Charities are at the heart of most festivals, and see them as a good way of exposing their brand...Glastonbury has three charity partners, Oxfam, Water Aid and Greenpeace, as well as supporting more than 750 local charities every year. Glastonbury is the biggest of the 16 UK-based festivals Oxfam ...
of the first and last things you'll see at the festival,' says Oxfam's PR manager Stuart Fowkes.
The charity ...
22 Aug 2007
Children’s charity Norwood is optimistic it can raise its profile after appointing Cherie Blair...The human rights lawyer and wife of ex-prime minister Tony Blair has been involved with Norwood for several years. In 2004 she hosted a reception at 10 Downing Street and in 2005 she visited a children and family centre in Hackney, east London, that is supported by the charity. ...
26 Nov 2010
| by Matt Cartmell
A new charity is being formed to promote greater diversity in the PR industry.
The City of London has put out two PR briefs as it looks to promote its charitable trust and its work with disadvantaged young people.
23 Apr 2010
| by Matt Cartmell
Children's charity Plan UK has completed a major review of its communications by hiring a head...of communications Leigh Daynes, who has been overseeing the review. In addition, the charity has appointed Kindred ...
it will launch as a global campaign in 2012, when the charity celebrates its 75th anniversary. Daynes said ...
Charity PR professionals urged to take more risks....A top investigative journalist has urged charity comms professionals to go off the record more often. The Guardian s Nick Davies, author of the controversial book Flat Earth News, said: In the past ...
and you help your organisation, he said. Davies was speaking at the Charity Communications 08 ...
The charity has hired Mission Media s senior account manager Sherry Adhami to be senior comms ...
youth marketing agency Point Blank, has joined as the charity s first digital communications officer. Holmes will be in charge of developing the charity s online presence as it looks to reach out to young ...
17 Oct 2007
Charities have been told to ensure they have a comms strategy in place before progressing...The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) has launched new guidelines on charity mergers. The guidelines stress the importance of garnering stakeholder buy-in and being open about ...
merger will not affect the standard of the services you re providing. The Charity Commission ...
01 Aug 2007
for Aid, a charity that takes on post-disaster reconstruction and development projects....It is working with the charity on a pro-bono basis for the next 12 months and will launch ...
the charity as a thought-leader in sustainable design and building in the national and trade press, promote ...
with the charity at the end of May this year. Architects for Aid was set up after founder and chairman Maxwell ...
04 Jul 2007
Luther Pendragon has won a four-way shoot-out to land an account with an influential cancer charity...The agency was hired this week by The Cancer Campaigning Group, a coalition of UK charities that have joined forces to raise the profile of the disease within the NHS and also to secure more funding. The group s 37 members include Cancer Research UK, CLIC Sargent, Macmillan Cancer Support and Teenage Cancer ...