redheadPR and Sara Tye finalists at the Wiltshire Business Awards 2014
redheadPR and founder Sara Tye have been named as finalists for three awards at the upcoming Wiltshire Business Awards 2014. redheadPR are finalists for the Small Business of the Year Award, Sara is a finalist for the Business Person of the Year and Leadership and Social Influence Awards.
Sara Tye founded redheadPR over 10 years ago, she is also the chair for the women exclusive business club I AM WOMAN, patron for Christ Church in Swindon, a Virgin and Smarta mentor, helping support entrepreneurs, and director consultant at the global networking group BNI. redheadPR is a dynamic independent public relations consultancy, managing the reputations of start-ups, corporate, not for profits, individuals and products, whilst also being well-versed in cutting edge online PR and marketing techniques and tried and tested traditional methods.
Talking about the awards, Sara stated, “Awards like the Wiltshire Business Awards are a great opportunity to bring the excellent businesses in the community together, and highlight the great work coming out of this part of the country. From a personal and business perspective it is an honour to be finalists again, we are looking forward to the awards and we hope to do well in the categories that myself and the company have been made finalists for.”
The Wiltshire Business Awards are one of the most prestigious awards in the country, giving local Wiltshire businesses an opportunity to demonstrate their outstanding practices. Now in their 20thyear they are recognised as a platform that elevates outstanding organisations above the rest.
The winners of the awards will be announced on Friday 4 April 2014 at Centre Parcs in Longleat.
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Emma De Maio
Email: emma@redheadpr.co.uk
Call: 07921 160134
Sara Tye, Founder & Managing Director, redheadPR
Sara Tye, an award winning top 500 international PR, and Evening Standard Green PR of London, founded redheadPR in London. The vision was to create a company of passionate people who understood how to identify opportunities and deliver the best return on investment for ambitious brands, individuals and organisations.
Sara has worked with Green & Black’s, Frangi Tie Rack, Blue Dragon, Nokia (corporate and CSR), Belu Mineral Water, Centrepoint, Raleigh International, Cardiac Risk in the Young and crocus.co.uk. She has over 20 years of communications expertise and was a finalist in the first Cosmopolitan Women of the Year Awards in 1999. Sara played a key role in the implementation of BT’s environmental policy and the development and management of the philanthropic Best Practice process at Yellow Pages.
The Make Your Mark for a Tenner campaign, which Sara helped develop, was commended by the CIPR (Chartered Institute of Public Relations) as a sustainable PR programme. Sara was also responsible for the Impact on Society section of The European Foundation of Quality Management Model and Award, which Yellow Pages won in 1999.
Sara developed stakeholder relations at Thames Water Utilities, headed up communications at Yellow Pages and spent three years managing the personal PR at home and abroad of globally for The Body Shop founder, the late Dame Anita Roddick. Sara took The Body Shop online. Client experience includes British Heart Foundation, Black Tower, Latina, S&A Foods, WHSmith, CDNOW.com, sports.com, Yell UK Web Awards, Carlton Interactive, and Sony.
Sara has experience of all forms of media, on and offline, and has worked with most global outlets, from The Philippines Inquirer, 60 Minutes Australia and the Financial Times to Pamela Wallin live in Canada.
Prior to founding redheadPR, Sara built two PR agencies, running international brands such as Packard Bell and Nokia with 360 degree stakeholder communication plans and online and social networking strategies. She has judged both the PRCA Awards and PR Week Awards and was a member of the PRCA Members and Marketing Committee.
Sara is also experienced in crisis situations, having run the Ken Saro-Wiwa campaign against Shell while at The Body Shop. This involved working with some of the most senior global figures in politics, industry and journalism, from Glenys Kinnock’s office in Strasbourg.
As well as studying management for six years, Sara has also started up a Mexican restaurant, helped run a residential home for the elderly and hotel in St Ives, Cornwall.
