is a community communications consultancy. I will offer this service to Local authorities, NGO’s, charities, and business’s – any organisation that needs to communicate message to a particular community. I will operate in the Arts & Culture / Heritage / Urban regeneration / Capital project sectors.

The focus of the business will be to engage with community groups & community gate keepers to take advantage of their direct & indirect links into the wider community & thereby increase levels of community inclusion & participation in projects, campaigns or initiatives. The marketing strategy is to take simple key messages direct to the public at a time & place that suits them & values them as members of the community in the own right. It will supplement advertising /marketing & public meetings as part of a cohesive marketing communications strategy.

Name:                         Eddie Galvin

DOB:                           23/101/66

Qualifications:            BSc Hons Geography 2:1 London School of Economics

 Chair Newbiggin Arts Forum (www.newbigginartsforum.org) Vice Chair Newbiggin-by-the-sea Heritage Partnership, Newbiggin Healthy Living Centre – Steering group, Newbiggin In Bloom, Member Wansbeck CVS, Newbiggin Community Area Partnership, NewbigginLife focus group, 6th Form President, president Amnesty International (LSE), Staff Student Committee Member (LSE) Inter-Hall Committee member (LSE) Committee On Undergraduate Studies (LSE) MD Young  Enterprise Company

As an artist I work with pastels, acrylics,charcoal, crayon, ceramics & photography.

NE Arts is a company which has evolved from the experience I have gained whilst setting up & then establishing & promoting a community arts group in Newbiggin-by-the-sea – www.newbigginartsforum.org Established in January 2006 we now have over 100 members in a small seaside community in Northumberland.

In doing so I have worked with the local district & county council, local schools, community groups & ngo’s. I have experience of arts & culture projects, urban regeneration and heritage projects. The success I have achieved has been in large part due to the methodology I have employed to increase social inclusion & awareness of the Arts Forum.

At the moment for any organisation trying to get a key message across to a community there is a communications gap between what the organisation wants the community to know and the information the community receives. This is due to the following reasons:-

*        Reliance on traditional marketing methods

*        Reliance on the community accessing the           information in a way that suits the organisation

*        Limited Capacity

*        Complexity of the message

The focus of our communications strategy will be to engage with community groups & community gate keepers to take advantage of their direct & indirect links into the wider community & thereby increase levels of community inclusion & participation in projects, campaigns or initiatives. The marketing strategy is to take simple key messages direct to the public at a time & place that suits them & values them as members of the community in the own right. It will supplement advertising / marketing & public meetings as part of a cohesive marketing communications strategy.