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Marketing trends for 2025 with Laura Murphy ✨ 💬 Discussion questions:  How have you already started tapping into some of the trends Laura discussed? Have they been successful for you? How? Ho...
Ocean King
Hi all! My partner is looking to procure a press management system for the charity he works at. So far, they have booked demos with Muckrack, Onclusive, and Prowly. The features they are looking for...
Louisa Wania
Her Equality Rights and Autonomy UK are a charity in the UK supporting two students who are currently facing deportation due to their nationality and the new immigration laws are impacting their abil...
Shelley Spence
Good Morning all. I work on behalf of the Pet Food Bank Service based in the Cardiff/Barry area of South Wales. We are having an Open day for the public at our unit in Barry, and I was wondering if a...
Sheree Watkins
Good morning,  can anyone guide me by naming organisations that work on the Prevention of Violent Extremism in the UK, partners of PREVENT?    Regards
NOOR Al-Naser
Hello, We're aiming to run a campaign getting girls - and their parents - to count who's using the park facilities this spring.  A bit like the Great Garden Birdwatch but for pitches and skate parks....
Susannah Walker
Hi, I'm working on a programme with the National Academy of Social Prescribing and would like to connect with more organisations.  Thriving Communities is a National Support Programme run by the Nati...
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Hi I'm Mags Steed and I work as a HR Advisor - Resourcing for Together Trust ! I have been with this fantastic charity for 6 years and love the values and ethos of the organisation. Our mission is to...
Hi, We're looking for a PR/marketing company who can offer us pro-bono support. We're a small charity and would like some professional support. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you in advance...
Urhum Idris
Hello,  We are organising our content for our 2021 awareness month campaign (mainly online this year) and we are looking for some recommendations for some PR advice/help with press release etc. If an...
Natasha M
Hey everyone, I'm looking for recommendations for a lower-cost (or discounted for charities) media database that covers Europe and the US. In the past working at large organisations I've used Gorkana...
We would appreciate it if anyone has some information or advice on having some project media articles picked-up and published in mainstream or social-enterprise media network channels? Thanks Dominic...
Dominic Langer
Hopefully many of you are already aware of this campaign. I understand that the team behind #nevermoreneeded are working with national media and proactively seeking great PR stories about the impact...
Journalists receive hundreds of emails a day from charities just like yours, wanting them to run their story, so you need to make sure yours stands out from the crowd.  Here’s my top tips for getting...
Sarah Wallace
The project aims to identify relevant support and interventions that will enable both start-up and existing community enterprises from across the region to achieve their goals and objectives. The pro...
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Hi All I work for a very small charity, and as we are growing we are in need of some PR support, ideally from a small company or an individual who is happy to just do a few hours a week for us. Does...
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Hi all,  I'm looking for recommendations for a PR agency that has experience in consumer media targeted to parents/carers. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.  Best, Sadaf
Sadaf R.
Hi The charity I work for are in the process of a re branding exercise and a website refresh (digital agency already picked) and we are also going to be moving to a new head office soon. I wondered i...
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Back in the 1960s, Johan Galtung and Mari Ruge, media researchers from Norway, analysed international news stories to find out what factors they had in common. The news values they developed off the...
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Hello all, I am new in this site and so far I like it. I was wondering if you guys have any advice on promoting your charity to become international? Also for promoting internationally do you have to...
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We are looking for some PR/Marketing help for an awesome challenge a group of people are undertaking to raise awareness/funds for our cause. I think a professional PR/marketing person/company will do...
Temi Odurinde
Hi everyone I am lucky enough to be involved with a small charity who enable people with disabilities and life limiting illnesses to attend festivals. I am trying to widen our audience and reach mo...
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Hi everyone!  I am currently looking for a career change out of PR and into corporate or community fundraising and I'm finding jobs are few and far between. I've had a couple of interviews so far for...
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Charity Connect readers cannot fail to have missed the launch of the Commission on the Donor Experience outputs last week. A vast body of resources that includes 28 projects, 526 ideas for change and...
It’s all too easy for charities to overlook PR. And, for fundraisers, at first glance it seems like it is out of our remit – but just think about it. We all have a brand we need to promote. We all ha...
Lily Rose
I'd love to hear from anyone who is a member of a charity, working in a digital function that attends or wants to attend networking or roundtable forums to share ideas, challenges and work on solutio...
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Do you find it difficult place stories in the media? If you do, you’re not alone. Earlier this year, we partnered with Charity Comms to find out that the main challenges facing charity PRs...
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In the same way that the world watched as Britain tore itself apart on 23rd June, so we in the UK have watched the US election results roll in with the same sort of disbelief others felt when we made...
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How to make friends with journalists Ever wondered how to make the social affairs editor of a national broadsheet your best friend? The answer is wine. Ok, I’m being flippant, but there is an elemen...
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