Ideas to recruit new cheerleaders

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Icey77 wrote: »

How about arranging a display at a local shopping centre?

Kids out with their parents would see it and perhaps pester their mums and dads into letting them have a go?

Not sure what insurance requirements (H&S!!! Etc) might be required but could be something to investigate :j

We did one at the Metrocentre so hopefully can get something from that going to try for another later in the year!

Have also set up a Gofundme page so that we can try and raise enough to buy some new equipment - better facilities might attract more people too!

HBS x

Janepig

DD is 10 and does cheerleading, she loves it. She joined a squad when she was 5 (I think) after seeing them doing a display in an open day at a local brewery!! It may mean you have to wait a while but if there are any local summer carnivals or fetes or anything like that, they're usually looking out for organisations who can do something like that. We did loads when DD was in her first squad. Articles in the local newspaper can be worthwhile too, or do some leaflets to send into schools.

DD did lots of competitions, including National Comps in the CIA in Birmingham and Ricoh Arena in Coventry, big arenas, full crowds, it was fantastic and not a hint of nerves from the girls.

She's in a different squad now as the first squad she was in disbanded, the coaches now have a different squad elsewhere. She's done one comp in Cardiff with the new team, which they won and it was brilliant - I'd so missed going to watch her. Her tumbling's really improved, she can do back flips now etc... The next comp is in Nottingham in March.

The only down side (which is quite a big down side) is the cost. Training isn't too expensive but the comps are! But it's loads of fun and I wish I was DD's age because I'd have loved doing it back then!

Good luck with getting some new recruits HBS!!

Jx

Loz01

I help run a girls football team and had the same problems finding numbers! I put up posters on notice boards, in libraries, in local secondary schools (they put them on PE dept), in local Tescos :rotfl: and any other place I could think of. I nagged the girls to think of friends that might like football (which is rare!) - my persistence finally paid off when we got two new players. Good luck OP!

CH27

Could you link in with high schools who run DofE?
Students need to do a sport or learn a new skill & they're always looking for alternatives to the traditional sports.

mcja

My local squad has just started classes in my daughters school. Its £3 per session, and straight after school. Might be worth thinking about.

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Can't do schools sadly, I work full time.

Loz01 - might nag the squad to poster in work/school/college

CH27...DofE....oooooo there's a thought!!

Janepig - it's the best sport in the world...always great to hear of someone settled and happy in it

Thank you everyone!

HBS x

skateykatey

Have pm'd you. X

Caroline_a

My daughter did cheer at uni, having done gymnastics for years. She loved it and ended up doing a couple of years with Unity AllStars (Google on YouTube ). She loved it - people still have this misapprehension that it's almost soft !!!!!!, when it takes a whole range of dance, gymnastic and timing skills. I've been to competitions where there were kids of every shape, size and colour, including performances done by disabled youngsters.

Good luck in your quest for recruitment!

kacie

Would you be able to put posters up in the local gyms?

pinkduvetdiva

Maybe you could see if you could do short workshops in schools - teaching the jumps, cheers, basic stunting, and gymnastics.