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PUBLIC AFFAIRS: DLA Upstream has launched a planning communications practice to coincide with the Government's Green Paper on planning, published this week. The team, led by directors Steve John and Kevin Craig, advises on development projects in industrial and retail sectors.
A coalition of City institutions representing nearly 400bn in combined assets is to launch a CSR communications campaign to raise investor awareness of human rights abuses in Burma. The eight-strong group - which includes the Co-operative Insurance Society, Morley Fund Management and Jupiter...
Save the Children is on the hunt for its first board-level communications chief. The new post of director of policy and communications has been created as part of a senior management revamp overseen by director-general Mike Aaronson. This includes the merger of the communications...
The Association of Police Press Officers (APPRO) has raised concerns over funding as it cautiously welcomes attempts by the Government to boost police PR. 'The worry is for some of the smaller forces who do not have the funds to do things they would like to do in terms of communications,'...
The Government's employment training scheme University for Industry (Ufi) has announced a boost in media relations activity as it attempts to attract more recruits. Consolidated Communications has been hired, following a COI-organised pitch and on a three-month project basis, to drive enrolment...
Crisis is to step up its Christmas campaign highlighting the plight of those in hostel and bed and breakfast accommodation in the new year. The current winter campaign, called Hidden Homelessness, aims to show that the reduction in rough sleeping - a success lauded by the Government -...
Plans to make more drugs available to consumers have prompted the over-the-counter industry's trade body to revamp its PR. The Government wants to increase the number of OTC drugs available, with the morning-after pill being this year's most controversial switch from prescription-only....
The Food Standards Agency is to target the catering sector in an attempt to cut incidents of food poisoning by 20 per cent over the next five years. An initial six-month PR campaign will start in the new year to communicate with the UK's estimated 350,000 eateries on the importance of...
GOVERNMENT INITIATIVE: The Government's charitable giving initiative The Giving Campaign has hired agency MS&L to promote the tax incentive - based Gift Aid scheme over Christmas. The focus will be on regional media and personal finance sections of the national press.
TERENCE HIGGINS: The Terence Higgins Trust is developing an e-campaigning element on its website www.tht.org.uk. The new pages will enable people concerned about HIV issues to lobby their local politicians, MPs and newspapers direct. The pages are being developed with Advocacy Online.
