Posts Tagged ‘PR for countryside events’

Paragliding Parachutes into Grasmere Sports

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Ahead of the 2025 Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show, which she is promoting as part of her travel PR and tourism PR, Jane Hunt talks to Paul Abbott.  The discussion is all about a brand-new sport that is parachuting into the Grasmere Sports programme in 2025. This is the Grasmere Hike and Fly. It’s a paragliding event that encompasses navigating between waymarks, to land and register a visit and then fly off again, around the course. From there, it’s a race back to the starting point, on the Grasmere Sports showfield.

September 23rd, 2025

No Stone Unturned with a Stone-skimming Champion

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Jane Hunt, a Lancashire-based PR specialist and managing director of Catapult PR, catches up with Alex Lewis, a Scottish student who also just happens to be a multi-title stone skimming champion, having won titles around the world. Jane first met Alex in 2018, as part of her travel PR and tourism PR promotion at Catapult PR. Having promoted the All-England stone skimming championships for about 10 years, at that point, Alex’s performances on Lake Windermere, in Cumbria, absolutely shone.

September 23rd, 2025