The Astley Media public relations team
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Marketing and PR agency Astley Media has sailed into 2021 with a fresh rebrand, exciting portfolio of new clients and a call for more talent to join the team.
The full service agency, which won the CIPR South of England Outstanding Small Public Relations Consultancy Gold Award just six years after launching in 2011, and again in 2019, has secured three significant new clients in recent weeks, East Devon Council, the Heart of the South West Digital Skills Partnership and the international data insight and business intelligence company Ikano Insight.
The rebrand and growth of the agency reflects its growing expertise for ‘players in the tech sector’ including technology firms, support organisations, local and regional government and other B2B organisations across key sectors. The team is also currently recruiting for three new roles, including an Account Manager and Account Executives.
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6:00 PM March 1, 2021
Prince Harry at Sandy Park in Exeter for the 2015 Rugby World Cup meeting 16-24 year-olds of REEP legacy project
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In 2015 the Rugby World Cup came to Exeter and Exeter City Council funded and ran some legacy projects, one of which was REEP, this stood for Rugby Empowering Employment Programme.
The programme invited 16 – 24 year-olds who were struggling to find work and the opportunity to attend a two-week programme to improve their confidence, communication, teamwork and employability skills. The programme went a step further in that it reached out to businesses to look for volunteer mentors, trained them prior to the start of the programme and paired the mentors with the young people, to offer ongoing, continued support and guidance after the end of the two weeks. Two cohorts ran very successfully, some of them even had the opportunity of meeting Prince Harry when he visited Sandy Park. So, to keep the legacy going I becam