Save The Office Party 2009!

The 'Save the Office Party' campaign continues to gather momentum as the video, filmed, edited and created by Forcefed Media, goes live on You Tube, click on the link below to view!

Eugénie Tham, Director of Big Wednesday PR said 'Our campaign has been aimed at office workers through various social media platforms and this is the highlight of the campaign. The video is a piece of festive fun to be passed around the office and encourage bosses to give their staff a little thank you for working so hard during such a difficult year. There are some good deals to be taken advantage of out there; it doesn't have to be expensive.'

The video follows a teaser picture sent out last week. Anyone and everyone is allowed to send it on to anyone they wish and it can be found by searching on You Tube for 'Save the Office Party.'

A couple of weeks ago, Tham and 3 other industry members went to Radio 2 and talked to Chris Evans about the campaign. Evans showed his support and immediately tweeted a picture of the girls from his phone but due to the BBC's own cutbacks was unable to use the subject as a talking point on his show.

Gary Peters of Evolve Events said 'I think the campaign is great and I shall definitely be sending out the video to our database. It's true Christmas bookings have been slower this year for everyone and this is a great tactic to pick it up.'

Kimberley Eyre-Varnier from a top 10 West End advertising agency who has booked a Christmas party at the super cool Village Underground in Shoreditch with Evolve Events this year said 'It has been a tough year but as a company we feel it's important to reward staff to get them motivated for the year ahead, otherwise they can feel neglected.'

Big Wednesday PR undertook creating the campaign after hearing that many companies were cancelling their festive treats for staff and understanding how the events industry is being affected by it. The answer was to create the 'Save the Office Party' campaign aiming it at the worker rather than the CEO to gain support from the ground up. The campaign on Twitter has gained over 1,100 followers with regular tweets about offers on festive fun, statistics learned, jokes and other items to keep readers entertained.

The video was made in collaboration with Forcefed Media, who specialise in video for PR and events, and filmed in Inneventive's offices with kind permission of Lucy Stoddart. Dickon Gough - Rudolph - is one of Young Guns' very talented rising stars with an incredible baritone voice, Beautiful Minds supplied two of their lovely promotional staff Danielle - Miss Christmas - and Troy - Santa - and Richard Elmer from Elemental took one for the industry by playing the miserly boss! Other thanks go to actress Louisa Benjamin, Sarah Green and Shukkwan Tan for playing Miss Christmas, an Elf-ette and an angel.

Antony Alexandrou from Forcefed Media said 'We wanted to get involved with the campaign when we heard about it and came up with the idea of re-writing one of the best known Christmas songs to capture people's attention. Video is a great medium to get the point across.'

SING ALONG AND PASS IT ON!

If you'd like to hear what office worker Natasha thinks about Christmas parties click here bit.ly/2BcS9N or copy and paste into your browser.