Publicity Officer

James Frith-lees

Honorary Member

What have I done so far?

• SAGUWE’s current Media and Publicity officer
  • SAGUWE paid membership has grown 50% since last year
  • SAGUWE active membership has doubled since last year and we’ve got a strong presence at all SSAGO events
  • Designed SAGUWE’s flag
  • Designed all SAGUWE’s merchandise - examples can be found here
  • Mades lots of SAGUWE videos - examples can be found here and below
  • Restarted the club from scratch in my second year
• Ran SSAGO Spring Rally 2016 (Feb-U-Rally) as camp Chair, which grew by 30% on the previous year’s Spring rally, including designing the website (which can be viewed here)
• Publicised and helped run SSAGO South West regional Freshers camp 2016, which doubled in size from last year to over 80 this year, including designing the website (which can be viewed here)
• Have written articles for SSAGO news (which can be viewed here and here)
• Have got my Cub pack into the next edition of Scouting magazine 
• Designed lots of badges, including the above events and 50th SSAGO anniversary badge!

What am I going to do next?

• Provide more club level SSAGO publicity materials (inc. freebies for Freshers fairs!)
• Pass ideas between clubs for what works in getting and keeping new members 
• Push for our biggest membership yet… aim for the 1000 
  • Which would only be around 7 members extra average across the 46 clubs… achievable!
• Continue to educate the TSA and GGUK as to what SSAGO is, and what we can do for them as well as what they could do for us
• Run a “What is SSAGO?” talk at Gilwell Reunion 2017
• Continue to support the production of the Rally newsletter
• Toy with the idea of "Rally-radio", not just for those on camp but also to keep those stuck at home in the loop
• Make SSAGO-wide publicity videos and targeted social media adverts
• Widely advertise the upcoming SSAGO reunion event and SSAGO 48
• Aim to get this year's Rallies, Ball, SSAGO reunion and SSAGO 48 on regional (maybe even national) news
• Write more articles for SSAGO news
• Propose live streaming reps meetings and AGM for those at home
• Add change logs to policy documents/factsheet, and attempt to update all relevant ones
• Take Percival Platypus to MOOT!

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