Category Archives: BrightOne News

Bright One is Guest Editor on Behind the Spin

  Ben Matthews, founder of Bright One, is guest editor for this month’s PR for Good Causes feature at Behind The Spin, the online publication for PR students and young practitioners. Ben introduces the special feature by arguing that recognition of the importance of PR in a charities’ every day activity is becoming increasingly stronger: [...]

Opportunity of the Week: Executive Assistant

  Role Overview: To work closely with Bright One’s founder in order to accelerate our journey towards becoming a self-sustainable organisation. Key Activities: Given the nature of working in a dynamic start-up, the position will encompass a variety of roles. However, the main areas of the position will be: Client relations and campaign management Community [...]

Opportunity of the Week: Measurement Volunteer

We are looking for individuals interested in working with Bright One to evaluate and extract information from media coverage and other client data to provide independent assessment of Bright One’s work. The analysis involves identifying social impact, key messages, and issues within media coverage and recording the information, as well as assisting in the identification [...]

Join the next Bright One Meet Up: 23 Feb 2011

    At our last AGM, our volunteers fed back that they wanted more chances to meet each other. So, with that in mind, we’re delighted to announce the first in a series of regular meetups. These bi-monthly socials will be a relaxed and informal way for the Bright One community to meet on a [...]

What does a good communications strategy look like?

Here is a presentation that, Ben Matthews, founder of Bright One, presented at the “Creating Powerful Comminications Strategy” conference, run by CharityComms in January 2011. You can find the other speaker’s presentations and further information about the event over on the CharityComms site or view more presentations from Bright One

Guardian Q&A: How to raise the profile of your social enterprise

  Bright One was invited to be on the panel of a Guardian Q&A on “What can social enterprises do to reach that wider audience, and develop greater recognition of the sector as a whole?” The Q&A was part of the Guardian Social Enterprise Network, with a panel was made up of: Becky John, whomadeyourpants? [...]

Bright One Awarded Outstanding Impact Award

  We’re delighted to announce that Bright One has received the Outstanding Impact Award for our Impress conference, which was awarded as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Just 131 out of over 700 Global Entrepreneurship Week event organisers have qualified for this digital accolade, so it’s a fantastic recognition for those involved in making the [...]

Case Study: ‘More Than A Gift’ for Chistmas

  In 2010 Bright One helped Centrepoint with their “More Than A Gift” campaign. Find out more below or visit the Centrepoint Gifts site. The Centrepoint ‘More Than A Gift’ campaign was a fundraising appeal to help the charity provide vital support for homeless young people over Christmas. The microsite allowed users to buy a [...]

Bright One Annual Report 2010

    Founders Note   If Bright One’s first year was all about testing the concept of an organisation that used PR professionals and students to help charities meet their own PR and communications needs, then our second year has been about making this concrete: firming up our processes, building up our volunteer community, and [...]

Bright One AGM

Bright One Communications is pleased to call its second Annual General Meeting (AGM). The meeting will take place on Wednesday 12 January 2011 from 7 pm at Hotwire PR’s offices (Google Map). The purpose of the AGM is to inform you all on progress of the organisation, and in particular to: Update on 2010 performance [...]