How many media officers does it take....

ChrisF
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Copied from four consecutive 'Cycleclips' emails:

Christina Bengston is Cycling UK’s Communications and Media Officer
Lauren Purdy is Cycling UK’s Digital Communications and Media Officer
Richard Wevill is Cycling UK’s Communications and Media Officer
Rob Kingston is Cycling UK’s communications and media officer
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Two possibilities spring to mind:
1. They are badly paid and quickly move on to better paid jobs.
2. CUK's management can't think of better things or posts to spend money on so they have lots of media officers.
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Well a job title doesn't tell me anything about their workload. Nor does it tell me about their working hours. Why should anyone assume they all work full time?

Perhaps it's not enough :wink: .
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Reminds me of the "Framley Examiner" situations vacant:
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Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed. :lol:
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Hi,
What does the CEO of a charity get paid?
I mean they job hop every 18 months don't they!
It's a charity it's a business it's a charity it's a business.
This is how it works in big business.
Many firms give job titles but the increase in rate is a pittance.
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KTHSullivan wrote:http://framleyexaminer.com/pages/jobs003

Thanks for that, it is definitely more entertaining than Cycle Magazine or any of the other charity magazines that I have seen.
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A glimpse into the modern world of charities, where presentation is so important.
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NATURAL ANKLING wrote:What does the CEO of a charity get paid?

Cycling UK annual report 2018 - 2019:
https://www.cyclinguk.org/sites/default/files/document/2020/06/cycling_uk_annual_report_and_financial_statements_2018_19_signed_final_spreads_-_opt_1.pdf

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ChrisF wrote:Copied from four consecutive 'Cycleclips' emails:

Christina Bengston is Cycling UK’s Communications and Media Officer

No record on her Linkedin profile of any role with CUK at an point.

Lauren Purdy is Cycling UK’s Digital Communications and Media Officer

States she is a Digital Communications and Media Officer at CUK and has been for 13 months.

Richard Wevill is Cycling UK’s Communications and Media Officer

States he is a Media & Communications Officer at CUK, and has been for 14 months

Rob Kingston is Cycling UK’s communications and media officer

States he is a Communications and Media Officer at CUK, and has been for 13 months (also a freelance writer & editor)


Info appended above
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Following Bonefish blues above post.
Thank you for this.
It does give us some idea of where some of the money goes!

rotovator wrote --Two possibilities spring to mind:
1. They are badly paid and quickly move on to better paid jobs.
2. CUK's management can't think of better things or posts to spend money on so they have lots of *media officers.

I. Badly paid??--- from 2020/2021 treasurers report numbers/wage bill cost average salary at "The Kremlin" is £37k /pa. all, doubtless, with "public
Sector" pension, sickness with full pay etc conditions.
Surely Media Officers are 10 a penny-are we not awash with all those dedicated "A levellers" being directed to a "gateway" degree.
2. CUK's current management realises it needs all the propaganda it can generate to justify their continued destruction of what once was "our"
cycling club.


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lescargo wrote:..................
2. CUK's current management realises it needs all the propaganda it can generate to justify their continued destruction of what once was "our"
cycling club.


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Yes - sad, isn't it?
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Despite the surfeit of media and communications officers not one has bothered to reply to my e-mail asking CUK's opinion on the closure of the Humber Bridge to cyclists and pedestrians. The e-mail was sent on the 5th April 2021 at 15:36. I did however get the statutory automated reply indicating that I would receive an answer within 48 hours. I have since seen the letter written to the HBB generated by CUK that has been promulgated via this forum (and other sources). Nevertheless a reply to a paid up member would have been at the very least courteous but obviously the members are now a secondary consideration. So bang goes another salary provider.
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I should try sending the mail again, maybe in a slightly modified form. Maybe they get so many messages, one could get overlooked by accident
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