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
  • Handover: Having been re-elected (while on my Gold DofE Practice expedition) we had a shorter than usual but intensive handover period for the new exec which I led on and which has left us with a strong, and engaged team for the new year. I also attended the web handover with Oli and our two new assistants, helping with SSAGO's current operations and priorities, and also leading the handover of the more general Team Pink responsibilities.
  • Charity Application: See the item in reps - unfortunately, this application was rejected for a couple of reasons. We have a remedial plan, that we're asking reps to approve in principle, which I was heavily involved in developing.
  • Relationships: We've been maintaining our relationships with our partner organisations, with a joint meeting with the new SAGGA committee, meeting with representatives from the Scouts, and keeping in email communication with Girlguiding. We've also kept in contact with Shivaree - a Dutch led world student scouting event scheduled for next year.
  • Preparing for future events: I've also been leading on organising Team Pink Weekend this year, talking to a representative from NorJam about advertising SSAGO there, and helping with booking SSAGO's stall at Gilwell reunion this year
What I'm working on
  • Policy, Policy, Policy: We have a summer of policy writing to be getting on with - those that have read my update on the SSAGO Strategy will be aware that there's plenty of policies to develop and write/rewrite for proposal in November, so that will be a big focus.
  • Charity Application: Similarly, with reps approval in principle, now is the time to be getting on with this fairly quickly if we want to get it done.
  • Projects: We're reaching the time of year where most projects need reviewing, and new project leads appointing - look out for applications for these coming soon!
  • Assistant Recruitment: Similarly, we have a few assistants coming to the end of their terms this SSAGO year, so it's time to look at the recruitment process for their replacements, and review their roles and responsibilities.
  • Maintaining our connections: SSAGO is currently doing pretty well at maintaining connections nationally and internationally, and I want to make sure this keeps up!

Last updated 21/06/2025, 13:55

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Secretary

Ed (wear a fun costume to Space Rally, I'll see you there!) Knight

What I've done
  • SSAGOes to Space Rally: I've been pretty busy making publicity material for SSAGOes to Space Rally, which you've hopefully seen and appreciated! I had far too much fun with the theming of the website. Hopefully you're having a good time at Rally!
  • Factsheets: I've updated the Welcome Pack for new members, and sent it to Undeb Bangor (via Bangor BUGS) for translation so that hopefully, this time next year, we've got a Welsh Welcome Pack!
  • Assistant Recruitment: I did quite a bit of the admin for choosing our new Liaisons Officer and Charities Assistant appointments, including helping with all the interviews. I'm really looking forward to working with the people we've appointed!
  • Minutes and Agendas and Other Stuff In That Vein: I've been doing plenty of fast typing (and then rereading to fix my typos) in Team Pink meetings, and getting minutes uploaded to https://www.ssago.org/resources/minutes/2025/executive in good time!
  • Reps: I figured out how to set up Reps! And am having so much fun with writing this, I've got a bit too stuck into this section and need to remember to write some Aims as well
  • Emails/Actions Tracking: remember those spreadsheets I mentioned in my June report? Yeah, I've sort of dropped those. I've switched to a .doc based way of tracking and it's much easier to keep on top of and is workinng well
What I'm working on
  • SSAGOes to Space Rally: hopefully, you've all had a stellar Rally so far! I'm going to keep up my enthusiasm through re-entry and recovery from our mission to Planet SSAGO and make sure that all my bits of post-rally admin get done in good time too
  • Reps: I'm going to relentlessly poke club Reps to vote in Reps so that we can hopefully hit quorum without a struggle, as we've not had great voting turnouts over the last few events and we've got a wad of policies to vote in! If you're reading this, kick your club Rep so that I don't have to please!
  • General Team Pink: keep enjoying myself as much as I am, and do better at my role if I can! Support the new/outgoing Assistants with handover where I can, and keep us all meeting regularly and getting you guys (our members) involved with our agendas
  • Annual Report: between now and Spring Reps (wow, that sounds like a long time in the future - it'll go like nothing though, I bet) I need to write the SSAGO Annual Report for Team Pink 2025/26! It looks like a bit of a giant task at the moment, but I'm sure once I get going with it I'll blitz through most of it (then procrastinate the last few sections for a while)

Last updated 14/10/2025, 22:01

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Treasurer

Lara Hagger

What I've done
  • Money: SSAGO still has money!
  • Document sorting: I've been attempting to find where everything I need as treasurer is in the exec google drive, and organising it so that everything makes sense in my head.
What I'm working on
  • Development fund: over the summer, I want to sort out a spreadsheet to track the status of dev fund bids.
  • Projects: arrange more regular meetings with the projects I am the team pink lead for.
  • Club treasurers: now that new committees have been formed, I want to connect club treasurers with each other.

Last updated 23/07/2025, 16:18

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Publicity

Lucy Smith

What I've done
  • Since last reps I have had a hectic few months. Took a small step back from publicity upkeep but I am getting back on the horse now rally is about! Excited to get ads organised for the summer when A level results come out, and hopefully some good promotional tiktoks/videos made at rally/Team Pink weekend that we can use too.
What I'm working on
  • Aims for the next year are as follows:
  • Media and news team: set this up properly get and it running.
  • Girlguiding: continue to help foster the relationship with GG we have begun.
  • Social media: keeping on top of posts across platforms including instagram and tiktok and facebook. Explore reintroducing X.
  • Rangers/Explorers resources: finish developing what I have began with the resources.

Last updated 19/06/2025, 12:57

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Members

Ewan Bell

What I've done
  • Clubs: In communication with 3 potential new clubs, looking promising!
  • Emails: Replied to clubs questions, had issues with getting the emails set up so haven't managed my 72 hour reply aim, however that should be achieved going forwards.
  • Members: Worked with club presidents, giving advice for events/teamwork which I look to continue. If you're in a similar position, send me an email!
What I'm working on
  • Members: Get setup for next year memberships, ensuring that everything gets tidied up and works smoothly
  • Nasc: Is coming along smoothly, looking forward to seeing everyone there!
  • Policy: Work with policy fixers over summer to update factsheets to match current policy

Last updated 19/06/2025, 23:42

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
  • - I had a great time supporting and attending this year's National ball in Nottingham!
  • - I have had catch up meetings with the 2024 elected events to keep up to date with their progress.
  • - I have met with all of the new national events (some more than once) to introduce them to running a SSAGO event and run through the process.
  • - Started the restructure process of the events resources drive.
What I'm working on
  • - To call my 2nd successful SSAGO ceilidh after some last minute changes in rally plans.
  • - To work alongside the new web assistants to improve tech and website support going forward.
  • - Get feedback from national events as to what they would like to see from the event resources drive.

Last updated 19/06/2025, 22:48

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Charities

Alex Banwell

What I've done
  • -Gained clarity around reps from the charity commission
  • -Drafted new versions of the constitution
What I'm working on
  • -Get SSAGO registered as a charity before I step down

Last updated 14/10/2025, 23:03

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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