Free Help

The Media Trust works in partnership with the media industry to support the third sector's communication needs. It has lots of online guides to using the media more effectively and can help find you free help from a media professional through its Media Matching service.

Journalists, designers, marketing, and PR professionals offer advice and help to individual organisations through this service. If you need help, register your organisation on the Media Trust's website and they'll try to match you with a professional. www.mediatrust.org

This is a free service to help the third sector improve its media coverage. You submit your press release (using their online form) and a team of journalists from the Press Association will turn around 20 press releases into stories each day.

These stories are sent out regionally and nationally. An example of the success of this service is when Dorset Wildlife Trust found themselves in the national newspapers. They had wanted to tell people that seahorses were breeding successfully off the Dorset coast and had a really good picture of a "pregnant" seahorse. www.communitynewswire.org

This TV channel is dedicated to promoting the third sector. It has around a quarter of a million viewers a month. It's available on Sky Digital, on cable and for part of the day on Freeview.

If you have a talented filmmaker in your group, why not get them to submit a feature for broadcasting? For more information go to the website and click on FilmMakers Guide. www.communitychannel.org

Free Websites

One Suffolk

Community and voluntary groups in Suffolk can have a free website through onesuffolk. If you can use a word processing package on your computer you'll be able to use this service. All you need is to think about what you want to promote and then come up with some pictures and text.

If you get stuck, there is help available at the end of a 'phone. Examples of groups that have already signed up range from animal charities and support groups, to societies and clubs like the W.I. www.onesuffolk.co.uk/introduction.

PlusNet

Most Internet Service Providers (ISP's) provide FREE 'hosting' for websites and the best package in terms of value for money and facilities that we have come across is PlusNet. (click on the banner below for more details)
 

For £15.99 per month their service includes:

If you require any advice or guidance on websites please contact Simon Waldron at SAVO, email simon.waldron@savo.co.uk.

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