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What is Graham Bell Associates?
A network of committed, lively and very different individuals who work from a range of skill sets, interests and personal perspectives to help our clients achieve their organisational goals.
Our key strengths are Press and Policy. These short words cover a wide range of aptitudes:
Press
- » First and foremost we are advocates for our clients. We tell your story to the best of our ability. You can check out our coverage achieved on the internet here with our news feeds. Over two and a half thousand pieces of coverage achieved over the last couple of years.
- » We draft articles for thought leaders that appear in local, national and international media.
- » We draft speeches for keynote addresses.
- » We also arrange broadcast media.
- » Our team can train your internal staff in how to deal with generating media coverage and managing press relations to strengthen your internal capability.
- » We manage extensive databanks of media contacts generally and tailored to purpose.
- » We can help develop strategies.
- » Often we are engaged to speak on behalf of key active clients and supplement their own frontline team.
Policy:
Please note we are non-party political and try to maintain good relations with all political parties.
Our main focus is Scotland and Northern England, but we also operate at a UK and European wide level and have worked in the following countries:
Austria, Denmark, France, Gambia, Germany, Guinea, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Palestine, Senegal, South Korea, United States.
Many of our team have published books, and all have published specialist papers. Our network is extensive. If you have an issue or a question that needs resolved and you don´t have the answer we either will have it or know where to find it.
Our team skills include:
Business Planning, Copy Writing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics, ICT, Marketing, Mentoring, Political Policy, Public Relations, Public Speaking, Research, Sales, Training, VisioningSectorally we are experienced in:
Agriculture, Construction, Energy, Horticulture, Organics, Renewables, Rural Economy, Social Enterprise, Tourism, Transport, Water IndustryOur portfolio includes:
We are also committed as part of our own corporate social responsibility to supporting worthy causes. Some we do for free (Business Mentoring, The Prince´s Scottish Youth Business Trust) within our business programme. Others we make financial contributions to- currently RNLI, and a selection of charities working with the homeless (Salvation Army, Crisis, Cyrenians).
There is a separate link from this home page to our work in PERMACULTURE- helping others to develop sustainable communities and lifestyles. We charge for some of our work in this area, but also frequently give talks and open sessions at no cost to help others adopt this path.
Can we help you?
For an initial free discussion contact us via this site.
LINKS TO RECENT BLOGS
30 June 2011
With the cost of cancelling the Edinburgh Tram project being raised today Graham Bell talks to Radio Scotland regarding the decisions to be made. In this interview Graham Bell speaking on behalf of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce talks about the reasons why the tram project should remain on track and be completed.
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20 May 2011
Call Kaye Edinburgh Tram Debate 19th May 2011 One of the roles we perform as a company is advocacy- we tell your story for you. In this interview Graham Bell tackles the challenge of answering the case for finishing Edinburgh’s tram- speaking on behalf of Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce- and turns the debate right around. Listen to the [...]
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11 May 2011
Steve Le Fevre Green Investment Banking 10th May 2011 Join in and stand on your corner in support of Edinburgh and it’s legitimate claim as a centre for Green Investment Banking. In this radio debate Ron Hewitt, Chief Executive of Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce puts forward the case for Edinburgh business on BBC Radio Bristol,challenged by Paul Ranger [...]
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19 April 2011
Join the debate and listen to the questions posed by Coldstream Residents at the Coldstream Community Centre. In this debate we here the answers to questions we are all asking.
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01 April 2011
Since the start of 2011 we have been involved with a co-operative effort by Business Interests to secure the new Green Investment Bank for Edinburgh. There seems to be a default position at the Treasury that this should be just one more addition to the pantheon of services centred in London. We have been arguing [...]
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01 April 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011. A compelling case for the UK’s first Green Investment Bank to be located in Edinburgh was presented to Coalition Ministers today. A delegation from the Edinburgh Green Investment Bank Group briefed MPs in the House of Commons before presenting the business case for locating the UK Green Investment Bank in Edinburgh to Michael [...]
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01 April 2011
The recent visit of Edinburgh Zoo to China to meet with the two giant Pandas, breeding pair Tian Tian and Yangguang has come up with a significant discovery. Pandas understand Gaelic. Iain Valentine, Edinburgh Zoo’s director of animals, conservation and education, said “Our team on the ground had spent some hours using English to communicate with our [...]
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27 January 2011
Good Morning Scotland Reasons to be Cheerful 25th January 2011 Thinking about how important it was for us to generate our own feelgood factor- I decided we needed to share our Reasons to be Cheerful and let’s see if we can’t (as the Megane advert says) make a City happy. And see how far we can spread [...]
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10 November 2010
The Graham Bell Associates team is comprised of a range of people, hand-picked for their specific skill areas to build on and complement each other’s expertise. Working from their own offices around the Borders and central belt, they liaise mainly through email and phone; unless occasion calls for a face-to-face. This keeps our overheads to [...]
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08 November 2010
You could almost say it's the Arts that make us human. Music, drama, poetry, literature, dance, sculpture, drawing, painting, performance... these may be obvious categories of creativity. Yet our society is full of other expressions which make our environment what it is: product design, graphic design, landscaping, architecture - to name but a few.
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