Constructive Voices, the NCVO project to promote positive news about the sector, will work with the AskCharity service from CharityComms to help charities reach journalists who are interested in their stories.

The AskCharity service allows journalists searching for comments or case studies to reach relevant charities. Charities must be registered as working in a particular area to receive these requests, which they can respond to – or ignore.

“We want to take things a step further and are collaborating with CharityComms so that the positive work of more charities reaches more journalists,” wrote Giselle Green, the former BBC journalist in charge of the Constructive Voices project, in a recent blog.

“Constructive Voices will be working to get more charities and more journalists to sign up to AskCharity. We will encourage journalists to use AskCharity as a way of finding and integrating a constructive twist into their reporting as part of our remit to promote constructive journalism, a more solutions-focused approach to news coverage. And we will encourage charities to use it to showcase the positive impact they’re having.

“Constructive Voices will also use AskCharity to alert charities to breaking news so they can react quickly to stories relevant to the area in which they operate.”