Overcoming barriers to accessing healthcare

The campaign

Raising awareness for inclusivity in healthcare

Our client, a senior UK academic and charity volunteer, was keen to launch a PR campaign to raise awareness of the importance of accessible healthcare for all, while sharing her unorthodox journey to professorship to help inspire other women and girls considering a STEM career.

Our work

Media thought leader

Sometimes in PR, you have a client whose stories you just know are going to land superbly with the media, and this client was that! We shared her story widely with business, consumer and health media to maximise audience reach and start her journey towards creating a library of thought leadership articles she’d be invited to write as the named author.

Award judging panellist

Already an accomplished academic in the area of inclusive healthcare, our client was no stranger to being nominated for and winning awards. We helped her continue along the awards pathway by putting her forward to join high-calibre awards judging panels. This provided her with a wealth of material to share on social media, empowering her to reach a wider audience with her important messages.

Podcast interviewee

We recognised straightaway that our client was unique in her field. Her background, down to earth approach and the instant connection she made with people subverted the public’s expectation of what a senior academic may look and sound like. While achieving online and print coverage was critical, we also wanted our client to have the opportunity to have her voice heard through broadcast media, and so launched a pitch campaign to have her appear on carefully selected podcasts.

The results

A name, a face and a mission

In one year alone, we arranged for our client to judge two major awards – one a big name in business, and the other, a leading healthcare awards body. Not only did she join the panels, she was also asked to play a bigger roll by speaking at one of the events.

Following our podcast outreach, our client was invited to share her expertise on three podcasts, was interviewed for an international business publication, and was invited to write named author articles for a wide variety of publications, including in the world of healthcare and management. She has also appeared in regional as well as national consumer media titles.

Her rapidly growing personal and professional profile has provided her with a new richness of material to share across her owned channels, leading to a wider network with whom she is enjoying sharing her knowledge, learnings and overall mission.

What people say about us

“Working with Hollands Associates on Jos’s Story has been an absolute pleasure. They made what could have been a daunting task incredibly easy. They took the time to truly listen, to understand our mission, and to bring Jos’s Story to life in a way that is both powerful and deeply moving. If you’re looking for someone who can turn an idea into something truly special, Hollands Associates are the people to go to. We can’t thank them enough.”

Jos Hill - Sussex Cancer Fund

“We have been working with Hollands Associates for a few months and within that time they have managed to get us into national magazines, glossy magazines, podcasts and interviews with local and national newspapers! We are thrilled with the work they have done for us and would thoroughly reccomend working with them. We have had so many successes and that’s only in the first few months! Our monthly meeting with our account manager always leave us feeling excited and energised. We are really excited or what’s to come!”

Gemma and Stella - Two Faced Twins

“Hollands Associates are comms expert supremes. They are highly organised, efficient, proactive and committed to the cause they are focused on. They also have rich strategic comms oversight which they utilise so well, and are a team of highly talented writers. I would definitely recommend them for any communications project.”

Lucie Russell, CEO - Redthread

“I just wanted to say a big thank you for all the great work we’ve achieved together. You got me instantly; from the strategy document you produced after our first chat to the articles you’ve drafted on my behalf, I’ve barely had to make any edits because you grasped my tone of voice and key messages so quickly.”

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Natasha Morley - Sussex Youth Theatre

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Dr Shivani Sharma, Head of Psychology, Sport and Geography - University of Hertfordshire

“Hollands Associates are capable and proactive ‘do-ers’ as well as managers and can be fully trusted to get on with things without prompting. They have a great understanding of strategic comms, from what makes a successful news angle to how best to structure an analytical feature article, and how then to amplify media wins across multi-layered content to position us as experts in our fields. They are always punctual and prepared, always meet deadlines and… and are never without a smile.”

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