International Opportunities

For more details of International Opportunities, see the Guides NSW International webpage.

Click here for pictures from Bundarra...

Selection Process

When applying for an International event, all applicants must be interviewed by a Region panel, usually consisting of the Region International Adviser, the Region Leader or her representative and at least one other independent person, such as the Region Outdoor Activities Adviser. This process is needed to ensure that all applicants are suitable candidates to represent Guides Australia as well as to rank them in order of priority in case there are more applicants than places available to Australia. Each country invited to an international camp is usually given a strict quota of Guides and Leaders.

The application form is quite lengthy in terms of the panel's recommendation and comments and completion of all selection criteria takes some time. Consequently, the Region closing date for all international camps is 1 month earlier than the Guides NSW closing date. This gives us the opportunity to convene a suitable interview panel. Applications need to be sent to the Region International Adviser by the Region closing date. Please contact Angela Millard for futher details.

The interviews will generally be held at the Region Centre. The Guides and Leaders will be expected to present wearing their official uniform and will be asked questions about their Guide knowledge, Australian knowledge and their wish to represent Guides Australia. This could take up to half an hour each. Although this is a formal process, the interview panel will try to keep the interviewees as relaxed as possible.

Bundarra 2003 - International Jamboree

Bundarra Under the Southern Skies International Camp 2003

Guides Australia hosted Bundarra, Under the Southern Skies International Camp 2003 in Sydney from 19 to 26 April 2003. The camp was held at the Guides NSW camp site, Tara. Twenty Guides and 12 Leaders from the Sutherland Shire Region were involved, both before the camp (providing Home Hospitality for a contingent of Guides from the UK) and at the camp. Click on the thumbnail pictures below to see what great fun was had! (The big pictures will open in anew window) (Don't forget to re-visit soon - more photos will be uploaded when time permits!)

General
Visitors' Day
Internationals
Guides and Leaders from Sutherland Shire Region