The Brand Surgery - Branding Agency, Graphic Design and Website Design in Worthing, West Sussex

Terry Winstanley - WOW FACTOR

Terry Winstanley, Jade Richards and eight other contestants from X Factor 2011 are coming to Worthing (Assembly Hall) for one night only (Friday 4th November 2011, 7-10.30pm) to promote their CHILDREN IN NEED SINGLE and sing their most popular songs from the show.

We met with Terry, from Worthing last week, and talked about the success of Worthing Idol 2011. Terry was so impressed, that he asked us to organise this one-off event. We were naturally delighted to accept. As you may know, we have also organised Worthing Idol 2010 and the fantastically successful Broadwater Royal Wedding Picnic which attracted 3000 people and we raised £1500 towards Broadwater Community Association. We are very excited as this is a national event.

We will be using our combination of design and marketing tools to promote THE WOW FACTOR: logo design, graphic design, social media expertise, website design, PR, and our newly acquired Chartered Institute of Marketing qualification.

Tickets are on sale at www.worthingtheatres.org priced at £12.50 each. If you would like further information, please contact the event organiser – US!! – on 07909 693172.  All profits from the show and the single will go to Help For Heroes.

Check out the new website at: http://www.thewowfactor.org.

Go to the Twitter page: WowFactorEvent and the Facebook page: The Wow Factor

Win £50! Competition open to all schools, colleges and individuals

Schools and colleges throughout the borough of Worthing are being invited to design a logo for the Official Worthing Diamond Jubilee Celebration which will run along the length of Worthing promenade, from Worthing Pier to George V Avenue in West Worthing on Saturday 16th June 2012 from 11am.

The logo should reflect a celebration, yet have a royal feel about it. The words in the logo should read:

1952-2012
Official Worthing Diamond Jubilee Celebration
Worthing Promenade
16th June 2012

The winner will receive £50 voucher from Talent Within You which may be used for developing creative talent. This prize could be used for to purchase creative book, or perhaps go towards a painting, design, textile or any creative course. Talent Within You terms and conditions apply.

The closing date for the competition is Friday 23rd September 2011. Please send your designs to: Vicky Vaughan, Worthing Jubilee Logo Competition, Talent Within You, 23 Harrow Road, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 4RB or email vicky@talentwithinyou.org.uk with the subject header: Worthing Jubilee Logo Competition.

Design tips:

(1) Your logo may be used on souvenir materials including mugs, pens and programmes so must be clear and easy to read.
(2) Computer graphics software may be used and is encouraged.
(3) No clip-art to be used. We want to use YOUR ideas and illustrations.
(4) Your logo should be able to reproduce in one colour easily and should be easily scalable.

We do reserve the right to tweak your logo to make it usable.
Age limit: 5-18 years. Designs will be uploaded to www.talentwithinyou.org website as they come in.

Good luck!

Contact: Vicky Vaughan, Founder, Talent Within You
Phone 07909 693172

Blue Peter’s competition winner Katherine Dewar’s winning emblem design for the Queen’s official 2012 Diamond Jubilee. The winning design will be seen by millions on everything from posters to commemorative tea cups in the run up to the milestone and during the year.

Inspiration – This is the emblem for the Queen's official 2012 Diamond Jubilee from Blue Peter competition winner Katherine Dewar.

The Brand Surgery has been extremely busy over the last few weeks with logo designs, press releases, magazines, charity work and blogging and we thought it was about time we let you in on what your favourite award-winning branding agency has been up to!

Anyone celebrating the Royal Wedding this year? Why not come to the Royal Wedding Picnic on Broadwater Green?  We have been organising the event as well as promoting it with our fantastic PR, not to mention coming up with a fantastic logo for the day! The event promises to be a special occasion with entertainment from Splash FM’s Simon Osborne and Dave Hunt, Children’s Entertainer Dave Benson Phillips and live music from last year’s Worthing Idol winner, Rebecca Buxton. The picnic and entertainment will be running from 4pm-9pm allowing you to watch the wedding at home and then enjoy the bank holiday in the sunshine with The Brand Surgery, Splash FM and Worthing Borough Council.

Speaking of Worthing Idol, with this year’s competition, The Brand Surgery is in the community again! We were so happy with the way last year’s competition went, we felt we had to get involved again this year! The date has yet to be announced but Worthing Idol is already looking for contestants so visit Talent Within You website (designed by The Brand Surgery) for more information. Make sure you keep checking our website as well, as we have some exciting news to announce in the coming weeks, watch this space!

Do you use the Stagecoach Coastliner buses? Yes? Well you’ve probably seen our work then! Our illustrations are all over the back of the buses and as part of our ongoing relationship with Stagecoach, we produce their magazines, aimed at providing bus users with offers, competitions and information about attractions along the coast. We have been copy-writing, designing, publishing and printing the Coastliner, Buzz East Sussex and Buzz East Kent magazines, covering a massive area from Margate to Portsmouth including places such as Canterbury, Rye, Hastings, Eastbourne, Brighton, Worthing (of course), Chichester and many more places between. You can find our latest magazines from April-September on all the Coastliner buses and in various tourist information centres and bus stops. We have also been putting our web design and development skills to use by launching the  Coastliner 700 website.

Buzz East Sussex

In addition to all of this fantastic and exciting stuff, The Brand Surgery has been continuing with it’s normal high quality blogging services, keeping AVS Fencing and Proto Restaurant Group at the top of Google search results for their chosen search terms.

Does your company need a re-brand? How about a new logo? Maybe a new website? If you answered yes to any of those questions or are interested in PR work, copy-writing, magazine and advert design, SEO or any of our other fantastic services, please phone Vicky Vaughan on 01903 824229 or email us at info@thebrandsurgery.co.uk; as part of our commitment to great customer service, we aim to respond to all enquiries within one working day.

The Brand Surgery supports The Community

It’s been nearly two weeks since Worthing Idol 2010 took place for the very first time. My charitable organisation, Talent Within You,  has been inundated with requests to make Worthing Idol an annual event. First of all …. congratulations to Rebecca Buxton who won £250 towards her talent (first prize) courtesy of Worthing Town Centre Initiative. Very well done to Tara Hill (Irish Dancer) and Team Foxy (Paige Latham and Harry Morley) – both teams danced their way to 2nd and 3rd place and received M&S vouchers kindly donated by Cllr Carol Molineaux.

We are very grateful to the local press, The Argus and Herald newspapers for giving this event such excellent publicity. The day was fantastic – Simon Osborne gave his fee up to Pete McIntosh, so he could help us with the running of this event. We have to say – Simon’s immaculate attention to detail meant that Worthing Idol ran like clockwork. Even though our co-founder, Mike Pisko, our co-founder, was away playing golf on the day, he did help with the organising most of the raffle prizes and the auditions – thank you Mike.

The line-up of talent was amazing. Anyone who watched this event will agree that this team of Worthing talent would have definitely got through to the final of Britain’s Got Talent.

Thank you to everyone who helped. Worthing Town Centre Initiative who helped us to fund this event, Foundry Press of Horsham, who printed all the brochures and programmes, Ivy Arch Studios, Barclays Bank, Glue who filmed the event (we’ve yet to see their work, but feel confident it will be excellent), Proto Restaurant Group (Andy Sparsis who gave up his time to judge the event), Tim Loughton MP (who also donated money to Talent Within You and give up him time to judge), Carol Molineaux (who judged and has also been most generous in her kind donations to Talent Within You), not forgetting Amelia Regnante who was our expert judge, and helped us with the auditions.

Last, but by no means least. Thank you to all the volunteers who gave up their time on the day. This includes: Cllrs Paul High and Kevin Skepper, my wonderful family (mum, Bill, Oli, Yvonne & bump), Loraine from Barclays Bank, Lorraine Hawkes from Worthing Town Centre Initiative who played the keyboards wonderfully, and all my staff at The Brand Surgery who worked tirelessly on the website, programme design, blogging, PR and kept me sane through the event planning process.

If you want to set up a charity and run an event, we are now experts in this area too! If you want good PR, we can create  successful press release writing which will give you good results.

Call Vicky Vaughan at The Brand Surgery (also founder of Talent Within You), on 01903 824229 if you would like us to help you with event branding or planning.

Worthing Idol 2010 is nearly upon us. Wow! What an experience it has been organising a talent show on behalf of my charity, Talent Within You – if you need a launch party organising – now you know who to call: The Brand Surgery!

Worthing Idol takes place at Worthing Lido on Bank Holiday Monday 30th August 2010 between 12 noon and 3.30pm. It has already been pointed out that Lido is an anagram of Idol – so the location was obviously meant to be. We are all doing a ’sun dance’ in the office so that the weather is nice to us on Monday.

The line-up for Worthing Idol 2010 is amazing. You can click here to see it. Simon Cowell would be most envious if he saw the show – it is official – Worthing has definitely got talent!

Here is a movie clip of round 2 of the Worthing Idol auditions.

The Brand Surgery team have played a major role in the preparation of this event.

• Logo design and branding
• Website design and development
• Blogging and Facebooking campaigns
• T-shirt and banner design
• Marketing collateral
• Press releases and all PR
• Event planning

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Our branding agency based in Worthing, West Sussex, is always on the look out for events which promote creation amongst youngsters.

Worthing’s first ever ‘Urban Arts Day’ will be held on Friday 20th August at Homefield Park Worthing from 11.30am to 4.30pm. This event is just one of a host of summer holiday activities organised by Adur and Worthing councils.

Children and young people aged between 13-19 can enjoy a day filled with exhilarating activities such as:

• Step Up your street dance skills with a dance workshop by T-21 Dance Team
• Spit beats with a human beatboxer including a performance and workshop
• Paint and spray in a graffiti arts workshop with an urban art artist
• Shoot some hoops in a basketball sessions with the Worthing Thunder Basketball Team
• Try Street20 with Sussex Cricket
• Cage football comes to town for 2v2 football all day.
• Skateboarding tricks and mix competitions and many more
• Grab some food with the BBQ
• Hand Sonic Workshops
• Take part in a percussion workshop

A modest entry fee of £2.00 will be applied and registration starts at 11.30am on the day. A completed consent form is required for this event. For more information or to request a consent form please contact Mike Fisher at Mike.fisher@adur.gov.uk or ring 01273 263174.

TalentWithinYou is now officially LIVE!

Visit our brand new website to find out more about Talent Within You, and how we helped Jack Ford. If you’ve got a talent why not register on our new website and chat to other talented kids, add applications and widgets to your profile page, upload pictures, videos and much more!

To contact us about your talent you can use our online form.

To register for Talent Within You click here.

Talent Within You finds, helps and cares for children who have a special talent. We believe that every child has a talent no matter what. It is our job to unleash that talent and help to develop it.

Talent Within You has achieved Gift Aid status

The Brand Surgery have been working hard to get Talent Within You off the ground so we can start receiving donations. The website will be live very soon and businesses will be able to choose the child they sponsor, and then also check a Gift Aid box which means we can claim tax and more money will go towards Jack Ford and talented children like Jack Ford, Worthing’s potential British ice-skating champion.

The Talent Within You website also comprises:

• A community-style website so talented kids can talk to one another
• Animated banner graphics
• Search-engine optimised copywriting
• Stunning photography taken by our very own in-house photographer
• Excellent graphic design and Talent Within You logo and branding
• Paypal gateway for donations and sponsorship
• Blog writing for SEO

The Talent Within You website is a community-style website with the functionality of Facebook, such as user feeds and group and page creation. You will also be able to create your personal easy-customisable profiles (drag and drop design facility) as well as take advantage of the photo album facility and also add a video onto your profile page.

So, you will soon see what The Brand Surgery (website design company in Worthing, West Sussex) have done for the launch of Talent Within You. Let us help launch your business too.

Call Vicky at The Brand Surgery on 01903 824229 or email vicky@thebrandsurgery.co.uk.

Well we’ve done it! Talent Within You has been officially launched and Todd Carty is also our very first patron.

Talent Within You is a charitable organisation set up to find talent within children, then we nurture and develop that talent and take it to the next level via sponsorship from businesses.

Talent Within You is a national organisation, but we have launched it in Worthing as Vicky and her friend and co-founder, Mike Pisko, both live in Worthing. Our first child with talent is Jack Ford, and we gave him lots of PR coverage, via press and radio. Plus we organised Todd Carty to come and dance-on-ice once again with Jack.

We are now looking for businesses to come on board and sponsor Jack and other children like him. We are very grateful to these businesses who have kindly sponsored Jack’s development: Worthing Borough Council, Worthing Town Centre Initiative, The Chatworth Hotel, Face Media Group, CAM Central, and of course of the staff at The Brand Surgery who have helped to launch this worthwhile charity.

If you can’t wait to see our new website, and are desperate to help fund Jack and his parents with his training, or to help another child with talent, please make a cheque payable to Talent Within You, and post to us at Talent Within You Donations, 23 Harrow Road, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 4RB.

Or you can click the donate button below.

To take this organisation to market, we,  The Brand Surgery – branding and website agency based in West Sussex – have used our extensive range of in-house marketing services to:

• Write effective press releases which successfully gave Jack prominent local press coverage;
• We are raising funds via sponsorship arrangements to help take Jack to the next level;
• We designed the Talent Within You logo, leaflet, stationery, banners and other marketing collateral;
• We have liaised with celebrity agencies to help get Todd Carty and other celebrities on board;
• We have designed and developed a simple website holding page while the main website is being worked on;
• We are in the process of designing a CMS website for Talent Within You which will include: website optimisation for good SEO (get good Google and other search engine presence); data capture form; payment gateway to raise funds for our charity; effective copywriting to help promote our children with talent; funky design to engage with our target market; blog and latest news section to promote our children with talent;
• We are liaising with organisations across the UK to find more children with talent;
• We will be using our emarketing expertise and will be sending out regular eshots to promote Talent Within You.

If you would like our branding and website agency in West Sussex to help take your business or organisation to market, give Vicky a call on 01903 824229 or email vicky@thebrandsurgery.co.uk.

Talent Within You

The Brand Surgery have launched Talent Within You. Mike Pisko and Vicky Vaughan have joined forces and are raising sponsorship for young hopefuls. Talent Within You is a brand spanking new idea which will help change the lives of young people across Britain. After years of watching depressing news stories on antisocial behaviour and street crime,we had a brainwave after watching Britain’s Got Talent. “We believe that everybody has a talent within them and it is only a matter of finding it. Talent Within You has been launched to help discover that special something – whatever it may be. We can help and encourage children and their parents to unleash that talent.

The organisation,Talent Within You, has been set up to provide help, support and sponsorship for children to take their talent to the next level, and we are starting now! Our first hopeful is Jack Ford who is a lively, young teenager from Worthing. He used to spend most of his free time in front of the TV playing computer games, until one day something changed his life forever. It was his sister’s birthday and the family went ice skating. Jack didn’t want to go, but had no choice in the matter. After five minutes on the ice there was no stopping him as he had found his talent. Unknown to Jack, watching in the wings was four times World and European figure skater champion, Dianne Towler. Dianne spotted Jack’s raw talent and is now coaching him. Jack could potentially become the British champion this year, and the ultimate aim is to win gold at the 2014 Winter Olympic games.

Judith is an Inspiration to all parents

Vicky met Jack’s mother, Judith, last year and discovered how dedicated she was in helping Jack achieve his dreams. Judith took Jack ice training to Guildford Spectrum each day at 5am and Vicky thought that Judith was an inspiration to other parents. Talent Within You is dedicated to help Jack fulfil his potential and raise his profile.

With our help, Jack is opening the annual Worthing ice skating rink on 30th January at 11am with an exclusive ice dance routine to show the people of Worthing his special talent. The ice rink has been organised and financed by the Worthing Town Centre Initiative in Partnership with Worthing Borough Council. Talent Within You have also organised Todd Carty to open the ice rink, skate with Jack and to launch Talent Within You, and helping Jack by opening the show.

Local businesses – Jack and others need your help

This is a great opportunity for local businesses and the public to help with the career of an up-and-coming young star from Worthing. We need help in the form of sponsorship and donations in order to help Jack and others like Jack and their training and development. For full details on how you can help, please email info@talentwithinyou.org. If you know any children with talent that need our help, please feel free to contact us at info@talentwithinyou.org or visit the Talent Within You website.

Brand New CMS bespoke website for Talent Within You

The Brand Surgery have designed the Talent Within You brand image including the logo and the temporary website page. We are in the process of building a brand new CMS website for Talent Within You. We have also created the press releases, and organised bringing Todd on board. If you would like to launch a company, product or service. Give us a call on 01903 824230.

Jack Ford with Pru and dali