If you do parent’s nights what do you tend to do for the night exactly and what have you found to be successful?
Are you referring to parents coming in to an existing unit where their children are cadets to see what they are doing or a recruitment night?
Not a recruitment night so parents to come in see what they are doing meet other parents etc.
I would be looking to put on a few activities for parents to take part in, i.e. to get a taste of what their cadet does on the squadron, and then a BBQ for a social element afterwards.
That’s a good idea
We have something similar, but call it an AGM. It’s led by the committee and separate from what the cadets are doing.
We have started doing that, a secretly good way of trying to recruit more civ comm/CFAV having the open AGM separate from the cadets, allows for the parents and committee members to be in a relaxed social setting rather than on Sqn