Our clients
In the past year we have worked with clients from the sport and leisure sector and beyond; from a government department to a local club.
SEESEL
The South East Education Skills and Learning Group for London 2012 had commissioned a toolkit for organisations on community learning with a focus on the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The twelve sections of the toolkit had to be edited for consistency and style, dropped into a bespoke design and then printed. We took the raw text through to publication and the toolkit is now being used by small companies and community agencies throughout the region.
England Squash & Racketball
England, Scotland and Wales deliver a common Level 3 squash coaching qualification but in March 2008 the candidate pack was anything but coherent. Each section was written by a different individual and the overall impression was of unnecessary complexity. With Mick Owen qualified to coach at Level 3 in two different sports, TLR Comms was a natural choice to edit the text. We then won the job of redesigning the resource and creating what Gayle Kerrison, England Squash & Racketball’s coaching development manager, called, “ A really useful tool for coaches.” In 2009 Gayle asked us to weave our magic again, this time over the governing body’s re-branded Development and Top Player Awards.
QFI
QFI Consulting has been working with companies and organisations across the globe using the theory of constraints and the principle of inherent simplicity to help managers develop robust and sustainable processes that enable organisations to achieve breakthroughs in performance. QFI needed a series of case studies to illustrate their work in their marketing material and website; Jonathan Ives has worked with them over three years to document their progress.
IDeA
The government’s Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) works for local government improvement so that councils can better serve people and places. Their website features a knowledge bank consisting of case studies on good practice, a lot of which we wrote.
High Peak School & Sport Partnership
Recently appointed partnership development manager Dawn Richardson wanted to raise the profile of her partnership in the local community and get better coverage for the fantastic work being done by the 52 schools that she works with. We helped Dawn develop a relationship with each of her local newspapers and then collected stories from individual schools and delivered them on time, properly packaged and to the right media contact.
CLOA
The Chief Cultural and Leisure Officers Association wanted to develop a series of ‘intelligence papers’ for their members and others in the sector. We gather the intelligence, draft the papers and CLOA distributes them under their own imprimatur.
Glossop Rugby Club
This small community rugby club needed support and advice on developing its profile externally and its communications internally. We helped their own webmaster populate a new site, designed the website banner along the way and helped the volunteer in charge of publicity design a communication plan that gets both ‘rugby’ and ‘community’ stories into the local papers.
Lead Media
This thrusting young publication and design company needed an editorial team for their recently acquired magazine title, Vehicle Recovery Link, a 52 page bi-monthly glossy for professionals who work in the vehicle recovery and movement industry. From a standing start, and with a great deal of humility and hard work, the TLR Comms team built a contact book, a reputation and an intimate knowledge of payloads and statutory charges. In one year we helped Lead Media make VRL the pre-eminent title in that marketplace.
Partnerships
As modern folk we are always willing to consider interesting and even exciting partnerships. In the last three years we have worked with these people:
The Leisure Review
Actually we are these people. The Leisure Review is a fiercely independent magazine for people who work and volunteer in the sport, leisure and culture industry. Published monthly, the title is deliberately redolent of earlier, less busy times; we only update it monthly and our letters page is anachronistically just that – it is not a blog and it is not interactive. Despite the fact that – or perhaps because – we embrace a less frenetic approach to our journalism, we have carried interviews with industry leaders from across the widest spectrum of the sector and are the forum of choice for many.
McCrudden Training
Nicola McCrudden had written a book on volunteering but her publishing partners reneged on their deal. We offered to sub-edit and design it for her and she published A Handbook for Volunteer Managers in an electronic format just in time for her own conference last November.
Scottish Sports Development Conference
As The Leisure Review we have been the communications partner for the Scottish Sports Development Conference since 2007 and carry their pre- and post-publicity, as well as advise where we can on all things communication. This year our own Stephen Gray designed their new logo and carried it through into the design of their conference brochures.
