January 2009

Ombudsman for Children - Separated Children Project

Separated children are children who have had to leave their home countries and families because of danger, discrimination, intimdation, poverty or fear. For some, trafficking, racism, discrimination and poverty are part of their everyday lives here in Ireland. Add to that lonliness, the trauma of separation from their parents and loved ones, depression and the physical and psychological damage they have endured. They are in the asylum system here in Ireland and are in the care of the HSE.

The Ombudsman for Children’s Office decided to take on this under-the-radar issue in their programme of work. Before Christmas they launched the outcomes of that amazing piece of work which involved 35 extraordinary separated children from many different countries. The OCO invited PCC, from a very early point in the project, to become involved in a very deep way in brainstorming the possible elements; in engaging with some of the children who participated, and; in producing the key tools and materials.

There are four principal outputs from the initiative which we helped produce – a guidebook compiled by the young people, a story book setting out their stories, a project report to the Oireachtas and an audio DVD of excerpts from their moving stories.

The OCO is a wonderful, visionary and effective organisation to work with and we’re always very excited and committed to the wonderful and important projects we get to assist with.

StartStrong is committed to advancing high quality care and education as a right for all young children in Ireland. Thier advocacy is built on clear evidence of the benefits this brings for children, for the economy and for society.

Start Strong works to promote informed policy development and increased investment in young children. They support their advocacy with new research and the analysis of good practice. In particular, we are working to encourage the development of a 10-year national plan to bring early care and education in Ireland up to the highest international standards by 2020.

Start Strong was originally founded in 2004 as the Irish Childcare Policy Network (ICPN), a coalition of organisations and individuals interested in progressing childcare and early learning policies in Ireland.

We completed this rebranding exercise for the Irish Childcare Policy Network in December 2009.

Autumn 2009

Impact
We are delighted to be working on a second project for IMPACT this year. From October to November we will be rolling out a major advertising campaign that targets both the general public and the union membership with a number of key messages on transforming the public sector and challenging the government's current policy. We undertook a number of campaign tasks for IMPACT including message research and development, national opinion polling and media planning and buying. We also developed a series of viral videos to support the campaign. You can watch the first two below. For more information go to impact.ie

NCBI Fundraising
It's our first time working with NCBI and it has been a very rewarding experience. This initial project saw us developing and producing a fundraising direct marketing pack. This involved working closely with their senior leadership in strategising, researching, branding, writing and designing the pack.

Dolphin Decides was a truly unique and exciting project. PCC won the tender to assist the community of Dolphin House, the largest inner city flat complex on Dublin's southside, to define and present their informed vision around their own regeneration. PCC partnered up with Community Action Network and the task involved best-practice community consultation, strategic communications and the drafting, editing, design and print of a suite of key communications tools including branding, newsletters, flyers, point of display and publications.

Our Lady's Hospice, Harold's Cross and Blackrock
In July we produced an Annual Report for Our Lady's Hospice, Harold's Cross and Blackrock. The client was anxious that the content and tone of the Annual Report would take a significant step forward. They wanted it to reflect the positive and complex ethos and values of their multi-layered work while also being respectful and empathetic with the residents of the hospice. PCC is very proud of our work with this fantastic organisation assisting with the content, editing and the overall design and photography.

We recently completed a new visual identity for GLEN, the Gay and Lesbian Equality network. We've also produced a range of communications tools and publications. We're also delighted to be advising them strategically. Their new website which we designed with our partner ThinkTwo will also be
launching shortly.

The Children's Medical & Research Foundation
Our latest donor development appeal for CMRF has just been launched and will run for the next 4/6 weeks. It is designed to raise funds for their new A&E department which will significantly improve services and reduce waiting times. The new building is already half way there and the appeal is aiming to raise the final money needed to complete and equip it.

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