Not enough Unit Meeting Activities (UMA's) to complete a theme award just yet!

Some clever, and really organised leaders, spotted at the start of the Summer holidays that the new programme was missing some UMA's in order for girls to complete all the theme awards. In response to a number of enquiries being received by GG put, the following guidance was added to the UMA page, and sent in a newsletter: 

"There are lots of different activities now available for units – 36 for each section. It’s not quite enough for girls to complete all their Theme awards just yet, but we won’t stop there! New packs of activities are already being developed and will be released regularly each year so there’ll always be something fresh for girls to try.

As girls focus on a range of themes they’ll build up the hours they need to get their hands on their Theme awards over a couple of years. To make sure you have a balanced and varied programme, try to mix and match activities from different themes over time. This gives girls plenty of time to make up the right number of unit meeting activity hours if they want to work towards an award.

The new programme has been designed to take up about 60% of unit meeting time. That leaves plenty of room for leaders and girls to do other activities too. These can be anything you want, including adventurous outdoor activities, games, trips and visits, and don’t need to connect to a theme. Just remember that if girls want to do a Theme award they’ll need to make up the unit meeting activity hours by doing official Girlguiding unit meeting activities".

I wonder how it will be announced that there are new UMA's available to purchase? I'm anticipating the lack of hours will come  up in forthcoming new programme trainings!
The red highlighting is mine and not GG UK's!