Today, Bex tells us a little more about her foray into the charity sector and why we should all indulge in a little hatha breathing in the morning.
Q. How did you get into public relations?
A. Like most people I kind of fell into it – I looked around for work experience in PR or marketing and got a two week placement at a friend of a friend’s new PR company, stayed for two years (in paid employment)…
Q. When do you move to four days per week and how will your role at Speed change?
A. Last week…! Nothing much will change apart from working on two less clients. I suspect Thursdays will be a little bit more stressful and I’ll be sad to miss out on the pod’s Spotify Friday fun
Q. You are going to do some volunteering. What are you planning?
A. Supporting local business by becoming an expert ‘Lady Wot Lunches’ in Ealing. But when I’m not doing that, I’ll be helping out at my local Macmillan office in Hammersmith in their fundraising team to support comms. First day is today so I’ll know more next week.
Q. Charities and NGOs operate some of the best single issue campaigns. Are there any that you particularly admire? Why?
A. Macmillan (I’m a fan, can you tell?) – their steady ongoing campaigning for free/cheaper hospital car parking with combined PR and lobbying at national and regional level has effected real change; which is always good to see
Q. Do you think that CSR is a genuine effort by companies to give something back to the community, or is it PR lipstick?
A. Well, to start off – don’t view it as PR lipstick! That kind of attitude will get you/the company no-where. Yes, I do believe a genuine effort can give something back to the community; it’s just getting the (white male middle aged) board to buy into it
Q. Is there a viable alternative to capitalism as an economic construct to support society?
A. Who’s saying we need an alternative? Show me an economic construct that truly works. But since you asked, there are two options: yoga, or a communist state led by Yogis. A little compulsory hatha breathing in the morning would work wonders for everyone’s PMA


















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