Any modern and go-ahead business should be supporting its community at a grass roots level and engaging with the causes and concerns which affect that community, whether that means supporting an educational programme, encouraging healthy eating, finding ways…
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I was once innocently sitting in a pub having lunch with a client and his colleagues when he suddenly asked: “Do you ever marry your clients”. I nearly spat my drink out in shock! All sorts of replies were running…
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Exciting news just in is that I’ve been asked to deliver a seminar at the Lakes Hospitality Show, which I am hoping will be called ‘Raid the Mini-Bar: PR Tips for Your Accommodation”. I’ve also been asked…
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Let me start this blog by saying that I know full well that I’ve been a really dull girl lately, but I’m suffering from an addiction – to work and to my first (well first-to-be-published) book! I’ve become…
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It never seemed that important to me at the time: in fact, I would have said there was little emotional attachment at all, but when I look back at my Fleetwood experience, for all its ups and downs and…
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A brand new cycle sportive, the Eden Valley Epic, will be taking place on March 3, 2013 in the Eden area of Cumbria, with a start and finish in the ancient market town of Penrith. The Eden Valley Epic covers a 60-mile undulating…
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I may already feel 8 years older than I did before Christmas, but if there’s one thing to put a spring in the step it’s media coverage – just one sight of a clipping can roll away the years! …
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Too many companies, initiatives and organisations are taking part in a ‘sponsored silence’ as they head into 2013, playing their cards close to their chest and not making their target audiences aware of the good work they are doing, or…
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A brand new guide to sponsorship has been written to help those seeking sponsorship in 2013 succeed with their pitches and requests for financial support, as Catapult PR’s managing director, Jane Hunt, draws on all her experience of sponsorship…
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One of Lancashire-based Catapult PR’s many PR awards was earned for ‘Best Use of Research’, which may sound odd to people outside the profession, because why should a PR person be involved with research? The answer can be summed up…
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I have just been approached by a Football in the Community Trust, which has asked whether it is eligible to apply for the free PR support, to a total of £600, on offer from Catapult PR. The answer is ‘yes’,…
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Been focusing on what I would like to see in my stockings tomorrow and have come up with the following wish list for Santa: 1) An insurance company or direct insurer. 2) A building society. 3) A visitor…
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