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Marketing & Membership 2019/20
In this issue >>>
Intro from your Membership &
Marketing officer
Ladies Circle AGM Leicester
Setting up a generic email address
You’ve been sharing
New Membership Award for 2020 AGM
Issue 1. June 2019
What your Marketing & Membership
Officer Emma, has been up to so far…
It was an honour to have been elected as your new Membership & Marketing Officer at the
AGM in Torquay. The focus on membership and relationships between our four clubs has
gained pace quickly since taking up my new role. The relationship between fellow
Membership Officers, Stephanie Holzhueter (Ladies Circle), Glen Lyons (41 Club) and James
Locke (Round Table) has been formed after meeting at the RT & LC Conference held in
Leicester during May. It’s great to be #sidebyside.
I was asked by past Ladies Circle President, Jo Hudson and then Secretary, Vicky Parker at the
National Tangent AGM in Torquay to speak on behalf of Tangent at Ladies Circle’s AGM held
in Leicester as my first task since taking post. It was a fantastic conference, and wonderful to
see so many Tangent members not only attending the AGM, but also helping. You can take
the girl out of circle, but you can’t take circle out of the girl is one of my phrases.
Through my address, I was able to explain what Tangent is all about and why Circlers should
continue their friendships with us when they graduate from Ladies Circle. The chosen
hashtag used was #strongertogether due to many Tangent members starting their life within
Ladies Circle then transitioning over to Tangent, creating a strong bond between the two
organisations.
We have several new clubs affiliating and chartering at present and I had the pleasure of
affiliating my first new Tangent, ‘Nightingale Tangle’ they are based in Derbyshire. Their
name was chosen due to the area having links with Florence Nightingale. I would also like to
congratulate Barry & The Vale Tangent based in Wales on not only affiliating but also
agreeing to organise the Welsh Regional Lunch in 2020 and Ellesmere Port Tangent on their
recent affiliation. On a sadder note we have seen some disaffiliations over the last couple of
months, these have mainly been due to an aged membership and clubs’ situations changing.
Growth of the organisation is incredibly important, and for those who know me well, know I
am passionate about our association and will do all in my ability to help it grow, whether it
be helping a Ladies Circle member transition to Tangent, to answering website enquiries
from a potential new member.
Our ‘Open’ Club Membership is also very important due to it creating new extensions of
friendships you have already made through Ladies Circle or Tangent. There are many easy
ways a club can advertise effectively, to attract new members, if you have a circle near make
sure you invite them to your meetings and build relationships with them and if you need any
ideas then please do not hesitate to contact me. Also let me know your membership news, if
a new member joins you let me know so I can share your news.
Email: [email protected]
Round Table & Ladies Circle
conference in Leicester May 2019
During the Ladies Circle Conference, not only
was I able to meet up with all my fellow 4 club
family membership officers, I also ran a fact-
finding competition that allowed circlers to
discover how much they knew about their
local Tangents, whether they even had one,
and who to contact if they were unsure.
I have already had several circler’s contact me
about setting up new Tangent Clubs or
wanting to join or contact their local Tangent
Club, which is gives me the hope that we really
are stronger together and as Ladies Circle say,
#getinvolved.
The winner of the Competition was Rebecca
from Loughborough Ladies Circle, who’s
Grandmother is a member of Loughborough
Tangent and mother is a prospective member
of Charnwood Tangent.
Marketing & Membership 2019/20
I asked And you sent them in…
Thank you to all the club members who follow the Tangent Facebook closed group and responded to the request. If you haven’t joined this group, do as it’s great to see what your fellow members have been doing and connect with friends old & new.
Photo’s required…
If you have any photo’s your clubs
are willing to share with us so we
can use them to advertise what
Tangent clubs are all about.
Please email them to us, nothing
says it better than our own
members doing what they do
best… the 3 F’s are still very much
a part of everything we do when
in Tangent.
Fun, Friendship & Fundraising.
Just a small selection…
The pictures you see on here are just a
very small selection from the over 200
we have received so far. But keep
them coming in.
New Membership award to be presented at the Cardiff AGM 2020
Membership
Award
NATC
?
I would like to present a new award at the 2020 AGM in
Cardiff to the club with the highest % membership growth,. All
clubs wishing to enter will need to complete the membership
competition entry which will be made available in February
2020. The award will be given to the club with the highest %
growth of members over the last year.
Does your club have a generic email
address? Generic email address setup: All clubs are being asked to set up a
generic email address for example this will be your
(name)[email protected] or (name)[email protected]
You can use any generic email address, Gmail, Yahoo etc. it’s whatever
your preference is. All clubs really need to have a generic account
rather than using a personal account, we have found that personal
accounts can cause many problems over the years, especially when
people change roles/leave etc. a suggestion is for up to 4 members of
the clubs to have access to the address, so someone can always see the
emails and know the login and password that are set up and see the
emails that are being received! The main person would be either the
Chairman or Secretary if you have them. Sharing responsibility has
made it much easier for clubs, those who have already done this have
already said they feel more connected to national and potential new
members.
If you need any help in doing this please do not hesitate to contact
either myself or Kate, website & Editor, instructions can also be found
on the tangent website
www.tangent-clubs.org
As soon as this is set up let us know so we can start getting the
correspondence to you straight away. By also having a generic account
and not a personal address we can add your club email to the club
finder on the national site as soon as we have the details, which means
potential members can find you and email you straight away. If you
choose to use a personal address all membership & club enquires will
be sent through to the national membership address and then have to
be redirected.
Email all club contact updates to Doreen, [email protected]
You can do this at any time of the year not just when the contact
update and capitation forms are sent. Keeping your details up to date
means all our members are better informed.
Don’t forget to invite me along if you are having a new
membership event or just to a normal club night or lunch as
I would like to try and visit as many of you as I can! Their is
no one better than our existing clubs and it’s members to
share ideas with new clubs.
Also email me a copy of your program as I get asked a lot for
program ideas and what better way than to share ideas. In
the next issue I will be focusing on how groups can adapt to
involve members of all ages and how different program
ideas and the way clubs are run can make sure your tangent
remains popular with all your members for the future.
Email: [email protected] (Emma)
