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	Canadian Friendship Force Website	MEMBER RECRUITMENT
Friendship Force member recruitment initiatives in Canadian clubs: Several clubs have taken the time to tell us how they deal with recruitment issues. I have taken the liberty of distilling their prose so you can view the salient points and perhaps use some of these ideas.

Friendship Force Quebec Region (La Force de l'amitié de la région de Québec) - Andre Cauchy Andre's club has prepared a single page "flier" designed to attract and capture new candidates. Please to view and download.

Metro Vancouver – Linda Arksey Yes, recruitment is necessary and at times very challenging. The bookmark idea was mine I took it from another club We have a membership committee with a member on our executive At times we seek out public resources such as church groups and senior and recreation centers. We use personal contacts together with our web site We invite small local newspapers to our welcome, farewell and perhaps special events and parties. I am hoping to contact community affairs programs on our local radio station. Click to view a PDF copy of the bookmark. GO TO THE NEXT LINE TO DOWNLOAD AN EDITABLE VERSION OF THE BOOKMARK Click to download a WORD version of the bookmark - LInda Arksey - Metro Vancouver January 27/18

FF Saskatoon - David Crossley FF Saskatoon is a relatively new club, which has been running for about 12 years Currently has 36 members, but has been undergoing quite dramatic changes in the last couple of years as: older members have quit – moving away to be with grandchildren and experiencing mobility problems we need to grow the membership to about 45 new members have come our way by one of three routes: the FFI webpage, a small ad we run in one of the local weekly papers and word of mouth Last month our new Board discussed the recruitment issue and there was some hesitation about the ads in the newspaper, mainly because it was feared they would attract people who, despite what they have been told, would treat FFI as being just a mere travel club. Board members felt that word of mouth was best and reminded ourselves of a very successful Open House Potluck we held a couple of years ago to which members were urged to bring along any friends they felt might be interested David Crossley. - FF Saskatoon - February 6, 2018

Joyce Nelson – FF Calgary most of our recruitment has been done by Friends and Neighbours with limited success The Executive has set up a $500.00 advertising budget I am going to look into “Meet-Up” I think the book marks that are being produced by Metro Vancouver are an excellent idea. They would fit our demographics very well Joyce Nelson – FF Calgary – January 25, 2018