Volunteering and Asylum Project

Make a Difference

SureStart Summaries

Safer Communities
Partnership

Refugee Arrivals Project

Domestic Violence

Drug and Alcohol
Action Team

www.health-activist.net

Tandem helps clients to get across what they want to say to the people they want to reach, with maximum effect. We are in touch with high quality designers, photographers, web site developers and printers, and can help you to plan and budget for the right publication.

We also help public and voluntary sector organisations look at their overall approach to marketing and communications, helping them build up workable and effective communication strategies.

Projects include:

Volunteering and Asylum Project
Tandem set up this project in 2003, and has run it with funding from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the Home Office, the European Union (EQUAL via the EASI Partnership) and others.

Outcomes include successful training days, seminars and conferences across the UK; the publication of two handbooks; a training course on volunteer management for refugee community organisations (plus report). Tandem has also taken part in other UK and European projects and events and has worked with numerous organisations to explore this important area of involvement and development. Find out moe.

Joseph Rowntree Destitution Inquiry

The Commissioners of the Joseph Rowntree Inquiry into Destitution among Refused Asylum Seekers published their report in March 2007. Find out more.

Make a Difference
In 2006, tandem helped Volunteering Bradford prepare and publish a booklet listing many ways in which local people can have a say in local strategy and service delivery through volunteering.

SureStart Summaries
In 2005 and 2006, tandem helped SureStart BHT and SureStart Keighley to produce clear and attractive summaries of recent evaluations.

Safer Communities Partnership
Ruth Wilson has worked extensively with this multi-agency partnership in the Bradford distirct, helping them with the development of their name and logo and a range of publications, marketing materials and banners. In 2005, Ruth helped the partnership edit and produce its district audit. Ruth also helped the Partnership develop its website: www.saferbradford.org.uk

Refugee Arrivals Project
Tandem has worked with RAP for several years, helping the organisation prepare its annual report.

Domestic Violence
Tandem edited and helped produce the 2003-2005 domestic violence strategy for the Bradford District. Ruth Wilson wrote the summary booklet, ‘an issue for us all’.

Drug and Alcohol Action Team
Work in 2003 with the Bradford DAAT led to the publication of two leaflets, one targeting young people.

Ruth Wilson has also worked with designer Richard Honey to produce two distinctive banners for the Bradford Drug and Alcohol Action Team. These lightweight displays are being used at many local events.

View Young people banner (178 KB pdf)

View Community banner (225 KB pdf)

www.health-activist.net
This is a manual and website aimed at encourageing the development of training courses for community health activists. Ruth Wilson researched and wrote the handbook and website texts, working closely with Madeleine Parkyn (envoy) who created the website.

"I have been struck by Ruth's professionalism, and the quality of the final product. The combination of creativity and thoroughness is rare and much appreciated !"
Eleanor Green, Assistant Director, Health Promotion Strategy, Bradford Health Authority

Other communications clients have included the Refugee Council and the Vietnamese Mental Health Project.

photo caption:
School governor, London.

“The membership of the governing body should,
wherever possible, represent the community.”
Department for Education and Skills, ‘Governing the School of the Future’