Unsworth Sugden Group

It’s not just about writing press releases in the Unsworth Sugden PR office, as Hannah and Tom found when they went to visit client Barratt Mercia’s new Discovery House at the Bluebell development in Nuneaton last week. They took classes from two local primary schools on a tour of the property, with activities and quizzes throughout the day. The children were also treated to a fun but informative talk by presenter Hannah Patterson which they all loved.

The Unsworth Sugden PR team has secured excellent back-to-back coverage for clients in consecutive issues of The Times property supplement ‘Bricks & Mortar’.

Last Friday (28th Jan) saw very strong coverage for the launch of client David Wilson East Midlands’ new “dash five” range of family homes which combine traditional period styles and modern technologies. The team arranged for a Times journalist to visit the client’s development at Papplewick Green, just north of Nottingham, where she was given a guided tour and interviewed a happy buyer, sales director Philip Lacey and managing director John Reddington.

Then today’s ‘Bricks & Mortar’ supplement features excellent coverage of the journalist’s visit to client Barratt Mercia’s extensive regeneration project in Camp Hill, Nuneaton, which aims to create 813 new homes over the next 12 years. The piece features extensive quotes from Andrew Dauncey, project manager at Barratt, and local resident Ann Corbett. You can learn more about the development, named Bluebell by visiting www.bluebellnuneaton.co.uk - a website created and designed by our web division, US Digital.

Well done to Bethan, Tom and in particular Hannah for all their hard work with this!!

Click HERE to go to The Times website, however you will have to pay the newspaper’s ‘delightful’ £1 subscription to gain access to the supplement.

Clients Barratt Mercia and Barratt Northampton picked up three awards between them in this year’s prestigious What House? competition.

Barratt Mercia was awarded a silver prize in the Best Partnership category for it’s Bluebell project in Camp Hill, Nuneaton, whilst Barratt Northampton scooped gold for its Vizion development in Milton Keynes for Best Landcape and a silver for its NU@D2 development in Northampton for Best Sustainable Development.

Barratt’s regional managing director, Richard Brooke attended the glittering ceremony at London’s Gosvenor House Hotel, hosted by Jimmy Carr, to collect the prizes.

The PR Team managed client Barratt Mercia’s official launch at its Bluebell development in Nuneaton recently.  Events were captured on film… watch this successful event for yourself HERE.

On Friday 18th June client Barratt Mercia’s landmark regneration scheme, Bluebell in Nuneaton, was officially unveiled by the Worshipful the Mayor of Nuneaton and Bedworth, Cllr Don Navarro.  We were there to organise, record and promote proceedings.

Welcoming Mr Mayor and Madam Mayoress

Client Barratt Mercia has begun work at Bluebell today, a major regeneration project in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.  Some 800 new homes will be built over the next 10 to 12 years and BBC Coventry and Warwickshire were there to record events.

BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire 23.11.09