Welcome to Viva Communications Limited

Public relations advisers in Stroud, Gloucestershire

We specialise in helping the public sector and the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector communicate more effectively. We also offer sound, jargon-free PR advice to small businesses.

What we can do for you...

Beth Whittaker Director

Beth Whittaker is a PR and communications adviser with more than 30 years' experience. A journalist by training, she now specialises in PR around education and rural and urban regeneration issues, working mainly in the charity, voluntary, community and public sectors. More...

Martin Whittaker Director

Martin Whittaker is a journalist with over 25 years' experience. He has been a successful freelance feature writer for national publications including the Independent and Mail on Sunday. Since 1997 he has specialised in education issues, writing for the Times Educational Supplement and The Guardian. More...

Client list

Latest news:

• We worked with a web designer and web developer to plan, design and launch a new website, complete with content management system, for the Gloucestershire Market Towns Forum, helping our client through the technical maze. Now we will train our clients to keep the website updated themselves www.glosmtf.org.uk 

• We achieved national and regional media coverage for the national charity, the Education and Employers Taskforce, for the launch of its new Visit Our Schools and Colleges campaign, designed to link education and employers

• Live interviews we conducted with people whose lives have changed thanks to Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Neighbourhoods projects, were described as 'very inspiring', 'moving' and by Penny Lamb, an LGA senior policy consultant as: 'what Government Ministers need to hear'

• 100 per cent success rate for media coverage of case studies of successful Open University students we wrote to accompany press releases commissioned by the OU in the South West, including local newspapers, websites and two radio interviews on the BBC

• We've helped shine the spotlight on voluntary and community groups which have raised their quality standards through the Performance Improvement for All programme run by Gloucestershire Rural Community Council by researching and writing case studies

• We have helped Gloucestershire First develop a communications strategy for raising awareness of the support available for rural communities to apply for grants to develop Community and Social Enterprises to run local services, funded by the EU's Rural Development Programme for England. We've also helped them develop an interactive information pack

• An interactive pdf training manual for people caring for dementia sufferers we produced for Gloucestershire County Council and the NHS as a way to share best practice nationally, has been downloaded 70 times from the county council's website

• We're promoting a rural Gloucestershire Trade Local Campaign for Gloucestershire County Council in association with the Federation of Small Businesses and Gloucestershire Market Towns Forum

• While providing PR and communications support to LSN (the Learning and Skills Network) during maternity and annual leave, we achieved coverage in the Times Educational Supplement and the Guardian and contributed to, and edited, influential research reports

• We help celebrate some of the country's most successful small rural shops by interviewing retailers and writing articles for the national Rural Retailer magazine, commissioned by the Rural Shops Alliance

• The Cabinet Office praised an innovative interactive toolkit we designed and produced for Gloucestershire Rural Community Council to help rural communities develop their own Emergency Plan to prepare for emergencies such as floods

• We designed and produced printed training manuals for people caring for dementia sufferers and a best-practice pdf on dementia training for the NHS and Gloucestershire County Council

• We researched and wrote content for a new website, overseeing the design and launch of the site www.ernestcooktrust.org.uk , for the Gloucestershire-based Ernest Cook Trust, one of the UK's leading educational charities

• We produced and continue to update an innovative careers information website for secondary schools, including free lesson plans for teachers www.focusoncareers.org.uk for AimHigher West of England      

• We are on the editorial panel for the General Teaching Council for England

• We worked with the Gloucestershire Public Services Employment Partnership to produce an interactive e-bulletins to keep partner organisations informed. Click here
• We have produced an interactive toolkit for Gloucestershire's Rural Services Support Group to help rural communities protect and develop essential local services. Click here
• We helped Forest of Dean District Council develop and publish an interactive toolkit to help market town retailers woo shoppers back to the high street
• In addition to our very popular media skills training workshops, we are now offering website planning workshops, particularly aimed at the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector

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viva communications limited, stroud, gloucestershire

a private limited company registered in england , number 4737440

registered office: 701 Stonehouse Park, Sperry Way, Stonehouse, GL10 3UT

registered for VAT