{"id":234,"date":"2020-05-19T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/?p=234"},"modified":"2020-05-19T13:05:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T12:05:58","slug":"i3works-teams-up-with-be-more-ben-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/2020\/05\/i3works-teams-up-with-be-more-ben-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"i3Works teams up with Be More Ben charity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in October&nbsp;2019, our&nbsp;graduates and Project Controls Academy (PCA) students entered the APMs Project Management Challenge to deliver their first-ever project.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BFB2-1024x695.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"244\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BFB2-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/2020\/05\/i3works-teams-up-with-be-more-ben-charity\/bfb2\/\" class=\"wp-image-244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BFB2-1024x695.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BFB2-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BFB2-768x521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BFB2-1536x1042.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BFB2-2048x1389.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BFB2-1568x1064.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Be More Ben materials designed by Sarah-Jane Firth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s challenge&nbsp;was&nbsp;to deliver outputs and benefits to a deserving charitable organisation, so i3Works teamed up with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bemoreben.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Benjamin Pritchard Foundation<\/a>&nbsp;(Be More Ben)&nbsp;for a&nbsp;six month&nbsp;project.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben was just eight&nbsp;years old&nbsp;when he&nbsp;died&nbsp;from a rare brain tumour.&nbsp;After Bens passing&nbsp;his parents, Sarah and Shane Pritchard,&nbsp;felt they didn\u2019t get the support they needed,&nbsp;noticing that even&nbsp;fewer services were&nbsp;available for&nbsp;siblings,&nbsp;aunts, uncles and grandparents.&nbsp;In 2018, just a year after Ben\u2019s death, Sarah and Shane&nbsp;founded The Benjamin Pritchard Foundation to&nbsp;ensure that families coming to terms with losing a child&nbsp;have&nbsp;access to&nbsp;support when they need it most.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help spread awareness of the services offered by Be More Ben,&nbsp;and to fundraise,&nbsp;our&nbsp;grads and PCA students&nbsp;partnered with Be More Ben to host a month of Bake For Ben events throughout Bristol, and to transform management of the charity\u2019s social media platforms. Specifically,&nbsp;the team&nbsp;designed and procured Bake&nbsp;For&nbsp;Ben fundraising packs,&nbsp;created a Bake For Ben webpage,&nbsp;provided training in social media management tools, analysed online engagement data,&nbsp;and&nbsp;produced&nbsp;a&nbsp;strategy&nbsp;for planning online content.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the&nbsp;current Covid-19 situation, Bake&nbsp;For&nbsp;Ben events have been postponed,&nbsp;but&nbsp;the team&nbsp;hasn\u2019t&nbsp;let&nbsp;a pandemic stop&nbsp;them&nbsp;from&nbsp;delivering. The team&nbsp;fulfilled&nbsp;their entire&nbsp;scope,&nbsp;and&nbsp;negotiated a staggering 54% discount on&nbsp;fundraising&nbsp;pack&nbsp;contents,&nbsp;delivering \u00a3462 below budget. The team also&nbsp;successfully transformed the way&nbsp;that Be More Ben manage their Facebook page, saving them&nbsp;time and enabling targeted use of online platforms to spread the word about their life-changing services.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since their initial engagement with&nbsp;the charity&nbsp;in November, Be More Ben has&nbsp;increased followers of&nbsp;their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/benpritchardbemoreben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook page<\/a>&nbsp;by an impressive 12%, compared to&nbsp;a&nbsp;4%&nbsp;increase&nbsp;for the same period&nbsp;in&nbsp;the previous year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gregor Cameron, engagement director at i3Works, said: \u201cOur team of first-time project managers, Chris Barnett, Sarah-Jane Firth, James Harris, Jameet Singh, and Natalie Talbot successfully delivered a great venture. Not only that, they delivered it on time, under budget, and exceeded the set quality. This is an enormous achievement for a team who have each been working in P3M for less than a year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe team responded to&nbsp;the Covid-19&nbsp;changes&nbsp;with real agility and still managed to deliver measurable benefits by rapidly and collaboratively changing the deliverables to ensure that they were still able to meet their&nbsp;commitments.&nbsp;Through their perseverance, the team transformed Be More Ben\u2019s social media management to save the charity&nbsp;time and&nbsp;enable online content to be targeted based on analytics. The fundraising&nbsp;pack designs&nbsp;created by the team can be adapted&nbsp;for any event, providing&nbsp;colourful and distinctively branded&nbsp;Be More Ben&nbsp;templates for future events.&nbsp;This is a remarkable achievement of which they should all be very proud.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Pritchard, trustee at Be More Ben, said: \u201cWorking together with i3Works has been amazing;&nbsp; they&nbsp;have not only provided fantastic marketing packs for our bake-off events, but they have set a precedent for all our branding going forward. The support from everyone in the team has been fantastic and we are extremely grateful to have been given the opportunity to collaborate with them.&nbsp;\u201c&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our&nbsp;grads and PCA&nbsp;students&nbsp;have&nbsp;provided&nbsp;a shining example of&nbsp;how to rise to&nbsp;a challenge&nbsp;as a team&nbsp;to&nbsp;provide great management, develop innovative ideas&nbsp;and deliver&nbsp;high-quality supporting materials.&nbsp;Most impressively, the&nbsp;team&nbsp;has&nbsp;demonstrated&nbsp;that what&nbsp;they start, they finish&nbsp;despite&nbsp;the impact of Covid-19 and&nbsp;being in the industry for just&nbsp;six&nbsp;months.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&nbsp;are&nbsp;extremely&nbsp;proud of them all&nbsp;and what they have achieved&nbsp;&#8211; well done team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"901\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BeMoreBen_GroupImage.jpg\" alt=\"Image of i3Works team with Bake for Ben\" class=\"wp-image-238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BeMoreBen_GroupImage.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BeMoreBen_GroupImage-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BeMoreBen_GroupImage-768x692.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Jameet Singh, Sarah Pritchard (Be More Ben), Natalie Talbot, James Harris, and Chris Barnett with the Bake for Ben packs  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October&nbsp;2019, our&nbsp;graduates and Project Controls Academy (PCA) students entered the APMs Project Management Challenge to deliver their first-ever project.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i3works.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}