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Working with the charity WORLDwrite, volunteers are needed to join a team committed to developing an alternative monthly newsreel and fledgling News Channel. Covering work produced by the charity’s volunteers, as well as key debates and issues, the newsreel will examine the hot issues, investigate alternative views and summarise opinions. The newsreels will not cover the usual stories or existing preoccupations but will seek out local and global subjects which challenge prevailing assumptions, advance new knowledge and critique contemporary fads. With an uncompromising stance on global equality, the fledgling channel and its monthly programme will seek to influence prevailing attitudes and ideas. WORLDwrite is looking for a volunteer news channel press officer who can help let the world know the channel exists. The press officer role can involve everything from emailing networks, writing press releases, phoning news desks to blogging. Time is flexible for this project and much can be done from home or college. This project welcomes newcomers to the UK to help advance a truly global perspective.

A willingness to thoroughly understand issues raised in the programmes with an eye to who might pick up on them, plus good computer literacy and writing skills, are essential. Volunteers can take on the whole job or smaller tasks. A commitment to global equality is a must!

Contact one of WORLDwrite's Volunteer Coordinators Emma Grant or Aisha Forbes at world.write@btconnect.com and visit the website www.worldwrite.org.uk for more information.