BBC TV series on working in the community
Howard Lake | 2 April 2003 | News
BBC TV and the Media Trust’s Working in the Community season gets underway this month.
The series covers key aspects of working in the voluntary sector from communication and management skills to diversity issues, team leadership and health and safety matters.
The new series challenges the voluntary sector to improve its communication skills. The Interview follows Soo Nevison from Multiple Choice, a drug rehabilitation charity in Leeds, as she works to overcome her fear of interviews. Through intensive training and with a tight deadline, Soo is set the challenge of doing a live TV interview. What to say, how to say it and how to look are all part of the makeover.
Other skills covered in the Voluntary Matters 4 series are Fundraising, Writing a Press Release and Pitching for Sponsorship as individuals from voluntary organisations are given their specific communications challenge.
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Working in the Community is being broadcast from Monday 7 April to Friday 11 April 2003 at 05.00 – 06.00 on BBC2, and is being repeated from Monday 14 April to Friday 18 April at the same time.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.