Welcome to Explore Brownies – we are so happy that you have joined us and know that your tamariki will have a lot of fun and learn some great things!

Explore Brownies is designed to be a girl-led programme, but we encourage parents to supervise and enjoy sharing the experience with your tamariki. Some activities require adult involvement for safety and developmental reasons, others your Explore Brownie will be able to achieve independently.

We recommend using the Google Chrome browser to view the Explore Brownies website. If you are having problems playing an activity, we suggest you check which internet browser you are using and switch to Google Chrome.

Brownie Leader

Once you enrol in a digital Unit, you will get an email from your Explore Brownie Leader (to the email address you used to register) with their contact email address in it. Your Explore Brownie Leader is one of our wonderful volunteers who has been trained in GirlGuiding NZ practices as well as the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Educational Method. They will be able to help guide you towards badge completion and help you on their Guiding journey.

You are welcome to send specific questions about your programme through to your Explore Brownie Leader. Please forward any more general questions to the Explore Brownies staff team, explore@ggnz.org.nz

Your Explore Brownie Leader will communicate with you via your registered email once a week. We suggest reading the weekly emails together so that you can share the achievements.

Parent Portal

You will also be sent a link to register on our Parent Portal which is an important site where you can track badge progress, check on event invitations and stay up-to-date with GirlGuiding updates. You should receive a link to the Parent Portal within 24 hours of registering for Explore Brownies. If you haven’t please check your spam folder (and mark us as a safe sender!) or contact us on explore@ggnz.org.nz. If you’re having trouble setting up your Parent Portal login, please see these instructions.

If any of your contact details change please update them in the Parent Portal.

Uniform

We will post a sash out to you for badges to be sewn on to.

Once you set up your Parent Portal account, your daughter will be invited to optional Guiding events. Each event is different but some events they may be required to wear a Brownie t-shirt, e.g. ANZAC Day Service.

You don’t need to purchase a uniform although many of our tamariki like to wear one while they are doing their Explore Brownie activities. Uniforms and other Guiding items can be purchased via XCM.