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How to recruit EcoTeam members: ideas from Bristol training event

At our EcoTeam leader training event in Bristol, attendees came up with an amazing range of ideas about how to recruit EcoTeams members. 

The ideas were the output of a practical session in which attendees were invited to think about ways to recruit teams using the following headings as prompts.

  1. Local events / media
  2. Local organisations
  3. People you know
  4. People you don’t know

Thank you to everyone who took part.

1. Local events / media

  • Freshers Week at Bristol/start a club
  • Bristol Fair – flyers/stand
    Free papers / local directories (personal features)
  • The Spark paper
  • Sustainable energy group
  • Small stalls in some shopping centres (free for charities)
  • Advertise in local charity shops
  • Village fetes/fairs
  • Council networks newsletter
  • Political groups “money where their work is”
  • Street parties
  • Farmers markets
  • Bristol Facebook group
  • Church groups
  • ParentTeacher Association
  • Transition Towns groups

2. Local organisations

  • Give talks (where you could potentially reach more people & make the message specific)
  • Schools, councils, churches, parishes
  • Put posters in town halls, centres, sports gyms etc.
  • Online networks
  • National Trust
    Offices / shops (organic & independent ones)
  • Universities, colleges
  • Parks (rangers)
  • Duke of Edinburgh
  • Newsletters – press releases

3. People you know

  • Phone
  • Facebook / Twitter / email
  • Work colleagues / lunch meeting (take/make cakes!)
  • School gates / clubs
  • Sharing personal experiences
  • Gifts / bribes
  • Competitions
  • Party
  • Christmas card list
  • Family / children
  • Events (already attending)
  • Name & shame / encourage people to think about the future for their children
  • Giving information
  • Selling as a social opportunity
  • Emphasising benefits

4. People you don’t know

  • Friends of friends
  • Approach neighbours
  • Knock on doors
  • Mailshot people that live nearby (e.g. flats)
  • University campuses
  • Introduce yourself
  • Talk to people in waiting rooms
  • Ads in community newspapers or newsletters (e.g. The Spark)
  • Posters, shops, cafes, libraries
  • Hold an event
  • Other members of groups you’re in you may not know (e.g. other parents at kids’ groups / school)
  • Via blog post
  • Other dog walkers
  • Other people in workplace
  • Talk to people in supermarkets
  • Any teams/clubs set up in your area

If you have any more recruitment ideas please get in touch, we'd love to hear from you.

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