Young People’s Charity The Network Wins Shooting Star Vote
Award-winning marketing and PR agency Shooting Star has chosen a Lincoln-based charity that supports the city’s young people as its Charity of the Year in 2024.
The Network offers free careers advice and support to young people in Lincoln and Sleaford through one-to-one sessions, projects and events.
Shooting Star will work with the charity on a pro bono basis throughout 2024, providing them with a range of PR, marketing and event support.
The agency will also stage its annual Chippy Quiz later this year to raise funds for The Network.
Project Co-ordinator Gabby Wright said: “We are honestly so excited to receive this support from Shooting Star to raise the youth voice in Lincoln and work towards a better, more inclusive future.”
Kate Strawson, a Director at Shooting Star, said: “We launched our Charity of the Year scheme in 2009 and since then we’ve helped 16 charities working in all kinds of areas, from mental health and grieving to cancer, brain injury and domestic abuse.
“We love to help small organisations like The Network as these are the charities which can’t ordinarily afford a team of communications professionals or an external marketing agency.
“Everyone at Shooting Star is looking forward to working with The Network and we hope we can make a really big difference to the charity throughout the year.”
Other charities to have benefited from Shooting Star’s free help over the years include Headway Lincolnshire, The Bearded Fishermen, Help Us Grieve, Help Me, I’m Fine and Sophie’s Journey.
For a full list visit Shooting Star’s charity page.
If you would like to nominate a charity for 2025 send an email to hello@weareshootingstar.co.uk and ask for an application form.
Notes for editors:
About Shooting Star:
- Shooting Star was founded in 2006 by Kate Strawson and Jez Ashberry and became incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in 2007.
- Based in Lincoln, Shooting Star works for local and national public and private sector clients across a wide range of sectors including education, leisure and tourism, property, retail, finance, manufacturing and construction.
- The agency offers a full range of PR, marketing and digital services.
- The agency has won a number of industry awards, including Best Charity Campaign at the UK Digital Excellence Awards 2023 and was a finalist in the Lincolnshire Business Excellence Awards 2023 and The Drum Awards for B2B 2022.
About The Network:
- The Network was established in 2016 to act as a resource for young people in and around the Lincoln area. We are here to create a brighter and better future for our young people as they transition through to adulthood, and we achieve this in a variety of ways including:
- 1-1 careers advice and support
- 1-1 person-centred mentoring to help young people remove personal and systemic barriers to their progress and help them on their journey in early adulthood
- Group sessions for social confidence building, life skills, wellbeing and resilience
- Raising the youth voice, advocating for our young people, and influencing positive systems change to create a positive, inclusive future for Lincoln.
