Voluntary Sector: The Week in Charities
07 Nov 2008
- Media Trust, the charity that works with the media to help the voluntary sector with comms and PR
Target: Waterstone's Protesters: Christian Voice Location: Cardiff, Wales Date: 12 November - The lowdown Waterstone's was forced to cancel a book signing in its Cardiff store after a Christian pressure group protested. Darkness is Where the Stars Are author Patrick Jones - brother of Manic...
- Media Trust, the charity that works with the media to help the voluntary sector with comms and PR
Protesters: Trident Ploughshares Target: Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE)/Government Location: AWE, Aldermaston Date: 27 October - The Lowdown More than 30 people were arrested during what The Guardian called one of the biggest anti-nuclear protests for ten years. Members of the campaign group...
Agency briefed to help promote more positive press coverage of religious education.
World Vision has created a viral to highlight that 1.1 billion people do not have access to clean water. Retained agency Trimedia is contacting national, consumer, online and broadcast media as well as taking bottles of dirty water to radio and TV stations.
The Daily Star's deputy editor has joined War Child to head up the international charity's media output. Ben Knowles started at the beginning of the week as executive producer.
Trimedia is handling PR for the Butterfly World Trust as it prepares to launch its walk-through butterfly bio-dome, which it claims is the world's largest. The agency will oversee media relations for the bio-dome. In particular, it will underline the environmental objectives driving the project.
The report by Spectrum Consulting said voluntary sector organisations found social media less ...
Disabled children's charity Whizz-Kidz is boosting its communications team as it sets its sights on national and consumer press coverage.