If you are a group or organisation taking part in Voluntary Arts Festival, see our comprehensive guide to publicising your event, which includes press release templates, branding and top tips to get your event noticed.

If you are a partner organisation or media outlet keen to help us spread the word about the Voluntary Arts Festival, please read on . . . .

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Information on Voluntary Arts Festival 

• Watch and share the Voluntary Arts Festival 2017 film - for an intro to the festival and examples of events from previous years.

• Download and share the Voluntary Arts Festival Briefing for an overview of the festival and the different ways that groups can participate. If you are in touch with creative groups, please share this with them to help spread the word and let them now how they can be part of this nationwide celebration of creative participation.

• Check the Find an Event page to locate events in your area and to copy and paste a shareable links. Event listings also include group contact details if you would like to get in touch with the group organising directly for more information. Please note: events will be added in the run up to May so please check back. 

• The Voluntary Festival press release can be used in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. This helps to give an introduction to the Festival and includes links to the website and the promotional materials above. This can be customised to promote individual events or groups of events in any area. In the meantime, if you would like to run a feature on Voluntary Arts Festival, please get in touch - [email protected]  

Keen to run a feature on Voluntary Arts Festival or want some more tailored copy? Please get in touch to see how we can help - [email protected] 

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Voluntary Arts Festival photos

Visit the Voluntary Arts Flickr page to access photos of previous Voluntary Arts Week / Festival activity that you can download to use on associated publicity.

Looking for photographs of Voluntary Arts Festival 2017? Getting photos of events before they have taken place can be tricky, but there are ways and means, get in touch with us at [email protected] with your request or contact the event organiser directly via the Find an Event page.

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Connect with Voluntary Arts Festival on social

• Connect with Voluntary Arts Festival on Twitter and Facebook - to keep updated on all things Voluntary Arts Festival and tag your posts with #VolArtsFestival so we can link-up and share far and wide.

• Sign up to our Voluntary Arts Festival Thunderclapp to show your support and help share the creativity this May! This is simple to do and involves you signing up to sending out a tweet on the first day of Voluntary Arts Festival (5 May) to help celebrate all the fantastic groups that are taking part.

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Logo strips and branding

The Voluntary Arts Festival logo strip includes the Voluntary Arts Festival dates, website and social media links. Download this and share on your social media and relevant comms. If you would like this in another format please get in touch.