# New volunteer recruitment campaign by Girlguiding UK

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/02/09/new-volunteer-recruitment-campaign-girlguiding-uk/
- Published: 2005-02-09T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Girlguiding UK has launched a new adult volunteer recruitment campaign to ensure
that the 50,000 five to 26-year-old girls and young women across the UK waiting 
to join the organisation can do so.
In some areas, the shortage of adult Girlguiding
volunteers has resulted in parents even putting daughters’ names down

from birth to ensure a place in their local Rainbow unit.

Girlguiding UK’s new Project 50K aims to encourage over 8,000 more adults to volunteer
some time to the organisation. The project will run for three years and is designed
to encourage enough adults into the organisation to ensure all girls who want to
be a Rainbow, Brownie or Guide have an opportunity to join.

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Jennie Lamb, head of guiding development at Girlguiding UK, said: “Our aim is to
help adults realise that any amount of time they can volunteer to the organisation
can make a difference.

“We also plan to communicate to adults about the additional roles they could help
the organisation with, such as keeping the units accounts, doing public relations

activities and planning events. And it’s not just women who can get involved. We
are also targeting men to help out – they can’t run units but they can lend a hand
as a unit helper”.

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