Tag Archives: Bright One

The Next Era for Bright One

  We’ve come along way since Bright One started in September 2008. Bright One has made great progress, from a small group of people who wanted to change the world for the better in their own small way using the skills they have, to a strong and growing community of volunteers who are making real [...]

Bright One August Social: 29 August 2012

    The Bright One Socials are our way of bringing the community together over a few drinks. It’s a great chance to put a face to the name, meet fellow volunteers and to get to know each other a bit better. This August Social will be a very special one as it will be Bright [...]

Are You Our Next Volunteer Manager?

  Bright One has got a crackin’ team of volunteers who do some amazing work with charities all year round. But as all of our people are volunteers there is one person with that extra bit of responsibility – the Volunteer Manager, a special kind of person who will go the extra mile for our [...]

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 [...]

Bright One’s PR Prom – Thanks For Coming!

    Bright One’s inaugural PR Prom took place on Thursday the 23rd of February at Shoreditch Town Hall in London with UK’s top communications professionals rocking their most fabulous prom outfits! The Bright One team had a great night and we would like to thank you all for coming and for supporting the work [...]

Freedom of Information requests for charities: a useful tool?

We all love a good survey. They’re almost a PR watermark when you see them in a story — when a newspaper is telling you ‘X per cent of people do/think/are Y’ you know it’s the end result of someone’s media plan. But surveys can be a bit flimsy (especially for charities who pride themselves [...]

Trustee Opportunities with Bright One

  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 [...]

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 [...]

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 and Bright Works – First Impressions

  This is a guest post from one of our new Bright Workers, Jessica. Want to join her? Head over to Bright Works now! If it wasn’t for Twitter I wouldn’t have discovered Bright One. In my follow-happy early days as a novice tweeter, I scoured Twitter for any organisation that consolidated my two main [...]