February '11
- We secured an Eagle FM radio news interview with our charity, Disabiliy Challengers, about their future in face of the cuts. This featured in five news bulletins, reporting the new Challengers Champions Business Club, which PNPR originated.
- Already prestigious businesses like Loseley Park and The Whiteley Clinic have signed up as members at £1,000 per annum.
- The Surrey Times also carried a news picture story.
- BEST Business Group in Surrey also enjoyed a piece in the business pages of the Surrey Advertiser. PNPR has been a member of the group for 5 years and advises on PR and media relations.
- We set up a Twitter campaign for Loseley Park for their Elizabethan Evening, which helped sell 90% of the tickets.
- We also placed a news feature story with picture in the Surrey Advertiser, backing up the Social Media hits.
- Grillo LLP, our chartered surveyors client, saw a full feature in the Surrey Times about viewing Edwardian houses and the dangers to look out for. In addition, we secured a long quote in the Surrey Advertiser property pages on the subject of renting out parking space in driveways.
- Very happy to report that we arranged for Jamie's Italian Restaurant in Guildford to sponsor the musical, Oliver! at George Abbot school and take the back page of the programme. The show was magnificent!
- Congratulations to PNPR clients past and present for nominations in the Toast of Surrey Awards. The three in question were: Michael More-Molyneux, Loseley Park; Mark Whiteley, The Whitely Clinic and Kate Craig-Wood, Memset.
- Delighted to be appointed by Jack's Garden Store to do PNPR Fuse with them - the day's course on DIY PR
March '11
- Delighted to sign new clients, the lighting experts, Nude Designs, in Dorking.
- Equally, we have signed a contract with the national solar panel specialists, Freetricity.
- Paul Nathanson was honoured to sit on an experts panel at a seminar arranged by the Chartered Institute of Marketing at Wootton Place near Dorking.
- We have now got the weekly blog, Notes from Loseley Garden, up and running on the Surrey Advertiser website.
- We have also arranged for a children's gardening competition to be launched with the Surrey Advertiser as media partner. This follows the success of last year's Tallest Sunflower Competition at Loseley.
- This year we are launching The Giant Pumpkin Competition and this, the blog and the Spring Show made a full page with three colour photos in the Surrey Advertiser's House & Garden supplement.
- In the same publication we achieved almost a full page with 4 photos for Seymours Estate Agents for their tips column which we set up 10 years ago and have been co-writing since.
- We also placed Seymours quotes in the Surrey Advertiser during the month as well as setting up their weekly Market Report as a blog in the Advertiser and in The Woking Informer.
- Delighted that our legal clients, Setfords, got a page in Surrey Business News, reporting their 700% growth in the past year.
- Equally they were profiled on a full page in South East Business magazine, following our pitch.
- Grillo had their Edwardian Houses feature printed in full in Country Life - on the website, following earlier articles on viewing Georgian and Victorian properties, respectively.
- Lastly, South East Business magazine ran a half page story with photo on Disability Challengers' Business Club after our pitch.