Table 1.

The Wollondilly Diabetes Programme recruitment approaches.

	Recruitment approaches
General Practices	The general practitioners were encouraged to refer patients to the Wollondilly Diabetes Programme group education sessions and peer support programme.
Wollondilly-wide flyer distribution	The Wollondilly Diabetes Programme flyers were placed at various locations across Wollondilly including medical centres, community centres, food outlets, schools, private business/religious places and leisure centres.
Community engagement at community groups	The Wollondilly Diabetes Programme was promoted at regular and one-off events organised by the Wollondilly council, New South Wales Health. Examples of community groups included: Men’s shed, community vegetable gardens, community pantry. Existing Wollondilly Diabetes Programme participants were offered the opportunity to be part of the peer support programme, when they were consulted by either Dietitian or Credentialed Diabetes Educator for individual consults and when attended group education
Social Media- Newspapers/Radio	The Wollondilly Diabetes Programme team approached local newspapers, radio stations, magazines and Public School Newsletters, to advertise the Wollondilly Diabetes Programme.
Social Media-online	A Wollondilly Diabetes Programme Facebook page was created and Wollondilly-associated Facebook community and council pages were sent a request, to post the Wollondilly Diabetes Programme
Word of mouth	The entire Wollondilly Diabetes Programme team encouraged existing interested participants to let their network of friends, family, colleagues know about the Wollondilly Diabetes Programme, and encourage their network to contact the Wollondilly Diabetes Programme over the phone, in-person or via email for participation or more information.
Door to door survey	Door knocking is being undertaken across Wollondilly and commenced in February 2017. Flyers are distributed while conducting surveys. So far 5418 flyers have been distributed.
The Wollondilly Diabetes Programme road show	The aim of this strategy is to invite patients for screening at one centralised location. The Wollondilly Diabetes Programme road show consisted of the Wollondilly Diabetes Programme team- the endocrinologist, dietitian and credentialed diabetes educator, non-clinical staff and the Wollondilly Diabetes Programme Peer Support Facilitators (already trained) to encourage the attendees to join as peer support facilitators or as peers.
Promotion via peer support facilitators	Residents (peers) with and at-risk of diabetes are encouraged by their fellow community members (peer support facilitators), to join the programme