Wellbeing

What is a gift?

When we find the pace leading up to a holiday season getting a bit hectic, how do we see the bigger picture? Our current money theme at Girlguiding Anglia opens up an opportunity to ask some questions about how we give and what we give. Are presents you pay money for the only gift of value, for example? Can we see kindness and forgiveness as gifts that we would also be very pleased to receive?  

Tuesday 3 December is Giving Tuesday, an antidote to all the spending that may have gone on over the previous weekend and going forwards. Would you be willing to give away something you don’t need anymore, to help others? 

How would you choose to be generous this month?  

Charity Digital have an article about this with some inspiring examples of campaigns like a community lunch at Christmas to a loneliness-busting brunch for womxn of colour. Check it out here:

https://charitydigital.org.uk/topics/how-to-get-involved-in-giving-tuesday-2024-11841#:~:text=In%202024%2C%20Giving%20Tuesday%20takes,and%20small)%20can%20get%20involved.

And here’s the link to some of the money UMAs on our website: 

https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/what-we-do/our-badges-and-activities/find-programme-activities/?SearchForm.Text=money+confidence&SearchForm.LocationId=&SearchForm.GuidingSectionId=&SearchForm.ThemeId=&SearchForm.ActivityTypeId=&SearchForm.Resource=&SearchForm.MinCost=&SearchForm.MaxCost=&SearchForm.MinDuration=&SearchForm.MaxDuration=&SearchForm.PageNumber=1&SearchForm.Order=Relevance