Attendance Ideas
'Phone Squads' call members encouraging them to attend the meeting that day. Inactive members may attend meetings as a direct result of the phone squads method and may regain enthusiasm about Club projects.
'Stuffed Lion' reactivates members. At each meeting an inactive member is selected and a stuffed Lion is dropped off at his home or place of business. It becomes his responsibility to return the Lion in person at a regular meeting, where the returning member is properly greeted and recognized. The stuffed Lion is then sent along on his next mission. The whereabouts of the stuffed Lion should be regularly publicized in the Club Bulletin.
'Buddy List' with phone numbers is prepared at the beginning of each Lions year by the Club Secretary and distributed to all members. Every member is responsible for another to ensure 100% membership attendance.
A calendar for each
member reminds members and their spouse/partner about the Clubs scheduled meetings.
'Roll Call' is taken at every meeting by the Secretary or the chairman of the
Attendance Committee. He also asks the Lions present to call those absent,
saying that they were missed while encouraging them to attend the next meeting,
and to inform them of any upcoming Committee or Board meeting so that they could
arrange a make-up.
'Fete System' begins by dividing the entire Club into
various groups. Each group has a leader who ensures that at every meeting all
his "group" attend. One point is given for each member in attendance
at each meeting. At the end of the year the group with the most points is
announced and the leader of that group gets a certificate issued by the Club
President. The losing groups have to fete (entertain) the entire Club.