Over the past year we have run a series of nine media training workshops across the country. We hope those of you who attended found them useful. To build on those sessions, we have developed a campaign planning workshop to equip you with the tools and skills needed to run your own local campaigns. Topics to be covered will include:

• Campaign planning
• Targeting and identifying stakeholders
• Best practice examples
• Workshops and practical sessions in groups to cover a variety of different campaigns (local, regional, high impact and low impact)

To date we have run three sessions in the East, East Midlands and South West, with a fourth session planned for the South East in mid-May.

We will be rolling out this training programme to all other regions throughout 2008 so please look out for information, which will come via your REL. In the meantime if you have any questions please contact us by emailing dre@forster.co.uk.

You might also like to read the How To guides on Developing a Communications Plan and Working with the Media which support the workshops