CHARITIES & SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

CHRISTIANS IN PROPERTY (CIP)

We were appointed by CIP to help it grow. To do this, we are: undertaking a media relations campaign, having issued a profile of CIP to over 100 property related titles and issuing regular news releases; meeting editors and placing stories. We have extended the website and incorporating audio downloads; we have formalised and badged informal activities into a new service i.e. the CIP Mentoring Scheme. We communicate more regularly by email and by post, with members having cleaned up the membership databases. We now produce Events Calendars; and are developing fundraising programmes and pursuing corporates and individuals, and exploiting value-for-money online advertising opportunities.

ST PETROC (WESSEX) HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
- now Two Saints Limited

The brief was to assist St Petroc in presenting a more professional ‘face’ to key stakeholders and funder, in particular. We undertook to upgrade its corporate literature, and annual report in particular. Being a charity for homeless people, it was crucial to show the businesslike nature of operations at the charity coupled but a conscientious approach to cost of production. We also handled media relations around the opening of a new hostel and obtained local television and media coverage. A dedicated brochure on the hostel was also produced for stakeholders which was well received.

TRELOAR TRUST

We were appointed by the charity at the time they were launching a £3m fundraising campaign to finance a new residential building and a Resources Centre for the disabled young people in their care. We were involved in brainstorming fundraising ideas and handled event publicity. Best loved gardening presenter, Alan Titchmarsh, presided at the opening of the Sensory Garden at Treloars, and subsequently went on to become a co-patron of the charity, alongside Superman star Christopher Reeve and other celebrities.

Media coverage generated of Treloars’ students and staff, included pieces in leading women’s titles such as ‘Woman’s Own’, the nationals such as ‘The Guardian’, the local press as well as regular pieces in the professional therapists’ titles on the world leading work done in occupational and language therapy at Treloars.