Ideas to Assist in Finding New Office Bearers for Your Parents and Friends Association

• Contact individuals personally and invite them along even pick them up and take them to meetings. Initially invite them to take on a small job eg. minute secretary, social coordinator
• One person (with helpers) could be asked to organise each of a number of activities eg sausage sizzles, chocolate drives, etc
• The idea is to break down the Office Bearers roles into bite-size jobs, and get more people involved, through a personal approach.
• Dont let one person take on too much!
• Start a Jobs Manua, which can be passed on to the new committee each year, so they dont have to re-invent the wheel.
• If nobody nominates for President, Secretary, Treasurer, Vice-President, etc then elect a Chairman and Minute Secretary, etc, at each meeting, for the time being.
• Personally invite the Principal and teachers along to meetings and ask them to have input regarding resources required and/or give an occasional presentation on educational issues.
• Alternate meetings between day and night.
• Get both mothers and fathers involved.
• Ask the Principal/teachers to identify two or three parents from each class (men and women) who could form the basis of the Committee.
• Arrange more social functions ie. Morning teas, sausage sizzles, where people can get to know each other without having to pay for anything.