The Taylor Bennett Foundation’s work is only possible because of the support of numerous companies and individuals working in the PR, communication and media sectors, and beyond.

There are a number of ways employers can support the Foundation – including hosting a visit for the Foundation’s candidate network.

Hosts welcome candidates from one or more of our programmes to their offices. This provides our candidates with the opportunity to meet, talk to and learn from PR professionals.

Some hosts run formal training sessions or set our candidates practical tasks, while others provide a more informal introduction to their work. The aim is to show our candidates every aspect of the PR and communications industry, across as many different sectors and disciplines as possible.

Our masterclasses run from January to December. This year we will be looking for masterclass hosts to support the following programmes (virtually or in person*).

- PR Training programmes
- PR Mentoring programme
- Summer Stars bootcamp
- Virtual Insight Programme

*Subject to government guidelines and when it is safe to do so, we will return to in-person masterclasses.

I can’t recommend hosting a masterclass for the Taylor Bennett Foundation trainees highly enough. Everybody gets so much out of it. Watch out for future PR pros! The British Business Bank’s communications team has already signed up to run another Masterclass in Summer 2020.

Mary Whenman, Corporate Affairs & Communications Director, British Business Bank

2019 hosts: 

Allen & Overy, Battenhall, British Business Bank, Bupa, Cabinet Office, CIPR, City Press, Drax, Dynamo PR, Edelman, Experian, Four Communications, freuds, FT, Golin, Google, Grayling, Hackney Council, Harvard, Hello Launch, Hope & Glory, Hotwire, Instinctif Partners, Interel Group, Iris Worldwide, Imperial War Museum (IWM), Just Eat, Ketchum, Lexington Communications , LinkedIn, Meantime Communications, Mischief, MOO, Newington Communications, NHS (Islington CCG, Ofwat, Portland, PRCA, Ready 10 , Riot Communications, TfL, The Academy PR, Tulchan and WANO

2020 hosts:

Amanda Coleman, APCO, Andrew Escherman, Authentic Communications, Barclays Bank, Battenhall, B The Communications, Brands 2 Life, British Business Bank, City Press, Comms Rebel, Common Industry, Chameleon, Crest Advisory, DH-PR, Deepmind, Elisabeth Ukanah, England and Wales Cricket Board, ERM, Femi Bola, Finance Talking, Freuds, Grayling, Hackney Council, Harriet Small, Hotwire, Hybrid Air Vehicles, Imperial War Museum, Instinctif Partners, John Lehal, Kekst CNC, Ketchum, Man Group, Martin Friel, Milltown Partners, Mischief PR, Mongoose Agency, Net-A-Porter, Netflix, Newington Communications, OFWAT, OMERS, PHA Group, PrettyGreen, RedLion PR, Riot Communications, Shell, Shook Communications, Strawberry London, The Guardian, The Playbook and Working World

Employers and in-house communications teams, to register your interest in hosting a visit for the Taylor Bennett Foundation, please complete our short form here.