Back Working with Legasee Educational Trust
- Edwin Buckley
- Jan 12
- 3 min read
At The Prominence Collective, some of the most meaningful partnerships are the ones that grow over time. That’s why we’re thrilled to be back working with Legasee Educational Trust on a powerful new national project, following a hugely successful run of campaigns together in 2025.
Legasee is a UK charity dedicated to filming and preserving the life stories of British military veterans and making them freely accessible to the public. Their archive now holds more than 700 interviews, each one a living piece of history. Last year, we supported Legasee across multiple projects, including a new podcast series and a national awareness campaign around women in the British Army.
Reflecting on that work, Legasee’s Founder, Martin Bisiker, said:
“The Prominence Collective provided outstanding support for our charity across two consecutive campaigns, a newly launched podcast series and a female focussed, educational project. Their ability to understand and communicate the essence of each campaign, raise awareness of our brand, and strengthen our reputation was first class. What really stood out though was the care and confidence with which they supported our spokespeople throughout the process.”
We’re now supporting Legasee over the next 18 months on a major, National Lottery Heritage Fund-backed project to preserve the stories of veterans who served during the Aden Emergency (1963–1967), one of Britain’s final and least understood conflicts of decolonisation.
As the Aden Veterans Association prepares to close in 2027, and those who served move into their late seventies and eighties, this is likely the last opportunity to record their stories on film. The project will capture up to 40 high-quality video testimonies, launch a new podcast series, and bring these experiences into schools, libraries and communities across the UK.
Blackpool will be at the heart of the project, hosting interview days, exhibitions and educational activity, while fragile photographs, newsletters and memorabilia will be digitised and preserved for future generations through public archives including Blackpool Central Library and Imperial War Museum North.
It is a project about memory, history and recognition, and about ensuring that voices which have too often gone unheard are finally brought into the national conversation.
We’re supporting Legasee with PR and communications across this project, including national, regional and specialist press and media across broadcast, print and digital, strategic advisory support on social media, outreach and stakeholder engagement, and helping shape how the project is positioned to veterans, families, schools, volunteers and the wider public. Our focus is on building sustained awareness and engagement, not just a single launch moment, ensuring the project reaches the people who matter most over its full lifespan.
Our renewed partnership comes off the back of a highly successful 2025 campaign run, which delivered national, regional and specialist coverage across a wide and diverse media landscape. This included major consumer, news and lifestyle platforms such as MSN News, Yahoo! News, My Weekly, Advance Magazine, the Liverpool Echo, the Oxford Mail and the Bournemouth Echo.
We also secured extensive coverage across a broad range of regional, specialist and community titles including Somerset Live, Kent Online, Wirral Globe, LiverpoolWorld, This Is Oxfordshire, The Herald Series, Hampshire Life, Wilts & Gloucestershire Standard, Southwark News, South London Weekly, London Post, London TV, The War Years, Podcasting Today, The Podcasting, Forces Penpals, The Daily Brit, Glastonbury Nub News, Teddington Nub News, Farnham Herald, Petersfield & Bordon Post, Alton Herald, Liphook Herald, Chard & Ilminster News, Runcorn Weekly News, Aldershot News & Mail and Birkenhead News.
Broadcast and audio were a key part of the mix, with interviews and features on BBC Radio Berkshire, BBC Radio Somerset, Radio Jackie and That’s TV.
That breadth of coverage helped Legasee reach thousands of people across the UK, connecting new audiences with veteran stories and significantly strengthening the charity’s national profile.
This new Aden project is exactly the kind of work we exist to support: sensitive, historically important, and rooted in lived experience. It requires care, strategic thinking and a deep understanding of how to connect human stories with the media and audiences who need to hear them.
We’re proud to be back working with Legasee Educational Trust, and excited to help ensure that the voices of Aden veterans are heard, remembered and valued, now and for generations to come.
If you’re planning a campaign, launch or project and would like to explore how The Prominence Collective can support you with PR and communications, we’d love to hear from you and so please get in touch.
