Giving something back to Dunfermline High School

15th Dec will be an exciting day for me as I am venturing into my old school, Dunfermline High, to talk to the fifth and sixth year Media Studies students about my business; time in the industry etc and to potentially advise them about obtaining a career in PR and the media generally. Its a while now since a Scotvec in Media Studies first got me interested and there are so many great options for study nowadays. I know they also want to ask me about my degree course at Stirling University in Film and Media Studies. This is still an excellent course, it was one of the first to be launched in Scotland when I attended in 1987. I am also donating a yearly prize to the High School for Excellence In Media Studies so that is really rewarding for me to be doing and I hope it will be the start of a long relationship in this field.

New client on board - and its palacial!

I am delighted to announce that I have been appointed by the Atholl Palace Hotel in Pitlochry to implement a PR campaign for them. It's a gorgeous hotel with so much scope and potential PR wise and I am absolutely thrilled that they have put their faith in me. They have already had coverage - on their recent Gold Award for Green Tourism - very well done on that - and on their hosting of a free dinner and stay for S Team Challenge - a group of visually impaired climbers who stayed at the hotel recently. Press trips are already lined up too - and the Press Pack has not even been issued yet - with The Scotsman, Business 7 and N01 magazine all lined up.