Media
Media appeals
BBC: Are you a young family struggling with your relationship?
Is the stress of family life making you feel like you are on the verge of splitting up?
Or have you recently split up but would give anything to give your relationship one last try?
Would you like help to be guided through the stresses of young family life?
Whether you are young couple who are married, in a relationship or recently broken up with your partner we would love to hear from you! Love Productions are making a new insightful documentary for the BBC based on families sharing their own real life experiences with others who are in need of guidance.
The documentary will look at all the stress/strains of everyday family life and will explore different ways that these problems can be tackled to help bring your family back together.
If you are interested or would to like to find out more about what taking part would involve, please call Laura on 0207 067 4846 or email laura.smith@loveproductions.co.uk. Calls will be treated in confidence and you will not be under any commitment to take part.
BBC: Has your family been together for 25 years or more and lasted the test of time?
Are you proud of your relationship surviving the ups and downs of everyday family life?
Are you interested in sharing your pearls of wisdom with young couples who would benefit from your experience?
If you think you have the key to a long and successful family relationship and that a relationship is for life, then we would love to hear from you. Love productions are making a new innovating documentary for the BBC based on families sharing their own real life experiences with others who are in need of guidance.
Do you think that you have the knowledge and experience to help a young family solve their relationship problems?
If you are interested or would to like to find out more about what taking part would involve, please call Laura on 0207 067 4846 or email laura.smith@loveproductions.co.uk. Calls will be treated in confidence and you will not be under any commitment to take part.
Women & Home magazine: Divorcee in her 60s
I'm looking for a lady whose marriage ended in her late 50s or 60s, after a long marriage and her children had left home. Ideally someone who has walked away from her marriage and is happy in her new situation and getting on with her life. This will be a positive, upbeat piece. It will involve a phone interview about her divorce and her life afterwards, plus a photoshoot in London.
Please use this email link to contact me:
anna.burnside@mac.com
I am looking for a woman in her late 40s/50s who walked away from a long-term marriage in order to fulfil an ambition or simply in order to be happy. Would you like to come to London for a lovely photo shoot and a makeover? Contact Catherine
Are you still close to your ex?
A leading women’s weekly magazine is looking for women aged between late 30s to 50s who are still close to their ex partner. Maybe you still go on holiday as a family and enjoy nights out together? Or maybe they helped you through a difficult time in your life? Are they one of your best friends?
If so, we’d love to hear from you. It would be a really positive piece showing how the end of a marriage doesn’t have to mean the end of your friendship. If you’re interested in taking part, please do contact gemma_wilcock@ipcmedia.com by Wednesday 19th May 2010. I can assure you the feature will be handled with the utmost sensitivity.
Woman & Home
I’m looking to speak to a woman in her 40s who has been through a divorce in the last few years. It’s for an inspirational piece about women who have overcome some sort of life-changing situation. I’d be looking to interview them over the phone and photograph them in London next week (expenses covered). Ideally they’ll have been coming out of a long-term relationship/marriage.
Please email Emma Pritchard with your contact details or phone
020 3148 7839
(13 April)
Woman’s Own
We are looking for a woman (aged between 30 and 55) who has recently divorced and would like some help starting over. We would like to offer you the chance to have a free lifecoaching session and to take part in a lovely photoshoot. Please do contact gemma_wilcock@ipcmedia.com for more information. My deadline for applications is Wednesday 7 April.
Sunday Mirror
I am looking for two case studies for a feature on buying/sellingproperty following a divorce or re-marriage.
Case study 1. I am after someone in their 50s or 60s who has divorced or separated and has moved to a new home as a result.
Case study 2. I am after someone in their 50s or 60s who has remarried following a divorce and has either moved in with the new partner (or vice versa) or where the couple have bought a house together.
Both case studies would need to be prepared to talk to me about the property decisions involved in the split as well as previous homes and living arrangements, mortgages and (where applicable) children. They would need to be willing to be named and photographed and also to have their current property photographed (exterior only).
NB Case studies would NOT be required to name their ex or talk directly about that relationship.
If interested please contact Francesca on 0207 510 6148 or
email me using this link Sunday Mirror/Divorce Aid
Deadline for interviews is March 26.
WOMAN Magazine
We’re hoping to speak to a woman who divorced her husband and is happy to speak about ‘the final straw’ that meant she had to leave. Perhaps you had tried for a number of years but something made you snap and you had to go.
We’d need to name and picture you and your husband.
Deadline is interview by end of Friday.
Email Woman Magazine/Divorce Aid
The Sun
I work on the features desk at The Sun and need to speak to you if you are a woman aged between 20 and 40 whose marriage ended in divorce because your partner was indulging in flirtations on Facebook - on the back of a firm saying that 'Facebook was cited as a factor in one in five divorces last year'.
You would need to be willing to be identified and photographed and have your partner's contact details so we can give him a right-of-reply. Please contact me on ellie.white@the-sun.co.uk and 020 7782 4328 if you are interested.
BBC Radio Scotland - The impact of divorce on children
BBC Radio Scotland are making a three part series about the impact of divorce on children and we want to hear from parents who are based in Scotland. Are you divorced with children? How did you break the news of your separation to your child? How did your children cope? Are you still worried about the impact that the separation has had on your children? Have you and your partner managed to put your own differences aside and put the interests of your children first? Have you sought help through mediation or counselling? We are hoping that this series will help other parents about to divorce to support their children through what can be a very distressing time. All contributors will be treated with respect and sensitivity.
Please contact Debbie at BBC Radio Scotland/Divorce Aid
or Lucy on 0131 248 4151 before January 7th 2010.
Divorce Aid would like to hear from teenagers/young adults who have or are experiencing their parents' divorce
We are helping with a thoughtful programme aimed at your age group. Would you like to help others with this?
How did you feel during the divorce and afterwards?
Did your parents manage to think of your feelings
or were they too entrenched in their own emotions and problems?
Was the divorce a good thing for your family or has it created greater problems for you?
Christina at Divorce Aid would love to hear from you and your parents in total confidence. Please use this link to contact us and we can either phone or email you in reply.
Divorce Aid/Teens and Young Adults