We have a dynamic team who volunteer their time to support the successful running of the County, our properties and our activities. We are always looking for new faces to join this team, to help us grow and develop.
We have lots of different opportunities for our members to get involved with our county teams. We’ve listed below our current opportunities for our members to get move involved in guiding. If you have an interest in volunteering in a new way, this could be the opportunity for you!
If you’d like more information about any of these roles, please contact Anne on cc@girlguidingleeds.org.uk
If you are interested in applying for one of these roles, please complete the Expression of Interest Form.
Trustees Vacancies
With the changes to our constitution this opens up some opportunities for new volunteers to join our board of trustees. Are you able, or do you know anyone who can help?
The current vacancies are:
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Chair of Trustees (member of Girlguiding)
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County Chair of Properties (member of Girlguiding – this role also involves chairing the property committee)
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County Health & Safety Trustee
There is further information available here about the role of a Trustee.
Grants & Fundraising Coordinator
We are looking for volunteers to join the finance, staffing and risk committee whose aim will be to support fundraising and grant applications in the county, and advise and support leaders in applying for grants for their units.
We welcome applicants from anyone who currently holds an active role within Girlguiding Leeds, especially those with experience in fundraising in their units or individuals with a particular interest in improving inclusion.
HR Adviser
We are looking for someone who works in or has knowledge of HR to join the finance, staffing and risk committee to help ensure that the county meets its legal requirements around employment.
Training Co-ordinator
We are looking for one or two people to work with our training team to help plan and deliver the annual training programme for the County. The training coordinator(s) identifies the training requirements for all volunteers across the County and makes the necessary arrangements to find a suitable date, location and trainer so that these can take place.
The role could be managed by two people, dividing the role into ‘essential training’ and ‘skills & opportunities’:
- The Essential Training (First Response and safe Space) Coordinator will help with understanding and ensuring the county’s current and future needs for mandatory training requirements for volunteers is met.
- The Skills & Opportunities Coordinator will help with understanding and ensuring current and future needs for any other training for the county’s volunteers is met.
These roles do not involve delivering training, although it would give you an overview of what is involved if you are thinking about your Girlguiding Training Qualification. The administration of bookings and booking venues is handled by our office.
County Camp 2026 Task & Finish Group
Leeds County Girlguiding are pleased to announce that the next County Camp will take place at Bradley Wood from Friday 22 to Monday 25 May 2026. Filled with many exciting activities, it will be a fabulous weekend so make sure you save the date!
As we start to move into the planning phase, we are on the lookout for keen volunteers to join our event management team to help make the County Camp happen. If you have ideas, enthusiasm and are an excellent team player, we’d love to hear from you.
Some of the exciting roles that we are recruiting to include:
- Service team leader
- Health & Safety team leader
- Activities lead
- Entertainment lead
- Marketing and Communications lead
- Administration lead
- Merchandising lead
- Catering lead
Adventure & Events Team Expertise Pool
As part of the new structure of the Adventure & Events Team, we are looking for people who have expertise in a particular activity that they are willing to share by running sessions for units and/or by providing advice.
We will keep a list of those who have registered to be part of the pool and will contact you as and when units let us know they’d like to do the activity. An example of this would be those who have a Girlguiding climbing, walking or narrowboating qualification or a national governing body instructor qualification for another activity. If it’s an activity that doesn’t require a qualified instructor, just enthusiasm and experience then that counts too.
If this describes you and you would be happy to be part of the pool, please contact adventure@girlguidingleeds.org.uk with details of the activity, your experience and qualifications.
Adventure & Events Team Ideas Pool
Also as part of the new structure of the Adventure & Events Team, we are looking for people who have ideas or would be happy to be consulted on ideas for future county events and initiatives.
This includes people who would be happy to run activities with their units to collect ideas from our young members. By joining this pool, you are not committing to being involved in the planning and running of the events (although you will be given the opportunity to get involved if you’d like to).
Please contact adventure@girlguidingleeds.org.uk if you’d like to join this pool.
