GCA and Winston’s Wish Guidelines for greeting cards designed for bereaved children
Guidelines for designers and publishers designing cards for bereaved children. Produced by the GCA with Winston’s Wish, a charity supporting bereaved children.
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Temu Takedown Guide for Copyright Infringement
Temu Takedown Guide for Copyright Infringement by GCA Supplier member McDaniels Law
Graduate Showcase 2024 and GCA progress in bridging the gap into industry
GCA’s New Creative Talent project has built up a series of resources to support GCA members looking to recruit new creative talent,, and to offer a route into the industry for those looking to join.
GCA #Cardmitment Media Coverage 2024
GCA Press coverage 2024
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Caring at Christmas!
Join in our #Cardmitment campaign and help start a wave of Christmas cards across the UK, sharing the joy of sending and receiving cards!
Royal Mail attends GCA Conference in Bristol
The 2024 GCA Conference in Bristol welcomed Royal Mail’s Fiona Hamilton to the stage. Fiona shared insight into Royal Mail’s modernisations plans, and the need for USO reform and for parcel growth. Fiona also outlined proposed changes to 2nd class delivery, moving to just two or three days a week (every other working day), and…
#Cardmitment
#Cardmitment campaign – sharing the joy of sending and receiving greeting cards
GCA and Winston’s Wish Workshop
GCA members held an inspiring workshop with the Winston’s Wish team, kindly hosted by Moonpig. Winston Wish’s enthusiastic young ambassadors shared their stories and provided valuable insight into the language and imagery suitable for greeting cards designed for bereaved children. Background to this Workshop Winston’s Wish contacted the GCA saying that their youth ambassadors felt…
10 years of Thinking of You Week!
2024 marks the 10th anniversary of Thinking of You Week! This annual event, which takes place the 3rd week in September, was born at a UK Greeting Card Association (GCA) Council Meeting and launched in September 2014! Thinking of you week was inspired by the “heartfelt replies” received by one of the GCA members, Leonard…
Share the joy of card sending and protect our postal service
Join in our campaign to share the joy of card sending, and protect our postal service.
The Annual Greeting Card Industry awards – HENRIES
The GCA is a big supporter of The Henries greeting card awards and urges all members to enter these ultimate accolades in greeting card publishing – our industry ‘Oscars’. The Henries are annual awards that are organised and owned by Max Publishing, which publishes Progressive Greetings magazine and PG Buzz. Why enter? Not only is…
Latest on Ofcom review of the postal service
Earlier this month the Greeting Card Association provided Ofcom with a detailed response to proposals to weaken the ‘Universal Service Obligation’ (USO) by cutting back letter deliveries to five or even three days per week and giving Royal Mail freedom to raise prices, see more below. GCA’s #Cardmitment campaign communications around this submission and…