It’s been a very busy day here at Revolver (serious important work aside) – we’ve been taking part in a Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning / Bake Off at our lovely neighbours bar in Lansdowne Crecent – The Lansdowne Bar and Kitchen. We could tell you that we heard about the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning through [...]

A new wave of apps have hit iPhone and Android that are aimed at helping blind and visually impaired people. Knowing what food is inside a packet or details about the post which has just arrived on your doormat are everyday things that most people take for granted. Blind people have traditionally sought this kind [...]

It’s been nearly two weeks since thousands of Londoners were affected by some of the worst rioting the UK has seen for decades. For three nights riots continued in Tottenham, Tottenham Hale, and Wood Green. In the following nights, copycat riots erupted not just in other areas of London, but in Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, [...]

The American Heart Association has launched a new web-based application to teach Americans how to help save a life with “Hands-Only” CPR. The application takes a light hearted approach to the serious subject by allowing users to pick the body they would like to ‘work on’ (titter titter) from a gallery of torso’s. You are [...]

You may have heard the terrible news from Mumbai last week of three bomb blasts in congested areas during the evening rush hour which killed at least 21 people and injured more than 100 others. Nitin Sagar was following news developments on twitter from his office in New Delhi. Noticing the amount of people tweeting [...]

‘Cadbury Dancing Clothes’ is the latest advert from the brand which previously brought us the kids with the dancing eyebrows and – who could forget – the intensely captivating gorilla who drummed to Phil Collin’s ‘In the Air Tonight’ leading to a resurgence in sales of the original album. In a similarly random move and [...]

Credit photo to Paul Jackson Who am I? I am Movement Builder with OneKind, a leading animal protection charity. It is my job to be first port of call for our supporters, ensuring that the organisation is moving forward for them and that they feel involved in our campaigns. Digital media has helped us engage [...]

We’ve organised a ‘Bit of a Do’ to celebrate the 100th Annual International Women’s Day, raising a bit of dough for Oxfam while we’re at it. The Revolver team has organised a bit of fun and a few drinks at the Brunswick Hotel in Glasgow on Thursday 3rd March. The evening has been kindly sponsored [...]

Oxfam, one of the UK’s leading non-governmental charities is now, and not so surprisingly, positioning itself as a fashion brand through a new ad campaign for its expanding vintage clothing offering, and earlier this year saw the launch of the UK’s first online vintage charity shop. The last decade has seen a steep rise in [...]

The softer side of PR. The agency world has been called upon to lend a helping hand and provide pro-bono work for small struggling charities. With the enslught of the economic crisis almost everyone was touched by it, with no exception for small charities. As some within the industry have explained, they are volunteer-led with little money and they [...]