The City of Athens in Greece welcomed the members of the ISGF World Committee for its first regular meeting from March 10 to 12, 2012. The venue was hosted in the Head Office of the Greek Guiding Association.

World Conference 2011 elected four (4) new members for a six-year period.

Mrs. Virginia BONASEGALE, Italy

Mrs. Nana GENTIMI, Greece

Mrs. Verna LOPEZ, Curaçao

Mrs. Mida RODRIGUES, Portugal

The ISGF World Committee meeting took place from 14-19 March 2011 in Tavernerio near Como, Italy.

A lot of great reports concerning the last 3 years were being prepared and projects and initiatives were reconciled while also membership development and fundraising were discussed. World Bureau received a lot of the Annual Reports and members are invited to have a look at the website for more inspiration from other NSGFs.

The World Committee (WCom) works of course to fulfil the Action Plan 2008-2011. One of the headlines is Communication. There are lots of possibilities for communication and we want to share some of the experiences that we have gained during the latest 1½ year:

• It is easy to remember the e-mail address for the ISGF World Bureau (WB) as it is now changed to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
• If you want to get in contact with an ISGF member in a foreign country you can ask the International secretary (IS) in your country and he/she will be able to give you information about how to get in contact. All National Presidents (NP) and IS has their personal username and password for the ISGF website so that they can go to the so-called closed part of the web where ISGF gives contact addresses and also other kind on protected information
• However it would be great if all NPs and IS’ would use the possibility to go to the closed part. We can see that 87 persons out of the registered 130 with passwords never have used that password. This is not good for our internal communication. So if you are a NP or IS please start using this very important tool for communication.
• In these days we are printing a new ISGF folder. The folder has been updated with Benefits of being a member of ISGF.
• These benefits are from a document called “Why belong to ISGF?” The document will in very short time be sent out to the NP and IS so that they can pick those benefits that is the most important for their country when trying to tell a person what that person will be missing in his or her life if not joining the ISGF. Remember that we are all members of ISGF through our membership at national or local level.
• One of the most important tools for sharing knowledge is the Annual Report that each National Scout and Guide Fellowship (NSGF) should send to the WB once a year by the end of April. The WCom will read the reports and share the knowledge by uploading the part of the report that tells about activities, ideas and experiences. See this link. There is a lot of inspiration for you to find in these reports too. So even if you do not make use of the exactly same activity you can change the ideas into what for you and your culture would be a good Fellowship activity – nationally, locally or personally.