Welcome to Viva Communications Limited

Public relations consultants

We're based in Stroud, Gloucestershire and specialise in helping the public sector and charity, voluntary and community organisations communicate more effectively. We also offer sound, jargon-free PR advice to small businesses.

Beth Whittaker Director

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

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.

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List of current and former clients

Latest news:

• 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 has 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 have 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 have launched the new website for the Ernest Cook Trust, one of the UK's leading educational charities www.ernestcooktrust.org.uk
• We have been selected for the editorial panel for the General Teaching Council for England
• We work 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 to 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 smaller voluntary and community organisations
• We provide PR support for the national Learning and Skills Network communications and marketing team during maternity and annual leave
• We produce and update an innovative careers information website for secondary schools, including free lesson plans for teachers www.focusoncareers.org.uk

        for AimHigher West of England

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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