Awareness Week media success!
June 2008
Our media-savvy members have AGAIN come up trumps for this year’s awareness week. Judging from the cuttings we have already received – and they are still coming in daily – a growing number of members are using their local (and national) media to spread the message.
Here is a snapshot of some of our successes so far
- Vivenne Holstead featured in the Yorkshire Post, Wetherby News, the Daily Mirror, Yorkshire TV’s ‘Calendar News’ and a live interview on BBC Radio 5 Live
- The Brighton Argus and BBC South East News highlighted Jackie Sloper’s campaign with her local health trust
- An article on Keith Hall’s dystonia and his sponsored sky dive appeared in the ‘Healthy Living’ supplement of the Sheffield Star
- The Gazette, covering South Gloucestershire, carried a news story on Barbara Adams
- The success of Kate Forsyth from Somerset in gaining an Open University degree, together with featuring awareness week, appeared in the Western Gazette and the Chard News
- Pauline Johnson from Bangor, Northern Ireland told her story in her local ‘Spectator’ newsletter, which also carried a ‘Dystonia Explained’ fact box
- An interview outlining dystonia by our service development manager, Val Wells, was broadcast by over 40 local radio stations.
- Wilma Williams and West of Scotland coordinator, Dorothy Chisholm, were interviewed on Govan Radio. Dorothy was also asked to help produce a jingle on behalf of the Society to be aired regularly
Montage of media cuttings received from members
Not only did Helen Barber of Sheffield take tea at the Lords, she also met pop heartthrob Ronan Keating and other members of Boyzone at the hotel she and her sister were staying
Nikki Parkin, who helped Joy Bourne organise the Rutland Water cycle ride, is interviewed on Rutland Radio