Narrative
Cooperative
Storytelling
Everybody has a story. It's the way you tell it that counts. Let Narrative Cooperative help you with writing and visuals. We are experts at engaging audiences.
Do your readers and viewers understand you? That's the bare minimum. But you can achieve so much more. With our help, your stories will grab and hold their attention, inform and entertain them, move them; maybe even change their minds.
Narrative Cooperative is a friendly team of communications professionals. You can trust us with your stories or projects and be sure to reach a wide audience. If you want to make a difference, choose our services. We focus on the foremost humanitarian and environmental issues and amplify the voices that need to be heard.
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Narrative Cooperative
About Us
We are friends who share the same values. Balazs and Helen have worked in happy tandem on many occasions but both were individual freelancers. Dan has joined us with his management skills. We see that together we can be more effective than operating as loners.
And this has advantages for you too. Because when you choose Narrative Cooperative, you get the whole package: world class writing, beautiful photographs and video and a host of other services to help you communicate clearly and with panache.
Do you have a story to tell? Let us help you find the right words, the best images.
Services
Storytelling
Effective stories, photos, video, creative content for web/print/social media, graphic design, podcasts and documentary films.
Press-Media
Press releases, one-pagers, press tours, press conferences and media training.
Other services
Newsletters, annual and project reports, communications and campaign plans, speech writing, analytics and monitoring.
Storyteller
Helen Womack
Journalist/Writer
Helen is our interviewer and writer. She had a long and distinguished career as a correspondent in Moscow, for British and Australian newspapers. Since moving to Budapest in 2015, she has helped to tell the stories of refugees for UNHCR and worked as a communications consultant to UN Global Pulse, the Secretary-General's Innovation Lab. She has also trained journalists.
Helen always writes with love. She loves words and their proper use. She finds fresh alternatives to clichés and simple ways of saying things, without jargon.
Elegant in her own writing, Helen edits the work of others with respect. Above all, she connects sensitively to the people whose stories she is telling. She knows it is a privilege when someone trusts their story to her.
Storyteller
Dan Swartz
Media and Communications Director
Dan is our manager. He has all the skills of a modern Communications team leader. Born in the US, he studied international relations, history and Chinese at university but after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, he chose not to work in China. Instead, he came to Hungary in 1990 and learnt Hungarian well enough to pass the citizenship exam.
Dan has over 30 years’ experience in media and communications, campaigning and international project management for many of the world’s top human rights, environmental and cultural diplomacy organisations. These include the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Helsinki Committee, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF and European Capital of Culture.
Dan advocates positive solutions – working for and not against something, and treating the causes of problems rather than the symptoms. He believes positive change is possible and is committed to that goal.
Storyteller
Balázs Horváth
Filmmaker / Visual designer
Balázs is responsible for our visual content. Behind the camera, he is very creative and he has strong social and environmental credentials as well.
Straight after graduating in photography and motion picture culture, he became an environmental activist and attorney for the ZÖFI - Green Youth Association. In parallel, he worked as a graphic designer, mainly for green organisations.
From 2007-2018, he was an editor-reporter at index.hu, Hungary's largest online medium, producing over 400 reports and portrait films, mainly on cultural and social topics.
Balázs has worked on numerous documentary films in different positions (reporter, cameraman, editor). In 2017, he directed Days on Designers, a full-length documentary that was distributed all round Hungary and screened at international film festivals.
As a freelance videographer, Balázs has been in demand from major organisations including UNHCR Central Europe, Amnesty International, Reuters, the Chello Foundation and 444.hu.
Narrative Cooperative
Advantages of choosing Narrative Cooperative:
- We are a one-stop shop for all your communications needs
- We are experienced, so you don’t need to train us. We are ready to go
- If your company is facing budget cuts, it may be cheaper and easier to hire our team than various individual freelancers
- We have an international network of contacts in the media, business, NGOs and UN agencies
- We can handle any topic but specialise in the environment, human rights, migration and refugees and cultural diplomacy
- We are based in Budapest but are available to travel anywhere in Europe
- We have two native English speakers and one native Hungarian speaker on the team. Two of us speak fluent Hungarian and one of us speaks fluent Russian and a little German.
Selected Works
ARTICLES
VIDEOS
TRAININGS
Narrative Cooperative
Contact
Let’s talk!
We are located in Hungary but we are available to work outside the country as well.
Write to us:
narrativecooperative@gmail.com
Or give us a call:
+36 70 516 2716