Media

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MEDIA & PUBLICITY - GUIDANCE

Content to Share

• Updates, results and successes about your club training, matches, competitions, and all other formal club activities

• Updates about your social activities, focussing on celebrating the community aspects of your club

  • Group photos from wednesday night socials are permitted, avoiding specific references to Varsity Wednesday or other named events, and avoiding people being visibly drunk in content

  • “Sober socials” don’t need to be labelled as such, you can just call it a social. The default for socials should not be “alcohol compulsory”

• Posts for the #TeamUOPStandsTogether campaign such as welfare themes, fundraising, awareness campaigns

• Any University of Portsmouth post, event, campaign, survey, or other content from any UOP page including Careers, Global, Library, Student Life etc

• Wins from individual members within your sport

  • a selection to a regional/national team

  • Competing/succeeding with a local team (such as American Football members competing for Portsmouth Dreadnoughts team)

• Content related to your sport in the wider world (eg international tournaments, olympics, etc)

• Content in collaboration with or relating to your approved sponsors

• Content in collaboration with your club member’s own pages, if they are directly relating to organised University activity. For example, Basketball president competing in the Students vs Staff Charity Football Match

  • This does not mean using your club page to promote members external activities (see note below on marathons etc)

Seek Guidance Before Posting;

• External events that your club members are taking part in for fundraising opportunities (for example; spinnaker abseil, marathons, tough mudder, mountain climb)

• Any invitation from external companies without a sponsorship agreement for collaboration on social media posts

Do Not Share, Post or Promote

• Varsity Wednesday

• Any photos or videos with swearing or offensive language/actions in them

• Alcohol focussed content from events/socials

  • A group photo from an approved event (such as Halloween Ball, Siddle Royale, Sports Awards) where some people happen to have drinks is ok

  • A group photo of everyone necking a pint or visibly drunk is not ok

  • Videos of straight arms, boat races, funnels etc are not ok

  • Drinking games, food races, mixing various drinks in a jug - don’t post

• External ticketed events with no approved sponsorship agreement (for example Wilder Fight Night, Invades races, nightlife events, sports tours etc)

• Any gambling, crypto, financial services without an approved sponsorship agreement

• Anything relating to illegal substances or activities

• Any content that may cause your sponsors to revoke support