INSP's campaign success
INSP's 2010 campaig n reached a worldwide readership of over 3 million people this month. 67 INSP street papers took part in the campaign: 'The future is in your hands'. Participating papers ran a visual campaign and accompanying feature to coincide with 17th October - the UN's International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Read more about the campaign.
An accompanying press release was recently sent out to INSP's media contacts, was recently published by Inter Press Service and other mainstream media. Click here to read the full IPS article.
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SNS development
 The Street News Service has recently been joined by Media Consultant Nick Bevens. Nick has a background as Business Editor of The Scotsman and is also a journalism lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University. He will be working with the SNS on a part-time basis over the next few months. His focus will be on marketing, developing in-house produced articles and will promote the republication of Millennium Development Goals stories produced for the SNS EU funded project.
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New North American Members
At the September INSP board meeting, 2 new US steet papers were approved as INSP members. Groundcover News, Ann Arbor, Michigan, was launched this summer. The Oregon Vagabond, Eugene, Oregon was launched at the beginning of this year. INSP works with NASNA to support 23 US street papers, in 17 states.
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Development Work in Kenya
 Sven Mangels (INSP Training & Development Manager - Africa) has been in Nairobi for the last two weeks working with the staff and board of The Big Issue Kenya. It has been a productive two weeks of meetings and discussions around the development of the magazine. Sven [pictured here with the board] says that the visit was important for him to meet the people working on the ground and it has been a great success to make further steps to sustain the project and to build on its capacity. His next training visit, as part of the UNDEF project, will be to Clin d'Oeil in Burundi and then to Nigeria.
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2011
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Conference
Plans arealready underway for the INSP 2011 conference. INSP staff have been meeting with various venues around Glasgow in order to find the most suitable location for the three-day event, which will be held next summer. Exact dates will be announced in the next INSP bulletin.
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Helen's Marathon
INSP's  Fundraising Officer Helen Harvey recently ran the Loch Ness Marathon with her father Alan, to raise money for INSP. Helen and Alan trained hard for 4 months in preperation for the challenge and managed to raise over £1400 for INSP. INSP would like to say a huge congratulations to Helen and Alan for this amazing achievement. We are also truly grateful that they chose to raise money for INSP, and for the generous donations from people over the past month. Read More.
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Donate online
 Make a difference today by donating online to INSP. Your donation will enable us to provide much needed employment, training and support to people who, in many cases, have no other means to survive. Your support could help to feed families in Kenya or provide warm winter clothes to homeless vendors in St Petersburg.
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Support us
If you would like to support INSP's projects and ensure our continuing success, please visit our corporate sponsorship page and find out more about our individual projects.
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Book a hotel
 Book your hotels through us and help fight poverty. Hotels4Change a collaboration between INSP and Booking.com, Europe's leading online hotel provider. On every online hotel reservation that is booked through Hotels4Change, approximately 5% of the total amount is transferred to the INSP, at no extra cost to the customer! Book now!
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In kind support
You can also support INSP or your local street paper in other ways. If you have time to spare, equipment that you would like to donate or expertise to share, please contact us.
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