How can I stay in touch with club members

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Most clubs publish a regular club newsletter with a round-up of activities, results, plans, announcements and other business. These can range from simple one-page flyers with text to elaborate multi-coloured magazines with photos and advertising. It all depends on your resources and expertise.

At the basic level, its very easy to create a simple newsletter using word-processing software. Many such programmes include one or more newsletter templates when they are installed on your computer. Check your Templates folder for examples. You can also ask around your membership to see whether anyone has more sophistacated desk-top publishing software that they would be willling to use. For small numbers, you can print off copies using a domestic printer, but for larger numbers you will probably prefer to use a local copy printers.

Whilst its easier and cheaper to leave newsletters to be collected from your club building, this will only reach the more active member - who probably already knows the news. It's much better to pay a little more and arrange for the newsletter to be distributed to each member's home address.

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