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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
02 September 2010
We are having a second open day for 2010 on Saturday September 18th 11am-4pm here in the Scottish Borders. There is no charge for entry, but we welcome donations. These are in aid, once again, of Friends of African Nursing. We provide some lunch without charge and invite visitors to bring food to share. We [...]
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06 August 2010
In this discussion with the Institute of Economic Affairs, Editorial Director Phillip Boothe discusses the need for a Scottish Stock Exchange. "Phillip Boothe IEA on BBC Scotland Live August 4th 2010" .
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23 July 2010
A review of my book can be read here: There are lots of books about permaculture, and many have a slant on gardening, but one that I have found particularly useful recently is The Permaculture Garden, by Graham Bell.
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22 June 2010
No surer sign of summer than our new call ducks producing their first ducklings. This fine lady has just hatched nine. These are “Call Ducks” and are quite cute, some call them the bath toy duck. They are small, cute and very energetic ducks and here at Garden Cottage as well as the new arrivals, we have [...]
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19 May 2010
Beltane is the tradition of celebrating the warming of the weather and the pastoral summer when herds were put out to summer pasture. A Beltane festival occurs on April the 30th on Carlton Hill in Edinburgh, but this is to keep it in line with the more modern May Day. In the past the Celtic [...]
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29 April 2010
In this continuing inquiry, the Finance committee discuss Scotlands Government Budget Strategy: Garry Clark (Scottish Chamber of Commerce Head of Policy) says that a fundamental re-assessment of public services would be required to address the "unprecedented" financial crisis.
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22 April 2010
Hear this interview by Sarah Paterson with Ron Hewitt - Chief Executive of Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce: "Discussing the Labour Manifesto".
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06 April 2010
The event took the form of the popular television series, Dragons Den, in which five key stakeholders in Scottish transportation presented their proposals to the Dragons.
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09 March 2010
The old Carmichael’s has undergone a major refurbishment and customers are now greeted with a bright and pleasant local shop. Local shop owner Wasim and his family have invested time and money to ensure the people of Coldstream continue to receive value for money and have a local shop with better facilities. Carmichael’s closed it’s doors on [...]
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21 February 2010
Forth Radio Edinburgh Graham Bell 4th February 2010 Graham Bell talks to Radio forth about the positive aspects of the Royal High School, hotel development: “Talking about the Royal High School Edinburgh“. Go get Adobe Flash Player! var so = new SWFObject( "http://grahambell.org/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/nazdrave-mp3/mp3player.swf", "nazdravemp3_player", "300", "20", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addVariable("file", "http://gba.mediamice.net/Radio/GBA_RHSEfeb10.mp3"); so.write("nazdravemp3_1"); (Press Play to hear the Radio interview) In this interview Grahm Bell talks to Liz Gorrie about Edinburgh [...]
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