Cogent helps local charity fight homelessness with ‘Eviction Survival Kit’ billboard

Cogent helps local charity fight homelessness with ‘Eviction Survival Kit’ billboard

All People All Places (APAP), a charity dedicated to helping vulnerable people overcome homelessness, has today unveiled a hard-hitting new billboard in London, filled with items essential for surviving on the streets in the harsh winter months. The billboard is the brainchild of APAP and Cogent, an independent marketing agency that counts high-profile brands among […]

DUBLIN SIMON COMMUNITY LAUNCH IRELAND’S FIRST BRAND FILM MADE WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) TECHNOLOGY

DUBLIN SIMON COMMUNITY LAUNCH IRELAND’S FIRST BRAND FILM MADE WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) TECHNOLOGY

CREATION OF FIRST AI FILM TO ASSIST CHARITY RAISE PUBLIC ATTENTION TO EVER GROWING HOMELESSNESS CRISIS Irish homelessness charity, Dublin Simon Community, is today, March 22nd, launching a brand film by using cutting edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology, in a first for Ireland. Created by advertising agency BBDO Dublin and New York-based production company Lobo, […]

adam&eveDDB and Crisis make homelessness ‘Impossible to Ignore’ this Christmas

<strong>adam&eveDDB and Crisis make homelessness ‘Impossible to Ignore’ this Christmas</strong>

• Hyper-real, 4.3-metre-tall sculpture depicting homelessness unveiled today by charity Crisis at Kings Cross station • Sculpture by artist Sophie de Oliveria Barata, working with Creative Giants and adam&eveDDB, uses AI face mapping technology to combine facial features of seventeen real people who have experienced homelessness • Christmas fundraising campaign highlights that homelessness can’t be […]

Cogent helps All People All Places to raise awareness with ‘Blue Plaque’ campaign

<strong>Cogent helps All People All Places to raise awareness with ‘Blue Plaque’ campaign</strong>

All People All Places (APAP), a charity dedicated to helping vulnerable people overcome homelessness, has worked with Cogent to launch an awareness campaign which sees iconic blue plaques placed at rough sleeping spots in North London. Normally used to commemorate famous people, each “Homeless Plaque” tells the real and positive story of a once homeless […]

Big Issue sets out plan for vendors’ safe return to selling the magazine on UK streets on 6th July

Big Issue sets out plan for vendors’ safe return to selling the magazine on UK streets on 6th July

The Big Issue Group has confirmed details of its plan for vendors’ return on Monday 6th July to selling the magazine in England, Scotland and Wales, with measures including the provision of extensive PPE, contactless card payment equipment and the introduction of stringent health and safety procedures in all distribution offices. The Big Issue, which offers […]

RAPP UK launches the ‘Ready’ initiative to encourage young homeless people into the creative industry

RAPP UK launches the ‘Ready’ initiative to encourage young homeless people into the creative industry

RAPP UK is launching a ground-breaking new approach to finding talent with The READY Initiative, an apprenticeship for young people who have experienced homelessness and are suited to a creative career. The initiative is a partnership between RAPP UK, youth homelessness charity Centrepoint and education specialist Creative Pioneers to find and develop these individuals. More […]

ROTHCO help charity O.N.E. reimagine the Irish flag as shocking symbol of veteran homelessness

ROTHCO help charity O.N.E. reimagine the Irish flag as shocking symbol of veteran homelessness

Across the world, no single symbol represents a country more than its flag. And, in many countries, no group of people represents that flag with more pride or passion than its military. Ireland is no different. But despite decades of distinguished service as UN Peacekeepers around the world and at home during The Troubles, public […]

The Social Chain Group launches interactive billboard to help Manchester’s homeless

The Social Chain Group launches interactive billboard to help Manchester’s homeless

An interactive billboard posed to answer Manchester’s most divisive questions has just been unveiled by The Social Chain Group, in support of the local charity, Centrepoint. Located on the Axis in Deansgate Castlefield, next to Beetham Tower, the digital billboard was created by the influential social media agency as a way to “gamify” the donation […]

Designed By Good People to donate 50% of the profits from new project to a good cause

Designed By Good People to donate 50% of the profits from new project to a good cause

[KGVID width=”600″ height=”338″]https://marcommnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/video-591878-h264_high.mp4[/KGVID] Designed By Good People have teamed up with charity house, The Passage, to help them in their fight against homelessness. The move is part of a new project called 50/50. It’s the first of a series of projects where the design agency will share 50% of the profits with a good cause. […]