Who's behind Viva?

Beth Whittaker is a communications consultant with 30 years' experience, specialising in lifelong learning and the rural and urban regeneration fields. She works mainly with voluntary and community organisations and local authorities.

Beth trained and worked as a newspaper journalist for ten years before moving into public relations in the mid 1980s as an Account Director on consumer and business-to-business clients for one of the UK's most successful regional PR agencies. Since the early 1990s, she has been a freelance communications consultant. Her clients are all keen to communicate effectively with the public, but often lack the time and specific skills needed. By calling on Beth's expertise either on a project-by-project basis, or on a monthly retainer, they are able to bring in those skills within tight budgets and timescales.

She takes great pride in developing creative, long-term working relationships with her clients, helping them develop confidence in their own ability to communicate more effectively, both externally and internally. This sharing of skills not only takes place during day to day client contact but also, more specifically, through a series of Viva Communications training workshops.

Martin Whittaker is a journalist with over 20 years' experience. He has been a successful freelance feature writer for national publications including the Independent and Mail on Sunday. For the past eight years he has specialised in education issues.

He has been one of the Times Educational Supplement's most prolific freelance contributors on a range of subjects from further and adult education to overseas teaching, leadership and management and school improvement, as well as writing for the Guardian.

Martin is regularly commissioned to write reports for national education organisations, local authorities and community organisations. He has a passion for education and he prides himself on an ability to translate complex issues into plain English.

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Viva Communications works closely with a select group of fellow professional consultants, designers, printers and photographers to produce cost-effective solutions to a wide range of communications challenges.

viva communications limited

a private limited company registered in england , number 4737440

registered office: slad valley house, 203 slad road, stroud, gloucestershire gl5 1rj

registered for VAT