CharityComms and PR Newswire Join Forces to Help Charities Make Their Voice Heard

LONDON, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Charities will be able to share their key messages with the media for less outlay thanks to a new partnership between CharityComms and PR Newswire.

CharityComms, the professional membership body for charity communicators, has agreed a long-term partnership with content and news distribution provider PR Newswire.

PR Newswire helps charities create wider and deeper audience connections by offering cost-effective content and news distribution and targeting services.  

The agreement offers CharityComms members significant discounts to PR Newswire's products and services.

PR Newswire's marketing communications director for EMEA & India, Garry Durston said: "We already work with a great many charities, but through this partnership with CharityComms we hope to help improve the cost-effectiveness and reach of their media relations campaigns."

Vicky Browning, director of CharityComms, said: "Connecting with the media is a key challenge for charities. I'm delighted that PR Newswire is offering CharityComms members such significant discounts for their products and services."

About CharityComms

Good communications lie at the heart of thriving charities, driving organisational success. As the professional membership body for charity communicators, CharityComms (http://www.charitycomms.org.uk) aims to improve the standard of communications and champion its role in the sector. We connect, inform and inspire charity communications professionals.

Membership of CharityComms gives you access to great content, events, examples of best practice, networking and a host of opportunities for professional development. Find out more at http://www.charitycomms.org.uk/membership

To explore our events on a range of key communications issues, check out our calendar at http://www.charitycomms.org.uk/events

About PR Newswire

PR Newswire (http://www.prnewswire.co.uk) is the leading global provider of PR and corporate communications. Pioneers of the news distribution industry for nearly 60 years PR Newswire is at the forefront of communications technology, providing an end-to-end solution that encompasses traditional, digital and social media outlets. Producing, optimising and targeting content across the world's largest multi-channel distribution network, PR Newswire has a truly global reach serving clients across EMEA, India, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. PR Newswire is part of UBM plc.

Media contacts

Vicky Browning, CharityComms
Director
+44-(0)20-7426-8877
vicky@charitycomms.org.uk

Garry Durston, PR Newswire
Marketing communications director EMEA & India
+44-(0)20-7454-5115
Garry.Durston@prnewswire.co.uk