The Four Seasons
'The Four Seasons' This felt project ran over the winter 2006. The final wall hanging is over 7 feet in diameter and was the inspiration of Hermione Skrine and created by many of our group members over mid Devon.

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Promoting activities

 

Why promote?

There are lots of good reasons for promoting your activity or group. You might want to

 

  • encourage new members to join your group;
  • advertise a special activity or event;
  • get local support for what you are doing;
  • sell or donate what you are making;
  • get publicity for fund-raising;
  • find other like-minded individuals or groups; or
  • show your work to other people.

 

Types of promotion

There are lots of different ways to promote what you do.

 

  • Parish magazines or local newspapers Send in short articles or invite someone to come and see what you are doing.
  • Local radio or television. Contact the local station if you have something special that might interest more people.
  • Exhibit paintings or craftwork. You might be surprised at the amount of interest you get.
  • Produce postcards, Christmas cards or calendars of a special piece of art or craft work and use them as give-away publicity or sell them.
  • Write books of reminiscence, poetry or any other writing to give or sell to friends and the community.
  • Make a leaflet describing what your group does. Ask if you can leave it in the library, council offices, GP surgery, post office, and newsagent or community hall. Try a house-to-house drop throughout your community.
  • A poster to publicise a special event. Again, try the same places that have agreed to take your leaflet.

 

On loan for promotion

A mentor may be able to help you borrow work by other people to enable you to put together a larger exhibition. You could exhibit:

 

  • collective craft works and hangings;
  • paintings and drawings;
  • photographs, music CDs or DVDs; or
  • reminiscence items, clothes and artefacts.
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