PR & COMMUNICATIONS TRAINING PROGRAMME

The Taylor Bennett Foundation PR & Communications Training Programme is a ten week full-time training course in Public Relations (PR) and communications, designed to equip participants with relevant skills to work in the PR and corporate communications industry.

This training programme is designed to directly address the need for greater ethnic diversity in the communications & PR industry and is open to graduates only. 

The programme combines practical workshops with regular writing and presenting tasks, to provide extensive industry insight and allow the development of specific skills. English tuition is also provided to boost participants writing skills. Tasks on the programme include:

• Strategic Communications Workshops, including an introduction to Financial Communications, transactions (IPO and M&A), Investor & Media Relations, Public Affairs and Crisis Communications
• Presenting - presenting campaigns and research topics to a variety of audiences.
• Writing tasks - Conducting daily newspaper summaries of the broadsheets, mid-market tabloids and the red tops. Writing regular press releases and maintaining a blog which looks at prominent issues and case-studies within the industry.
• Visits: Weekly visits take place with a variety of agencies and in-house communication’s teams.
• Training courses via the CIPR and PRCA

PR TRAINING PROGRAMME SPONSORS

Each of our training programmes has a sponsor.

Sponsors play a vital role in enabling the work of the Foundation and in ensuring we are able to fulfil our key objective of providing trainees with an allowance to cover living and travel costs while they take part.

Our current programme partners are: Brunswick, Finsbury,  FTI Consulting and HSBC.

What does becoming a sponsor involve?

Sponsors are actively involved in the programmes they sponsor. The precise role varies according to the partner’s wishes, but usually includes: input on the design and delivery of the actual course; participation in the trainee selection process at the assessment day, and delivering sessions to and setting assignments for the trainees.

To discuss supporting the Foundation, please contact our Chief Executive Melissa Lawrence - [email protected]

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Highlights from our spring PR Training programme, sponsored by HSBC