PERA Seminars, Workshops & Training

Seminars

Advertising Law

PERA legal advisors offer comprehensive, tailor-made Advertising Law Seminars on all aspects of the law governing advertising. Seminars are presented in-house or at publishers' premises, over a half-day or a full day depending on your requirements.

The following topics are covered in a full day seminar, although the programme content could easily be adapted to meet specific requirements: 

• The UK Code of Non-broadcast Advertising,Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing 
• Competitions and Lotteries
• Copyright, Trademark and Passing Off
• Discrimination in advertisements: Sex, Race, Disability, Religion/Belief, Sexual Orientation & Age
• Financial Advertisements
• Business Opportunity and Home Work Schemes.

So, whether you need a course on the rules governing competitions and promotions, or simply want a refresher course on the laws relating to business opportunities and homework schemes, the PERA advertising law seminars will ensure that you are kept informed and up to date.

Contact: Atiqur Chowdhury on 020 7632 7464 or e-mail atiqur_chowdhury@newspapersoc.org.uk.

PERA Training Services

Please find below the training areas that come under the responsibility of the PERA department. For further information on any of these courses please call 020 7632 7400 and ask to speak to the PERA Department.

• Media Law including Editorial Law, Advertising, Sales Promotion and Marketing Law, Competition Law, Employment and HR Related Training
  A number of courses and seminars can be offered by the  Society’s advisers, including in house media law seminars.
• Health and Safety
  Courses available include Risk Assessing, introducing Policies and Health & Safety of newspaper deliverers. 
• Other Training
  A number of courses are available from customer care to telesales and making appointments by telephone. 

Funding

The Newspaper Society has been successful on a number of occasions in obtaining government funding for training initiatives through which members have benefited and it continually seeks opportunities to secure funding for particular projects.