Sponsor entices journalists to launch with offer of charity donation

Howard Lake | 4 October 1996 | News

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Crusaid managed to secure a packed room of journalists at the launch of its Internet guide to HIV and AIDS after a corporate sponsor offered to donate £50 to the charity for each journalist that turned up.

If you are short of journalists coming to a press launch, you could always entice them with a corporate donation to the charity.

Glaxo Wellcome offered the £50 donations and it seemed to work. Caroline Bullock, Communications Director at the company, said that she thought this was the first offer of its kind. “It just seemed like a good idea as a way of encouraging media interest”, she told Third Sector magazine.

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