Culturally connected communications

Services

Media relations

Generating the right coverage to build brand reputation, with considered communications to engage key media

Brand editorial

Story-driven content to inform, entertain and engage, fostering community that aligns with your values and mission

Ghostwriting

For people too busy or fabulous to do it themselves, with short bursts of fact-finding or in close collaboration

Website writing

Words to skilfully express brand, service and product in agreeable user experiences, on tone and sensibly structured

Editing and quality control

Editing copy for sense, style, accuracy and strategic intent, to the highest standards

Brand proposition

Workshops to crystallise identity, purpose and difference, and time spent with people to better reflect who you are

Sector expertise

Design, interiors, architecture
Communications crafted for industries’ unique narrative and visual needs 

Creative industries, culture and technology
Expressing agency thinking with a human-centric, culturally connected outlook

Health & wellness
From brand editorial for high-end skincare to intranet copy for an NHS trust

Food & drink
From sensorial brand copywriting to editorial for trade and consumer press

Travel
Editorial features (writing and editing), website relaunch copy for acquired brands

Alison Smith, Director

Alison Smith is a writer, editor and communications consultant with a background in anthropology. She has found the words for brands from Augustinus Bader to The Future Laboratory and led complex copy projects for large organisations in the private and public sectors. As a journalist she has written features on lifestyle and culture for titles from the Face to The Independent and worked as an editor on The Sunday Times and The Telegraph. She began her PR career at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and now works with creative companies on content and media strategy to support business growth. She is especially happy working with nice folk on stories that connect design with culture and technology with humans

Tara Crean, Associate Director

Tara was a journalist for titles including The Guardian, BBC, Mail on Sunday and Reed Business Information before moving into media consultancy and public relations in 2015. She specialises in helping creative agencies use communications to reach their business goals, writing across diverse sectors from FMCG to health & wellness and design & technology.