Last chance to enter FPA £500 award for excellence in journalism

10 March 2008

This is the last chance for journalists to submit their entries for fpa's Rosemary Goodchild Award. The £500 prize honours the best published newspaper or magazine article on sexual health issues from 1 January–31 December 2007.

Created in memory of fpa's former press officer, who died in March 1988, the award is open to all national and regional press, consumer magazines and professional journals. It is given in recognition of the important role journalists play in informing the public and promoting good sexual health.

The winning article must be:

• Focused on a sexual health issue. This could include sex and relationships education, sexual health services, sexually transmitted infections, sexuality and gender, sex and the law, pregnancy, abortion or contraception;
• Factually correct;
• Medically sound.

Only one entry per journalist is accepted. Entries must have been published between 1 January–31 December 2007. The winner will be announced in August 2008.

The deadline for entries is first post 28 March 2008.

An entry form and guidelines can be downloaded from fpa's website. Send completed entries to Rosemary Goodchild Award, fpa Press Office, 50 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8QU. Call the press office on 020 7608 5264 for further information.

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For further information please contact fpa’s press office on 020 7608 5265/5264. Mobile 07958 921060.

fpa (Family Planning Association) is the only registered charity working to improve the sexual health and reproductive rights of all people throughout the UK.

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