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 [...]
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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 [...]
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, [...]
New Year, New Updates to Bright Works!
Happy New Year to you all ;) To kick things off in 2012, we’ve got some new updates to Bright Works, our microvolunteering platform that lets causes connect with skilled volunteers in a simple, effective and easy way. Here’s the run down: Slippy Tank We’ve upgraded the platform so that we can now have [...]
Digital is Dynamite
The buzzword is digital and the result can be dynamite; the question is how do you use the former to generate the latter? The answer is: using traditional customer-oriented marketing in a new-fashioned way! In line with various white papers on the subject, the key to driving engagement with your supporters and service users is [...]
Bright Works Awarded in European Volunteering Competition
We’re delighted that Bright Works, our microvolunteering app, received the award for third place in the Discover E-Volunteering competition, the only competition in Europe which aims to promote the most interesting projects in which volunteers help others via the Internet. Over 80 applications from organisations from 19 European countries were received and were great [...]
Infographic: Lasa’s Annual Review
Bright One board member Zoe Amar (@zoeamar) has been hard at work with Lasa, the charity that provides technology and welfare rights advice, as well as influencing policy on advice, legal services and third sector technology. Lasa’s new annual review demonstrates the impact it has had in its work with thousands of charities and government bodies [...]
Proposition is Principal – Case Study: Macmillan Cancer Support ‘Every Step of the Way’
Everyone keeps going on about the gloomy economic climate and inevitable double dip… and while we leave such judgments and forecasts to the professionals, where does this leave charities and how can Bright One help? In order to cement their place in the ‘marketplace’, one of the most important things a charity can do is [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]