Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance
A life-saving charity which has attended more than 7,300 incidents in the 10 years since its launch. M2S Media has been commissioned to work with the charity to raise its profile in the media to assist with encouraging fund-raising and recruiting supporters, and to produce a quarterly magazine for the public and supporters alike.
Blackdown Children’s Day Nursery
This entrepreneur-owned children’s nursery on the edge of the Blackdown Hills, in Somerset, hired M2S Media for a long-term programme of press release and photocall work before it even opened in May, 2009. It has been rewarded with a regular profile in the local and regional media which has helped drive a steady programme of expansion through giving more and more parents the confidence to send their children to the nursery. New jobs for local people have also been created by the expansion of the business.
The Full Quart
This North Somerset pub on a main route into Bristol was given a new lease of life in 2009 when it was taken over by a Bridgwater couple who now run it as a family business. M2S Media was asked to provide an ad hoc full media and public relations service placing an emphasis on local media as the owners followed the old adage that people trust what they read in their local weekly papers.
Chuckles Childcare
A rural Devon village childcare business founded by an international product manager for a major Somerset firm who decided she wanted out of the rat race. M2S Media provided launch PR in the local and regional press and radio to raise awareness of the business and attract parents to make inquiries. This work was costed and completed as a one-off, targeted project in a given timeframe.
Zornada Fitness
This one-woman business was launched in Somerset by a new mum who had moved from South Africa and was shocked to discover there were no suitable fitness classes for pregnant women and those who had recently given birth. M2S Media was engaged for a short-term programme of pre and post-launch PR using the local and regional press and radio to raise awareness and drive potential customers to the business. The work was completed at a fixed-price sum over a fixed timeframe with targeted media. The business has since relocated to the Midlands.
Zornada Fitness
Endometriosis UK
M2S Media was asked to provide pre and post-launch PR for two new branches in Somerset to widen the reach of this national charity which represents and provides support for two million UK women who suffer with the disease. Local and regional media were targeted in a one-off campaign to raise awareness of the branches and drive new members and supporters to them.
Bristol Crisis Service for Women
As part of the M2S Media pro bono portfolio, a PR strategy was prepared completely from scratch for this regional women’s charity which supports women in emotional distress and those who self-harm, and which has aspirations to become a national charity.
Active Exmoor
This now well-established sports tourism project which supports Exmoor’s outdoor activity industry was initially a fixed-term project and M2S Media was used to provide pre and post-launch PR during its first 12 months to raise awareness of it and encourage organisations to both join and help provide funding.
Caraquan
An ‘as needs’ ongoing PR and media support package is provided to this small Somerset environmental campaign organisation which engages local people in debate and actions around issues ranging from sustainability and global warming to GM foodstuffs and new road building.
West Somerset District Council
The third-smallest district council in England, this local authority found itself unable to afford its own public relations officer and so for four years M2S Media provided a full outsourced PR and media service covering every aspect of the council’s work and supporting its senior management team and other officers, as well as elected cabinet members and other councillors. The workload included writing and distributing every council press release during that time; liaising with and supporting and advising local authority stakeholders ranging from disability groups and housing associations to Government Departments and Ministers; planning and organising events and festivals; fund-raising support; the inevitable corporate and political crises PR support; producing a twice-yearly community newspaper and a quarterly business magazine; content management of the news section of the council’s website.
Home Care Support
A full media and public relations package was commissioned from M2S Media to cover the pre-launch and early operating weeks of this small South Somerset enterprise providing high-quality personal care support to enable people to live independent lives in their own homes.
Pets & Aquaria
M2S Media provided a full media and public relations service to this family-run traditional Devon and Cornwall business which offered customers ‘old-fashioned’ personal service complete with home delivery of pets supplies, right up until the retirement of the last of the family in 2010.
Minehead Coastal Towns Initiative
A comprehensive PR strategy and on-going media support was provided by M2S Media to this Government and South West Rural Development Agency-sponsored project set up to help rejuvenate and regenerate the resort of Minehead and its hinterland.
Moor 2 Shore Festival/ARTLife
M2S Media provided a full media and public relations service, plus event management, sponsorship sourcing, and fund-raising support to this partnership between the arts, small businesses, and public and voluntary sectors which was envisioned in a nine-day annual cultural celebration of the landscape and activities of Exmoor and West Somerset.
West Somerset Strategic Partnership
A basic press release service was provided on an ad hoc basis for this public-private partnership which works to achieve a vibrant, balanced and sustainable community in West Somerset.
Exmoor Food Festival
After just three years, this annual 10-day festival of local foodstuffs in the land of Lorna Doone and red deer has established a national reputation and attracted much television coverage thanks to the promotional and public relations support and event management services M2S Media gives to Somerset Food Links.
Barbecue Lodges Ltd
This farm diversification business on the edge of Exmoor wanted to be featured in the glossy weekend supplements of regional newspapers and in a range of country sports and homes magazines, and duly commissioned M2S to achieve its aims, leading directly to new sales inquiries from around the country.
Family Gathering Ltd
Glastonbury-based organisers of the Sunrise Celebration, the UK’s leading sustainable festival which ushered in a new generation of ecologically-based music and educational events. M2S was commissioned for a mix of media campaigning, community liaison, and political lobbying skills. The media work involved blitzing the press, radio, and television across the South West, South, Midlands, and Wales, using news about those taking part in this five-day festival, to generate ticket sales. Community liaison involved communicating with local communities and residents groups to address their concerns and keep them fully informed, creating a template of hand-delivered newsletters, public and parish meetings, press announcements, festival site tours, internet website access, one-to-one discussions, and 24-hour personal phone contact – a model now used by other festivals. Political lobbying successfully resulted in the local authority granting of the festival’s 24-hour licence after a highly-personal campaign targeting MPs, district and county councillors, and licensing committee members and officers.
Milsted Langdon Chartered Accountants
Proudly boasting to be ‘More than just Chartered Accountants’, this Westcountry firm of partners has offices in Taunton, Yeovil, and Bristol, and offers everything from accounting through mediation and corporate finance to IT support. M2S provides ad hoc media support with media releases on new appointments and business developments.
Plymouth Prideevent
The largest Gay Pride event in Devon and Cornwall, this annual LGBT festival in Plymouth now has charity status. M2S provides a full media service to the organising committee and support for its stakeholders, with media releases, photocalls, to-camera interviews, Q&A briefings, and attendance at events, as well as support for corporate sponsorship promotion.
The Real Brides Show
The longest-running and largest event in the Westcountry for brides and everything else to do with weddings and civil partnerships, this show is held twice a year in the spring and in the autumn. M2S Media has been providing media releases, digital photography, and news, features, advertising-support copy, and reader/listener offers/prizes for newspapers, radio, and television throughout the South West region to generate increased visitor attendance, as well as supporting exhibitors with their press activities.
The National Pages
Somerset ‘e-business of the year’ in only it’s first year of trading, this internet business search engine is considered the most powerful and quickest way to find details of the business you are looking for in the UK – yes, it’s better than the established market leaders. It also offers a platform for micro-websites and advertising through a range of value-for-money packages. M2S Media provides media releases, digital photography, and reader/listener offers to promote use of the site and advertising sales through newspapers and local radio nationwide as The National Pages is rolled out across the UK.
Somerset Web Services
One of the Westcountry’s fastest-growing internet, website design, search engine optimisation, and software companies, with a specialism in helping small businesses quickly and effectively build their online presence. M2S Media supports the company with media releases and digital photography for local, regional, national, and trade media.
The Saffron Kitchen
A home-based SME producing traditional home-cooked Indian food for weddings, dinners, banquets, and parties, supplying meals for all occasions, from an intimate dinner party to corporate entertainment and advising on planning a perfect Indian meal to suit any budget. M2S Media supports the business with media releases and digital photography for local, regional, national, and trade media.
Moorkhana
This traditional Indian restaurant has been launched in a small Somerset market town and offers menus like no other similar restaurant in the country, featuring recipes from the sub-continent which were handwritten by the award-winning proprietor’s family and handed down through the generations. M2S Media supports the restaurant with media releases, feature articles, digital photography, and reader/listener offers for local, regional, national, and trade media.
Wilkins Health and Safety Group
A nationwide health and safety consultancy which provides a full outsourced HSE function for SMEs which cannot afford the costs of employing their own officer, and also offers management/staff training courses in all aspects of health and safety. M2S Media supports the company with media releases and digital photography for local, regional, national, and trade media, and placement in the media as an industry expert speaker.
Samson Office Supplies
A multi-award-winning Somerset ‘business of the year’ offering nationwide next-day delivery on more than 1,600 office products through nine distributions depots around the country and working in an ethically and socially responsible way. M2S Media supports the company with media releases and digital photography for local, regional, national, and trade media.
Skills Quest CIC
When this not-for-profit Community Interest Company wanted to raise the profile of its work in providing ICT skills training for vulnerable people, it turned to M2S Media to commission a series of media releases and photos which did just that, resulting not only in more awareness among potential funders but also more inquiries from people in need of training and from those wishing to volunteer to help.
Wellington Food Town
The launch PR and media support provided by M2S Media for this local authority-backed three-year community initiative helped to attract a staggering 5,000 people to the inaugural festival, more than five times the total the steering group had hoped for. It was achieved with an intensive programme of work in the space of barely eight weeks, using media releases for local and regional press and radio, and especially targeting web-based food news platforms, television interviews, magazine articles, hand-delivered leaflets, roadside banners, event programmes, and a small, last-minute advertising spend, while M2S Media also helped to man the event.
Business South West
The longest-running and largest regional annual B2B show of its kind in the country, M2S Media provided year-round pre and post-event media services to maintain and improve on its impressive total of 3,500 visitors over two days, issuing media releases and news and feature articles with digital photography to local, regional, national, and trade newspapers and radio and television stations, plus supporting exhibitors with their own PR campaigns, and attending the event and hosting media visitors and interviews.
Business South
A sister event in Southampton added to the stable of the Business South West organisers with a target audience right across the Wessex region and Solent. M2S Media provided year-round pre and post-event media services to attract nearly 2,000 visitors over two days, issuing media releases and news and feature articles with digital photography to local, regional, national, and trade newspapers and radio and television stations, plus supporting exhibitors with their own PR campaigns, and attending the event and hosting media visitors and interviews.
TJW Exhibitions Ltd
Until this Taunton-based firm was bought out by a larger company in Colchester, M2S Media provided a corporate PR service to raise awareness of TJW as an employer and an event organiser, both in the local and trade media.
The Crier
A free monthly newspaper in West Somerset, established in 1994, which grew to 40 full-colour tabloid pages. Over several years, M2S Media provided a complete suite of editorial services, including sourcing and writing news and feature articles, editing, page lay-out and design, digital photography, commissioning freelance work, and uploading and maintaining the paper’s news website.
West Somerset Post
A free weekly full-colour tabloid newspaper circulating in West Somerset, which evolved from changes to its predecessor The Crier. M2S Media oversaw the transition from monthly to fortnightly publishing, and then to weekly production, and provides the paper’s entire editorial services, including sourcing and writing news and feature articles, editing, page lay-out and design, digital photography, commissioning freelance work, print finishing the pages, liaising with printers, and uploading and maintaining the paper’s news website.
Media Trust
M2S Media has been a registered adviser since 2001 with the Media Trust, which is a charity matching small charities and voluntary organisations with professional media services which they would not be able to afford. Through the Media Trust, M2S Media provides pro bono PR and media support services to a range of charities around the UK as part of our corporate social responsibility.
