We’re excited to announce that GFS Eldon Group Leader and GFS England President, Pam Hutchison, has been nominated for the Charity Champion of the Year Award by the North East Charity Awards. For more than 50 years, Pam has supported … Continued
On Wednesday 3 November 2021, GFS Bishop Auckland (AYCC) won NE Youth’s Action of the Year Award for their girls’ safety campaign, Lights for Nights. This original campaign is a for-girls, by-girls action, led by three of the outstanding members of this GFS group. The … Continued
November has been a truly exciting month for us at GFS, with our six group launches taking us all over England, touching down in Birmingham, Sunderland, Manchester, Liverpool and London. At GFS we’re committed to opening groups for girls across … Continued
GFS is currently in an exciting period of external and internal change. We’re adding fresh faces to our head office, extraordinary Board of Trustees and on our committees. Throughout the recruitment process our board was determined to develop diversity on the board and committees, while also recruiting young trustees and committee members. We were completely swamped with the most incredible applicants. Now … Continued
Last term we celebrated International Women’s Day together by taking part in the #ChooseToChallenge activity. We loved seeing all of your art and photos, so this term we would love to all celebrate PRIDE month together. Our vision at GFS … Continued
As you will all know, we now have a smaller Operations Team than we did at the start of 2020. We have taken some time to think about how we should address this. We are in a pandemic and need … Continued
As we know its been an unprecedented year which has been tricky for us all. Well done to everyone for doing their best. We know how much our GFS girls love the Christmas card competition so we’re happy to announce … Continued
We know how much of a new skill it has been to develop activities to deliver in Zoom sessions. We’ve loved seeing your ideas and the way girls have reacted to them. However, we appreciate that some support is needed to … Continued
This week, we’re giving grown ups a break from creating their own science curriculum. These activities are fun, interactive ways of getting some learning in and are a great break from the books for everyone. At GFS, we know there … Continued
We are looking forward to welcoming you to our national gathering and AGM event on Saturday 28 March 2020 at etc venues, Birmingham. The event this year will have different format from previous years. We have listened to feedback that … Continued