Youth Programmes and Girlguiding

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall am 4:14 pm ar 19 Medi 2023.

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Photo of Julian Lewis Julian Lewis Chair, Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament 4:14, 19 Medi 2023

I will take the opportunity to stress that when Girlguiding UK says that only 10% of the movement uses the five centres, we are still talking about tens of thousands of young people. The response to the situation has been not, “We have to close one centre in order to subsidise the others”, but, “We have to close the whole lot while simultaneously losing millions upon millions of pounds on inappropriate investment in property hotel ventures.” That has to be questioned. The reason for donating Foxlease to Girlguiding 101 years ago was not so that it could be used for commercial development; it was donated to be used by young people.