Media Trust partners the Guardian Christmas charity appeal 2011

The eight Guardian and Observer Christmas appeal charities will also receive a personalised, tailored package of media, marketing and communications support, resources and training from our charity partner, Media Trust . This includes: • a consultation on their training needs , and one full day or two half days* of expert media, marketing and comms topical training • a hand-picked match with one of their media volunteers to give each organisation one-to-one communications and marketing support , and a place on one of their speedmatching events • support from their Community Newswire team of journalists on how best to get stories picked up by the press, locally, regionally and nationally (* this excludes Media Interview Training)