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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.

Lucy Smith

Hi I'm Lucy and I am the SSAGO national publicity officer for the 2024-2025 term!

I joined Girlguiding at 5 years old and haven't stopped since! I was a Rainbow, Brownie, Guide, and Ranger back in my home unit back at Surrey. Here I also achieved my Young Leader Qualification, my Adult Leader Qualification as a Guide leader and my Queens Guide Award! With my love for the Guiding movement, joining SSAGO was a no-brainer once I had found out about it while volunteering at Wellies and Wristbands in 2022.

Since starting University I have opened a Brownie unit from scratch with another SSAGO member, where we are both co-leaders. I study at Nottingham so I am a SNoG, and was their Secretary for the 2023-2024 academic year. I helped organise the Midlands Freshers Camp 2023, and I am publicity and secretary for Goose Ball 2025, and publicity for Team Pink Rally 2025.

I am currently in my 3rd year of studying BSc psychology at University of Nottingham, but I am on a placement year, doing 2 (!) placements, one in clinical psychology in the NHS, and one in research in public health.

Publicity

November 2024

Report

  • Since my last update I have been up to the following:
  • Instagram:
  • Over summer updating the instagram with summer camps from clubs.
  • Promoting assistant applications.
  • Promoting project lead applications and the projects in general.
  • Results day (see other section).
  • Promoting important days/weeks, including world mental health day, transgender awareness week, remembrance sunday.
  • Planning content to continue with over the next few months.
  • Freshers/results day:
  • Made posts and generated ads for results days. A total of over 11,000 people were reached by these posts! Continuing to aim posts at freshers, some of which have included an ‘intro to SSAGO’ post, and an upcoming event highlight post.
  • Tiktok:
  • Not been plenty active on here as at national events I have been busy with other things, but plenty of plans lined up for LOTRR so we can get some more tiktoks and reels out there.
  • General stuff:
  • Distributing publicity resources and guides to new clubs.
  • Team pink meetings and responsibilities etc.
  • Writing up a Witan article.
  • Keeping on top of responsibilities for my other two event committees.
  • Keeping on top of discord, answering questions etc.

Aims

  • Aims up until Team Pink Rally:
  • Keep on top of instagram and facebook.
  • Generate more tiktoks.
  • Work with SSAGO events as well as other events to publicise opportunities to members.
  • Develop a strong SSAGO media/news team.
  • Work with SSAGO supports to publicise opportunities.
  • Work with Ben (Liaisons) to work on our relationship with Girlguiding.
  • Support events with any publicity queries.
  • Continue with team pink responsibilities.
  • Update handover doc where necessary.

June 2024

Report

  • General social media
  • So far this year I have began to create and upload posts to the Instagram and facebook showcasing what has been going on in SSAGO, including future events and SSAGO support events.
  • Brining tiktok back to life
  • I have began to plan, create and upload tiktoks in attempt to target younger populations.
  • Adobe
  • Reactivated the adobe account for SSAGO event committees to use upon request.
  • Freshers publicity
  • Started to gauge interest in SSAGO publicity for clubs to use over freshers. Learnt that there isn't much interest, assuming as a lot of clubs will have personalised publicity materials.
  • Since my last update I have been up to the following:
  • Instagram:
  • Over summer updating the instagram with summer camps from clubs.
  • Promoting assistant applications.
  • Promoting project lead applications and the projects in general.
  • Results day (see other section).
  • Promoting important days/weeks, including world mental health day, transgender awareness week, remembrance sunday.
  • Planning content to continue with over the next few months.
  • Freshers/results day:
  • Made posts and generated ads for results days. A total of over 11,000 people were reached by these posts! Continuing to aim posts at freshers, some of which have included an ‘intro to SSAGO’ post, and an upcoming event highlight post.
  • Tiktok:
  • Not been plenty active on here as at national events I have been busy with other things, but plenty of plans lined up for LOTRR so we can get some more tiktoks and reels out there.
  • General stuff:
  • Distributing publicity resources and guides to new clubs.
  • Team pink meetings and responsibilities etc.
  • Writing up a Witan article.
  • Keeping on top of responsibilities for my other two event committees.
  • Keeping on top of discord, answering questions etc.

Aims

  • Instagram:
  • Post as consistently as possible.
  • Varying and engaging posts and stories.
  • Share posts to facebook too.
  • Tiktok:
  • Post engaging tiktoks to showcase SSAGO to younger generations.
  • Share these onto the instagram and facebook too.
  • New club highlight scheme:
  • Attempt a new format of post which involves reaching out to clubs in regards to one of their highlights of the year to share to socials to give an insight into other clubs.
  • Focus this over the course of the summer as posts can get scarce around this time of year due to less SSAGO stuff ongoing.
  • Freshers publicity
  • Publicise SSAGO around A level results period and around the time of freshers.
  • Support clubs in their publicity around freshers and refreshers periods.