1. 1. CharityComms seminar: Managing Case Studies andPortraying Beneficiaries 28 April 2011Web: www.charitycomms.org.ukContact: www.charitycomms.org.uk/about/contact.aspxSign up to our enews: www.charitycomms.org.uk/about/enews.aspx
2. 2. Six ingredients for greatcharity case studiesGideon BurrowsEditor, ngo.mediawww.ngomedia.org.uk
3. 3. Six ingredients for greatcharity case studies ...change/consequence
4. 4. Until seven months ago, I hadnt left the house for10 years, felt uncomfortable around people I didntknow, and had no real interest in my physical healthor appearance.I had been diagnosed with depression and phobicanxiety disorder.Then my community mental health team referredme to the Time to Change Fit 4 Life project.Now Im a different person.
5. 5. Until seven months ago, I hadnt left the house for10 years, felt uncomfortable around people I didntknow, and had no real interest in my physical healthor appearance.I had been diagnosed with depression and phobicanxiety disorder.Then my community mental health team referredme to the Time to Change Fit 4 Life project.Now Im a different person.
6. 6. If there wasnt a place like this, Stacey wouldstill be hanging around on the street, pushinga pram and drinking.Thats what the majority of the young peoplearound here are doing theres nothing forthem to do.Instead shes going to college each day.
7. 7. Six ingredients for greatcharity case studies ...powerful opening
8. 8. On the paramilitary-run New Lodgeestate in north Belfast eight years ago,an unexpected knock on the door wasnot always a welcome sound.For Anna-Marie Burns, her knock onthe door was unexpected, but it wasalso a lifeline.
9. 9. Until seven months ago, I hadnt left the house for10 years, felt uncomfortable around people I didntknow, and had no real interest in my physical healthor appearance.I had been diagnosed with depression and phobicanxiety disorder.Then my community mental health team referredme to the Time to Change Fit 4 Life project.Now Im a different person.
10. 10. I realised I had two alternatives facingme prison or death.
11. 11. Until seven months ago, I hadnt left the house for10 years, felt uncomfortable around people I didntknow, and had no real interest in my physical healthor appearance.I had been diagnosed with depression and phobicanxiety disorder.Then my community mental health team referredme to the Time to Change Fit 4 Life project.Now Im a different person.
12. 12. It all started with just one goat.Paula Wolton moved to the countryside with herhusband in her early 20s, went shopping for a tableand came home with a goat.
13. 13. Six ingredients for greatcharity case studies ...quotes do the work
14. 14. Until seven months ago, I hadnt left the house for10 years, felt uncomfortable around people I didntknow, and had no real interest in my physical healthor appearance.I had been diagnosed with depression and phobicanxiety disorder.Then my community mental health team referredme to the Time to Change Fit 4 Life project.Now Im a different person.
15. 15. Its really important that other gayyoung people know theyre not on theirown. I would have really liked that whenI was younger.Emma
16. 16. Until seven months ago, I hadnt left the house for10 years, felt uncomfortable around people I didntknow, and had no real interest in my physical healthor appearance.I had been diagnosed with depression and phobicanxiety disorder.Then my community mental health team referredme to the Time to Change Fit 4 Life project.Now Im a different person.
17. 17. We have been living on the charity of thelocals and the surrounding villages.You are the first people who haveapproached us, and youve given us the foodand water with dignity.
18. 18. Six ingredients for greatcharity case studies ...show dont tell
19. 19. James never used to get invited to birthdayparties. When the invitations went out tofriends at school, he was left out.Friends parents just couldnt cope with hisbehaviour.James has autism and attention deficithyperactivity disorder.Adults worried he might go missing, disrupt theother children or break something.So, hed have to stay at home.
20. 20. Until seven months ago, I hadnt left the house for10 years, felt uncomfortable around people I didntknow, and had no real interest in my physical healthor appearance.I had been diagnosed with depression and phobicanxiety disorder.Then my community mental health team referredme to the Time to Change Fit 4 Life project.Now Im a different person.
21. 21. You can tell a deep connection between twopeople. They laugh at each others jokes, even beforetheyve finished talking.And even if theyre not funny.It was a tiny smile at one of Geanas off-the-cuffcomments, just a twinkle at the corner of an eye,that made her realise Geoff was still there. Behindthe stillness.After the smile, Geana knew there was hope theymight one day communicate again.
22. 22. Six ingredients for greatcharity case studies...verisimilitude
23. 23. Until seven months ago, I hadnt left the house for10 years, felt uncomfortable around people I didntknow, and had no real interest in my physical healthor appearance.I had been diagnosed with depression and phobicanxiety disorder.Then my community mental health team referredme to the Time to Change Fit 4 Life project.Now Im a different person.
24. 24. Denise was a popular music teacher and an amateuropera singer. She used to hold well-attended singinglessons during break times for her pupils.So when pupils stopped turning up to her classes, itwasnt because they didnt want to be taught. It wasbecause her handwriting had got so bad, they couldntread her notices.When Denise began to fall frequently, it wasconfirmed. The Huntingdons Disease that had affectedher father has been passed on.
25. 25. Until seven months ago, I hadnt left the house for10 years, felt uncomfortable around people I didntknow, and had no real interest in my physical healthor appearance.I had been diagnosed with depression and phobicanxiety disorder.Then my community mental health team referredme to the Time to Change Fit 4 Life project.Now Im a different person.
26. 26. Amy was arrested for the first time at 11. Criminaldamage. After that it was drunken affray and anantisocial behaviour order. Then drunk and disorderly.Then it was common assault, stealing cars. Drugs.The police became so familiar with Amy that theydroutinely stop her on the street. They just expected herto be trouble. They were usually right.Then on New Years Eve, not long after her 16thbirthday, Amy was sent to prison.I spent that weekend in the police station, and I didntknow what was going to happen. But I knew Id run outof chances.
27. 27. Six ingredients for greatcharity case studies ...show your reader
28. 28. Until seven months ago, I hadnt left the house for10 years, felt uncomfortable around people I didntknow, and had no real interest in my physical healthor appearance.I had been diagnosed with depression and phobicanxiety disorder.Then my community mental health team referredme to the Time to Change Fit 4 Life project.Now Im a different person.
29. 29. Last summer, my family and I visited Cambodia.Meeting Monorom, the Cambodian child wesponsor, gave us a vivid insight into the deep andlasting change thats possible for children and theircommunities.
30. 30. Until seven months ago, I hadnt left the house for10 years, felt uncomfortable around people I didntknow, and had no real interest in my physical healthor appearance.I had been diagnosed with depression and phobicanxiety disorder.Then my community mental health team referredme to the Time to Change Fit 4 Life project.Now Im a different person.
31. 31. Im delighted Ive signed up to the registerand would encourage everyone to do so.It was such an empowering thing to do,knowing that I can make the differencebetween someone living or dying.
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