The NUJ is beefing up its recruitment drive with a week of activities next month.
It wants chapels and branches to consider staging a special event during the week.
There are still thousands of journos out there who aren't members and the NUJ says that often the main reason people haven't joined is that they haven't been asked.
The week of March 21-24 has been earmarked for the recruitment drive. Activities could include emails to all members in a workplace asking them to recruit a pal as a member; leafleting of other departments at your company, a quiz night, tenpin bowling, or whatever.
Head office also reckons a members audit of your workplace could be a good idea - with non-members to be wooed by sweet-talking reps!
This comes after five years of growth in membership. Brighton and Mid Sussex branch, re-formed in 1998, has more than doubled in size since our first meeting. Membership fluctuates monthly but we now have about 220 members across East and West Sussex.
The NUJ can send you recruitment leaflets, posters, membership forms and other promo material.
If you have any ideas on what the branch could do, get in touch, we're all ears! This will be on the agenda for February's meeting.
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