Dan Flanagan
Special guest
Dan's career spans 20 + years working across a range of start-up and multinational media agencies, creating campaigns for brands including Barclaycard, LG (UK), The White Stuff, Cancer Research UK, and Disney.
For the last six years, he has been running the award-winning, not-for-profit Dad La Soul, one of the UK's most innovative events and publishing organisations, whose mission is clear:
"We exist to orchestrate a revolution in the way that the stories and struggles of the 6 million dads in the UK are seen, heard, and supported".
By nature, Dan is a highly entrepreneurial, curious and creative thinker who, as a relentless doer, likes to challenge ideas, hack problems and produce work that has a real purpose.
As a writer and broadcaster, his work has appeared on The Huffington Post, Metro, Radio 4, The Sunday Times, BBC World Service, and The Guardian, and as a regular guest pundit on the BBC Sussex/Surrey Radio lunchtime show.
Dan Flanagan has been a guest on 1 episode.
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How one PR report is helping gain funding to connect Dads with soul
August 24th, 2022 | 33 mins 13 secs
charity funding, charity pr, dan flanagan, non profit pr, public relations, social impact metrics, social impact report, social measurement, stella bayles
Stella Bayles interviews Dan Flanagan, founder of the growing community interest group 'Dad La Soul'.
From humble beginnings of group of 14 dads getting together for a play date with their kids, ‘Dad La Soul’ is now a globally recognised Community Interest company that connects over 2.5k dads through art, tech and music events & in turn helps them beat loneliness, and live happy lives.
Dad La Soul attributes a lot of its growth and success down to PR, and specifically their PR & social impact report that has become popular among funders, partner stakeholders and volunteers.
In this podcast interview Dan shares;
- How PR has helped build their network, attract new funding and sign up volunteers
- Why Dad La Soul was recently namechecked in parliament
- How proving social change from PR coverage for non profits and charities is essential
- How a PR report can be adapted into a heavy-hitting social impact report
This podcast is essential-listening for anyone working in-house at agencies specialising in charity, non-profit or community interest movements.
Its has useful tips for anyone targeting parents, and its also definitely an episode for all the dads out there!