Welcome to Viva Communications Limited

Public relations advisers based in Stroud, Gloucestershire

BBC TV's Countryfile (which has around 8 million viewers) featured our client the Ernest Cook Trust charity. This screen shot shows presenter Ellie Harrison interviewing Nicholas Ford on one of the Trust's estates at Fairford. The Trust's education work was featured throughout the hour-long programme, winning around 15 minutes of prime time exposure.

Press releases and media campaigns, 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...Find out what we can do for you

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. Read our simple guide to prioritising your communications.

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What we've been working on:

• BBC TV's Countryfile agreed with us that our charity client the Ernest Cook Trust was worth featuring on the programme! The Trust's coverage totalled 15 minutes of the programme on December 28th. Millions of viewers will now find out more about this great educational charity

• We were delighted to work with brilliant local film maker Jeremy Power to produce some powerful video interviews with patients who have benefited from 'art on prescription' Art-Lift courses supported by the NHS. See the videos here

• We're getting to know our new clients, Community Foster Care (a social enterprise), The King's School, Gloucester (Gloucestershire's oldest school - seen in scenes from Harry Potter) local curtain-maker extraordinaire Curtains Made for You and Frogmary Green Farm in Somerset (no website - yet!)

• Working for faster rural broadband in the Forest of Dean is at the centre of a new contract with GFirst, Gloucestershire's Local Enterprise Partnership

• Educational charity and social enterprise Severn Wye Energy Agency has commissioned us to help raise their profile, reviewing their PR and communications strategy, website and printed publications

• We helped Chartered Surveyor Guy Welfare plan and write content for his new website, www.guywelfare.co.uk bringing together a bespoke team including a photographer, graphic designer and website developer to produce a cost-effective and elegant website

• We achieved national and regional media coverage - including TV! - 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. We helped plan an effective media campaign, wrote powerful press releases, made all the right contacts and followed it through

• 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 

• Live interviews we conducted with people whose lives have changed thanks to Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities (NLDC) 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, including 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 by researching and writing case studies of their experiences of Performance Improvement for All programme run by Gloucestershire Rural Community Council

• 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 more than 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 feature 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      

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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