Tag Archives: PR
From PR Student to PR Professional
This is a guest post from Alex Judd, a volunteer with Bright One on the Social Enterprise Mark campaign and an Account Executive at Pretty Green. If you’re a student and want to find out how to get your career in PR off to a flying start, come along to Bright One’s Impress London [...]
Bright One Celebrates Second Year with PRCA Partnership Launch
Bright One, the volunteer-run communications agency for the third sector, celebrates its second year anniversary through a partnership with the PRCA, the professional body that represents UK PR consultancies and in-house communications teams, and marks it with two remarkable results. Firstly, Bright One is delighted to announce its partnership with the Public Relations Consultants Association [...]
PR Ain’t No Charity Gig
This is a guest post from Marc Lawn, Chairman of Camp Quality UK & The Business GP. If you would like to write for the Bright One blog, simply email blog@brightone.org.uk. Running a charity, using the funds efficiently & effectively is clearly the aim of any business in the 3rd sector. Yes I did [...]
Opportunities of the Week – 6th August
We count ourselves lucky here at Bright One that we get so many fantastic opportunities to help support charity’s communications come our way, as well as the interest from volunteers to match. But we realise that we don’t always promote these opportunities as best we could, especially as there’s lots of them to let [...]
A Frankly Brilliant Training Session
This week, a group of Bright One volunteers were given an exclusive training session by Andrew Bloch, Founder and Managing Director of Frank PR, on “Talkability and the power of word of mouth.” Talkability was described by Bloch as “the buzz that takes over and does the best marketing for a brand, product or service.” [...]
7 tips for a successful anniversary campaign
This is a guest post from Zoe Amar, a Bright One volunteer and Lasa‘s Marketing and Business Development Manager. This article originally appeared on the CharityComms blog. Lasa has just celebrated its 25th anniversary with a campaign that generated a return of investment (ROI) of 94:1; this means that for every £1 we spent on [...]
PR from a Journalist’s View
This is a guest post from Gerry Kiernan, a Bright One volunteer with eight years experience working at the BBC – namely the Radio Times. She has also worked as Deputy Editor of the BBC’s Ariel online and as a content producer on the BBC’s intranet. She now freelances and blogs about arts and culture at [...]
Searching for a Superhero
Bright One’s clients perform feats of amazing power every day and we’re behind them all the way. To help our teams of volunteers we’re looking for a Volunteer Manager, a special kind of person who will go the extra mile for our volunteers. We’re putting the call out for a Superhero. The Organisation For those [...]
Sign Up for the Second Social Impact Camp
Last month, Bright One held the first ever Social Impact Camp in partnership with UnLtdWorld. The date and venue has now been confirmed for the second event, which is being run in partnership with Leap Anywhere – the definitive guide to every fun event happening in London that benefits a good cause. Here are the [...]
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