Publicity in Penrith and Eden District
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Penrith and Eden District Freegle received funding in May 2016 for a year from the Cumbria County Council Community Waste Prevention Fund - more details - supplemented with a little funding from Freegle itself.
- Run four Give and Take events across Eden District
- Produce a fortnightly blog
- Produce a list of alternatives to Freegle in Eden District
- Produce a guide/short report for other Freegle groups indicating the success of these publicity efforts
This page will detail what's been done over the year - and list other on-going publicity efforts.
Blog entries
Do on website with monthly piece at Penrith Today (200 words and a photo).
Local group website
The website www.penrithedenfreegle.org.uk was revamped for Penrith and Eden District Freegle. This has blog entries and one or two information pages. The site uses Drupal 8 but other and possibly easier logging system can be used.
- More than one user can write a blog
- Blogposts are shared by hand onto the group Twitter and Facebook pages
- Comments on blog posts are handled using disqus
- A blog feed is available at http://www.penrithedenfreegle.org.uk/rss.xml
- MailChimp is used to send out blogposts by email which anyone can sign up to - MailChimp checks the RSS feed and emails new posts once a day
- Google Analytics are used to track site usage
- A site map has been set up for use at Google webmaster tools and Bing webmaster tools
