Foundation For Peace Chooses Paver Smith
Date Posted: Thu 17th Jun 2010
Foundation for Peace, a charity dedicated to providing help for victims of terrorism, has appointed Paver Smith to help win support for its bid for a national award.
Set up after the 1993 IRA bombing of Warrington, the 'Survivors for Peace' programme, run by the organisation, is through to the semi-finals of The National Lottery Awards.
The Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace appointed the agency to help attract votes to take it through to the final round. The 'Survivors for Peace' programme is one of only 10 projects to make it through to the semi-finals in the Best Education Project category.
Paver Smith was asked to use case studies of those who have been through the programme to mount a campaign throughout regional press and broadcast media.
The programme works with people who have been bereaved by, or are survivors of, conflicts and acts of terrorism in the UK and other parts of the world.
Lottery money has funded a programme manager and other members of staff and covered a range of running costs. The project has helped more than 200 survivors of conflict and terrorism in the past two years.
The winning project in each category will receive national recognition on a BBC 1 TV show later this year and, in addition to the Lottery funding they have already received, will receive a cash prize to spend on their project.
Clare White, chief executive, said: "The Survivors for Peace programme is open to anyone in England who has been affected by political violence or terrorism, including soldiers who have served overseas. We saw this as an opportunity to raise awareness about the programme and promote it to potential participants. Paver Smith reacted to our request for support very quickly and professionally and have helped us enormously."
