- We are on the editorial panel for the General Teaching Council for England
- We worked with the Gloucestershire Public Services Employment Partnership to produce an interactive e-bulletins to keep partner organisations informed. Click here
- We have produced an interactive pdf toolkit for Gloucestershire's Rural Services Support Group to help rural communities protect and develop essential local services. Click here
- We helped Forest of Dean District Council develop and publish an interactive pdf toolkit to help market town retailers woo shoppers back to the high street
- In addition to our very popular media skills training workshops, we are now offering website planning workshops, particularly aimed at the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector
- We worked with the Countryside Council for Wales researching and writing content for their new website
- The National Governors' Association commissioned us to develop copy for a new series of Governors' briefing papers
- Towns affected by the 2007 floods in Gloucestershire were supported by the South West RDA and Gloucestershire First with a range of communications and PR activities developed by Viva
- We helped the National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs develop its new communications strategy, bringing members and staff together to plan for the future
- Working with the Action Desk at BBC Radio Gloucestershire, we raised the profile of the unsung heroes of rural community regeneration in a series of 20 radio programmes, for the Gloucestershire Market Towns Forum
- We helped Gloucestershire's voluntary and community sector Infrastructure Group develop a cost-effective interactive e-bulletin to promote its work
- We worked with Gloucestershire First - the county's economic development team - to raise awareness of the impact of the £8million Rural Renaissance initiative on our rural economy, through extensive media and web coverage
- We were commissioned to research and write a guide to Media Literacy for NIACE , the national charity with promotes adult learning, with funding from Ofcom, the Government-appointed regulatory body for the broadcasting industry
- We completed a series of national media skills training events in all nine Governmental regions in England and two in Wales for NIACE, the national charity for adult learning, with funding from the DfES. The 300 delegates who attended were from voluntary and community groups and learning providers
- We worked with the NHS to encourage more employees to boost their basic skills in order to improve services to patients
- We worked with Community Enterprise Gloucestershire and Co-Operative Futures to disseminate the results of a major ESF Equal-funded ACE programme to promote social and community enterprises
- We edited a four-page supplement in the Daily Mirror promoting better maths skills as part of a national campaign by NIACE and the Basic Skills Agency
- We worked with Gloucestershire's biggest daily newspaper The Citizen to develop awareness of the issues faced by the county's market towns, resulting in a series of about 35 editorial features over six months, written by their rural affairs journalist
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