UK Parliament Week 2018

Challenge Pack for 2018 Parliament Week

After being critical of the activities supplied last year with the UK Parliament Week, I am impressed to see this year's pack arrive with a Region Challenge resource which is easily deployable with Brownies. Last year I struggled to adapt the activities to brownies so used the resource with Guides instead. However for 2018 SW Region have produced a 38 page resource with a forward by our Region Chief Commissioner. The resource is broken down into 3 sections "What is Parliament", "Vote 100" and "South West England Regional Challenges" with a suggestion that a minimum of 4 activities are completed from across the 3 sections. 

There is a good range of activities for use across the age ranges (only 1 colouring sheet this time!), the resource is informative at that same time as providing templates - includes a template ballot paper this time so no need to make your own, as I did last year.  There is a set of cards for the revamp of the old favourite of rule your own Island  - where the colours could suggest use with brownies or guides. There are photographs with a guiding theme too which is another thoughtful touch. Going to be so much easier to do with brownies this year. 

The pack includes a ribbon votes for women sash (shame their is only one) and usual ballot box, photo card & pin badges but no pens this year. I'm building up a useful collection of Parliament & democracy type resources and I'm thinking how I can incorporate the ballot box(s) into girl led guiding for the girls to choose their own programme!

Don't forget to order your cloth badges as part of the evaluation survey which comes from UK Parliament outreach and NOT Region. (I didn't get the email with the survey link last year, and had to request it, so we nearly missed out on the badges!)