Amsterdam is a beautiful city, rich in history and culture, art and fashion, and is very accessible to travel through. We will organise a one-day wide game, based around both Where’s Wally and a compendium of traditional table top family games, to encourage groups to explore the city of Amsterdam, meet other groups from across the region and learn more about travelling to another country.
You will build your adventure around this; your team decides how and when to travel, what to do, where to stay and how long to go for. We would love for you to include your young people in making many of these decisions, and to begin learning travel and planning skills. We also encourage you to think about how you can make your trip as planet-friendly as possible – not just in relation to how you travel, but what you buy/take/leave – we suggest talking to your group members, as we find they tend to have lots of ideas!
Your leadership team will need to include someone who holds the relevant residential qualifications for your section and someone who has or is using the opportunity to gain their travelling abroad/international module of the Going Away With scheme at a future date.
As an international trip, the permission to plan and residential event notification (REN) will go through the region for approval (ie not signed off locally by division or county commissioners) and must be submitted using GO. Further information will be provided about this after signing up, and we intend to host our next travelling abroad training in Spring 2025 to support anyone who needs this.
The event will run on Saturday 1st November 2025.
There will be cost of £20 per person which includes an event badge and scarf.
How to sign up
Registration is now closed for this event.
What next
Thank you to everyone who has expressed an interest in being part of this adventure and we will be sending you more information by email, about the next stage which will include asking you to formally register your group, to provide approximate numbers, and to pay your group deposit of £100 by 22nd Feb 2025.
All further updates will be shared by email with registered groups and we look forward to seeing you there.
Challenge badge
For any groups unable to come there will of course be a fun challenge badge available to do the Autumn term – based around a compendium of table top games for all units to take part in, around the same time as we’re assembling in Amsterdam. watch this space for more information
Do you have a question for us?
Please contact international@girlguidinglaser.org.uk if you have any questions.
