Specialist PR and Comms Training
and Interview Coaching

What We Do

All our courses can be tailored for print, broadcast or digital media – whatever your focus

Our hugely popular Ultimate PR Training Day covers pitching, press releases, networking, social media, and gives you the inside track on how the media work. It can be brought in-house anywhere in the country or book onto a course. We can tailor our Ultimate Day to your needs and run shorter two-hour or half day sessions.

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Ensure your media campaign is ready for maximum impact. Our expert team of working journalists will uncover new angles and pinpoint fresh media opportunities in these tailored sessions.

Everyone can write – but story-telling is hard to get right. We’ve got decades of experience as journalists, bloggers and editors to help you sharpen up your customer emails, newsletters, blogs, reports, articles and proposals. Whether in finance, academia or any industry, we’ll show you how to nail your messaging through stand-out content.

Get the right message across and feel confident when facing the media with our in-depth training. Whether a corporate spokesperson, PR client or academic we will equip you with the techniques to make sure you communicate effectively and get asked back. For print or broadcast.

We train academics and university executives in how to deal with the media. We show them what journalists want and can teach print and digital media interview and live on air techniques. We can come to your campus anywhere in the UK.

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About Us

Becky Howard

Becky was most recently a Consultant Content Strategist and Editor at Pentland Brands, has held senior editorial roles on magazines including Good Housekeeping and Reveal, and was Content Director at Stylist Live 2016. She’s written for everyone from Grazia & Glamour to The Times, and now works as a content strategist, editor and copywriter for global clients.

Karen Attwood

Karen is a former staff writer for The Independent on Sunday, The New Review magazine, The Independent, the Press Association and the National, in Abu Dhabi. Her work has been published in all UK newspapers. She is also an award-winning blogger and PR consultant. She is writing a book Girl With A Gun being published by Unbound.

Helen Croydon

Helen is a bestselling author, broadcaster and journalist. She’s written for almost all national papers from The Sunday Times to The Mirror. Behind the camera, she been a producer at ITV News, ITN Productions, Daybreak and national radio. In front of the camera, she’s a regular commentator on the BBC, Sky News, This Morning amongst others.

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Photo shoot with Isaac and Yasmin in East London

Three Reasons Why You Need Images When Pitching Stories

Tabitha, Virgo Health

Such an insightful and well thought-out day. So much advice to take back to my colleagues.

Caroline Shaw

Karen’s writing skills course was enjoyed by all and had instant results. We learned to tailor our communications to give an edge in an increasingly competitive world.

Annalise Bertram

Thanks for such a great broadcast training day last week – it was such an informative session! I’ve been sharing all the insights with my colleagues and they’re very interested in all the tips!