The View is a boutique marketing communications, social media & PR agency. With a track record of multi-award-winning campaigns and three specialisms (consumer lifestyle, corporate and healthcare), what makes us different again?Our strategic planning and our Believability™ slogan are key to The View's way of working. Believability™ is our mantra and guiding principle. It runs as a thread through all our campaigns. Unless something is believable, opinions or behaviour change cannot be influenced to optimum effect. Our Believability™ methodology was developed in conjunction with leading psychologist, Professor Karen Pine. Recent client work includes: DogFest, National Pet Show, RedKangaroo trampoline parks, The Live-in Homecare Information Hub, The Fish Society, Hotel de France and The Barley Mow, Tilford.

Publicist role handling national, regional and online press for Latitude festival. I dealt with key journalists across all arts sectors with a focus on music and comedy. I helped devise the annual campaign strategies, including creative angles and pitches.Day-to-day publicist duties included media relations and securing coverage, arranging interviews with talent, writing press releases, reporting and managing event accreditation. Essential to the role was the ability to secure and manage interviews with headline talent, who often had extremely limited press time; this required building a good rapport with talent representatives to ensure Latitude received ample coverage and credits. Managing the onsite press office (10 members of staff and over 350 media attendees) was a key part of the role. Other onsite responsibilities included arranging artist interviews and escorting press, sourcing on-site stories, writing and distributing daily media announcements, managing photographers and photo-calls, and managing the box office. Working on Latitude festival for 5 consecutive years, I developed excellent working relationships with relevant media, securing high levels of coverage, pre event, on-site and post event reviews and round-ups.

Production role working on Twitter’s activation at Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2016. I was responsible for managing the creative development and production of seven brand activations within the exhibition space, including data visualisation screens, ‘GIF Gallery’, video-booth and other product demo areas. The role involved coordinating all relevant stakeholders and third party suppliers. Responsible for compiling planning and strategy documents for the client including critical timing schedules, development reports and creative pitch decks.Managed suppliers and fabricators on-site in Cannes during build and live dates.

Recruited to develop strategy and implement PR campaigns for Heart n Soul, a creative arts organisation that support musicians with learning disabilities.Coverage highlights include feature interviews in The Guardian and i Newspaper, comment pieces on Guardian Music and Q online and artist interviews on BBC radio.

Recruited to devise and deliver a last minute press campaign for the Mayor of London’s ‘Search Party’, the flagship event of Find Your London festival organised by the Greater London Authority. Within a week I secured press coverage in a variety of print, online and broadcast media including The Independent, Time Out, Metro, The Evening Standard, ITN news (TV), BBC London (TV). Tickets sold out.

I have worked as a part of the production team on a number of high profile events including : Hermès, Lady Roy & Associates (Mar-Apr 2016)Full-time role working on an exclusive Hermès event in Mayfair. Working in a small core team in the lead up to the event, and during live dates, my job involved all aspects of event production including supplier liaison, sourcing props, catering management, health and safety and set dressing. Burberry, Lady Roy & Associates (Jan-Feb 2016)Responsible for onsite set-up of backstage areas of Burberry AW 2016 fashion shows, ensuring smooth running throughout. Huge-scale international events that require minute attention to detail, I worked closely with several suppliers to ensure that the client’s exacting standards were met. Winterville (Nov-Dec 2015)Responsible for managing 15 staff in a busy onsite box office. The main point of contact for all ticketing queries, I was also responsible for staff rotas, cashing up, managing guestlist tickets, dealing with any complaints and reporting. Cadogan Estates (Dec 2015)Working onsite at a weekend shopping event ‘Chelsea Christmas’ I was responsible for setting up various musical performers and ensuring their performances ran smoothly.

Atomica was an affordable gallery and shop specialising in pop-culture related artwork, books and collectible objects. We originally launched the brand with a three-week pop-up in Shoreditch and went on to occupy temporary premises in Dalston, Camden, Soho and Covent Garden.Atomica presented solo exhibitions from several prominent international artists as well as lesser known emerging UK artists, helping to launch their careers. We have collaborated with several like-minded brands to create unique launches and events including Things&Ink Magazine, Cheeky Tiki, Sailor Jerry Rum, ATP Festivals, House of St. Barnabas, Kraken Rum, Red Stripe Lager and No Brow Publishing.

Developed and delivered the core press strategy for Coca-Cola Burn’s (energy drink) 2013 European activation; sponsorship of snowboarding event ‘Air & Style’ in Innsbruck, Austria. The final press strategy was implemented across 5 of Burn’s key European territories. Central to the role was the production of comprehensive press tool kits for Burn’s European press agencies including press releases, timelines, brand guidelines, presentations and suggested press pitches. I also managed photography and video content.

Get Involved is a fast-paced communications agency specialising in music event PR and as an Account Manager I worked on the press campaigns for several major festivals including Bestival, Camp Bestival, Snowbombing (Austria), The NME Awards, Jamie Oliver’s Big Feastival, The Great Escape, Rockenss, Altitude Comedy Festival (Austria) and Field Day. My responsibilities included developing press plans and campaign strategies, successfully delivering media announcements to relevant press, securing coverage, compiling media evaluations, client reports and working on site at events and in the lead up.

Supporting the team on press campaigns and administrative work across the board, as well as working on several student and regional press campaigns independently. Other areas of responsibility included developing and implementing social media strategies, maintaining client’s social media platforms, sourcing exclusive content, compiling press cuttings and supporting senior team members on site at events.

Worked across a variety of arts campaigns including: Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, With The Grain: Wood Sculpture by David Nash, Devon Artsculture, The Public Catalogue Foundation, Theatre Royal Brighton’s 200th Anniversary, Totnes Festival.