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Team Pink are the team of the Executive Officers and Assistants who are responsible for the running and development of the National Student Scout and Guide Organisation.

Lexie Massie

Hello, I am Lexie, and I have somehow been elected as your Chair for the next year! I have been in SSAGO for almost 5 years now, spending 4 years studying Zoology at the University of Southampton, and have now come down to the University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus to study a masters in Conservation and Biodiversity.

I discovered SSAGO at the very start of my first year, having previously been unaware of its existence, and very quickly became heavily involved. I have held the roles of Social Secretary, Quartermaster and Guide Liaison for Southampton SSAGO, and have been part of the working groups for Dino Rally and our upcoming international trip. This year I managed to start up a SSAGO for Cornwall, Kernow SSAGO, and held the role of President.

I have been a part of Guiding ever since I joined Brownies at the age of 7, and am yet to leave! 7 year old me definitely never thought it would become such a big part of my life, and I certainly have SSAGO to thank for that! As much as I enjoy being a leader, it is when I am with SSAGO that I feel the most at home. SSAGO has provided me with so many great opportunities, and I feel honoured to have been given the chance to run and support this fantastic organisation that we all love.

I am looking forward to spending the next year helping SSAGO to be the best that it can be! I want to make sure that you, the members, really feel listened to, and to be able to shape the organisation to how you want it to be. I am sure many of you have some great ideas for how you would like to see SSAGO progress, so please get in touch, and remember, SSAGO is known for being silly, so your suggestions certainly won’t sound silly compared to many of our beloved SSAGO traditions! How often do you really see a group of adults fighting over a cuddly toy?

December 2019

Report

  • Bank accounts – Along with Oli the Secretary I have sorted out our HSBC bank accounts, ensuring that each account now only has 3 signatories (as opposed to the previous 18!), and changing both the address and the primary user
  • Events – Liaised with the Witan committee, ensuring they have had the appropriate bank account access and that the site deposit got paid to KISC on time
  • Also been liaising with the other upcoming events, and have had a meeting with Birmingham Chocolate Rally
  • Members Officer – Worked with the rest of the Exec to run an EGM to elect a new Members Officer
  • Attended Gilwell Reunion along with the rest of the Exec where we promoted SSAGO and met with SAGGA to discuss the proposed changes to the SSAGO Constitution
  • Went to the World Scout Jamboree and met Ban Ki-Moon from the United Nations, and even appeared in the World Organisation of the Scout Movement’s Facebook video talking to Ban Ki-Moon whilst wearing a SSAGO t shirt!
  • Made friends from Student Scouting in the Netherlands at Jamboree, telling them more about SSAGO and how it works, giving them a SSAGO t shirt, necker and badges and hopefully encouraging them to consider attending Rally
  • Lost an evolutionary (I hope!) useless organ, moved out of Cornwall, and handed in my master’s dissertation

Aims

  • Charity status – Updating the SSAGO Constitution to allow us to become a charity had been put on hold over the busy summer, so I plan to get this sorted over the next term
  • Once our new Members Officer has taken over their role I will work with them to provide greater support to the clubs and encourage SSAGO Regions
  • Am hoping to look into merging our separate bank accounts with HSBC to make changing signatories easier for future Exec’s
  • Continuing to review the previous full membership survey to ensure the changes made continue to benefit SSAGO

June 2019

Report

  • Myself and the rest of the Exec have had a meeting with both Girlguiding and the Scout Association where we discussed the constitutional changes and other important changes within SSAGO
  • Learnt a lot about the Articles of Association, Byelaws, and Memorandum of Agreements
  • Have liaised with a very confused HSBC about bank mandate forms, and have arranged for the appropriate forms to be filled in
  • Began Wood Badge training offered by the Scouts to support me in my new role as Chair
  • Read a lot of emails and replied to slightly fewer emails
  • Made Brian an Instagram account and gained access to his Facebook!

Aims

  • Review the previous full membership survey to see if the proposed changes such as the increased food budget for Rallies have had their desired effect.
  • Work with the Members Officer to encourage SSAGO Regions, as this will really help new members of SSAGO feel more confident about attending large, national events.
  • Liaise with the members, SAGGA, Scouting and Girlguiding about the proposed constitution changes, implementing suitable modifications and making sure all parties are happy before anything official goes ahead.
  • Work with the Secretary in improving the outdated factsheets on the website, ideally condensing them into a smaller number of more informative documents.
  • Improve the existing support structure for new and struggling clubs, assigning mentors to these clubs to guide them and help them establish themselves.