The annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival took place in London last week with a wide selection of films that show human rights issues and abuse around the world. The festival highlighted issues such as the privatisation of the water supply in Bolivia and trafficking of young women in Eastern Europe. In the [...]
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What’s new on Bright Works
We’ve got a fresh batch of microvolunteering tasks over on Bright Works, from new and returning charities looking for skilled volunteers with some time to spare, as little as 15 minutes up to 4 hours. If you haven’t tried Bright Works yet, it is Bright One’s microvolunteering platform that connects causes with skilled volunteers in [...]
Take the @CharityComms Benchmark Survey 2012
We’re encouraging every communicator working in the charity sector to fill in the CharityComms’ Communications Benchmark survey. The results will let you compare your organisation to others and help build a picture of how the sector communicates. The survey contains questions about resources, your senior management’s attitude to comms, and where comms functions fit into your [...]
What charities have to say about Bright Works!
Bright Works is one way that Bright One helps charities. Found at www.brightworks.me, the website lets third sector organisations connect with a pool of communications volunteers for small, one-off projects through microvolunteering. A few weeks a go I posted a testimonial from a volunteer using the platform. Today I thought I’d share some of the [...]
Trusteeship – A Fantastic Opportunity for Young People
At the moment, there aren’t nearly enough younger people going into charity trusteeship in this country. I’m going to try to convince you that it is something that you should consider. Firstly, anyone can be a Trustee. You don’t ever have to have worked for a charity in any capacity, in fact in some [...]
Bright Works Featured on The High Tea Cast
The High Tea Cast is an irreverent, savvy, monthly podcast combines music and popular culture chat, and great interviews with cool young leaders in fashion, food and third sector projects. This month, Co-creators Sam Sparrow and Leanne Rice take a look at some worthy community ventures in 2012, finding ways their skills can help others and do some good. We’re delighted that [...]
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 [...]
New Bright Works Projects Waiting for your Support
We started the year off with a slew of updates to Bright Works, our microvolunteering platform that lets causes connect with skilled volunteers in a now even simpler, effective and easy way. Now that the site is working better than ever, new projects have been added. If your New Year’s resolution was to give more back, [...]
Take a look at Bright Works, our micro volunteering app for charity tasks >>
Bright One Annual Report 2011
Bright One’s latest Annual Report was presented last night at our AGM, which took place in the fantastic offices of Edelman UK. We would like to use this opportunity to send over a big thank you to the Edelman team and the catering staff who treated us with a great space and some delicious nibbles [...]