Welcome to Viva Communications Limited

Public relations advisers based in Stroud, Gloucestershire

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Press releases and media campaigns, social media skills development, copywriting for magazines, websites and publications of all kinds, planning website content, photography, graphic and web design, communications strategies, media awareness training, promotional materials, pull-up banners...

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We specialise in helping charities, social enterprises, community groups and small businesses communicate more effectively with their supporters, clients, customers, trustees or communities, using tried and tested professional public relations and communications skills and techniques. Read our simple guide to prioritising your communications.

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"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..." Nicholas Ford, Director, Ernest Cook Trust

“Whenever I receive a press release from Beth Whittaker, I know it will be apposite, accurate and well written. That level of quality should be a ‘given’ from a PR company; in fact, after more than 25 years in the media, I’ve come to realise that it’s relatively rare..." Katie Jarvis, Cotswold Life

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What we've been working on recently :

• Leading into 2013, we'll be working with new client, independent wedding celebrant Diana Saxby and her burgeoning business Grace the Day, helping develop Gloucestershire's Dementia-friendly communities, and raising awareness of the Government's new 24+ Advanced Learning Loans . We've also worked with GAVCA - Gloucestershire's leading training and support organisation for the voluntary and community sector - to focus on its communications priorities for 2013

• A big Autumn 2012 welcome to five new clients: The College of Estate Management, South Gloucestershire and Stroud College (SGS College),specialist holiday company Authentic Adventures, CASE (Community and Social Enterprise support and development programme for the SW) and Gloucestershire's Dementia Training team. It's busy here!

• Our experience running workshops sharing our PR skills with charities and small businesses is in demand! We hosted a seminar at the annual Gloucestershire Enterprising Women conference this autumn, as well as workshops for start-ups for Gloucestershire Enterprise's Business Support Programme. Also this Autumn, third sector infrastructure support organisation VOSCUR commissioned us to media awareness training for charities and voluntary organisations in Bristol

• We're really excited to be working with local award-winning childcare business BarBar Nurseries, which runs three settings in Stroud and Kingsway, to help improve their website and marketing. They recently won a Stroud Life Business Award

• We're delighted with this superb commemorative brochure - full of wonderful images we commissioned from one of our favourite photographers Alex Caminada and designed by the fantastic Lesley Fenton. We researched, wrote and project managed this celebratory publication for education charity the Ernest Cook Trust to mark its Diamond Jubilee 2012

• BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour featured interviews with three sisters who are all foster carers employed by our clients Community Foster Care for Fostercare Fortnight. We also won coverage on local BBC radio and regional newspapers - encouraging more people to consider fostering

• Happy to be working with Gloucestershire developer Colburn who are committed to building sustainable homes. Writing press releases which brought them superb coverage, and copy for their brochures

• Delighted to have helped Somerset farmers Nick and Claire Bragg plan, design and launch their new website www.frogmarygreenfarm.co.uk - and advised them on setting up a Twitter account! It's a Wordpress site but thanks to the fabulous skills commissioned from one of our favourite designers, Lesley Fenton, it looks completely unique - and very elegant

• We've helped another new client, Get-eco select a new logo and branding and advised them on how to improve their website which sells green and ethical gifts, gizmos and gadgets. We've also shown them how to 'Tweet' more effectively

• We worked with community groups in the delightful Cotswold town of Chipping Campden to help them plan the promotion of  (and manage visitor expectations) of the Cotswolds' very own Olimpick Games (400 years old this year!) This work has been funded through the Gloucestershire Rural Community Council's Rural Community Accelerator programme. We passed on social media skills and encouraged stronger co-operation between the groups involved in the events

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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

We are members of the Federation of Small Businesses