Tag Archives: Bright One

Volunteering Opportunity with Bright One: Blog Editor

We are looking for Bright Ones interested in writing for our popular blog. We use the Bright One blog to communicate with our internal and external community about our latest announcements, exciting campaigns and news regarding our charities, and to discuss the latest developments in the world of communications and charities. We want to make [...]

Research Internship Opportunity with Carbon Leapfrog

Our partners at Carbon Leapfrog are recruiting a German-speaking Research Intern to be based in London to work on a new project that will build a vision for the role of communities in developing renewable energy in the UK. This project will enable the UK to learn from the experience of Germany and include arranging [...]

Trends in Charities’ Use of Social Media

Ben Matthews, founder of Bright One, spoke at a CIPR Fifth Estate group event called ‘Trends in Charities’ Use of Social Media’, held at Grayling PR’s office. Charities have grasped the opportunities that social media gives to communicate with their supporters, often being nimbler and more innovative than their private sector counterparts. Facebook and Twitter [...]

Bright One September Social: 29 September 2011

Bright One socials are great opportunities for volunteers and friends of Bright One to meet on a regular basis for some drinks, food and chat. We had a great one earlier this summer in Clerkenwell and with the summer being (almost) over we feel it’s time to kick-start this autumn with a good catch-up. Come [...]

How to use social media for market research

This is a guest post by Zoe Amar, Head of Marketing and Business Development at Lasa, a charity which provides services to Shelter, Age UK and thousands of other charities across the UK. She is also on the board at Bright One and is a Chartered Marketer. Zoe tweets from @zoeamar Social media gurus keep [...]

Bright One teams up with Edelman for a Social Enterprise Clinic

  Members of the Bright One community had the fantastic opportunity of meeting with global representatives of PR agency Edelman two weeks ago at an interactive workshop session at The Landmark London Hotel. The session was set up together with Bright One ambassador Robert Phillips, President and CEO of Edelman EMEA, and 13 Bright One [...]

Bright One Announces the Launch of BrightWorks – a microvolunteering app for charities

We’re delighted to announce the launch of BrightWorks, a microvolunteering app from Bright One. Bright One has achieved great success in the past two years, all through the passion and determination of its volunteers (as we have no paid staff). But teams of volunteers can only achieve so much, and demand overwhelmingly outstrips supply when [...]

A Jolly June Social

Last Thursday  saw the latest Bright One Social take place, with over 30 people crowding into the back room at The Crown Tavern in Clerkenwell, London, to get to know each other a little better and find out what Bright One is up to. We had a fantastic time meeting our volunteers, those interested in [...]

Why real work happens away from your desk

This is a guest post from Zoe Amar, Head of Marketing and Business Development at Lasa, a charity which provides services to Shelter, Age UK and thousands of other charities across the UK. She is also on the board at Bright One and tweets from @zoeamar The summer months are finally here. Many of us will [...]

Catch the Bright One June Update

Did you receive the June update from Bright One? If not, you’re missing out! New events, new apps, and new clients, as Wig Party, Merism Capital, Patients Know Best and Just Energy all join the Bright One community. Read the June update now and make sure you subscribe to get July’s issue.