girl also has a record where we can store information on badges being worked on and what they have achieved.

• Accident and Incident Forms – are available on the IGG website – log into the Leaders Area using igg4 as the passcode. Full advice on what to do with them is available there.

Health and Safety

Please ask yourself the following questions:

• Do you know where to find the Unit First Aid Kit?

• Do you know how what’s available in it?

• Is it available each week and for outdoor adventures?

• Do you know if a leader has completed a First Aid course?

• Has the Unit completed a Fire Drill since you joined as a leader? If not can you with the other leaders organise one?

• Do you know where the Fire exits and Fire extingushers are in case of an emergency?

• Does the Unit have a plan for collection of the girls at the end of the evening?

• Does the Unit have a plan for girls accessing the bathrooms during the meetings?

Journey Programme

• The IGG programme is called the Journey Programme. It has been developed with the ages of the girls in mind. There are similarities of overall themes with variation in content.

• Have you looked at the girls programme for the age group you are working with?

• Do you know the names of the badges that the girls can be awarded?

• Do you know when they can start being awarded Interest or Special Focus badges?

• Where can you find this information? OGM and the Leader Travel Guide is where you can access this plus the girls own books that are available for use.

Programme planning

• A good flow to the meeting is important as well as allowing enough time for the activity. This will change for you as your skills in planning a meeting gain more experience.

• Having a theme to a meeting is a great idea and this can also be carried over to other weeks.

• Plan your programme in advance with the other leaders but do be prepared for an activity that moves very fast – so spare game or song is a great idea.

Complete Safeguarding Training

Be on the look out for this training that must be completed as part of your introduction to IGG.