The campaign launch on 5th November 2004.

Jan Anderson and members of the Scottish Steering Committee receive the SAPPI design competition award.

Billboards were displayed round Edinburgh and Glasgow.

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BSA Scotland launched an impressive billboard and bus shelter campaign in Glasgow and Edinburgh that ran during November 2004.

The campaign was launched on 5th November with Scottish journalist, author and broadcaster Jack Webster, former MP & MSP John McAllion and BSA members taking part.

BSA Scotland, in association with Glasgow graphic design agency Nation 1, won an award that funded the campaign from international paper company Sappi. Sappi's 'Ideas that Matter' competition provides substantial grants for implementing creative ideas to support social and environmental causes.

The campaign, featuring famous figures who stammered such as Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Darwin and Isaac Newton, sought to challenge public perceptions of stammering and attract attention to the emerging BSA Scotland. See the posters...

The launch attracted media coverage in local press and Third Sector, the UK voluntary sector magazine.

'Please be patient' booklet

The award also funded 10,000 copies of a booklet, designed along similar lines, that includes the poster images alongside some popular myths about stammering that are dispelled by likening them to well known Scottish myths

For example: 'People who stammer are less intelligent - Aye, and the haggis is a small animal native to Scotland.'

This stylish, witty booklet also contains a series of stammering facts and contact details for the British Stammering Association (Scotland). It is being circulated to 'people who matter', such as MSPs, decision makers and potential funders as well as to the wider public via libraries and other channels.