Getting the most out of the media for your benefit

Media Friendly is quite simply the UK’s leading Training and Communications Consultancy for the Public Sector.

We specialise in three areas:

• The NHS
• Local Government
• Housing Associations

We were established in 1997 by a former BBC Political and Local Government Correspondent and a former BBC Health Correspondent.

We now have over seventy NHS clients, including Strategic Health Authorities, PCTs and Acute Hospital Trusts.

We have worked with over fifty councils in the UK, including Unitaries, Metropolitan Borough Councils, District Councils, London Boroughs and the Welsh National Assembly.

Over thirty Housing Associations use us for their communications training and PR needs.

Our most recent new client is a United Nations organisation called UNIDO – The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation.

We offer a combination of training courses and PR Communications Consultancy.

We believe that the future of Communications lies with a mixture of New Media and “conventional” media.

Our training consultancy offers:

• Media Training
• Presentation Skills
• Proactive PR
• Social Media (as part of the PR mix)
• Crisis Communications

Our services consultancy offers:

• Bespoke Communications Consultancy
• PR
• Social Marketing

We also have a Private Sector practice led by a former BBC Business Breakfast journalist and we specialise in Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Pharmaceuticals and the Consumer sector.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Getting it right first time with the media has never been more important, with the growth of Digital television, electronic news media and business journalism.

Everyone's biggest fear when confronted with journalists clutching their tape-recorders is that they could ask you absolutely anything. In fact, there are only ever two reasons to face the media-if you are in Success Story mode or Crisis Management mode.

We provide you with a set of tools which empower you in dealing with both situations - and a lot more besides.

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