The Google Grant scheme is an in-kind donation programme that gives selected charities advertising spend on their Google Adwords advertising platform. It’s proving very useful to charities so whether you’ve heard about it or not, here’s what it’s all about and how you can start using it to help your charity. How the Google [...]
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Why businesses should create charity partnerships
These days it is almost expected that larger businesses will support the work of a charity, whether by choosing a charity to sponsor for the year, or getting involved with the community at a grassroots level. Corporate Social Responsibility is old hat, but smaller and smaller companies are answering the call for charitable activity [...]
Could charities be doing more with digital?
We’ve all witnessed first-hand the rapid growth of digital technology in every day life, even as recently as in the last 12 months. From social media, to cloud computing, to smart phones (it has been estimated that smart phones will be owned by over 90% of mobile users within the next two years), digital [...]
The Modern Volunteer
As many as 22 million people volunteer across the UK each year, a rise of nine per cent according to latest statistics Evidence also suggests that more people are enquiring about volunteering too – 86 per cent of volunteer centres nationwide reported an increase in inquiries, and the value to the economy of those volunteers is significant, estimated at in excess of £21.5 billion. [...]
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 [...]
A Missed Fundraising Opportunity?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Andi Davids appointed CEO of Bright One
Bright One is pleased to announce the appointment of its new CEO, Andi Davids. Andi has joined Bright One following a year and a half at the Queen’s Nursing Institute, where she was responsible for the organisation’s strategic communications and managed a nationwide programme on homeless health. “As a former volunteer with Bright One, I [...]