Archive for 2024

Yew La La: Topiary’s French Connection

With the worldwide phenomenon that is World Topiary Day just around the corner, the creator of the multi-award-winning gardening awareness day, Jane Hunt, managing director of Catapult PR, talks to Patrick Salembier, President of the European Boxwood and Topiary Society…
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April 14th, 2024

Banishing the Grey – a 26-year PR Mantra

It’s hard to believe this but Catapult PR has just marked 26 years as a leading Lancashire and smaller UK PR agency, having started to trade in March 1998.  With 65 top PR awards in the trophy cabinet and over…
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March 18th, 2024

Easels & Evergreens – Tree Therapy and World’s Oldest Topiary

It’s so easel, easel.  That sums up the 2024 season for one of Catapult PR’s travel PR clients – heritage visitor attraction and historic house and garden, Levens Hall and Gardens, located in the English Lake District, where ‘topiary art’ will take on a new meaning.

February 17th, 2024

On the Scent of a Unique Canine Sport

Jane Hunt gets on the scent of a historic and traditional canine sport that is largely these days confined to the beautiful countryside of Cumbria, or as some people may better know this  part of the UK – the Lake District.  

January 29th, 2024

Exploring Viking Roots & The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark

Jane Hunt explains the motivation that drove her towards a visit to the Viking Ship Museum, in Roskilde, Denmark, having been to a meeting, as part of her travel PR work, in which the need for DNA testing around Hadrian’s…
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January 20th, 2024

From Bess to Bonaparte: the Delights of an English Elizabethan Hall

Jane Hunt talks to Sarah Miller, a passionate tour guide at English Elizabethan Hall, Levens Hall and Gardens, in the northwest of England, which is one of Catapult PR’s travel PR clients. Jane discovers why just visiting the gardens would…
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January 20th, 2024