Alternative Ideas to Recruit new Scouts
Have you thought about how you'll recruit new Scouts this year, whether activities happen in person or virtually?
- The best way to recruit is certainly by word of mouth.
- Challenge the families in your pack, troop, crew, or ship to recruit one new family themselves. New families moving to TAC need to find local Scouting.
- Put up flyers with your recruitment QR code. These can be found by the Unit Key 3 and registered Committee Members at Invitation Manager in www.my.scouting.org.
- Use your Facebook group, your charter partner's website or email lists.
- Can you get into a Welcome to the Neighborhood packet?
- Post on Instagram.
- Hand out "Join Us" recruitment cards.
- We have heard of units hosting "drive-up" recruitments where cars go by a booth and are handed an information envelope.
There are many great ways to advertise. If might even be as simple as having your Scout wear their uniform on a video conference. If you have good ideas, please post it on the TAC Nation Facebook page or other social media. If you need video clips to post online or other media, it is available at the BSA Brand Center.
Join Us for National BSA Family Fun Fest
September 12th
We had so much success with the August Family Fun Fest, National BSA is doing it again in September! What is Family Fun Fest? It's a national open house for Scouting. Think National Camp-In with all the fun and engagement, along with a strong message of "learn more about what Scouting has to offer."
The event will be broadcast on
Facebook Live, and we'll be engaging our audiences real-time with #FamilyFunFest. Marketing prior to the event will engage our current membership and encourage them to invite a friend to join them for the event. Logos and other branded materials to promote the event will be available on the BSA Brand Center.
For more information about the event visit https://www.scouting.org/familyfunfest/.
Additional details are coming soon, including a schedule of events, promotional materials, and how to leverage this event to invite families to join Scouting.
Thank you!
As COVID-19 changed the operations of the Transatlantic Council in the year 2020, many of the planned face-to-face activities, events, and camps had to be cancelled. This had a huge financial impact on the council operations, and created a call to action for financial support. Thank you to the many families who made a financial contribution to Friends of Scouting. Your dollars have been put to good use in creating virtual program, recruiting new families to the program, and supporting our existing units to continue the delivery of unparalleled Scouting.
70th Anniversary 
The Transatlantic Council was organized in November of 1950. Celebrations for the 70th Anniversary have begun to come together, and will include special activities as part of the Scouters Annual Conference that is being held on the actual anniversary date. Be sure to register today to join the weekend of training, as well as these celebrations. https://scoutingevent.com/802-SAC2
Did you notice the reference to the council anniversary as part of the Scenes of TAC series? (Series 3-6) Were you aware of issuance of the 70th Anniversary Council Shoulder Patch (CSP)? Patch sets, and other memorabilia are available at www.councilstuff.com/802
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