More on the Nottingham FaceIt Exhibition
I received a Campaign Update bulletin rounding the news from the Nottingham Exhibition – the first leg of the regional tour.
Two local people, Nick Green and Liana Stevens, who are living with hepatitis C were photographed by Michele Martinoli, who has successfully cleared the virus, for the exhibition. Michele travelled up to Nottingham to attend the event and Liana, Nick and Dr Stephen Ryder, Consultant at the Queens Medical Centre, took part in media activity on the day.
In the build up to the exhibition a feature appeared in the Nottingham Evening Post about Nick Green and his experience of living with hepatitis C.
BBC Radio Nottingham also signposted the event on their news bulletins prior to the exhibition.
The exhibition had a very prominent position in Nottingham’s Market Square adjacent to the tram, which has an extremely high footfall.
Apart from the prominent display in the middle of the city, residents of Nottingham and the surrounding areas were hit with messages about hepatitis C throughout the day on 7th July with coverage on every bulletin of East Midlands Today from breakfast until the evening featuring an interview with Nick Green.
On Friday 8th July, Central News ran a feature on the exhibition and Liana Stevens’s personal story about living with hepatitis C on the evening bulletin. The same day, the Evening Post ran a one-page feature on Liana’s story.
82,000 East Midlanders were also targeted through an insert of the FaCe Your Past leaflet in The Nottingham Recorder and over 3,000 leaflets were distributed in the city centre over the course of the exhibition. The Nottingham DAAT also delivered the leaflet to GP surgeries in the area prior to the event.
Calls to the FaCe It information line – 0800 451451 – increased markedly on the first day of the Nottingham exhibition.
All this rounds out the news we heard from Nick when he recently wrote about the day on his blog.
So well done Nick and Liana for fronting the exhibition and doing an excellent job with the press and media and contributing to the success of this event.
The next event will be held in Brighton on 12th and 13th August 2005. Both Carol and I are hoping to attend this event – dependant on the planning details falling into place. I will post up more details about the Exhibition as I receive them.