CharityComms is setting up a steering group to develop the first of our Best Practice Guidelines, a series of helpful, supportive and accessible guidelines on various key communications challenges. The guidelines will be a work of collective wisdom which will aim to tell people the best of what they should be doing – what best practice looks like - and a little bit of what they shouldn’t do.
Our first Best Practice Guidelines will be on ‘Portraying beneficiaries and service users’. The steering group will be chaired by Joe Saxton, our chair of trustees, and will be made up of six or seven people. The group will aim to meet no more than 3 times for a maximum of a couple of hours with a view to completing the guideline by April 2011.
We are looking for a variety of perspectives on the group, including:
- Disability
- Long-term/terminal illnesses
- Children
- Overseas development
- Fundraising.
How you can help:
- We’d love insights of the challenge presented by portraying service users and beneficiaries and examples of how your organisation has tackled these issues.
- We’d love copies of any existing guidelines that individual organisations might have.
- We’d love volunteers for the working group.
Please email Joe on joe.saxton@nfpsynergy.net if you can provide us with any examples of good practice in this area or would like to be involved. You can also download a pdf of our Best Practice Guidelines proposal document
here