One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to advertise @Vdubline #Campervans that are ready and waiting for Staycations this year!!
Today we’ve got an exciting brief with VDubline. It’s even more exciting as the announcements are starting to see restrictions eased so will be able to go on Staycations soon! And, that’s what this brief is all about. Hope to see some of the OMBLES on their jollies in these campers soon!
Brief:
Create posters to advertise @Vdubline #Campervans that are ready and waiting for Staycations this year!!
Prize:
Use of one of the VDubline campervans for the weekend. Worth £360!!
This can be used for yourself or as a gift to friends, family or fellow OMBLE!
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @Vdubline with the hashtag #Campervans
REMEMBER: We can’t use any that have the official VW logo in, or private peoples campers/homes if they have not given permission for them to be used.
About #Vdubline
Staycation is the keyword of the moment and it will soon be time to explore the beautiful country you live in. At Vdubline you, your family and your friends are in the safest hands, knowing you have got the latest VW Transporter Camper vans at your disposal to ensure you can enjoy your holiday and make it the fun filled experience you want it to be.
In line with Government advice, bookings are being taken for the summer, however, always check before you travel at www.gov.uk or call to discuss
With a base in the North West of England Vdubline provides Camper Van hire for adventurers across the UK. We can provide campervans whether you want to explore England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland or even travel across Europe.
With low cost for a party of four to travel, it gives you the flexibility to explore on your adventure.
Insurance included too!
You work hard, it's time to play hard and discover hidden gems of the UK and create the memories that will last a lifetime.
All vans are deep cleaned before you travel.
Please ensure you are up to speed on travel restrictions (if any) before travelling at www.gov.uk so you can enjoy your fabulous roadtrip.
More info: www.vdubline.com
Check out the video below for the ‘Delilah’ campervan and feel free to use any of the images in your submissions.
For more product videos and imagery take a look at https://www.vdubline.com/our-vans/
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to promote ‘Beyond The White Line’ and the great work they do in the world of sport. @BeyondTWL
We are delighted to announce a partnership with ‘Beyond the White Line’ across 2021, in which we will be running several OMBs to help raise awareness and create change within the world of sport. We often forget that there are human beings behind the teams we support…or their rivals. And it’s time that changed. We hope everyone will get involved today and help get ‘Beyond the White Line’ seen across our community.
“I have a huge passion for sport and it’s amazing to be able to partner with such a great organisation to help bring attention to and help affect change for the issues that people involved in sport face. As a former Man City Academy player, I know what it’s like to miss out on your dreams and recently we’ve seen the terrible effects that can have on people without the necessary support in place. This is what ‘Beyond the White Line’ are here to do and help sportspeople with wellbeing, inclusion, diversity, homophobia and lots more.”
Today’s brief is to create posters to promote ‘Beyond The White Line’ and the great work they do in the world of sport.
See below for info to support your creative thinking. We welcome scribbles, designs, notes, GIFS… whatever you can to get the word about there.
Please Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @BeyondTWL with the hashtag #BeyondTheWhiteLine
Prize: Pair of Apple Airpods RRP £159!!
CHANGING THE GAME.
Beyond The White Line (BTWL) is a not-for-profit organisation that seeks to affect change within the professional sports industry for athletes and stakeholders alike. We want to ensure that generations of athletes and those within the ecosystem of sport have a sustainable future, within an environment that is Human First.
With your help, BTWL will become the main resource for both professional athletes and all those that work within professional sport.
IMPACT
The figures surrounding these themes are breathtaking.
Retired Athletes are 285 times more likely to go bankrupt than anyone else.
1 in 2 professional footballers are bankrupted within 5 years of leaving the game; 1 in 3 – divorced.
Professional Cricket sees a suicide rate of more than double the national average.
More than one third of Athletes report symptoms of Depression and Anxiety – again, double the national average – yet fewer than 40% had sought or even felt the right help was available.
On average, less than one third (29%) of Athletes actually get to choose when they retire. Most lack the tools, or understanding to utilise the skillset Professional Sports has afforded them to transition to a new discipline, and are thrust into career abyss.
SUPPORTING ATHLETES
We aim to leave a legacy within not only professional sport, but in wider society.
Changing the global landscape and conversation within these key areas. Ensuring not only that future generations reap the benefits of all that we achieve, but also the sustainability of the beautiful sports we all love is improved as a result.
Being able to be human first, athlete second.
OUR AIM
We are aiming for a sporting world where not only fans but society as a whole reconnect with the humans behind the athletes, CEOs, and professional body heads.
Understanding that changing the game for good can have a profound impact on not only those it directly affects but also wider society
ABOUT
James Chiffi is the founder & CEO of Beyond the White Line. The social impact entrepreneur set up the organisation as a “human-first” response to his time serving as an artist manager in the music industry.
It was during this time that James saw the parallels between the entertainment and sports industries, the challenges that arise from the “talent” being viewed in purely commercial terms as a commodity, and the human cost of this – which is there for all to see.
“We are about to change the global landscape for professional sport and beyond. No one really goes deep enough, and has done enough to make a real change… and that’s what we intend to do.”
James Chiffi
Links:
https://www.instagram.com/beyondthewhiteline/
https://www.facebook.com/Beyond-The-White-Line-101048518018004
https://www.linkedin.com/company/btwl/
Style-setter below and our font is Monserrat if you wish to use it!
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to spread the word that @sauceshop are changing the condiment game. #SauceJustGotReal
We can’t wait to see what the OMBLES come up with for this very saucy brief!!
We’re looking for posters designed to spread the word that @sauceshop are changing the condiment game. Don’t pour second best on your plate! Better has arrived.
Get creative and enter as many times as you wish for the chance to win today’s great prizes!!
Please tweet entries to @oneminutebriefs and @sauceshop with the hashtag #SauceJustGotReal
Prize:
£200 cash prize.
Sauce Shop Flavour Box sauceshop.co/collections/gifts-and-collections/products/essential-flavour-box
About #SauceJustGotReal
The condiment category is boring and dated, dominated by the big boys and bland, cheap equivalents. Our sauces are converting the most diehard of big brand fans and it’s time to spread the word!
People are spending more time preparing their food and putting so much love into it, what is the point of ruining all that hard work by covering it in bad sauce? We’ve had enough! No more boring sauce.
We’ll take it from here…
So the brief is to design posters to spread the word that @sauceshop are changing the condiment game. Don’t pour second best on your plate! Better has arrived.
Our sauces are made here in the UK, using nothing artificial and they taste so much better than anything else on the supermarket shelves.
More info: https://www.sauceshop.co/pages/our-story
The winning design/s will encapsulate Sauce Shop’s tone of voice: authentic, rebellious, flippant, creative. There should be an air of confidence without arrogance.
People should not have to stand for second rate condiments!
Links:
https://www.instagram.com/sauce_shop/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/sauceshop/
If you’d like to use the brand fonts… they are available here.
For more imagery… go here.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to remind young people that breast cancer can affect them and encourage them to check their chests regularly @CoppaFeelPeople #CoppaFeelNow
This week marks 12 years since our founder Kristin was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer at the age of 23 and came up with the idea for CoppaFeel!
We are teaming up with the OMBLES to get creative and spread awareness across the country. Breast cancer doesn't discriminate and early detection is lifesaving - so we want every young person to feel confident checking their chests. We hope as many people as possible get involved in this one!!
Our mission is to drive awareness of breast cancer in 18-24 year olds and shift their perceptions of relevance, helping them to understand that breast cancer isn't just something that affects older women (or indeed, just women).
Therefore our key message for today’s OMB is…
Breast cancer affects young people - CoppaFeel! want you to remind them and encourage them to check their chest regularly.
Please tweet your submissions to @OneMinuteBriefs and @CoppaFeelPeople with the hashtag… #CoppaFeelNow Please include the link: coppafeel.org/your-boobs/boob-check-101 in your tweets.
Prize: Winner receives some CoppaFeel! Goodies!!!
Have fun with your entries but make sure they are respectful at all times!!
A little blurb on CoppaFeel!
CoppaFeel! exists to give all young people the best chance of surviving breast cancer, by ensuring that every case is diagnosed early and correctly. To do this they aim to drive greater breast awareness in young people, not only giving 18-24 year olds the tools to check, but the confidence to seek help if they notice a change, and the reassurance that they are the best advocates for themselves and their health. We want every young person to understand that breast cancer is relevant to them, regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity or background.
Our social handles are @coppafeelpeople on Twitter and Instagram.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to encourage the public to #ShareTheLove in support of healthcare workers ahead of Valentine's Day with @TheHWF
Having previously created NHS inspired Valentine’s cards, today we are looking to spread even more love and positivity ahead of Valentine’s Day this weekend and supporting the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation with our 3rd brief together.
Hope all of the OMBLES will get involved today and, collectively, we can help promote something great and show our healthcare workers some love!
Tweet your submissions to @OneMinuteBriefs, @thehwf, @roshanaMN, @jesswade, @AskJeevesWij, @DrDomPimenta, @NHSMillion and @LoveYourNHS with the hashtag #ShareTheLove
If you can… please include the link gofundme.com/f/nhs-valentines-day in your tweets!
PRIZE:
We cannot offer a prize, but we can offer you the warm fuzzy feeling of contributing to a very good cause and making a real difference to those trying to save lives!! We will also be sharing shortlisted entries from the HWF feeds on the day!!
BRIEF:
Today we are calling on the OMBLES to help support the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation’s new initiative ahead of the ‘day of love’ to support healthcare workers. We’re hoping to communicate some of the great things the HWF is doing below but with a Valentine’s style twist!!
The Valentine’s Day appeal will help the charity provide exhausted all frontline staff with vital services such as PPE equipment, professional counselling and childcare grants.
The charity is calling on the public to donate their unspent Valentine’s Day funds to help support those working to keep the nation alive.
With Valentine’s Day incredibly difficult this year as the nation remains under a third lockdown, the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF) is calling on the romantics of the UK to ‘show their love’ for someone else this year and donate what they would otherwise have spent going out to help exhausted healthcare workers on the frontline.
Brits are said to have spent a whopping £1 billion on the national day of love in 2020, but with a very different world this year the charity, which was founded by NHS workers for NHS workers at the start of the pandemic, is encouraging the nation to donate their Valentine’s Day funds to our much-loved frontline NHS workers.
Donations received will help the charity to continue delivering goods and services, including PPE, free counselling sessions and childcare grants.
Jeeves Wijesuriya, spokesperson for Healthcare Workers’ Foundation said:
“The past year has been rocky for all of us. And we must also remember our frontline workers have been under huge pressure during this pandemic, putting themselves at risk to care for us and our loved ones.
“If we are to keep our NHS and frontline staff going, we must do all we can to support their mental health and wellbeing. We want to show healthcare workers just how loved they are this Valentine’s Day. Any donation, no matter how big or small, will go towards helping those working tirelessly to help us in our hour of need.”
Despite the lockdown, new research from UK comparison site, Finders UK, found that Brits still plan on celebrating the day of love and will spend an average of £25 this Valentine’s Day. For every ten people who donate £25, this could help to provide healthcare workers with hours of professional counselling for NHS workers.
The impact of the pandemic on NHS workers physically and mentally continues to worsen, with reports suggesting nearly half of NHS critical staff are dealing with severe PTSD, depression, or anxiety. The HWF was founded to help combat these issues and through the Valentine’s Day appeal the charity hopes to continue protecting the welfare and wellbeing of NHS workers, from helping to support with both physical and mental health, as well as ensuring frontline staff have access to day-to-day necessities, as well as supporting the bereaved families of healthcare workers that lost their lives during the pandemic.
To donate to HWF’s Valentine’s Day appeal, please visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/nhs-valentines-day
DO’s
Use the donation link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/nhs-valentines-day
Keep it simple and impactful, engaging and positive as possible.
DONT’s…
Try to avoid political statements;
Don’t add additional facts or figures unless described here
WINNING CRITERIA
Best posters will be unique and inspire people to want to donate
They will clearly position us as an important and urgent way to make a real difference
Social Links:
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/healthcareworkersfoundation
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thehwf
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehwf
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/healthcareworkersfoundation
Feel free to use any of the logos/images/colours below.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to encourage sports teams/brands to remove the nature from their badges/logos this World Wildlife Day 3rd March #WorldWithoutNature
We’re sure a lot of you will be familiar with today’s brief!!
Last year, we planned this campaign and had loads of brands on board. Until Coronavirus stopped us in our tracks. But now we’re back!! With one month until World Wildlife Day, we’re hoping ALL the OMBLES will get involved in this one.
For World Wildlife Day this year the Voice for the Planet coalition (which includes WWF, World Economic Forum, UNICEF, Conservation International, Earth Hour, and The Nature Conservancy) are running an activation encouraging companies, NGOs and sports teams to remove nature from their branding for a day. (3rd March 2021) An idea that started life as an OMB from Ze Anwar!
Once again, we’re partnering with The Drum to help engage the industry and they will be featuring some of the best submissions on their site!!
We’ve got huge brands and teams in the Premier League, Football League and Rugby League already signed up and we’re hoping for a huge impact on the day.
So... that’s where we need the OMBLES to help.
We want you to create posters to encourage brands/teams to take the nature out of the logos/brands on their social channels for World Wildlife Day. Let’s imagine a #WorldWithoutNature
We want you to mention/tag them in your tweets to and get them to notice it and hopefully pledge to get involved! We want to show them missing animals, flowers, plants and communicate the importance of sustaining all life on earth through positive headlines & impactful copy.
You can do as many as you can think of. The more the merrier!!
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs, @voice4planet and @TheDrum with the hashtag #WorldWithoutNature
You can also mention/tag campaign partners @WWF, @WEF, @BirdLife_News, @ConservationOrg, @Nature_Org and @EarthHour for even wider reach!!
Tag the relevant brands/teams into your tweets and encourage them to get involved this World Wildlife Day!!
Prizes:
Top 3 entries receive official merch from WWF!
Submissions could be shared on the VFTP partner channels to millions of followers!!
Think BIG. Think GLOBAL.
About World Wildlife Day
Last year World Wildlife Day was celebrated under the theme "Sustaining all life on Earth", encompassing all wild animal and plant species as key components of the world's biodiversity.
Earth is home to countless species of fauna and flora – too many to even attempt counting. This rich diversity, and the billions of years during which its myriad elements have interacted, are precisely what has made our planet inhabitable for all living creatures, including humans. Historically, we have depended on the constant interplay and interlinkages between all elements of the biosphere for all our needs: the air we breathe, the food we eat, the energy we use, and the materials we need for all purposes. However, unsustainable human activities and overexploitation of the species and natural resources that make up the habitats and ecosystems of all wildlife are imperiling the world’s biodiversity. Nearly a quarter of all species are presently at risk of going extinct in the coming decades, and their demise would only speed up the disappearance of countless others, putting us in danger as well.
On World Wildlife Day 2021, we will celebrate the special place of wild plants and animals in their many varied and beautiful forms as a component of the world’s biological diversity. We will work to raise awareness of the multitude of benefits of wildlife to people, particularly to those communities who live in closest proximity to it, and we will discuss the threats they are facing and the urgent need for governments, civil society, private sector actors and individuals to add their voices and take actions to help conserve wildlife and ensure its continued use is sustainable.
For more info or to support/partner with us on the campaign please email: interest@bankofcreativity.co.uk
Below are a few examples below to inspire your thinking…
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to promote our parody of The Grand Tour... #TheBlandTour
Today’s brief is a fun one that I hope all the OMBLES will get involved in! We’re looking for posters to promote #TheBlandTour, which is our parody of The Grand Tour featuring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond & James May.
Myself and my friend/old creative partner, James Clancy, created the brand in the form of instagram.com/theblandtour after sharing pictures over Whatsapp of old and ‘bland’ cars when we spot them. We used to work in Wilmslow and one day we were admiring an old red Austin Montego sat in traffic before realising that there was an Aston Martin in front and a Bentley behind it.
We love these types of car as you don’t see them often and we feel that the blandness, unique character and rarity should be celebrated!!
Please tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs with the hashtag #TheBlandTour and link to instagram.com/oneminutebriefs. And, don’t forget to give us a follow!
You may even want to mention @JeremyClarkson @MrJamesMay @RichardHammond & @TheGrandTour in your tweets too!
Prize: Your choice of OMBook 1-4
(You can also get 15% off any of these books today with code WRITER15 here.
In your submissions, we’d like to see how you’d parody the show but featuring the blandest, oldest cars that you can think of. Maybe you could include your old family classic cars in your submissions. How would you review the cars, sell them or feature them on the fictitious TV show, The Bland Tour.
Feel free to use any of the photos on our Instagram or good old Google.
The uglier, blander and older the better!!
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters for the @metoffice that encourage the public to think about winter preparations they can make to help them stay safe and healthy at this time of year.
We are delighted to announce that we have committed to a year-long partnership with the Met Office, which will see us run four One Minute Brief campaigns in 2021!! Today’s is very relevant right now as we have seen some difficult weather conditions lately and hopefully we can do our bit, OMBLE-style, to help make sure the public are #WeatherReady, particularly with next week being forecast to be cold again!!
BRIEF:
Create posters for the Met Office that encourage individuals, families and communities to think about winter preparations they can make to help them stay safe and healthy at this time of year.
Do it in a visually exciting way while making it unique to the Met Office… and have fun!
Tweet your submissions to @OneMinuteBriefs @metoffice with the hashtag #WeatherReady
PRIZE:
Winner receives £200 CASH!!!
ENTRIES COULD ALSO BE FEATURED ON THE MET OFFICE SOCIAL CHANNELS & HAVE THE CHANCE TO BE BROUGHT TO LIFE IN THE FUTURE!!!
CONTEXT:
WeatherReady is a year round campaign - run in partnership with Cabinet Office – to help you prepare for and cope with severe weather. Thinking ahead and preparing for what the weather may bring can make a real difference.
Members of the public visiting the Met Office website for the latest weather forecast are able to access up-to-date, expert seasonal advice from carefully selected organisations to enable them to prepare for and respond to the weather, so they can stay safe and protect their property.
Here are a few simple steps you can take to prepare yourself, your vehicle and your home or business:
Get your flu jab
Seasonal flu occurs every year, usually in winter. The flu vaccine can reduce the chances of those most vulnerable to COVID-19 getting flu.Check your vehicle is winter ready
Top up with a screen wash that is effective in cold temperatures, check your tyres are road-worthy and pack a winter kit for your car.Check your heating
Cold weather can be a risk to your health especially if you are over 65 or have a long-term health condition. Your home should be heated to more than 18°C.Plumbing checks can save money
Freezing and thawing can cause pipe bursts. Check your pipes are insulated especially outside and make sure you know where your stop tap is.Weatherproof your home and garden
Think about what might be impacted by strong winds or flooding around your home. Organise maintenance checks and consider moving items.Have basic supplies to hand
Put useful things such as water, torch, and batteries plus emergency numbers in a bag in case a storm takes out power, water or phone lines.Make alternative plans
You may need alternative commuting plans for severe weather, and alternative childcare plans in case of school or nursery closures.Think of vulnerable neighbours
Look out for others in your community and help people access the supplies, help or information they need to keep them safe and well in winter.
More info here: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnings-and-advice/weatherready
These pages provide up-to-date, expert seasonal advice from carefully selected organisations to ensure members of the public can prepare for and respond to the weather, to stay safe and protect their homes and businesses.
DO’s
Use the Met Office colour palette and logo;
Keep it simple and impactful;
DONT’s…
No referencing political agendas;
Do not mock up any National Severe Weather Warning content using the Met Office logo
Don’t reference catastrophic weather events
WINNING CRITERIA
Best posters will be unique and inspire people to think ahead and take action to prepare for the impacts of weather. They will clearly position us as weather and climate experts.
Social Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metoffice/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@metoffice
Twitter: https://twitter.com/metoffice
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metoffice/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/metoffice
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/met-office/
Snapchat: metoffice
Feel free to use the Met Office logo in your entries. Note that the preferred positioning of this on graphics is in the top left (see example below).
This is an example, and text treatment does not have to be the same as shown here.
The brand colour codes are also below.
One Minute Brief of the Day: On this, the bluest of all Blue Mondays ever, we have one simple ask from you. Create posters to Make #BlueMonday Better!!! #MondayFunday
In the first of SIX exciting creative collaborations with Clear Channel this year, we are going to be brightening up Blue Monday, OMBLE-style!!
With a great prize to be won, we cannot wait to see all of the creativity on display today!!!
Remember to tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @ClearChannelUK with the hashtags #BlueMonday & #MondayFunday
Please include your Twitter handle in the corner of your poster so we know who you are!
Prizes:
- £200 cash prize for today’s winning idea
- The chance to have your idea featured by Clear Channel
Today’s Brief:
On this, the bluest of all blue Mondays ever, we’re here to turn that frown upside down and help as many people go from having a blue Monday to an ultimate Funday.
We have one simple ask from you.
Create posters to Make Blue Monday Better.
Some inspiration...
Sell me a dream.
Rebrand Blue Monday.
Tell us how it’s not such a Blue Monday after all.
Roses are red, Monday's are blue, we love good jokes, now share one from you…
Make us turn our frown upside down. Send/Share a smile.
Help us Beat the Blues & make Monday a fun day
Use the colour blue…in a good way. What’s your favourite kind of blue?
Great poster design is bold and clear, and doesn’t have too many words on it. Good luck!
About:
At Clear Channel we create the future of media. We love nothing more than being a platform for brands and a platform for good. We’ve been showing posters on our sites for over 50 years now. So we’ve seen one or two good ones, and a fair few bad ones in our time. We love great poster design.
Did you know that the average person looks at a billboard for less than 7 seconds?
That’s why we’re joining forces, once again, with One Minute Briefs to set a brief that challenges the OMBLES to explore capturing peoples imagination in a very short space of time.
Find out more about Clear Channel at: https://www.clearchannel.co.uk
Feel free to use any of the assets available here if you’d like to mock-up any of your ideas on to one of our billboards. https://www.clearchannel.co.uk/resource-centre/mockup-templates
Full T&Cs here.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters/cards to show you @LoveYourNHS and @thortful will bring them to life & send them to our heroes on Valentine's Day! #NHSValentines
As it’s the 14th today, it’s exactly one month today until Valentine’s Day. So we’re doing something extra special in the run-up…
We want to show our support and love for all of the NHS staff working so hard throughout the pandemic and, with the distressing news this week that mental health is deteriorating amongst frontline NHS workers, it's more important than ever to demonstrate how much we love them.
That’s why we wanted to join forces with One Minute Briefs and Love Your NHS to set a brief that challenges the OMBLES to show what the NHS means to them and share the love with special Valentine’s-style messages. We’ll be getting the cards created and sending them to hospitals up and down the country to show them what the NHS means to us.
The more submissions we get, the stronger the message will be.
Brief:
Create posters/cards to show you love the NHS and @thortful will bring them to life & send them to our heroes on Valentine's Day! #NHSValentines
We want the OMBLES to come up with shareable and inspirational messages that NHS staff will open on Valentine’s Day and give them a smile. They deserve that right now!
We look forward to seeing all of the great stuff you come up with!
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs, @LoveYourNHS and @thortful with the hashtag #NHSValentines
You can also tag in @ChasingStigma and @NHScharities, who this campaign is supporting with 100% of the profits of cards sales being split between them.
Feel free to tag in some of the people going above and beyond in healthcare right now…
@DrDomPimenta @TheHWF @sbattrawden @roshanaMN @jesswade @NHSMillion @rog_la @dr_amar_mashru @drbenwhite @AskJeevesWij
Prizes:
The overall winner will receive a year’s supply of cards from thortful.com and £100 cash prize!!!
The top 5 designs will be curated into a special range of cards for Valentine’s Day and celebrated on thortful’s social and email posts on the day
Plus, the winner and three runners up will become part thortful’s growing community of independent creators.
ALL entries will be included in one collective montage Valentine’s Card and sent to hospitals around the UK.
About Chasing the Stigma
Chasing the Stigma are putting amazing support in place for NHS staff affected by the pandemic on their Hub of Hope app.
The app brings together all the mental health support available to someone in any given area. The Hub of Hope is the only service of its kind that brings together NHS, voluntary, grassroots, private and third sector mental health support details nationally and locally, with over 1,800 services registered and its database growing daily.
Hub of Hope believes that no matter what you're going through, you shouldn't have to do it alone. Using geolocation technology our map will direct you instantly to help in your local area. The stigma associated with mental health can make it difficult to talk about, however there are services out there with people who understand and are ready to help.
Find out more:
https://www.chasingthestigma.co.uk/hub-of-hope/
Info about NHS charities is available here:
https://www.nhscharitiestogether.co.uk/
Below are some of the brilliant Valentine’s cards thortful.com to give you some inspiration!
OMB of the Day: Create posters to promote #HealthChain from @TheHWF, supporting NHS workers at this time of crisis with counselling, PPE, childcare grants, food & mental health support.
With the situation getting worse for NHS workers right now, we are running today’s brief in support of an amazing new platform that is helping NHS staff to get the support they deserve when they need it most.
I really do hope all of the OMBLES get involved today. If you’re reading this right now. Have a go. And. collectively we can help promote something great and show our support of our healthcare workers.
BRIEF:
Create posters that promote the new NHS worker platform called ‘HealthChain’ from the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation, supporting and connecting NHS workers at this time of crisis to counselling, PPE, childcare grants, food and mental health support.
Do it in a visually emotive way, to help raise money so the charity can continue to support the frontline as much as we can.
Tweet your submissions to @OneMinuteBriefs, @thehwf, @roshanaMN, @jesswade, @AskJeevesWij and @DrDomPimenta with the hashtags #HealthChain & #HelpThemHelpUs
PRIZE:
We cannot offer a prize, but we can offer you the warm fuzzy feeling of contributing to a very good cause and making a real difference to those trying to save lives in the worst circumstances imaginable.
CONTEXT:
The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (Formerly HEROES), was founded by NHS workers at the height of the pandemic to look after the welfare and wellbeing of NHS staff at the worst moment of their working lives. Since it’s humble beginnings, it’s provided over 500,000 items of PPE, food, skincare products, units of counselling, childcare grants and more.
Health Chain
We have a tired and beleaguered workforce of 1.5m NHS workers, struggling with a third wave, the largest yet, of a deadly virus. They cannot cope on their own. But they are not alone – they have a whole country behind them, of individuals, businesses, inventors, engineers. HealthChain exists to connect NHS workers to each other, but also to that wider world of good will, converting the desperate desire for so many to do their bit into real and tangible good for those fighting the virus in our hospitals and communities.
HealthChain is a fully-functional custom-built platform, providing extensive mental and physical support services to ALL healthcare workers, connecting to our external friends and partners as well as our internal services for childcare grants. We also use HealthChain to take the pulse of our healthcare workers, what they need, what’s working, what isn’t, PPE supplies, counselling requirements, what boosts morale – this is a key part of how the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation stays relevant and connected, delivering funds raised as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Your support and donation will help us to continue to fund access to counselling, our Safe Spaces project, food, morale projects and PPE deliveries, childcare grants and provide discounts through a wide range of services with our network of HWF Friends.
What the public can do to help:
HealthChain has been created in response to the fractured and difficult world of support for healthcare workers that’s out there – different groups of professionals, different hospitals, different care settings – all offer support but in different and inefficient ways. We want to create a one-stop shop for ALL healthcare workers, to connect them directly with the immense goodwill of the public, so we can all get through this together.
We need to connect the public to all healthcare workers, so we can all fight the pandemic, together.
For NHS workers you can sign-up to Health Chain with an NHS email here:
For the general public, you can learn more about the HWF and donate here:
If you would like to contribute more regularly you can do so by setting up a standing order via Enthuse, please click here
DO’s
Use the donation link: https://healthcareworkersfoundation.org/donate
Use the terms HealthChain (one word) and Healthcare Workers’ Foundation
Use the HealthChain logo (above)
Keep it simple and impactful, engaging and positive as possible.
DONT’s…
Try to avoid political statements;
Don’t add additional facts or figures unless described here
WINNING CRITERIA
Best posters will be unique and inspire people to want to donate
They will clearly position us as an important and urgent way to make a real difference
Social Links:
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/healthcareworkersfoundation
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thehwf
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehwf
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/healthcareworkersfoundation
Feel free to use any of the logos/images/colours below.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to creatively promote the #WalkForWater challenge with @CAFOD
We want to share our brilliant new challenge and encourage people from across the UK to get involved, uniting to help fight poverty.
That’s why we wanted to join forces with One Minute Briefs to set a brief that challenges the OMBLES to creatively encourage others to take on a new challenge this Lent.
Brief:
Create posters to creatively promote the #WalkForWater challenge.
Walk for Water is a challenge that takes place over Lent. It’s a chance for you to transform your life while changing someone else’s. Walk it, skip it, spin it, run it. Do it your way: 10,000 steps a day, every day, for 40 days.
Millions of people around the world don’t have clean safe water near their homes. Some have to walk ten hours a day, every day, to get water.
The main thing is that we all unite to help fight poverty, together.
Create posters that creatively display:
Creative ways of doing 10,000 steps a day
People uniting together to help fight poverty
Why people should go the distance so that someone else doesn’t have to
We want the OMBLES to come up with an inspirational poster and message that encourages people across the UK to join in with the #WalkForWater challenge, spreading positivity in the fight against poverty in all sorts of creative ways!
We look forward to seeing all of the great stuff you come up with!
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @CAFOD with the hashtag #WalkForWater.
Prizes:
£100 World Gifts voucher for the winner!
Shortlisted entries could be shared on @CAFOD’s social channels for the new campaign!
About CAFOD:
We are an international development charity and the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.
We believe in a world where we can reach every woman, man and child so that they can flourish. We are part of a global Church network with a local presence in 165 countries and territories. Together we make up one of the largest aid networks in the world.
Website link:
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters for the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation #FamilyFund project, supporting the bereaved families of healthcare workers who lost their lives during the pandemic.
Today’s brief is a hugely important one that I hope all of the OMBLES will get involved with. This is also the last One Minute Brief of 2020. So let’s go out with a bang! Please retweet as many entries as you can to spread the word too!
This brief is also particularly meaningful as, in the past week, I’ve been looked after following by healthcare workers before, during and after back surgery. I wrote about how badly it affected me in the last 18 months here: bankofcreativity.co.uk/blog/thestruggleisreal
I was also taken in ambulance yesterday to A&E as I had chest pains. They picked me up in minutes and did all the various checks on the ward. I am in again this morning for a further CT scan too. So, in only a few days, I’ve been cared for by many healthcare workers. I’d love it if the OMBLES can help me say thank you to them, their co-workers and the families of those that lost their lives during the pandemic whilst caring for people like me.
One Minute Brief of the Day:
Create posters for the Healthcare Workers’ Foundation #FamilyFund project, supporting the bereaved families of healthcare workers who lost their lives during the pandemic.
Do it in a visually emotive way while making it unique to The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation and helping to raise money for this really important cause.
Tweet your submissions to @OneMinuteBriefs, @thehwf and @DrDomPimenta with the hashtag #FamilyFund
We cannot offer a prize, but we can offer you the warm fuzzy feeling of contributing to a very good cause and making a real difference to people’s lives, who lost a loved one saving others.
Context:
The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (Formerly HEROES), was founded by NHS workers at the height of the pandemic to look after the welfare and wellbeing of NHS staff at the worst moment of their working lives. Since it’s humble beginnings, it’s provided over 500,000 items of PPE, food, skincare products, units of counselling, childcare grants and more.
The Family Fund:
We are now working with the bereaved families of those healthcare workers we couldn’t protect, the over 640 men and women that lost their lives to COVID, looking after our families, that leave behind families of their own.
Families like that of Elsie Sazuze, a 44-year-old care home nurse, who tragically lost her life in April after contracting the virus. The HWF has been supporting her husband and their children:
"This is our first Christmas without my wife Elsie. Losing her has been devastating, and something words cannot explain. The HWF has supported us in ways we couldn’t have imagined, including helping my son to secure a great internship which may not have been possible otherwise."
Your support and donation will help us to provide access to counselling and other practical support both during the grieving period and into the future, including respite breaks and mentoring support for children and young adults.
What the public can do to help:
The Family Fund has been created in response to direct feedback from healthcare workers who expressed fear and anxiety about the impact their work may have on their lives and the lives of their loved ones. We need to remind healthcare workers how much they are valued and that we stand behind them and their families as their supporters and allies. Over 640 healthcare workers have lost their lives in the pandemic so far, one of the worst records of any country in the world.
To learn more about the Family Fund or the Healthcare Workers' Foundation, please click here
If you would like to contribute more regularly you can do so by setting up a standing order via Enthuse, please click here
DO’s
Use the donation link: (https://tinyurl.com/familyfundappeal (there is also a QR code if appropriate)
Use the terms Family Fund and Healthcare Workers’ Foundation
Use our case study
Use the Family Fund logo (below)
Keep it simple and impactful, engaging and positive as possible;
DONT’s…
Try to avoid political statements;
Don’t reference catastrophic weather events
Don’t add additional facts or figures unless described here
WINNING CRITERIA
Best posters will be unique and inspire people to want to donate
They will clearly position us as an important and urgent way to make a real difference
Social Links:
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/healthcareworkersfoundation
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thehwf
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehwf
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/healthcareworkersfoundation
Feel free to use any of the images/colours below.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Brief: Create posters to advertise the number one gift on your santa list! #MySantaWishlist #MiniOMBLES
Today we’ve got a very special One Minute Brief of the Day with an incredible prize to be won. The chance to have the winning entry brought to life as an illustration or film by me and my good friend/talented artist, Steve Moyler!! This brief was inspired after Steve sent me a KFC poster his 7 year-old daughter had done to cheer me up following my back surgery on Thursday. ‘Merry Crispymas’!!! Absolutely brilliant.
So…today’s OMB is for the kids!
(unless you want to unleash your inner-child of course and go full-on scamp style!)
Brief:
Create posters to advertise the number one gift on your santa list!
As your kids, nieces, nephews, cousins and grand children have made a list, and you are checking it twice, we want them to bring to life the very thing that will bring them happiness in a few days and create a poster to advertise why it’s so great!
It can be for ANYTHING they want. From expected toys and games, to world peace, saving the environment or even a McDonalds breakfast! Everything goes this festive week for the young ones.
With many of you still working hard and lots of excited children counting the days, lets give these creative minds something to do to fill in the time – they are future OMBLES after all!
BRIEF:
Create a poster that advertises the Christmas present that is wanted most. They can use any paper, colour or crayon, laptop or iPad, they can even create a little TikTok advert!
Let’s give them full creative control as only they know how to do.
Tweet your submissions to @OneMinuteBriefs & @SteveMoyler with the hashtags #MyXmasWishlist & #MiniOMBLES
PRIZE:
Winner receives their vision brought to life! As well as a framed personalised illustration of them as anyone they wish to be or meet. One for the bedroom wall!
See some of the example above and below. Steve asked his children to draw themselves s superheroes and he brought them to life!
CONTEXT:
Christmas is coming and the ideas have been getting fat this season.
There have been some great Xmas adverts but we want to see what the OMB kids can do.
As you dash around for the last minute sends to Santa, let’s gift the young minds a moment to shine as the clock ticks down.
DO’s
• Be a child. (Big kids allowed)
• Be as creative as you want
• Use any advertising medium
• Let that young mind do its thing
• Make everyone excited about the number one gift on your Santa’s list
DONT’s…
• Be an adult (Children at heart allowed)
• Don’t amend their creativity!
WINNING CRITERIA
• The winning one will make us all feel like that moment we came down the stairs at 5am after being told ‘it’s too early and go back to bed!’
• We want the ‘HE’S BEEN!’ moment in a funny, simple and perfect way that only kids can do.
REMEMBER… “If they don’t know they will have a go!”
Sir Ken Robinson 4 March 1950 - 21 August 2020
So let’s give children’s creativity a Christmas cheer to end 2020. Good luck!
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to help bring to life a new way of meeting people based on similar interests (based on your own interests!) with @Simterest1 #LetsMakeThingsInteresting
We ran a brief for #Simterest in August soon after Simterest launched, which helped to build initial brand awareness for the app, that has been in development since March this year.
Simterest is BACK to ask for the help of all you amazing OMBLES to help make even more noise for Simterest following improvements to the brand and service. All designed to help you find like-minded people you can really click with.
This time, we want to push the brief further, have more fun and make things more interesting, witty and humorous.
Focusing on what makes Simterest different from anything else! (see below)
So we want to see entries that can include YOUR interests! Whatever your biggest interests or obsessions are!
Tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs @Simterest1 with the hashtag #LetsMakeThingsInteresting
ENTRY DEADLINE 8PM
Remember to follow @Simterest1 and give creator @AndrewG14u a follow too!
Prize: £100 cash prize for the winner.
What makes Simterest different?
Meet new people with similar interests
Search up to 3 interests at a time
Meet locally or anywhere in the world
You don’t need to be single to use Simterest
Single, in a relationship or married
Also search by occupation, star sign, dietary choice, religion, or even what kinds of pets they have! (and many other search options available!)
Find People who love the same things as you do – eg Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Films, TV shows, Music, Books, computer games, sport, pets, and more…
Share your Bucket List with others – find others who want to do the same things as you eg Swimming with Dolphins, Helicopter ride over New York or the Grand Canyon .. and anything and everything you can think of!
Potty about Potter? Or find other Doctor Who fans who also love Dalek Bread!
Are you a fan of certain TV celebrities like - Amanda Holden, Lucy Verasamy, Holly Willoughby, Piers Morgan, Phillip Schofield, David Walliams, Ant and Dec etc
Do you love TV Programmes like - Good Morning Britain, This Morning, Loose Women, The One Show, Strictly Come Dancing, Coronation Street, Eastenders, Top Gear, Dragons Den? etc
Or are you obsessed with Fandoms like: Anime, Avatar, Avengers, Batman, Comic-Con, Cosplay, DC Universe, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Dragon Ball, Fast and the Furious, Fortnite, Friends, Game of Thrones, Ghostbusters, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, Iron Man, Lord of the Rings, Mario, Marvel Universe, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pokemon, Sherlock, Spider Man, Superman, Supernatural, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, The Simpsons, The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead, Transformers, X-men
Whatever you love - find lots of people who love all the same things as you do - just as much as you do - anywhere in the World.. find them on Simterest!
Download Simterest now!
Google Play
Apple App Store
and use Promo Code: DEC20-N12 (for bonus credits)
Twitter: @Simterest1
Find Simterest also on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube
About:
MEET LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE WITH SIMTEREST
The latest innovative dating app that pairs people based on their shared interests.
Date nights can go from hit-and-miss to hours of enjoyment by meeting people who can connect with from the start. Rather than solely being a dating app or form of social media, Simterest is the perfect combination of both. Let go of the pressure of appearance and awkward conversations, and find a safe space away from the likes and swipes.
Are you fed up wasting your nights endlessly swiping and engaging in meaningless conversations? How can you get to know a person from a one-line bio or a simple series of photographs?
Simterest is for you.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to celebrate the @RECLAIMproject charity, community & values. #WeAreRECLAIM
Today we’ve got a great brief with our next-door neighbours!! They are based in Manchester but making a name for themselves nationally and having huge impact. And, we’re hoping the OMBLES will help spread that word even further and bring to life the great work they do in lots of fun, creative ways!
Please tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs, @RECLAIMproject with the hashtag #WeAreRECLAIM
Brief:
Create posters to celebrates the RECLAIM charity, community & values.
We empower young working-class people to change the country today and lead it tomorrow.
Values:
acceptance
authenticity
approachable
fearless
inclusivity
independence
PROUD!!
Prizes:
£100 cash prize for the winner
& the chance to work with RECLAIM to bring to life your idea to be seen on a national and potentially international stage!!
ABOUT:
RECLAIM is a youth leadership and social change organisation.
We are a small but bold charity, using our experience and platform to support and amplify the voices of working-class young people.
We exist to create a society in which being from a working-class background no longer presents barriers to achievement, success, or influence.
Our long term goal is to create a Britain where those from working-class backgrounds are proud of – and not held back by – our roots. We want working-class people to be represented in places where decisions are made about their lives and to be recognised for their talent, strength, and diversity. We want to see working-class young people at the heart of this, in a country that ensures that they are seen, heard, and leading change.
Links:
https://twitter.com/RECLAIMproject
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to advertise the new @metoffice #VeryBritishWeather book with @EburyPublishing
We’re excited to launch the first OMB collab with the Met Office of a series that we have planned, which will see us team up on several briefs in 2021! We’re excited to see all of the fun, creative, quick-fire content from the OMBLES today, with the chance to win a great prize!!
BRIEF:
Create a poster that advertises the new Met Office book ‘Very British Weather’.
Do it in a visually exciting way while making it unique to Met Office… and have fun!
Tweet your submissions to @OneMinuteBriefs, @metoffice and @EburyPublishing with the hashtag #VeryBritishWeather
PRIZE:
Winner receives £200 CASH!!!
Shortlisted entries could also be featured by the Met Office & Ebury Publishing Channels!
CONTEXT:
Upgrade your small talk guided by world-leading weather and climate experts!
The Met Office's latest book, 'Very British Weather', takes readers on a journey through weather and climate conditions in the UK, season by season. It explores the wisdom and wonders of weather, with facts on weather and climate and historical gems from our archive featured throughout as well as myth-busting trivia and activities.
Some facts from the book:
Weather balloons float up to eight times the height of Mount Everest.
The Met Office supercomputer can perform more than fourteen thousand trillion calculations every second.
The average typical fair-weather cumulus cloud weighs about the same as an Airbus A380.
Pyrocumulus clouds are made by fire.
You can work out the air temperature by the frequency of crickets chirps.
The longest lasting rainbow in the UK was six hours long in Sheffield in 1994.
On average, there are 100 lightning strikes around the world every second.
Elves, sprites and blue jets are types of lightning.
In 2008, there was a two hour hailstorm in Ottery St Mary.
The longest icicle in the UK was 8.2 Metres long.
The word blizzard originated from a blast of gunfire.
In 1816, there was a year without a summer, following the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia.
Enough rainfall falls across Scotland in an average year to fill Loch Ness more than 17 times.
As well as inspiring you to take a deeper look at the sky above us and at our changing climate, this book will teach you new facts about weather and climate, and record-breaking statistics to really upgrade your weather small-talk.
smarturl.it/VeryBritishWeather
DO’s
Use the Met Office book;
Use the Met Office colour palette and logo;
Keep it simple and impactful;
DONT’s…
No referencing political agendas;
Do not mock up any National Severe Weather Warning content using the Met Office logo
Don’t reference catastrophic weather events
WINNING CRITERIA
Best posters will be unique and inspire people to want to read our book! They will clearly position us as weather and climate subject experts
Social Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/metoffice/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@metoffice
Twitter: https://twitter.com/metoffice
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/metoffice/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/metoffice
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/met-office/
Snapchat: metoffice
Feel free to use any of the book images or logos below in your entries. Brand colour codes can be found at the bottom of the page.
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to promote @Fu_Cov hand sanitiser and #AvoidTheLurgy!!
Today we’ve got an exciting brief with our friends Fucov, a brand new, fun, ethical, moisturising hand sanitiser. We can’t wait to see how the OMBLES take on this very different theme and help raise the awareness of the brand and its unique selling points through engaging social media creativity and creation.
This is also a product created by an OMBLE so let’s ALL get involved to show our support and say FuCov to nasty germs and bacteria!!
Please tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs & @Fu_Cov with the hashtag #AvoidTheLurgy
Give them a follow too! And… bonus if you can post on instagram too, tagging @fu.cov and using the same hashtag.
Prizes:
A years worth of FuCov Sanitiser
A triple bundle
5 pouches and stickers
ABOUT:
Let's fight Covid-19 together.
Now is the time we talk about protecting ourselves and others. The time we allow our newly formed social resilience to stand up and be fully prepared to fight this silent and deadly killer… Let’s fight it together.
FUCOV moisturising sanitiser is made with organic, vegan friendly ingredients, delivered in pouches that consider our planet and the long term effects on it too.
So, stick this bad boy in your pocket, bag or purse, use it religiously on your hands & surfaces and Covid-19 or any other life threatening virus can Fucov!
Who the Fuc?
A man, sat at home, jobless trying to feed and protect his wife and 2 little boys in fear of stepping out doors had a lightbulb moment. To reduce the tension, confusion and doom and gloom of covid-19, he decided to educate his little boys through a project making home made sanitiser.
This quickly developed and became a need. Through further learnings, he realised that their skin types lacked vitamin D and, therefore, moisture. Constant daily use of sanitiser was creating skin irritations and overall poor skin health. His wife had eczema and the little hands were getting sore.
In response, he decided to infuse the home made recipe with Argan Oil and Shea butter, ingredients his wife used in her everyday skin care routine, and to add a little fun and “smile” factor, he added a few drops of a scented oil.
At that moment, the first batch of the newly created Fucov was born.
Quickly this escalated, friends and family were using Fucov and the response was epic, yey!
He decided to now take this a little more seriously and teamed up with his new trusty wingman/brainy scientist called Steve. This allowed him to develop, test and certify Fucov making it commercially legal. They all pulled together, to get Fucov where it is today, driven with passion, protection, families and ethical decisions in mind.
Why? Because we need to protect ourselves, our loved ones, our families, innocent people around us and help slow the reproduction rate and throttle the life out of Fu.cking Covid-19 and any other horrid lurgies.
Why the Fuc?
Ethical
Our quality hand sanitiser is made with Organic and Vegan ingredients, plus its cruelty free too!
Antibacterial
Made with 70% Alcohol that kills 99.99% of nasty germs and bacteria helping you avoid the lurgy.
“IreSNIFFible”
It smells so amazing and will bring a smile to your face, honestly you will not be able to resist! Take the ”sniff” test and tell us what you think.
Planet Conscious
We started with the bottle and flipped it on its head, trimmed the fat and used far less plastic than other bottles or tubes.
Water Saving
With every splash of Fucov you can save an average of 4.4 litres of water. Thats a whopping 223 litres per 50 ml pouch.
Skin Hydration
Fucov is infused with Argan oil but and Shea butter. Our smooth operators will keep your skin hydrated, elasticated, ninja-like and in tip-top shape.
UK Made
Fucov is designed and made in the United Kingdom. Giving you a legitimate reason to politely say “Fu-cov”.
Go give them a follow on insta and FB and lets fight this together…
More info on our site and social links…
Fucov.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/fu.cov/
https://www.facebook.com/fucovsanitiser/
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to promote Gladvent Calendar 2020 and show that ‘2020 wasn’t ALL bad’ #Gladvent2020
Brief:
Create posters to promote Gladvent Calendar 2020 and show that ‘2020 wasn’t ALL bad’
Please tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs & @GladventCal with the hashtag #Gladvent2020 & link to gladvent.co.uk
Prizes:
£250 voucher for Not On The High Street
(to support independent businesses through this testing time)
What is Gladvent?
A brand-new website launched this advent in an attempt to give members of the public a daily dose of joy over Christmas.
Christmas is set to feel a little different this year, with gatherings limited to just three households as the UK sets out its rules to limit the spread of COVID-19 and ease the strain on the NHS.
As December marks the unofficial beginning of the festive season for so many people around the world, the majority of the public will be peeling back days and tucking into chocolates from our advent calendars.
However, a group of colleagues in Leeds, decided to do things a little differently this year. By launching our very own ‘Gladvent Calendar’, people are encouraged to read a good news story from 2020 every day.
2020 may have been a nightmare - but it hasn’t been all doom and gloom.
The idea behind it
The idea is that people will receive a little boost every day in December, as we continue to live with restrictions on social activities.
Full of heartwarming stories, videos and articles, the calendar will serve as a reminder of the positive things that have happened in a year otherwise dominated by adversity and negative press.
The thought of Christmas is what has kept so many people going this year, and even though it’s looking like sacrifices will still have to be made, we’re hoping that our little doses of good news will help to spread some cheer.
If we can make just one person smile with this calendar, then it’ll be mission accomplished, as far as we’re concerned.
The Gladvent Calendar will run from 1 December until 25 December, and is free to use.
Links:
https://twitter.com/GladventCal
One Minute Brief of the Day: Create posters to help promote #TheGoodGiftWrap with @WrapUpLondon & spread as much warmth as possible this Christmas.
Today we’ve got another seasonal brief with a very important cause at it’s heart. We’re hoping as many people as possible will get involved today and, of course, opt for the Good Gift Wrap for their presents this year!
We’re excited that the OMBLES will be able to help us spread the word and warmth. And, of course, we hope they will help us sell as many rolls as we can, so we can help as many people as possible!!
Please tweet your entries to @OneMinuteBriefs and @WrapUpLondon with the hashtags #TheGoodGiftWrap & #WrapUpLondon as well as the message: ‘Buy/order yours at TheGoodGiftWrap.org’
Prizes:
OMB Hoodie in any colour.
Choice of OMBook 1-4.
Background
Each year, Hands On London, a charity that supports the homeless community run a campaign called Wrap Up London, where they ask commuters to donate coats as they pass through train stations on their way to work – helping thousands of homeless people keep warm during the cold, winter months.
Problem
A recent study has found that the number of people sleeping rough on the streets throughout London has increased by 33% (Combined Homelessness and Information Network, 2020) in the last year alone. But, whilst the demand for coats is at its highest, train stations have never been emptier because of COVID-19.
With more people sleeping rough and coat collections becoming much trickier due to lockdown restrictions, the charity needed to take action to ensure that they could still help keep homeless people stay safe and warm during these difficult times. To cover the extra costs for this year's collection and deliveries, they needed a fundraising idea.
Idea
Introducing the Good Gift Wrap, cosy Christmas wrapping paper that does good and looks good too. The warm knit design wrapping paper helps the homeless wrap up warm this Christmas, with money raised helping volunteers deliver more coats safely.
The creative challenge
The fundraiser campaign is running until 15th December, and the charity is relying on organic sharing and word of mouth to hit their fundraising targets.
Can you help us spread the word so we can spread more warmth? We need to sell as many rolls as we can, so we can help as many people as possible.
Key messages we could talk about
The warm and cosy designs remind you of the warmth every purchase brings – you’re wrapping up homeless people as well as your Christmas gifts.
1 roll of The Good Gift Wrap helps the charity’s volunteers deliver coats to 3 homeless people
The paper can be bought online, so there’s no need to go to the shops (COVID safe)
The Good Gift Wrap is good in more ways than 1 (looks good, does good, sustainably sourced and FSC certified, recyclable)
Feel free to use any of the assets below within your submissions:
