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Recruitment: a fresh approach

Campfire Circle

Campfire Circle is a brand new way for people to stay in touch with Scouting. The scheme is aimed at lapsed volunteers who want to stay in touch, and people new to Scouting who want to find out more before making a commitment.

The overall objective of the scheme is to encourage people to volunteer.

The key to this is flexibility and enabling people to help out as and when they can. Many will have left Scouting because of a lifestyle change, and as a result have less free time. The only way we may be able to encourage them back is to be as accommodating as possible.

We sent a mail out in January 2007 to all lapsed volunteers who left Scouting in the last three to five years (over 21,000) to introduce them to Campfire Circle. We will also contact volunteers who leave the Movement from now on and invite them to join this network, with the hope that they will return to volunteering one day. It is our hope that in the long-term you reap the rewards of many new volunteers joining in your area.

Our Campfire Circle web pages contain all the information a new joiner needs about this new network.

If you are a District Commissioner or Membership Enquiry Person and have not received an information pack about Campfire Circle, please email campfire@scout.org.uk with ‘Campfire Circle Info Pack Request’ in the title and state your name and address.