Media Trust Cymru

Media Trust Cymru

Leading media charity, Media Trust, has secured its first corporate members in Wales. Precedent Communications and Golley Slater, as founding corporate members will work with Media Trust Cymru to boosts its presence in Wales over the coming months. Golley Slater and Precedent have also agreed to sit on Media Trust Cymru's advisory board.

Media Trust is already established at the heart of the media community in the UK, with its Chairman Andy Duncan, Chief Executive of Channel 4 and Deputy Chairman Channel 4 News' Jon Snow.

Media Trust Cymru plans to open up its free online Media Matching to Welsh charities and community organisations. Media Matching works to identify media professionals with skills they can share to meet charities' communications needs. It is envisaged that this service will launch later this year if sufficient support can be found. In addition, the charity offers Welsh charities access to the Community Channel and media training.

Helen Beckett, Head of Communications at Media Trust, said, "We are delighted to welcome Precedent Communications and Golley Slater on board. Having secured support from both of these well established communications companies, we hope over the coming months that more media companies will become members of Media Trust Cymru."

Neil Davis, Director of Strategy at Precedent Communications said, "Precedent has a strong heritage working with charities and so we are extremely proud to be one of the first corporate members of Media Trust Cymru. In addition to this, we are really pleased to be invited to join Media Trust Cymru's advisory board alongside the likes of BBC Wales and S4C. We hope that our presence, together with other members, will help Media Trust Cymru support local charities in Wales with the same success as Media Trust has seen in England."

Matt Appleby Director of Golley Slater PR, Cardiff, said: "We are delighted to become a corporate member of Media Trust Cymru. Golley Slater has a strong tradition of supporting links between charities and the communications profession in Wales and we are delighted to support Media Trust Cymru's plans for expanding the reach of their services."