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Prova has a winning night out
The theme of the evening was ‘circus’ and we were greeted by a mime artist (who took quite a shine to Emma!), a juggler and an expert hoola hooper. After a couple of drinks, everyone took their seats. The tables were adorned with all sorts of goodies – fake moustaches, red noses and joke glasses to keep in the circus spirit. Unfortunately our table didn’t win the free champagne on offer but it didn’t dampen the fantastic atmosphere.
It was a great night – not only did me and Emma manage to stay on our heels all evening, Prova won two awards! We scooped gold in the Corporate and Business Communications category and silver for the Best Use of Photography or Design. StJohn had to dash off for a romantic (and slightly flooded) weekend in
If you want to see photos of us grinning and looking very lovely, just search Prova PR on Facebook.
Ellie
Press road trip
Three journalists, one client and two PRs went on a road trip last week. Well, we went on a plane too, all to see an industrial scale anaerobic digestion plant deep in eastern
With Marks and Spencer’s biscuits, haribo and glacier fruits to fuel us and our 9 seater ‘fun’ bus, we travelled through rural
We were treated to a very informative tour around the site, which recycles around 50,000 tonnes of food waste each year and saw how food is received, processed, pasturised and digested. We were even able to climb up the 300m digesters to see the process in action, which was very interesting. But coming down the external mesh stairs in the dark and in high heels was slightly unnerving to say the least.
All in all, it was a very informative trip, which although required a lot of planning and a lot of travelling really helped bring our discussions on anaerobic digestion to life for the media.
Becca
Prova get a mind make-over
Being the creative sort we are, Prova has launched a series of monthly ‘Chill Out’ sessions, where guest speakers are asked to come along to This month saw Angi Egan, public speaker and retail consultant, talk to the Prova folks about her experiences at The Body Shop, IKEA and her ethos on romancing the customer. Her lively discussion really struck a chord with us. We knew Angi initially through her training and coaching skills, helping clients with their presentations at seminars and events. However, her insights and inspiration in terms of customer relations is something that other businesses can really learn from. We’re already talking about introducing some of the ideas raised at our first ‘Chill Out’ into our business. For future events, Prova is planning to invite guest speakers from all sorts of different areas including the media, industry and Government. It’s all too easy to continue doing things in the same way – and these sessions are really designed to help us look at issues in a new way. Angi has certainly helped us to do that! St John
One rally down, one rally to go
October 22 -25 saw some of the Prova team head to
Zoe and Flick were based in Rally HQ, in the Millennium Centre handling any media enquiries that arose throughout the four day event. Meanwhile, David, Hugh and Keith formed the information team that had the brilliant task of driving into the Welsh forests and interviewing drivers at the end of stages. Although definitely one of the more challenging tasks (try standing in the middle of a forest, in the rain, trying to pry open an angry driver’s door to get a comment) the guys did a brilliant job, with the motorsport media praising it as some the best end-of-stage commentary from the entire world rally championship.
David even ended up helping Jari-Matti Latvala fix his car at the end of one of the stages, but now he’s back after recovering for a week following the rally, I’ll let him tell you all about it…
