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PRESS RELEASE
Date of Release [insert today’s date with ‘For Immediate Release’ or a date in the future with ’embargoed until’]
[INSERT YOUR HEADLINE]
[Make sure your headline is attention grabbing, simple and less than ten words long. Journalists are very busy people so it needs to be punchy, relevant and interesting to local readers. For example ‘Reading Walks for World Peace’]
[INSERT INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH]
[The journalist may not read any further than the introduction so make sure this paragraph is concise and interesting. It should expand on the statement made in your headline.
- Describe your event: where, when, what, who.
- Highlight the one thing that makes it exciting/unusual – focusing on something new, quirky or relevant to the community.
- Write as though you are speaking directly to the reader
[INSERT FURTHER DETAILS OF THE STORY]
- Include quotes
- Ensure the story is appealing to readers and provide any references to facts and figures.
- If it’s aimed at local media, include ref to local details, named local personalities
[CONCLUDE] Use a conclusive statement to end your story, with a message to entice people to come along.
[INCLUDE HIGH QUALITY PHOTOGRAPHS IF POSSIBLE]
[End] write ‘END’ at the end of your text
If sending by email – include in the body of the email (unless the journalist concerned has indicated a preference for an attachment)
[CONTACT INFORMATION]
Contact Details [Insert your name/name of contact]
Phone [insert your phone number]
Mobile [insert your phone number]
Email [insert your email address]
Finally add Notes for Editors.
Note to editors
One World Week is a Development Education Charity. Each year, "The Week" is an opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds and organisations to come together to learn about global justice, to spread that learning and to use it to take action for justice locally and globally. Thousands of people take part in One World Week events in their local communities across the country. The events are accessible yet the annual themes are designed to be challenging.
In 2013 the theme is“More than Enough? Aspire not to have more but to be more”.
OWW is asking people to support or organise events that enable us to consider the damage that is being done to our planet and its people by consumer culture. OWW asks us whether we:
• have had more than enough of consumer culture getting in the way of relationships with others
in our communities and across the globe?
• have had more than enough of being defined by what we possess?
• have had more than enough of seeing our planet irrevocably consumed?
• take more than enough ourselves?
This year, OWW, alongside many of its partners, signed up to support the “Enough food for everyone IF...” campaign which aimed to focus the attention of the G8 Summit of world leaders, in Belfast in June 2013, on tackling the scandal of hunger affecting one in five people on the planet. In OWW, events will bring together people who supported the campaign, and those who felt it did not go far enough, to review the progress made and discuss what we can do next.
The quote from Archbishop Romero (assassinated in 1982 for speaking up for the voiceless poor) sets us thinking about what “being more” might involve in today’s world. How can we,as individuals and citizens, meet the challenges of a warming world, declining resources, growing inequality and unrest? The quote from the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh): “The best of you is he (or she) who is of most benefit to others”reminds us that all faiths contribute their wisdom towards addressing these challenges.
Our local event is a link in a chain of events happening all round the country in OWW and extending to Europe in Global Education Week. Here from Cheltenham and Cardiff, Settle and Slough, to Holmfirth and Hartley (Kent), Bournemouth to Barrow, there is a vast and rich variety of events. There will be food eventsand faith events; talks and films about energy, forests, and fracking ; fairs and films festivals; a Speaker tour organised by WDM about financing dirty energy projects and a film tour organised by Christian Aid and OXFAM about Tax, in addition to numerous church services, school assemblies and coffee mornings.
OWW’s links to the European Network, which is also examining consumption issues, are part of a wider movement exploring how responsible citizens working together can build a just, peaceful andsustainable world.
For further information about One World Week visit
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One World Week Charity No: 1107762