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Do something for the community while promoting your club. Organise something like a sponsored event and then go to the town green to do it. Leave buckets around for donations to the charity of your choice... leave leaflets about your dojo around too.... Get some of the students to hand them out after. Get the newspaper to cover the event, and especially the bit where you hand over the cheque to the charity. MAs can get bad names so something like this is brilliant for showing that it's a nice, wholesome thing to get into.

 

Volunteer for school fetes. Not only will the watching kids be interested, I bet so will a lot of the adults. Do demonstrations where women, men and children are involved to show that MAs are for everyone.

 

If there are any fun runs drum up a group of students to get involved and run in their uniforms. Give them a few leaflets to hand out on the way.... again get the paper involved... lots of free advertising :P

 

Get into the community and the community will be interested in you.

 

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If there are any fun runs drum up a group of students to get involved and run in their uniforms. Give them a few leaflets to hand out on the way.... again get the paper involved... lots of free advertising :P

 

A big group of us from my karate club ran The Great North Run last year (we plan to do so again), in aid of a local childrens hospice. However, it was also MEGA good publicity for the club. We all wore our gi's to run in (boiling hot, running in a heavyweight gi - not a good idea) and got the local papers & local radio involved. We got quite a few new students because of it.

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We have a display in a regatta in the next couple of weeks.

 

And to think that when I started the thought of doing something like that in public would have had me widdling myself.

 

(not literally)

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Word of mouth is the best, but recently my school was invited to use a meeting room at a local water park for our latest tesing. We got the room for free and many students went to the park after the testing. It was win-win, we got alot of people looking at the testing and the water park got some customers and kids going home saying "wow, you wont believe what I saw at the water park today!"

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Do something for the community while promoting your club. Organise something like a sponsored event and then go to the town green to do it. Leave buckets around for donations to the charity of your choice... leave leaflets about your dojo around too.... Get some of the students to hand them out after. Get the newspaper to cover the event, and especially the bit where you hand over the cheque to the charity. MAs can get bad names so something like this is brilliant for showing that it's a nice, wholesome thing to get into.

 

Volunteer for school fetes. Not only will the watching kids be interested, I bet so will a lot of the adults. Do demonstrations where women, men and children are involved to show that MAs are for everyone.

 

If there are any fun runs drum up a group of students to get involved and run in their uniforms. Give them a few leaflets to hand out on the way....

 

again get the paper involved... lots of free advertising :P

 

Get into the community and the community will be interested in you.

 

8)

 

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