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Advice, Training

Some of the service providers below have useful guides to producing printed or visual materials. Other sources of useful info:

• Plain English Campaign Phone 01663 744409, email: webmaster@plainenglish.co.uk

• Best Practice Guide to Outsourcing Print Management produced for ACEVO, Feb 01 (see Professional bodies).

Translation & transcription

• BSS (a charity) make a point of being able to provide multilingual helplines, translation and publishing services alongside their other facilities. Phone 020 8799 9001, email: marketing@bss.org

• Cue and Review Recording Service 'helps organisations communicate with people whose visual or physical disabilities prevent them from reading or whose busy lives mean they prefer to listen to information on the move.'

• Kelpie Films (see Media section) also provide audio solutions such as talking magazines, talking books with favourable rates for the voluntary sector.

• Signific'ant provides sign language interpreting in minutes over videophone, BSL translationa dn recording. Plus other related services - a social enterprise.

• WorldAccent provides translation services in the world's languages, in addition to website localisation and multilingual typesetting & design advice. Clients include NSPCC, Amnesty International, Mencap. Phone 020 7865 8300.

Publishing Services

including copywriting, editing, print buying.

• See BSS listed above.

• Everything Editorial specialises in copywriting, editorial, design and print buying. The co-directors have strong experience, online and in print, producing publications for the voluntary, corporate and public sectors. Phone 020 8806 9893, email: nicola@everythingeditorial.co.uk

• Gill Varley at Sparkleweb writes and edits content for on and offline literature, as well as layout design. Voluntary sector clients include bassac, Groundswell, Sustrans, Tenant Participation Advisory Service, Yorkshire Rural Community Council.

• ngo media# Journalism, editorial, print solutions.

• ProseWorks# is a network of copywriters and editors. Phone 01788 562316.

• Jacki Reason. Editorial services including editing, proof reading, layout, print buying, newsletter consultancy. More than twenty-five years' voluntary sector experience. Recent work includes researching and compiling carers' packs, writing branch manuals, for clients such as Federation of Independent Advice Centres, National Early Years Network, Parkinson's Disease Society. Phone 020 8341 7086, email: j.reason@geo2.poptel.org.uk

• Society Media Editorial, editing etc.

• Eleanor Stanley# specialises in editorial services for voluntary sector organisations, with clients including the King's Fund, Friends of the Earth, Red Cross.

• Top Copy/Guy Phillips Freelance copywriting service mainly for housing associations, charities etc.

Designers

Many of these will also be able to do basic web site design.

• Core Design# Profits from the design side are used to support an associated mental health charity. Email: coredesign@corearts.co.uk
  
  
• DS Print & Redesign, 7 Jute Lane, Brimsdown, Enfield, EN3 7JL, phone 020 8805 9585, email: re-info@ds-redesign.co.uk
  
  
• Ecographic "Visual communication says everything." Graphic design and production with minimum ecological impact through detailed research into materials and new technology. Email: clare@ecographic.co.uk
  
  
• Ethical Graphic Design Company (was Sussed Design) discounts to charities etc. Email: simon@ethicalgraphicdesign.co.uk
  
  
• HighHorse# "Visual Communications for not-for-profit organisations". We're not impressed by their website's accessibility, though.
  
  
• Image-On Artworks (site 'under construction' at May 08) Design and print service, video and DVD work, web design, primarily for voluntary sector.
  
  
• Intertype works exclusively with the voluntary sector on design and print: newsletters, stationery, annual and research reports, corporate identities, etc. Produce a Charity Design Bulletin. 307 Aberdeen House, 22 Highbury Grove, London, N5 2EA, phone 020 7359 4115, email: copydesk@intertype.co.uk
  
  
• origin8 creative# Work for voluntary sector includes fundraising pack for breakthrough breast cancer.
  
  
• Premonition provides graphic design, for print and web, mainly to voluntary organisations and other non-commercial bodies in East London.
  
  
• This Way Up#
  
  
• Total Coverage 'The co-operative design consultancy'. Works extensively with not for profit organisations nationally, including charities, housing, health and co-operative sectors. Design for print, exhibitions and new media. Meon House, 189 Portswood Road, Southampton, SO17 2NF, phone 023 8067 8330, email: info@totalcoverage.coop
  
  
• Wave# A workers co-op which concentrates on working for issue, community, education, government, arts, health and charitable organisations. 389a London Road, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, TN37 6PA, phone 01424 715754, email: info@wave.coop

Printers

• Battley Brothers/Arc Design. 'Design, print and multi-media', specialists in the voluntary/non-profit sector. 37 Old Town, Clapham, London, SW4 0JN, phone 020 7622 3401.

• Beacon Press is strong on environmental impact, and has a number of big name charity clients. Bellbrook Park, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 1PL, phone 01825 768611, email: markf@beaconpress.co.uk

• Calverts Press A workers co-op set up in 1977, has variety of charity and community group clients as well as commercial, and an interest in environmental considerations in its work. Web site has a useful glossary of terms. 9-10 The Oval, London, E2 9DT, phone 020 7739 1474.

• Landor Graphics. South London design, copywriting and publishing company specialising in services to housing associations and voluntary sector. From copywriting/sub-editing based on your ideas or rough copy, through to design/lay-up, photography and print management. Produces publicity leaflets, letterheads, logos, newsletters, annual reports, information packs, posters, display boards, surveys etc. Can handle small print runs. Phone 020 7771 8716, email: landorgraph@gn.apc.org

• Lavenham Press A high-quality image, but also a comprehensive service. 47 Water Street, Lavenham, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 9RN, phone 01787 247436, email: lpl@lavenhamgroup.co.uk

• Lithosphere A long time ago, this was the Print Department of War on Want - still committed to voluntary sector campaigning, in particular environmental issues. They are print managers and troubleshooters, and know their stuff. 90 Queensland Road, London, N7 7AS, phone 020 7686 6111, email: info@lithosphere.co.uk

• Lonsdale Print Services# Having provided print services for charities via agencies int eh aspt, now (sumer 07) looking to work direct and pass on cost savings. Plus 20% discount for groups and charities. Northamptonshire.

• Manor Creative Design, print and multimedia, including web site design and hosting solutions, specialising in quality print including reports and all promotional material. 7 & 8 Edison Road, Eastbourne, BN23 6PT, phone 01323 514400.

• Rap Spiderweb 'One of the country's leading providers of print, design and distribution services to voluntary and campaigning organisations.' Produce useful PrintTalk newsletters aimed at the voluntary sector on print issues. Clock Street, Oldham, OL9 7LY, phone 0161 947 3700, email: enquiries@rapspiderweb.com

• Russell Press Started by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation in the 1960s, specialising in printing services for the not-for-profit sector. Annual Reports, leaflets, magazines, booklets and both burst and perfect bound books "in-house". Bulwell Lane, Nottingham, NG6 0BT, phone 0115 9784505, email: Mike@russellpress.com

• Upstream Workers' cooperative which specialises in supplying typeset, design and print to the voluntary sector. 1 Warwick Court, Choumert Road, London, SE15 4SE, phone 020 7207 1560, email: cooperative@upstream.coop