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Making brands
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S&B is an award-winning marketing and PR consultancy that helps ambitious businesses get noticed, grow their brand, and generate new business opportunities.

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Who we are

A different
kind of
agency.

Since 2016, we've worked with B2B, B2C and not-for-profit clients globally — as their full-service marketing team, trusted project partner, or pay-per-result PR experts.

We blend marketing psychology, data-driven insights and creative strategy to deliver solutions that don't just look great — they connect to your real business objectives. All our clients share one ambition: brand growth. We're proud to fuel it.

We thrive on agility. We love what we do. And we care about your success just as much as we care about our own.

Our story
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Marketing

From brand positioning and campaign planning to content, social media and email — we create strategies grounded in data and built for results.

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Public relations

We tell your story to the right people, in the right places. And for those with shorter-term goals, we offer pay-per-result PR for guaranteed impact.

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Graphic design

From brand identity and pitch decks to social assets, conference collateral, white papers and everything in between — we make your brand look the part at every touchpoint.

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Our approach

We meet you
where
you are.

No disruption. No tearing things down. We work with what you have, build on your strengths, and set a clear, forward-looking strategy that makes sense for your business right now.

Some clients want a trusted partner to set them up for success and then hand over the reins — we'll make sure you're ready to run. Others want us alongside them for the long haul, embedded and invested in every stage of growth. Either way, we adapt to what works best for you.

Whatever your starting point, our goal is the same: to make your brand stronger, your marketing smarter, and your growth sustainable.

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What we do best

Everything your brand needs, built to work together. Marketing, PR, and design are most powerful when they're pulling in the same direction.

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No handoffs, no silos

At S&B, the same senior team shapes your strategy, earns your coverage, and brings your brand to life visually. No mixed messages.

03

Built around you

We don't believe in one-size-fits-all marketing. We take the time to understand your business, your audience and your ambitions — then build the strategy and creative to match.

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Combined reader reach secured for a single client within three months

+80%

Fundraising target surpassed for Coram's Christmas appeal campaign

10+

Years of senior marketing and PR expertise behind every engagement

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Thanks to the generous support of Squirrels & Bears, Coram can help more young care leavers to be heard and supported. We hope the campaign will inspire the public to stand by the side of care leavers this Christmas.

Dr Carol Homden, CEO — Coram

Everything your brand
needs to grow — under one roof.

Whatever your starting point, our goal is the same: to make your brand stronger, your marketing smarter, and your growth sustainable.

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About

About Us

Award-winning,
London-based,
globally minded.

Nearly a decade of helping brands get noticed, grow, and generate real commercial opportunity.

Our Story

Founded on
a simple premise.

Squirrels & Bears was founded in 2016 by Petra Smith, who built her career steering brand strategy and growth across EMEA for some of the world's most recognised organisations.

The premise was simple: the growth strategies used by global brands shouldn't be the exclusive preserve of global brands. SMEs with smaller teams and tighter budgets deserve the same quality of strategic thinking, creative execution, and commercial rigour — they just need a partner who knows how to apply it at their scale.

That's what S&B was built to do. And nearly a decade on, it's still what drives us.

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What we've built

Today, S&B is a full-service marketing and PR consultancy working with B2B, B2C, and not-for-profit organisations around the world. Our clients range from ambitious founder-led businesses to established companies navigating their next stage of growth. What they share is a desire to be taken seriously — and a need for a partner who'll take their success personally.

We offer something genuinely rare in the boutique agency market: strategy, PR, and design delivered by a single senior team, under one roof, from one relationship. No briefing multiple agencies. No chasing consistency across suppliers. No diluted accountability. Just joined up thinking from people who care about the outcome as much as you do.

A different kind of commitment

We offer something unique: pay-per-result PR. You don't pay until we deliver coverage. It's a bold model, and it's one we stand behind because our track record gives us every reason to.

We introduced it because we believe in shared accountability. Your investment in PR should come with genuine confidence, not a leap of faith.

Who we work with

We work across sectors and business models — B2B, B2C, and not-for-profit — with clients across the UK and internationally. Many come to us as their outsourced marketing team, others engage us for specific projects: a rebrand, a PR campaign, a product launch.

Whatever the brief, the approach is the same: senior-led, relationship-driven, and focused on building something that lasts beyond the engagement.

What makes us different

Marketing Psychology

We emphasise why people buy.

Using psychological triggers — like social proof and anchor pricing — to build strategies that go beyond creative execution alone. We understand what drives behaviour, and we design for it.

Pay-per-Result PR

Performance-based and rare.

We offer a performance-based model for PR which is rare and highly attractive to SMEs with tight budgets. You don't pay until we deliver coverage. No results, no fee.

Agility

Embedded, not distant.

As a smaller agency, we are an embedded partner rather than a distant vendor. Senior-led, relationship-driven, and invested in the outcomes that matter to your business.

Full-Service

Strategy through to execution.

We serve as both a strategic advisor and a creative execution partner. True full-service: strategy, PR, and design under one roof, from one senior team, from one relationship.

Our Values

How we work and
why it matters.

We think values are only worth stating if they actually shape how you behave. Here's what genuinely guides us.

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We go deep, not wide.

Marketing, PR, and design are the only things we offer, because focus is what makes the difference between good work and genuinely excellent work. When you work with S&B, you're getting people who've spent their careers in these disciplines. That depth shows.

02

We're careful with your money.

Not in a way that limits ambition — in a way that means every decision is grounded in what will actually deliver for you. We track ROI closely, adapt quickly when something needs to change, and never let a project drift without purpose or direction.

03

We care about outcomes, not appearances.

It's easy to look busy — meetings, reports, presentations. What we care about is whether your marketing is generating real business opportunities. If it isn't, we say so, and we fix it.

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We build things that last.

A quick win is great. A strategy that keeps compounding — coverage that builds credibility, campaigns that convert, a brand that people recognise and trust — that's what we're really here to create. We think long, even when we're moving fast.

Senior-led,
relationship-driven.

Focused on building something that lasts beyond the engagement. Let's talk about what we can build together.

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Squirrels & Bears

Award-winning marketing, PR, and design. London.

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ServicesOur WorkInsights
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Impact

Social Impact

Giving our time
and expertise to
causes that matter.

We believe that the skills we've built have value beyond the commercial. That's why, alongside our client work, we give our time and expertise to causes that matter — pro bono.

Pro Bono Partner

Coram

Coram is the UK's oldest children's charity, established in 1739 as the Foundling Hospital and dedicated for over 280 years to championing the rights and welfare of vulnerable young people.

Today, Coram supports hundreds of thousands of children, young people, and families every year through adoption services, mental health support, legal advocacy, educational programmes, and life skills training.

For two consecutive years, we've been proud to partner with their team — developing the annual Christmas appeal entirely pro bono. Both campaigns were built from the same foundation: authentic storytelling, emotional honesty, and a deep respect for the people whose lives the work was designed to change.

2024 — Standing by care leavers

Our first campaign for Coram focused on one of the most overlooked moments in the care system: the day it ends.

Every year, around 12,000 young people leave care in the UK — many of them turning 18 with no family to return to, no financial safety net, and no one to call when things go wrong. More than one in ten will experience homelessness before they turn twenty. The support system that defined their childhood simply stops.

The campaign was built on contrast. Turning 18 should be a moment of excitement — freedom, possibility, a future opening up. For care leavers, it too often means the opposite: uncertainty, isolation, and a step into adulthood entirely alone.

Working closely with the Coram team and drawing directly from the lived experiences of care leavers, we developed a multi-channel campaign that refused to look away from that reality. At its centre was a video featuring a care leaver as the voiceover — their words, their truth, their story.

The campaign ran across Out of Home placements throughout London in partnership with JCDecaux, alongside targeted social media activations designed to reach and move a broad public audience.

+80%Fundraising target
surpassed

"When young people leave the care system without the support they need, they risk losing everything: the place they call home, access to educational and financial assistance, and their support networks. Thanks to the generous support of Squirrels & Bears, Coram can help more young care leavers to be heard and supported. We hope the campaign will inspire the public to stand by the side of care leavers this Christmas."

Dr Carol Homden, CEO — Coram

2025 — Home is where the start is

For our second campaign with Coram, we turned our attention to the children still waiting — the more than 82,000 young people currently in care in England, and the 2,900 children waiting to be matched with adoptive families.

This time, the creative idea came from a child's drawing of a house. When a child picks up a pencil and draws a house, they aren't drawing bricks and windows. They're drawing safety. Stability. Belonging. That image became the visual and emotional anchor for everything the campaign said.

The campaign had a personal dimension that made it all the more meaningful. Petra's own daughters brought the idea to life. Zara, aged seven, was the child behind the drawing — her small hand appearing across every billboard and digital asset in the campaign, a quiet but powerful reminder of the innocence and hope at the heart of the cause. Her older sister Zoe, aged nine, recorded and narrated the main campaign video — her voice carrying the message with the kind of unguarded honesty that no adult could replicate.

The work ran across more than 50 Out of Home locations throughout London, including a prominent digital billboard at Waterloo Station, ensuring the message reached commuters, families, and passersby at scale.

"We greatly appreciate the pro bono support provided by Squirrels & Bears for our Christmas Appeal. This is so important in helping us create loving homes for more children who have had a very difficult start in life, and in supporting families and children longer term."

Dr Carol Homden CBE — CEO, Coram

Pro Bono Partner

Highgate Art Fair

Highgate Art Fair is one of North London's most cherished cultural events — a celebration of creativity, community, and the kind of art that belongs in people's lives, not just on gallery walls. Set in Highgate Primary School's Victorian Hall, the fair brings together artists, collectors, families, and curious first-timers in a setting that is as welcoming as it is visually extraordinary.

For the 2025 edition, we were proud to provide pro bono marketing and PR support — helping to amplify an event that had doubled in size from its inaugural year, growing to showcase over 48 artists, galleries, and collectives spanning painting, sculpture, printmaking, and beyond. From critically acclaimed international names to emerging local talent, and from established galleries to vibrant artist collectives, the fair offered something for every kind of art lover and every kind of budget.

Our work spanned from building pre-event awareness and driving ticket sales, to generating press coverage that positioned the fair as a genuine highlight of London's autumn cultural calendar.

It's exactly the kind of project we love to support: rooted in community, creatively ambitious, and genuinely enriching for everyone it brings together.

2025 edition

The 2025 edition introduced several standout new elements that our work helped bring to wider attention — among them the Next Gen Collection, a curated showcase of emerging graduate talent and rising stars making their mark on the art world, and a live screen printing demonstration by Dave Buonaguidi, known as Real Hackney Dave, who created an exclusive limited edition artwork in collaboration with EDiT Gallery right before visitors' eyes.

Community workshops led by participating artists including Plyconic, Fran Giffard, and Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa ran throughout the weekend, drawing visitors of all ages into hands-on creative experiences. And the fair's charity partnership with Art Against Knives, whose Print Pop-Up Shop and Zine Making workshop featured prominently across the weekend, added a layer of purpose and community spirit that resonated strongly with press and public alike.

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Tell us about your goals and let's find the right way to move forward together.

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Services

What We Do

Everything your brand
needs — under
one roof.

What we do best is marketing, PR, and graphic design — each delivered with senior expertise, strategic intent, and a genuine focus on outcomes. They're designed to work independently or together, but they're most powerful when they do both.

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Marketing

Marketing is not a cost centre. It's the engine of your business — the system that finds your audience, earns their attention, builds their trust, and turns interest into opportunity. At S&B, we build marketing that works with the way people actually think and make decisions, grounded in psychology, shaped by data, and executed with creativity that cuts through.

Whether you need a full outsourced marketing function or targeted support in a specific area, we bring the same senior thinking and commercial rigour to every engagement.

Marketing strategy and planning

Activity without strategy is just noise. Before we provide any recommendations, we take the time to understand your business properly. Where you are now, where you want to be, who you're trying to reach, and what's standing in the way. We look at your competitive landscape, your audience's behaviour, and the psychological triggers that drive decision-making in your market. Then we build a strategy that connects it all — a clear, coherent plan that sets direction and gives every activity a purpose.

Our strategies are built to be used, not filed away. They're practical, prioritised, and written in plain language, because a strategy that sits in a deck and never gets executed isn't a strategy. It's a document.

What this coversbrand positioning and messaging, audience segmentation and persona development, channel strategy, campaign planning, competitive analysis, marketing psychology frameworks, go-to-market planning, and ongoing strategic advisory.

Social media marketing

Social media is where your brand's personality lives and where your audience decides, often in seconds, whether you're worth their attention.

We don't post for the sake of posting. Every piece of content is purposeful, on-brand, and designed to either build your audience, deepen their engagement, or move them closer to a decision.

We understand the nuances of each platform — what works on LinkedIn is not what works on Instagram, and what works on Instagram today is not what worked six months ago. We stay close to the algorithms, the formats, and the behavioural patterns that determine what gets seen and what gets ignored.

What this coverssocial media strategy, platform management, content creation and scheduling, community management, paid social campaigns, influencer and creator partnerships, analytics and reporting, and LinkedIn thought leadership programmes.

Copywriting

The right copy doesn't just inform — it persuades, reassures, excites, and converts. It makes people feel something and do something. The wrong copy, no matter how well the page is designed around it, loses people before they've even started.

We write with clarity, purpose, and a deep understanding of the audience we're writing for. Increasingly, great copy needs to work for two audiences simultaneously: the human reading it and the search engine or AI model indexing it. We write with both in mind.

What this coverswebsite copywriting, brand tone of voice development, blog and article writing, SEO-optimised content, AI search-ready copy, thought leadership and white papers, case studies, advertising copy, campaign messaging, product and service descriptions, and brand storytelling.

Search engine and AI optimisation

The way people find businesses is changing faster than at any point in the history of the internet. The rise of AI-powered search is fundamentally reshaping how results are surfaced, how answers are generated, and what it takes to appear at the top.

Ranking well today requires more than keywords and backlinks. It requires content that is genuinely authoritative, technically sound, and structured in a way that both search engines and AI models can understand and trust. Businesses that get this right will be found. Those that don't will become increasingly invisible — regardless of how good their product or service actually is.

What this coversSEO strategy and audits, keyword research and mapping, on-page optimisation, technical SEO guidance, content gap analysis, AI search optimisation (AEO/GEO), structured data and schema implementation, local SEO, and monthly performance reporting.

Email marketing

Email remains one of the highest-returning channels available to any business — when it's done with intention. Done badly, it erodes trust and fills inboxes with noise. Done well, it builds relationships, nurtures prospects, and drives consistent, measurable revenue.

We design and deliver email campaigns that your audience actually wants to receive. We treat every email as an opportunity to deepen a relationship, not just broadcast a message. We combine smart segmentation, compelling copy, and careful timing to maximise both open rates and outcomes.

What this coversemail strategy, list segmentation and management, campaign design and copywriting, automated nurture sequences, welcome and onboarding flows, newsletter programmes, A/B testing, and performance reporting.

Event marketing

Events — whether in-person, virtual, or hybrid — are one of the most powerful ways to build genuine relationships, demonstrate expertise, and create the kind of memorable experiences that keep your brand front of mind long after the day itself.

But a great event doesn't market itself. The pre-event build-up, the on-the-day experience, and the post-event follow-through all require careful planning, consistent messaging, and creative execution. We manage the full marketing lifecycle of events.

What this coversevent marketing strategy, promotional campaigns, email and social media promotion, speaker and sponsor communications, event branding and collateral, content capture planning, post-event PR, and follow-up nurture campaigns.
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Public
Relations

At S&B, we've built a reputation for earned media that breaks through — stories that land in the right publications, reach the right people, and genuinely move the needle.

We bring a journalist's instinct and a strategist's discipline to every campaign. We know what makes a story, we know who needs to hear it, and we know how to make sure it gets told.

Earned media

The coverage that matters most is the coverage you can't buy — the independent, third-party validation that comes from a journalist, editor, or broadcaster choosing to tell your story because it's genuinely worth telling. That's earned media, and it's what we've built our PR reputation on.

We identify the stories in your business that will resonate — product launches, leadership insight, research findings, brand milestones, cultural moments, or simply a perspective on the world that your audience needs to hear. We craft those stories with precision, pitch them to the right people, and follow through with the relationships and persistence that separate the agencies that get results from the ones that send press releases into the void.

What this coversmedia strategy and planning, press release writing and distribution, journalist and editor outreach, reactive and proactive media relations, press office management, interview preparation and crisis communications.

Our unique model

Pay-per-result PR

We offer something unique: a pay-per-result PR model. You don't pay until we secure coverage. No results, no fee.

It's a model designed for businesses with shorter-term goals — those who need to build visibility and credibility quickly, want the benefit of a senior PR team without an open-ended retainer commitment, or have simply been burned before by agencies that charged regardless of what they delivered.

When it is the right fit, it's one of the most commercially compelling arrangements available in the UK PR market. A senior team, fully invested in your results, with no fee until we deliver them.

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Thought leadership

In almost every sector, the businesses that win are the ones that are trusted — and trust, at scale, comes from being seen to know what you're talking about. Thought leadership is the deliberate, strategic process of building that reputation: putting your expertise into the world in a way that shapes conversations, influences decisions, and positions your business as the go-to authority in your field.

We work with founders, executives, and senior practitioners to identify the ideas worth sharing, develop them into compelling content, and place them where they'll have the most impact.

What this coversthought leadership strategy, topic and angle development, article and op-ed writing, media placement and LinkedIn thought leadership programmes.

Interviews, expert commentary and podcasts

Some of the most valuable coverage doesn't come from a press release — it comes from a conversation. A well-placed interview in the right publication, a sharp expert comment in a breaking news story, or a guest appearance on a podcast with your ideal audience can do more for your credibility and visibility than months of other activity.

We position our clients as the go-to voices in their field — proactively identifying opportunities, preparing you to make the most of them, and following through to ensure the coverage lands.

What this coversmedia monitoring and reactive commentary, expert source positioning, journalist relationship building, interview briefing and preparation, podcast outreach and placement, and broadcast media opportunities.

Public speaking

Speaking at the right event — whether an industry conference, a panel, or a webinar — is one of the most direct ways to build authority, reach new audiences, and generate real business opportunities.

We help our clients build a speaking profile from the ground up — identifying the most commercially valuable events and stages in their sector, crafting compelling speaker proposals that stand out from the hundreds of submissions every event receives, and preparing them to deliver with confidence and impact.

What this coversspeaking strategy, event and conference research, speaker profile development, proposal and abstract writing, talk structuring and narrative development, speaker media kits, and post-event PR and content.

Award submissions

Winning the right award in the right category can do more for your credibility in a single announcement than months of other marketing activity. It's independent validation — a signal to clients, prospects, partners, and talent that you are exactly as good as you say you are.

We manage the full awards process — from identifying the most commercially valuable opportunities in your sector to crafting the submissions that win. We know what judges look for, how to frame your achievements compellingly, and how to build an awards calendar that maximises both your chances of success and the PR value of every win.

What this coversawards landscape research and opportunity mapping, submission writing and editing, entry strategy and category selection, judging criteria analysis, finalist and winner PR, and ongoing awards programme planning.

Personal branding

In most businesses — particularly founder-led ones — the most credible and compelling voice the brand has is a person. Not a logo, not a tagline. A human being with a point of view, a track record, and a story worth telling.

Personal branding is the strategic, deliberate process of shaping how a person is perceived — by clients, peers, the press, and the broader market. When done well, it builds trust, generates inbound opportunities, and elevates the entire business.

What this coverspersonal brand strategy and training, LinkedIn profile development and content programmes, thought leadership writing, media profile building, speaker positioning and pitch development, podcast outreach, and executive communications.
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Graphic
Design

Design is the first thing people see and the last thing they consciously notice — because when it's working properly, it doesn't call attention to itself. It simply makes everything else more believable, more compelling, and more coherent.

At S&B, design is never decorative. It's strategic. Every visual decision we make is made in service of a specific communication goal. We simplify the complex, make the abstract tangible, and ensure that your brand looks and feels like the business you are, and the business you're becoming.

Marketing materials

Every piece of marketing collateral is an opportunity to reinforce your brand, communicate your value, and leave a lasting impression. From brochures and sell sheets to proposals, one-pagers, and campaign assets — we design marketing materials that are visually compelling, strategically considered, and built to work as hard as the rest of your marketing does.

What this coversbrochure, sales and proposal decks, one-pagers and fact sheets, advertising creative, direct mail, and print and digital campaign assets.

Pitch decks and presentations

We design pitch decks and presentations that are clear, compelling, and visually authoritative — structuring the narrative as carefully as we craft the aesthetics, because a beautiful deck that tells the wrong story is just as damaging as an ugly one that tells the right one.

What this coversinvestor and fundraising decks, client pitch presentations, internal strategy presentations, conference and keynote slides, and board and stakeholder presentations.

Whitepapers, reports and ebooks

We design long-form content that commands attention — structured for readability, designed for impact, and formatted to work across both digital and print. Whether it's a research report, an industry white paper, a thought leadership ebook, or an annual review, we make sure the design amplifies the content rather than competing with it.

What this coverswhitepapers, research reports, industry guides, ebooks, annual and impact reports, and downloadable lead magnets.

Infographics

We translate complex information, data sets, and processes into clean, engaging visual stories that inform and persuade. From data visualisations and process diagrams to statistical summaries and explainer graphics, we make the complicated feel simple without losing the substance.

What this coversdata visualisations, process and flow diagrams, statistical infographics, explainer graphics, timeline visuals, and social-ready infographic formats.

Social media assets

We create template systems that give your team the flexibility to move quickly without ever going off-brand, alongside bespoke campaign assets for launches, announcements, and activations that need to stand out from the everyday.

What this coverssocial media templates, campaign assets, story and reel graphics, event and announcement visuals, profile and cover imagery, and platform-specific format adaptation.

Video

We concept, script, and produce video content that tells your story with clarity and impact — from short-form social content designed to stop the scroll, to longer brand films built to last. We bring the same strategic thinking to video that we bring to everything else: starting with what you need to achieve and working backwards to the format and approach that will deliver it.

What this coversbrand films, social media video content, product and service explainers, campaign videos, event highlight reels, testimonial videos, and motion graphics.

Merchandise

We design merchandise that people actually want to use and be seen with — grounded in your brand identity and crafted to the same standard as everything else we produce.

What this coversapparel and branded clothing, stationery and office items, event giveaways and promotional products, packaging design, and brand merchandise guidelines.

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services you need?

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Proud of the work.
More proud of
what it achieves.

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Public relations and personal branding

Building the voice of a pioneering wealth consultancy across the world's most discerning publications

Dallington & Jessica McGawley

PRPersonal BrandingThought LeadershipPodcast Placement

The challenge

Dallington is a specialist consultancy focused on multigenerational family dynamics and rising-generation preparedness — offering discreet, tailored support for families of significant wealth. Founded by Jessica McGawley, a systems-psychodynamic consultant and mediator, Dallington is the first practice dedicated exclusively to mentoring the rising generation of UHNW families.

Jessica's work addresses one of the most profound and underserved challenges in the world of private wealth: most families are good at preparing the wealth for their children. Few prepare their children for wealth. It is a distinction that carries enormous weight in the right rooms — and the opportunity was to make sure it was heard in far more of them.

Our objective was to raise Jessica's profile and Dallington's visibility among the audiences that matter most — wealth managers, family offices, private client advisors, trustees, and the editors and journalists who serve that world.

The approach

We began by identifying the publications, platforms, and podcasts that carry genuine weight with Dallington's target audience. The PR strategy we developed was built entirely around Jessica's voice and expertise. Rather than simply generating coverage, we worked to position her as the go-to authority on rising-generation preparedness — a field she had spent nearly two decades defining.

Alongside the media work, we developed Jessica's personal brand as a speaker, podcast guest, and published author — identifying platforms and opportunities that would extend her reach beyond the written press and into the live, human conversations that build the deepest trust.

The impact

Coverage secured to date includes features and articles in The Times, The Sunday Times Rich List Supplement, The Financial Times Adviser, Entrepreneur, Robb Report and The Executive Magazine — a portfolio of placements that spans the full breadth of Dallington's target audience, from private client professionals and family office advisors to the UHNW families they serve.

Podcast and radio appearances included The Times Radio, The FT Advisor podcast, Our Family Office with Adam Fisch, the AYU Family Office Podcast and the Scholar Wealth Podcast. We are also proud to have supported Jessica in securing a publishing deal for her own book — a milestone that will bring her thinking to the widest audience yet.

Full-service marketing, PR and communications

From inception to industry leader: building and scaling a brand through growth

Complii

Brand BuildRebrandPREmployee Advocacy

The challenge

Complii — formerly Compliance Group — is a fast-growing compliance and technical services business operating across some of the UK's most highly regulated sectors. Built on an ambitious buy-and-build strategy, the business has grown rapidly through acquisition, expanding its capabilities, its team, and its market presence at pace.

We have been with them since the beginning. When the business launched as Compliance Group, it needed more than a marketing function — it needed a brand, a voice, and a platform from which to grow. Ours is a partnership that has grown with the business at every stage — from establishing the foundations to supporting the communications infrastructure of a multi-faceted, acquisitive organisation with an increasingly prominent national profile.

The approach

From day one, we worked closely with Complii's senior leadership team as an embedded partner — not a distant supplier, but a trusted extension of the business. At inception, we built the brand from the ground up: website content and architecture, the full suite of marketing materials, and the visual and editorial identity that carried the business through its early growth phase.

Our social media work introduced an employee advocacy programme that transformed how Complii's team engaged with the brand's online presence — turning internal pride into external visibility and creating a multiplier effect that extended Complii's reach far beyond what the brand's own channels could achieve alone.

The impact

The PR programme solidified Complii's position as a recognised leader across its core sectors — with consistent coverage in the industry's leading titles ensuring that the business was visible, credible, and front of mind with the clients, partners, and investors that matter most.

Coverage secured included placements in Insider Media, The Business Desk, Real Deals, PE Hub, Mergers & Acquisitions, FMJ, FMUK, Facilitate, International Fire and Safety Journal, Tomorrow's FM, Electrical Times, Electrical Engineer, and The Health Estate Journal.

Complii is a business that has grown substantially since the day we started working together. We're proud to have been part of that story — and to still be writing it.

Full-service marketing and PR

From trusted marketing partner to PR consultancy: a relationship that grew through acquisition

Cadence Innova & Transform

Outsourced MarketingPRThought LeadershipAwards

The challenge

Our relationship in the public sector transformation space began with Cadence Innova — a specialist public service consultancy helping complex organisations navigate change, improve services, and deliver better outcomes for the people who depend on them.

We came on board as Cadence Innova's fully outsourced marketing department. When Cadence Innova was subsequently acquired by Transform, our relationship didn't end; it evolved. We transitioned into a PR consultancy role within the extended Transform team, and we continue to support them today.

Transform works with complex organisations to make an impact on people's lives, drive business growth, and create real change. Their clients include the Metropolitan Police, HMCTS, Anglian Water, South Western Railway, and the UK Health Security Agency.

The approach

In our earliest phase, we operated as Cadence Innova's complete marketing department — handling marketing strategy and planning, social media, PR, awards, and internal communications.

Following the acquisition, our work with Transform centres on three core pillars: media outreach positioning Transform as a leading voice in its field; a targeted awards programme; and events — supporting the team's presence at the conferences and forums where their clients and prospects gather.

The impact

What makes this relationship distinctive is its longevity and adaptability. We support this client across two chapters of their story — through a significant acquisition and an evolving brief — with the same quality and commitment throughout.

Since joining the Transform team in 2025, our ongoing PR programme has secured coverage across The MJ, Civil Service World, Open Access Government, Local Gov, Public Sector Executive, Management Today, The AI Journal, CEO Magazine, TechRound, Government and Public Sector Journal, Rail Professional, Sustainable Business Magazine, The Water Report and The Executive Magazine.

The partnership continues — and so does the work.

Content strategy, LinkedIn marketing, SEO, web development and brand design

Repositioning a global leadership consultancy for the modern era

Acumen Development Consultants

Content StrategySEOLinkedInWeb Redesign

The challenge

Acumen Development Consultants has spent over two decades at the forefront of global leadership development — delivering courses, workshops, and coaching programmes that range from presentation skills and customer service excellence through to executive leadership development for some of the world's most demanding organisations.

Despite an exceptional track record, their digital presence didn't reflect the depth and quality of what they were delivering. Their objectives were to improve search engine visibility to attract more of the right visitors, position their leadership team as genuine thought leaders in their field, and create a website that converted.

The approach

The centrepiece of the work was a complete website redesign. We approached it simultaneously as a design challenge, a content strategy exercise, and an SEO brief — because a website that looks beautiful but can't be found, or can be found but doesn't convert, is only ever part of the solution.

To build Acumen's thought leadership profile, we introduced a weekly blog programme — each post addressing the latest trends, challenges, and developments in leadership and organisational development. The blog also became the engine of Acumen's LinkedIn presence — each post repurposed and distributed across both the business page and the founder's personal profile.

The impact

The new website gave the consultancy a contemporary, authoritative presence that finally matched their global standing. The SEO-optimised structure increased their organic search visibility, bringing more of the right visitors to the site and reducing reliance on referrals and direct outreach alone.

On LinkedIn, the impact was equally tangible: consistent blog-driven content transformed both the business page and the founder's personal profile into active platforms for visibility and engagement. What began as a content programme became one of their most effective and sustainable channels for new business awareness.

Content marketing and PR

Building a thought leadership engine for a fast-growing marketing operations consultancy

WoolfHodson

Content MarketingPRThought LeadershipEmployee Advocacy

The challenge

WoolfHodson is a fast-growing team of experienced practitioners who work with marketing leaders to build better operational solutions — helping businesses bring structure, efficiency, and clarity to the way their marketing functions are run.

They came to us with the objective to boost brand awareness and establish WoolfHodson as a recognisable, trusted voice in the marketing operations space. They needed a strategic partner who could take their internal expertise and translate it into compelling content and PR activity — building an ongoing lead-nurturing programme that educated their audience, demonstrated their value, and kept them front of mind with the marketing leaders they were looking to reach.

The approach

We devised and implemented a comprehensive content and PR strategy in close collaboration with WoolfHodson's Founder and CEO, working as an embedded partner rather than a distant agency.

To do this efficiently and authentically, we developed an interview-style knowledge-sharing process with the CEO — a structured approach that allowed us to capture their unique insights in their own voice, and then shape that raw material into polished, publication-ready content. We also introduced an employee advocacy programme, equipping the WoolfHodson team to act as genuine brand ambassadors.

The impact

The combination of content marketing and earned media has significantly broadened WoolfHodson's reach and visibility, establishing the business as a credible, recognisable presence in the marketing operations space.

We secured placements in Yahoo Finance, MSN, CEO Magazine, MarTech, TechRound, Marketing Performance World, and several other relevant titles.

WoolfHodson came to us wanting to be better known. Today, they are better known, better trusted, and better positioned to have the conversations that grow their business.

PR and thought leadership

Establishing a CEE-born legal-tech firm as a credible international voice for startups and investors

Eldison

Pay-per-Result PRInternational PRThought Leadership

The challenge

With offices in Bratislava, Prague, and San Francisco, Eldison combines deep legal expertise with innovative technology to support high-growth startups and scale-ups — from emerging ventures through to global unicorns — helping them navigate the complex legal and regulatory challenges that come with rapid growth and international expansion.

Despite operating at the highest levels of the startup and venture capital ecosystem, the firm's visibility remained largely regional. The brief was to position Eldison, and its founder and CEO Stefan Surina in particular, as a credible, compelling voice in the global conversation around startup growth, legal innovation, and the challenges facing founders and investors navigating complex international markets.

The approach

Rather than starting from scratch, we looked at what already existed: the insights Stefan had developed over years of working with some of Europe's and America's most ambitious founders. The opportunity was to repurpose and sharpen that existing material into targeted thought leadership — content precisely aligned with the narratives that investor media, startup publications, and international business titles are actively looking for.

We developed a programme built around Stefan's voice and expertise — capturing his perspectives through a structured knowledge-sharing process and shaping them into publication-ready articles, commentary, and features. The content was not generic legal commentary. It was specific, insightful, and grounded in the real-world challenges Eldison's clients face every day.

The impact

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the programme

Within three months of launching the programme, we had secured multiple print and online features across a portfolio of titles that collectively reach 28 million readers globally — including the Financial Times, Startups Magazine, EU Startups, European Business Magazine, The Executive Magazine, and HR Director.

Media relations, PR and social media

Building brand presence and consumer awareness for a pioneering plant-based food innovator

MozzaRisella

Consumer PRSocial MediaBrand Partnerships

The challenge

MozzaRisella is not your typical vegan cheese brand. Born from an innovative idea — using sprouted brown rice, grown and harvested in Italy, as the base for a range of plant-based and organic products — MozzaRisella occupies a distinctive and compelling position in an increasingly crowded market. Their products are free from lactose, gluten, nuts, and soya, and champion the significant nutritional advantages of sprouted brown rice in a way that sets them apart from the vast majority of plant-based alternatives on the shelf.

The product was exceptional. The story was compelling. What MozzaRisella needed was an audience large enough to hear it.

The approach

We developed a targeted media relations and social media strategy — building relationships and pitching strategy to get MozzaRisella noticed across trade titles, consumer health and lifestyle media, and specialist plant-based and free-from press.

Our approach went beyond simply sending press releases. We developed compelling angles for each title — product reviews for health-focused readers, trade features for industry buyers, and award submissions that built third-party credibility. Alongside the media programme, we took full ownership of MozzaRisella's social media presence across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

To extend reach beyond owned and earned channels, we actively developed partnership campaigns with complementary brands and influential voices in the food, wellness, and plant-based sectors.

The impact

Coverage secured included features and placements in The Grocer, Women's Health, Food Navigator, Good Housekeeping, Vegan Food & Living, Vegan Life, Plant Based, New Food, Food Manufacture, Restaurant Industry and Vegconomist — a combination of broad consumer reach and deep sector relevance that placed MozzaRisella's brand and products in front of exactly the audiences most likely to buy, stock, and champion them.

PR, brand launch and social media

Launching a premium property buying agency into one of the world's most competitive real estate markets

Xander Prime

Brand Launch PRSocial MediaContent Strategy

The challenge

Xander Prime is an independent buying agency specialising in sourcing the UK's finest prime residential properties. They act on behalf of individuals who require a premium service delivered with complete discretion and anonymity — managing the entire property acquisition process with deep expertise in one of the world's most competitive and closely watched real estate markets.

Prime residential property is a world built on reputation, relationships, and trust — none of which can be manufactured overnight. Xander Prime needed to announce their arrival to the market in a way that immediately communicated credibility, expertise, and premium positioning — and to begin building the online community and brand presence that would support their growth from day one.

The approach

We developed a focused launch strategy built around two objectives: establishing immediate credibility through targeted PR, and building the digital presence and community foundations that would sustain the brand's visibility beyond the initial announcement.

The centrepiece of the launch was a press release that positioned Xander Prime as a serious, expert entrant into the prime residential market. Alongside the launch PR, we designed and executed Xander Prime's content strategy and took full ownership of their social media presence — shaped entirely by the brand's positioning: premium, discreet, and deeply knowledgeable about the prime residential market.

The impact

The launch programme gave Xander Prime immediate credibility, early visibility, and the foundations for sustained growth. Published articles in Prime Resi, Estate Agent London, and London Loves Property — the titles that carry credibility with Xander Prime's target audience.

In a market where most buying agencies build their reputation slowly and almost entirely through word of mouth, that level of immediate media presence represented a significant competitive advantage. Together, the PR and social media work gave Xander Prime the crucial early momentum that so many new businesses struggle to generate.

Social media, PR and email marketing

Building visibility and driving growth for an innovative on-demand beauty platform in London

Skinned

Social MediaPREmail MarketingInfluencer

The challenge

Skinned is an innovative online platform revolutionising the way Londoners access advanced beauty treatments. Rather than requiring clients to travel to a salon or clinic, Skinned brings the treatment to them — offering convenient bookings for facials, aesthetic, and holistic treatments delivered directly to clients' homes, hotel rooms, or offices. Skinned also features a carefully curated e-shop offering a selection of luxury skincare products.

Skinned were looking to increase visibility, drive bookings for their unique at-home services, and grow sales through their luxury e-shop. The objectives were interconnected — brand awareness, audience engagement, and commercial conversion all needed to move together.

The approach

We developed a comprehensive social media strategy focused on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn — creating a consistent stream of engaging, high-quality content that reflected the premium, aspirational world Skinned inhabits. We ran targeted influencer campaigns, and integrated Skinned's e-shop directly into their social media platforms — setting up social commerce functionality that allowed followers to move seamlessly from discovery to purchase.

Alongside the social media programme, we cultivated relationships with leading lifestyle publications covering beauty, wellness, and luxury living. To nurture relationships and convert awareness into action, we designed and delivered a weekly email marketing programme to Skinned's subscriber base.

The impact

Coverage secured included features in Refinery29, Glamour, Yahoo Life, Metro, AirMail, Wellbeing News, and Luxuriate Lifestyle — placing Skinned's brand and services in front of exactly the readers most likely to book.

The social commerce integration turned awareness into revenue more efficiently than a traditional social media approach alone could achieve. The weekly email programme sustained momentum between campaigns — keeping Skinned front of mind with an engaged subscriber base and consistently driving bookings and e-shop purchases.

PR and media relations

Expanding digital media presence for an emerging artist development platform

Shodement

Trade PRMusic IndustryB2B Media

The challenge

Shodement is an innovative artist development platform built around a belief that emerging talent deserves the tools, the support, and the infrastructure to genuinely succeed in a competitive landscape.

Shodement faced a challenge familiar to many genuinely innovative platforms — their visibility among the artists, industry professionals, and potential partners they needed to reach was limited. They needed both music industry credibility and broader business press coverage simultaneously, and they needed a PR approach precise enough to deliver both without diluting either.

The approach

We collaborated closely with the Shodement team on a series of targeted press release campaigns — each one built around a compelling narrative that captured the mission, the innovation, and the momentum behind the platform.

Our approach was to identify the specific stories within Shodement's journey that would resonate with specific audiences — the music industry publications whose readers are the artists, managers, labels, and tastemakers that Shodement needed to reach, and the business and technology titles whose readers represent the broader ecosystem of investors and innovators.

The impact

Within the music industry, we secured placements in Music Week, Music Business Worldwide, and Music News — the titles that matter most to the artists, managers, and industry professionals within Shodement's community.

Beyond the music press, coverage in Business Insider and Newsbreak extended Shodement's story to a broader audience of innovators, investors, and business leaders — framing the platform not just as a music industry product, but as a genuinely innovative approach to artist development that sits at the intersection of technology, creativity, and commercial opportunity.

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