Scenario

Designing and Creating a Booklet for HealthTimes

You have been asked to design and create an information booklet for HealthTimes, a locally-based charity dedicated to promoting healthy and eco-friendly lifestyles. The booklet will be delivered to all households in your local area.

An advertisement for a fun run with a form to request further information must be included on the back page of the booklet. The editor has given you the following information to help you design the advertisement:

• Starting point: Town Hall
• Date: last Sunday in July
• Start time: 10 am
• Distance: 2 miles
• Open to all
• Funds raised will be donated to The British Heart Foundation
• Free goodie bag for all participants who complete the fun run.

The form must request the following details:

• • Name, address and contact telephone number of the person completing the form
• • Number of people interested in participating.

An instruction to return the form to the Town Hall must be included on the form.

The editor has given you the freedom to include any articles or information that promotes a healthy, eco-friendly lifestyle, in the booklet. She has provided you with the following ideas for items that you might consider including:

• • Healthy eating information – fact sheet(s), tips, recipes, healthy eating cafés and restaurants
• • Eco-friendly shopping, fair trade, organic and locally-sourced products
• • Sport and exercise – details of local events, clubs, classes, venues
• • Tips for creating an environmentally friendly home, how to reduce CO2 emissions
• • A guide to recycling – what and how to recycle, details of local recycling facilities
• • using public transport - local bus and train timetables
• • Information on preventing heart disease, lung cancer and obesity
• • Guidance on giving up smoking, eating disorders, stress management
• • Eco-friendly travel and holidays

Your booklet may concentrate on one health or lifestyle issue or may consist of a number of different features. The content of the booklet must include sufficient material to fill the equivalent of at least eight A4 pages. You may choose the layout and page size of the booklet, for example you may choose to have a sixteen-page A5 booklet, or an eight-page A4 layout.

The finished publication should be eye-catching with good use of graphics and text styles. It should appeal to a wide audience and must promote healthy and eco-friendly lifestyles.

You will be required to design the publication before creating it. You will need to collect text and graphics for the booklet. The text and images do not need to be your own, but if you use published text or images (printed or from the Internet) you should ensure that you comply with the copyright legislation for any text or images that you use.