Re-Blog – “Charities: Don’t Mention the Olympics in 2012”
Many charities might well be planning an Olympic-themed fundraising event next year. Well beware! Howard Lake has written a fantastically useful blog post in HuffPost UK warning that almost every word you might possibly want to use (even “gold”, “Games”, and most ridiculously of all “2012” have been listed in LOCOG’s guidance of words which cannot be used without infringing The London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006. Who even knew THAT existed?
Read his post at http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/howard-lake/charities-dont-mention-th_b_910769.html and avoid injunctions, damages, and criminal proceedings.
I’m in the middle of developing a new training course on “Advanced Bid-Writing Skills” and some thoughts from that will appear in this blog shortly.
Tags: 2012, events, Fundraising, Olympics, writing effective fundraising bids
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July 30, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Whatever happened to Freedom of Speech? Or have I been asleep for 2012 years ?
(oops – did I get away with that one?)
July 31, 2011 at 9:15 am
Totally agree Jane. By the way, what’s that vanload of police doing outside your house???
September 15, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Hi Tamara – as a potential customer for your Advanced Bid Writing Skills course here’s some of the things I’d be looking for:
How to keep your bid congruent
Maintaining focus
What timescales produce the best bids
Strategies for staying within the guidance provided by funders
Writing to a word count