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Communications: Jargon-free PR for the Public and Third Sectors: Helping
you communicate more effectively
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...
"Viva
Communications are thoroughly professional in everything they
do, prompt and understanding in their dealings with the
client, innovative and experienced. The Whittakers … do not
have any of the unrealistic jargon-filled airs and approaches
that are all too commonly found in the PR profession."
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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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here for more success stories
viva
communications limited, stroud, gloucestershire
a
private limited company registered in england , number 4737440
registered
office: 701 Stonehouse Park, Sperry Way, Stonehouse, GL10 3UT
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