MENTAL ILLNESS: Jockey Pat O'Connor, who suffers from manic depressive illness, is sponsoring a horserace in the name of mental health charity Rethink, the rebranded National Schizophrenia Fellowship. The event is the centrepiece of the charity's spring PR offensive, and will be overseen by Rethink...
FUNDRAISING: Organisers of a charity auction of chairs donated by celebrities are on the hunt for a corporate sponsor. The event, called Chairish the Child, aims to raise funds for children's charities such as the NSPCC. Celebrities taking part include Brad Pitt, Robert Redford and Lennox Lewis.
WWF: The World Wildlife Fund is launching a PR campaign to find a corporate sponsor for a fundraising link-up next year with amateur dramatics groups. The fundraising initiative, titled Global Applause, involves the production of specially-written plays for WWF across Britain.
CHARITY: Guide Dogs for the Blind is launching a PR push for a forthcoming sponsored event called Escape and Evasion, where participants attempt to complete an SAS training session. The event takes place in the summer and was conceived following one of the charity's event managers involvement in a recent...
The Royal Parks Agency - which maintains and polices London s royal parklands, including Regents and Hyde Parks, with an annual budget of pounds 26m - has created a new public affairs post. The role involves handling press and PR, marketing and fundraising, sponsorship and events. With a brief to create...
Threshold Tennant Trust has filled its newly-created post of press and PR manager with the appointment of Andrew Nye, following a review of the body s PR activities. Nye has 18 months experience as publications manager at the National Autistic Society. His immediate focus will be next month s DETR-sponsored...
The Birmingham Millennium Point - a major pounds 50 million national project - has assembled a PR team to oversee its launch in September next year.
The Central Office of Information has appointed Oxygen Marketing to handle sponsorship and promotion for the DTI s 2000 National Fireworks Safety Campaign. The campaign will seek to educate young people about the dangers of fireworks as half of those injured each year are children. Oxygen will be seeking...
The Red Consultancy has been appointed by drinks company Bulmers to provide PR support for Strongbow s sponsorship of Leeds United FC.
International child development agency Compassion has retained London-based agency Oasis Media to handle its press and PR activity in the UK. The move comes as part of Compassion s aim to grow and consolidate its UK presence after setting up its first UK office in 1999. Oasis brief will be to raise...
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