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.

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The Exec

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Chair

Jack Woodward

What I've done
  • Charity Status: SSAGO has submitted an application to the charity commission! We're hopeful that we should be successful in the application after all the work that's gone in over the past few years, but they can take some time in to review applications.
  • SSAGO Strategy: There's been some progress on items in the strategy, but the past few months seem to have flown by, and as a result, there's still some items due this month that are likely to be delayed, particularly as we approach a particularly short handover period.
  • Assistant Recruitment: We have now decided on which candidates we're going with for the Web and Digital Assistant roles! The aim is for these candidates to meet with Oli for a few days immediately after ball, and go through a detailed handover, then we can confirm them stepping into the roles officially!
  • Scouting and Guiding Relationships: Since last reps, we've managed to actually meet with Guiding - they were very keen on a positive looking, and mutually beneficial relationship! There was some brief discussion on the "important legal stuff" around the relationship agreement, but the main focus was on how we can help each other with achieving our aims, which was really nice! We're hoping to build and maintain that relationship, hopefully through the Liaisons officer, but we did also discuss the hazards of annually elected committees when it comes to longer-term relationships!
  • Being away: Somehow, since the last report in November, I've managed to fit in a week in KISC, a week in York, 2 weeks in Taiwan, and 3 (non-SSAGO) weekends away - no wonder it feels like it's flown by!
What I'm working on
  • SSAGO Strategy: There's a few January/March 2025 points that we haven't yet done, but should be able to get cleared up before Handover, so that would be great to be able to set the new committee off to a good start!
  • Handover: We have an especially short handover period this year, just because of when certain holidays fall forced Ball to be quite early, so the plan is to get off the ground running here as soon as results are announced, and we're making some plans to make this period as quick and as easy as possible.
  • Finishing up: There's a few things that always come up towards the end of an exec year, that need finishing off, and this year is no exception, so I'd like to get all of that finished before it gets left to next year's committee!

Last updated 13/03/2025, 17:09

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Secretary

Ed (look for the rocket!) Knight

What I've done
    What I'm working on

      Last updated 11/04/2025, 10:19

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      Treasurer

      Lara Hagger

      What I've done
      • Getting started: attending meetings and getting used to the way everything works in Team Pink, with the aim to be ready to begin my role fully after Goose Ball!
      What I'm working on
      • Money is fun: I will be a visible presence for all things accounting! Treasurer is usually the role that committees struggle to fill so I want to help everyone be confident with money and show people that it’s a fun position :)
      • Power of the group chat: putting treasurers in touch with each other to share woes, frustrations, anger at banking, whatever - and I will do my best to help!
      • Development fund: remind club treasurers that they can apply for monetary help if needed, and support them to do so.

      Last updated 22/03/2025, 17:47

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      Publicity

      Lucy Smith

      What I've done
      • I have been continuing my usual publicity, reintroducing the ‘world cup of…’ which has been a great hit! Working on organising a SSAGO goes to spoons. Have been working on some docs to share with guiding and scouting to publicise ssago to rangers/explorers. Helping with usual TP stuff. I also (badly) minuted a TP meeting. Have also re ran for publicity as I love it!
      What I'm working on
      • publicity: continue working on instagram and facebook posts
      • team pink: general TP responsibilities
      • Ranger/explorer publicity: continue work on docs to source our to guiding/scouts

      Last updated 27/02/2025, 01:52

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      Members

      Ewan Bell

      What I've done
      • Handover: Handovers been completed, and I'm now on all systems and fully up and running as Members Officer
      • New clubs: I'm in communication with 3 prospective new clubs, which is looking very promising!
      What I'm working on
      • Reachability: I plan on responding to every members@ email within 72 hours with information, even if that is saying your emails been received and when to expect a proper reply by. I know it can be frustrating when emails get left in the void, which is something I'll (hopefully) keep from happening this year
      • Factsheets: I will work with Policy Fixers to modernise Factsheets, insuring all the information within them is up-to-date!
      • Supporting Nasc: Nasc is our event over summer, joint with Irish Rovers, which will be going live soon! I'll be working with the Rovers/SSAGO committee to make that event the best it can be!

      Last updated 24/04/2025, 12:34

      The Assistants

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      Quartermaster

      Beatrice Overend

      What I've done
      • Since November I have been working to launch members clothings - you can now order Green SSAGO Clothing for collection at Ball. If you are at rally you can find posters detailing how to do this!
      • I have also been continuing to restock the shop launching new items such as paracord woggle kits, notepads, SSAGO sporks and SSAGO Croc Charms!
      • I'm hoping to use the merch designing workshop to gain insight into what SSAGO wants to see in the shop and launch new badges!
      What I'm working on
      • Launch Green SSAGO Clothing
      • Continue restocking the shop.
      • Work out a system for managing rally kit

      Last updated 03/03/2025, 15:23

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      Webmaster

      Oli Bills

      What I've done
      • Event improvements: Q&A system, registration system, new booking features, app platform
      • General SSAGO things: Newsletter system, moving resources from Dropbox to Drive, better Reps system
      • Rally of Games: SSAGO app, SSAGO treasure hunt game, patrols and teams and other fun things for future events
      • AGM and EGM things: As always, elections continue to change and need to happen and I made sure the technology was in place to accommodate these
      • De-Olifying SSAGO: More automation, administration interfaces and making sure all SSAGO sytsems work when Oli was in Switzerland and preparing for the future, including migrating SSAGO tech to the AWS Cloud
      • Life outside Webmaster: I volunteered, slightly unexpectedly, at the Kandersteg International Scout Centre for Autumn 2022 as a pinkie! I also supported the Iceland event last July, the WinterKISC event this February and Kander100 this coming summer.
      What I'm working on
      • New exec: Supoorting the new incoming Exec and any of their requirements and goals
      • New future: Continuing to work towards SSAGO technology being someone else's problem!
      • More web team: Continue to work to grow the web team to support the webmaster
      • Tidying up: Tidying up any remaining non-automated parts of SSAGO that require manual intervention, to make sure the infrastructure "just works"

      Last updated 13/03/2023, 14:04

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      Events

      Rose Moran

      What I've done
      • Supporting Events: I have now had introductory/getting started meetings with all of our new national event which were voted in at this years AGM and set clear goals for the next few months. Supported Birthday ball and Sports Day rally in the final planning stages for their events.
      • Events Templates: I have finished making a set of starter planning templates for each different aspect of a rally which the newest events have started trialling. The aims of these is to give events a clear structure and make them aware of what level of detail they should be planning at from the beginning.
      • Event Timelines: I have created a a more structured plan of what rally committees should be working on throughout the course of their planning time. To suit the various lengths of time events have to plan, I have made a clear timeline that splits this time across 7 meetings that Team Pink will have with the event. Each meeting will have a specific focus so that myself and the events can make the most of each meeting by being able to prepare in advance.
      What I'm working on
      • Demo Event Website: From discussions with previous events, support on how to best understand and great a good website is something that is potentially lacking. Therefore, over the next few months I plan to make an example event page with all the feature you can utilise within an event website so that events can visually see how each feature works.
      • Event Timelines: I would like to make a similar timeline to help ball committees use their time efficiently and have a more clear structure.
      • Event Kit: Work with the rest of Team Pink to work out an effective system for sorting and logging SSAGO event kit.

      Last updated 12/06/2024, 22:55

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      Charities

      Alex Banwell

      What I've done
      • -Submitted a new application to the charity commission to register as a charity!!!
      • -Finished getting the 2019-20 -> 2022-23 accounts independently examined
      • -Completed the 2023-24 accounts.
      • -Worked on this year's accounts
      • -Sorted insurance stuff
      • -Other miscellaneous team pink stuff
      • -Sorted catering for TPR
      What I'm working on
      • -Get the 2023-24 accounts independently examined
      • -Work with the new treasurer to implement better financial processes as strongly recommended in the independent examinder's report, to ensure better compliance with charity regulations.

      Last updated 26/02/2025, 14:53

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      Liasons

      Ben Dickinson

      What I've done
      • SASU Membership: I am continuing to add people to the SASU, processing DBSs and training. Please do let me know if you want to be added to the SASU.
      • Scouts: We have been discussing SSAGO's charitable status with the Scouts and will hopefully have some progress on that soon!
      • Guides: We have started an initial conversation with someone from Guides HQ and I will continue these discussions.
      What I'm working on
      • SASU Membership: I will be keeping the SASU membership up to date, adding and removing people as required, and ensuring people do their training!
      • Compass Transition: The Scouts are updating their membership system, so I plan to be getting familiar with the new system and making sure all of the SSAGO SASU members are transferred across correctly.
      • SAGGA: I will continue to talk to SAGGA and attend their committee meetings.
      • Scouts: We are looking at where the SSAGO SASU would fit within the Scout's post-transformation structure.
      • Guides: I hope to restart our discussions with Guides HQ to build a relationship with them and start to work more closely.

      Last updated 21/10/2024, 18:41