NFEST19 wrap up

This year’s Needingworth Music Festival enjoyed its biggest profile and online engagement to date. We grew our facebook audience significantly and achieved coverage in The Huntingdon Post and two shows on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire - Sue Marchant’s local walkabout (pre-recorded - you can hear us from 21mins and 36mins in) and the Saturday breakfast show hosted by Andy Jackson (live studio guest, you can hear me from 2h10mins in).

Promotional campaign for NFEST18

As a member of the organising committee for the annual Needingworth Community Music Festival in Cambridgeshire, I run our social media channels and develop content to engage our key audiences.

I designed this branding collateral and social postcard campaign to advertise our first 8 confirmed acts this year, with announcements scheduled daily to build awareness. Reach was up 3000% in the 28 day period around the campaign (compared to the previous) with over 1,400 post engagements. I attribute the consistent scheduling of posts and giving our acts quality, sharable content to promote through their own networks for this success. 

Volunteering and civil emergencies: learning from Grenfell

I'm extremely proud to be a Co Chair of NNVIA, the Network of Volunteer-Involving Agencies, hosted by Volunteering Matters.

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NNVIA is an expert peer network made up of the volunteering leads from more than a hundred UK civil society organisations. NNVIA meets several times a year to share learning, discuss best practice and chew over issues common to all VIAs.

In August 2017 we met to take stock of the incredible contribution made by volunteers to the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, as well as to identify barriers and lessons for all agencies working on the ground and in the aftermath of civil emergencies.

Following first hand testimony from the British Red Cross, my fellow Co Chair Chris Wade of MNDA and I facilitated a conversation with members and Government officials, in order to capture key learning points and stimulate further discussion. You can read my summary in this short post, hosted on the Volunteering Matters website.