Highlight PR has been appointed to help promote an inspirational new creative workspace and cultural hub for small businesses in Holt, near Bradford on Avon.

Glove Factory Studios features 8,000 sq ft of contemporary office, studio, café, meeting room and event space, set around an attractive courtyard overlooking open countryside.

Highlight PR is tasked with driving the profile of Glove Factory Studios and helping attract local small businesses and freelancers from the creative, IT and environmental sectors looking for flexible and affordable workspace.  A programme of cultural events is also planned.  PR activity will feature a mix of media relations, events, engagement with key influencers and social media. 

Nick Vellacott, director of Highlight PR, comments: “Glove Factory Studios offers the kind of space, service and community that small business owners cry out for.  We’re relishing the opportunity to help put this dynamic space on the map.”

To find out more about Glove Factory Studios, visit www.glovefactorystudios.com

Congratulations to Ellen Durrant and Kate Woodward from Highlight PR for completing this year’s Bath Half Marathon on Sunday!

Running for the fifth year in a row, Ellen showed her class with an impressive personal best of 1.43.06. Kate also clocked up a new personal best of 2.15.04 in this, her second Bath Half and her seventh half mararthon overall.

Over 11,000 people competed in the event which was won by Kenyan Ezekiel Cherop in a time of 1.03.03. The fastest lady was Michelle Ross-Cope in a time of 1.12.07. The event was started by Bath-based Gold medallist Amy Williams.

Ellen is now training hard for her first London Marathon at the end of April, where she is running for Young Minds, a mental health charity. If you would like to sponsor her, please visit http://www.justgiving.com/ellen-durrant

Photo: Jess Loughborough

If you’re based in Bath and work in the creative industries, look out for a new online magazine called Creative Boom Bath, edited by Highlight PR.

Creative Boom Bath is one of 20 regional hubs to be launched by Creative Boom magazine in late 2009. Each hub is designed to inspire and support local creative individuals and businesses.  As specialists in PR for creative companies, we were delighted to volunteer as editors of the Bath hub.

All kinds of creative news is covered – from design, photography, art and animation to PR, marketing, film, music, comedy, arts, theatre, fashion, festivals and more.  There’s also a directory of local creative firms and freelancers and links to national creative news updates.

To find out more and get involved, visit: www.creativeboom.co.uk/bath

To celebrate the dawn of a new decade, we’re proud to launch a new identity and website for Highlight PR, designed by Bath-based agency tallhatDesign.

After 10 years in business, we felt the time was right to unveil a more contemporary look and feel for the agency. We also wanted to reveal more about the great team of individuals who work at Highlight. Local photographer Celia Mannings is responsible for our new black and white portraits.

This site is built entirely in Wordpress – a great platform for small businesses looking to good looking, cost-effective and easy to manage websites. It’s a system we use to manage and maintain a number of websites and blogs for our clients.

If you’re interested in aligning your PR efforts more closely with your website or blog, then please get in touch.