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Update 1135 28 January 2025

We have been asked by Railway200 to try to gather quantifiable data on the performance and impact of the Railway200 year. The first of these KPIs is in new volunteer engagement. It occurred to us that there are many other activities and promotions that for which it would be useful for railways to gauge success in terms of new volunteer engagement as well, so we have expanded the scope to be more general. Are now some new tick boxes on the New User form, displayed for Working users only (and on the Edit User form if a user is being made up to a Working user), to enable the 'reasons for wishing to work for the railway' and 'how you heard about opportunity to work for the railway'. When ticked, a text box is shown to allow the recording of additional or more specific information. Multiple tick boxes can be applied if a new user was influenced by more than one source. Predicting that you will come up with brilliant ideas for additions to the list, and inevitably also want your own local ones, the system facilitates this, so let us know if you have other specific promotion channels to monitor. Using this information, HOPS will be able to show railways not only the proportion of users that were influenced by each source, but also how many survive as working users year after year. Eg a promotion that produces 6 volunteers that last 10 years might be more valuable than a promotion that produces 100 volunteers that are gone after a month. One of the options is Railway 200, and this should be ticked (in addition to any other appropriate boxes) if it could be said that the existence of Railway 200 contributed positively to this new person becoming a volunteer. We hope this is useful!