Tag Archives: community

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 [...]

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 [...]

Volunteering – A Step Towards Employment

  This guest post was written by Neelam Shah, a Kingston University student studying Journalism with Media and Cultural Studies. Neelam shares her top tips on volunteering and where to find those opportunities that will give students and young people a chance to help out in the community and meet new people whilst gaining experience [...]

Blottr Debate on the role of Citizen Journalism

With cuts being made to local news, and new media providing people with tools to tell stories from their area, citizen journalism is on the rise. Anyone with a smart phone and/or internet access can easily report on breaking news happening where they are and sites like Blottr and Citizens’ Eye are helping them spread [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Marketing Internship with The DoNation

Bright One client The DoNation is looking for a motivated and driven marketing intern with an interest in sustainability, behaviour change and communications. The DoNation is on the look-out for someone who can support the team in increasing The DoNation’s presence among key sporting organisations and environmental networks and support the development and implementation of The DoNation’s broader [...]

Carbon Leapfrog PR/MarComms Internship

                                                                             We’re looking for a graduate to work with Carbon Leapfrog, a new and unique business-led charity that channels free professional advice from leading service providers across a range of disciplines into UK and international carbon reduction projects. Intern Objectives: To help identify and extract the marketing opportunities for Carbon Leapfrog’s various projects  Increase the awareness [...]

Bright One Online

It’s fair to say that here at Bright One we’re fans of social media. It’s potential to aid third sector organisations to reach and communicate with the individuals who support them, as well as reach new people is vast. We use it a lot when it comes to working with our clients, but it is [...]

The Ties That Bind

This is a note from Nicola Jones, Bright One’s new Community Manager. You can follow her on Twitter at @navigatornic. I’ve been watching Bright One from the periphery since its very early days. I’ve seen it grow and become and exciting and creative player in third sector communications, a real alternative to the traditional forces [...]