The standard committee postions are Chair, secretary and treasurer. This means that only 3 people have named officer positions. This often makes people feel that they are not really part of the committee. One way to encourage people to feel involved is to make them involved. You can do this simply and easily by making additional committee officer positions. However each position must be a real job. There is no point in making up jobs. Split up existing jobs... Split the secretarys job up for example. Minutes secretary Correspondance Secretary This also has the advantage of easing the workload on existing committee members. In the same way, some simple lateral thinking brings up: chair and vice-chair Publicity Officer Newsletter Editor Co-ordinator for events Representatives for meetings Clerical Duty Officer Security Liasion Officer Police Liasion Officer Federation Representative. Room/Office Co-ordinator The only job that shouldn't be split up is leaflet delivering. There is nothing more chorish that delivering leaflets and newsletters. Ensure that everyone who is able to do it, does. In a community group no one should be above delivering leaflets. Co-ordinating all these positions might seem like a logistical nightmare - but that is what meetings are for. It would be quite easy to create a sheet which showed what every job entailed in terms of time, and skills needed to be learnt. By running through what everyone is up to at regular meetings the entire group should start to really work as a group. If you make lots of jobs and get them filled then you might like to create another job - committee co-ordinator! By involving lots of people you generate more interest. By splitting up the work you make people happier. A combination of both makes your group secure.