Third Sector Work

International Cat Day should be every day for cat owners

Today is International Cat Day and it’s an awareness campaign I think about a lot. As a marketer, it offers huge opportunities for businesses to create plenty of creative marketing content for social media marketing and online marketing activity. As a cat owner however, every day should be International Cat Day – a pet cat is a part of the family, totally dependent on its owner for food, medication and survival. Working with Bristol Marketing on the Awareness Day calendar has highlighted so many ways that people and their businesses can promote a good cause whilst boosting their own marketingRead More

Bristol Pride – Putting Bristol on the Eurovision Map

Bristol Pride Eurovision Bucks Fizz

Bristol Pride remains the largest free Pride festival in the UK and yesterday it reached new levels of support with the biggest turnout in the event’s history. It was a privilege to work on such an important event, promoting equality, diversity, combining my Eurovision passion with the local community to generate a special Eurovision thread within Bristol Pride. The success of the Eurovision feature at this year’s Bristol Pride may open the door for a greater Eurovision theme in future years. British Eurovision winners, Bucks Fizz had the 25,000 crowd dancing across Castle Park as they performed their legendary skirtRead More

A realistic starting point for Bristol Social Service Improvement

Obstacles to services improvement everywhere and the blame game goes on.

support services improvement Bristol system change

Whatever it is you set out to do in life, there are always going to be obstacles in your path. The more determined you are to achieve your goals, the bigger and more frequent the obstacles usually become. That’s certainly my experience working to create services improvement in the realms of mental health, addiction and homelessness services in Bristol since joining IF Group at the end of 2014. The amount of good will and desire to see services improve is colossal. There is unanimous agreement that the demand for services far outstrips their ability to support everyone in need, service providers areRead More

Bristol HMD challenges – How to keep the memory alive for Holocaust victims

Bristol-HMD Holocaust Memorial Day service

On Tuesday 27th January, I attended the Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) event at Bristol’s M-Shed. The Bristol HMD event saw a vibrant mixture of people from multi faith backgrounds unitedRead More

IF Group Bristol Backing Children’s Mental Health Week

Duchess of Cambridge Childrens Mental Health Week

IF Group Bristol is backing Children’s Charity Place2Be and their inaugural Children’s Mental Health Week. From 16-22 February, the charity will be working hard to raise awareness of Children’s Mental HealthRead More