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Big Umbrella builds Charity brands with new service - Press Release issued January 5, 2006
Big Umbrella Media today launches a dynamic broadcast and communications consultancy service for the non-profit, public and business sectors.
The service will be headed by Lydia Thomas who is the latest signing at the expanding Midlands based independent production company Big Umbrella Media. She joins an experienced and dynamic team to spearhead fresh communications and broadcasting partnerships with the not-for-profit, public and private sectors.
Building on an established and successful track record with large charities such as RNID and ActionAid forged by Managing Director Martin Head, Lydia Thomas will further nurture and grow a production portfolio in partnership with leading and smaller charities and public sector clients:
“Charities are more and more at the cutting edge of social enterprise, setting the agenda, encouraging hard-hitting debate and forging policy at the heart of our society and culture. Getting the message across has never been more important and that is where we will work together to cultivate brand awareness and share new thinking.”
With a broadcasting career spanning 25 years, Lydia Thomas has worked for both the BBC and ITV as a Producer and Presenter. One of the few disabled people to present on mainstream television, Lydia was a familiar face on BBC Daytime in the early 1990s on Good Morning with Anne and Nick, Morning Surgery and Gardenwise.
In recent years she has worked with Anne Wood, Creative Director of Ragdoll TV to establish and launch The Ragdoll Foundation, a grant-making charity supporting children through the arts; the Home Office Active Communities Unit and Volunteering England as a Grant Assessor.
In public life Lydia is Vice Chair of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee on Older and Disabled People, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the British Medical Association’s Patient Liaison Group.
In welcoming Lydia’s arrival at Big Umbrella Media, Managing Director Martin Head said:
“This appointment moves the service we already offer to many charities and companies in this arena into a new league. It is vital for the brands of charities to be increasingly better known and Lydia joining the team will enable us to increase our work in partnership with our existing clients as well as offer the same depth of service to new ones. Our experience in advertising, marketing and production allow us to offer an unrivalled communications consultancy service that is both proactive and practical as well as cost effective and creative.”
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