If you’ve been looking for an interesting and rewarding trustee role in a friendly small-sized organisation, look no further! We are thrilled to announce that we will be offering the opportunity to become a Bright One trustee. This is a very exciting time for us and we are looking to get trustees onboard in [...]
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Bright One joins calls for charities to be exempt from copyright licensing fees
Each year over 1000 charities collectively pay the Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) £1.3m for the privileged of seeing their name in news print. They’re not paying to get into the newspaper (that’s our job in charity PR) instead they’re just paying to see it. Often paying to see something they had a big hand in [...]
Happy New Year – Bring on 2012!
It is January, it is 2012, and we would like to wish all our volunteers, charities, supporters and friends a Happy New Year. Bright One has had a great year in 2011 but we are very excited about 2012 as it’s looking to be even better! Some of our highlights from last year would be [...]
Bright One Seeks Project Managers
It’s a new year, and with it comes new opportunities and challenges. If you’ve been looking for an interesting and rewarding volunteering role we’ve got one for you! In order to expand and grow in 2012 Bright One is in need of knowledgeable and experienced individuals to assist with clients and project management. We are [...]
Bright One Announces PR Industry’s PR Prom
We’re very excited to announce the date for Bright One’s inaugural PR Prom that will take place on February 23rd 2012. The PR Prom is a fundraising event in support of Bright One and will be held at the fabulous London venue, Shoreditch Town Hall. There will be food, drinks, live performances by She Makes War [...]
Bright Works Update: New Projects, New Features and Competition Finals
Bit of a update on Bright Works for you: New features coming soon – sign up now to keep updated >> Looking to add your project to Bright Works? – get in touch >> Plenty of projects live up at the moment – help them now >> We’re heading to the final of the [...]
2012 PR Graduate Schemes
The PR industry continues to grow and many agencies are seeing the value on running a formal grad scheme to attract the brightest and best new talent. The ever-awesome Ben Cotton over at Social Web Thing has once again done a fantastic job of compiling a post on PR Graduate Schemes from some of [...]
Bright One Volunteer is a Team London Star
We’re very proud to see one of our Bright One volunteers – Oana Munteanu – as one of the Team London Stars in the Mayor of London’s latest volunteering programme. Team London is a programme which aims to make volunteering easier to do and easier to find out about and the focus is on areas [...]
PRCA Charity Campaign Masterclass
This week, Founding Director of Bright One, Ben Matthews, spoke at a PRCA Charity Campaign Masterclass, alongside David Hamilton of Action for Children. Below are his slides, which covers three exciting charities and the tactics they use for successful campaigns: The Pixel Project, Centrepoint, and Child’s i Foundation. What tips have you got for [...]
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@BrightOne teams up with @Tots100 to launch #TimeToShare
Bloggers represent a powerful and influential online community, and the British parent blogging community is one of the most active around. This blogging community has a history of amazing support for good causes, with high-profile campaigns to raise awareness by the likes of Unicef, Save the Children and, most recently, CLIC Sargent, which ask bloggers to share information, words, [...]