Publicity in Penrith and Eden District

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