'Heart' Napo / Recruit a Friend Scheme
It is TUC 'Heart' Unions Week (14th February to 20th February) and we’re relaunching our own ‘Recruit a Friend’ Scheme as part of the Resolution passed at the 2021 AGM for the Trade Union Organising (TUO) Network to revive our campaign towards achieving 10K Membership.
The TUC are organising various online events throughout the week, I’d encourage you to register for these directly and please pass onto your members as well :
Click here: TUC site to see the events you can register for:
Napo ‘Recruit a Friend’ Scheme
The Napo ‘Recruit a Friend’ scheme allows for both members who recruit a colleague as well as the new member to claim a reward of a £25 online gift voucher. Due to this year’s TUO Budget, we will have to cap it at 1 voucher only for your first recruit and recruitee. Please don’t make that stop you or members recruiting after a first recruitment though! The top 5 recruiters will be entered into a draw for an extra prize. And we will be running several of these schemes throughout the year.
This first scheme will run from today to the end of March.
Please get members or yourself to email myself at avalent@napo.org.uk and editorial@napo.org.uk with your contact details and the recruitee’s details.
Also send us stories of your experiences.
Click here also for our: Organising & Recruitment Guide again which has handy tips for members to help with recruitment on page 5 to 7.
Some practical matters to bear in mind from Napo’s Membership department:
There are two different links and spaces on the website for members depending on whether they are joining or re-joining.
Unfortunately due to the legal issues around re-keying information about Direct Debits into our current database, if someone who has been a member before uses the join rather than the re-join option Membership cannot process this and have to ask them to do it again.
So if someone is joining for the first time then the link for them is: https://join.napo.org.uk/#/join-online/home
However if someone has left or been lapsed the link for them is: https://www.napo.org.uk/application-re-join-napo-agency-workers-application
Do get in touch with membership@napo.org.uk if you have any queries about this.
Recruitment Materials
We have some materials still in stock and have sent some to branches on individual requests so far but are awaiting some more (should be received very shortly) so we will send these to a designated person in each branch, once we have all the new materials received. These will be pens, 'Heart' Napo post-it notes, lanyards, and multi-lead charger cables. Please email me asap with a designated person in the branch where we can post these to as soon as we receive them at avalent@napo.org.uk
Do also take a look at https://www.napo.org.uk/organising-recruitment where you will find recruitment leaflets and other resources to help you with organising and recruitment.
TUO Network/Membership Secretaries’ meeting
I will write separately to the Network regarding a date for the Network soon with more of an update as we go along in our recruitment campaign.
Last but not least… Retired Members’ Network
We have a very large network of retired members. They are very willing to help branches out with any organising matters. Please get in touch with your retired members in your branch in what way they can help out.
Let’s build a stronger union together!
In solidarity,
ANNOESJKA VALENT
National Official (Trade Union Organisation)