PR Works began life in 1996 and currently has offices in Devon and Wiltshire. From a general service PR consultancy the business has developed specialist arms in Health and Medical Research, Arts and Culture, Retail Development and Professional Services.
Andrew Gould
A graduate of the University of Southampton and the University of Southern Maine, US, Andrew is the founder of PR Works.
Andrew has played both poacher and gamekeeper. He trained at Charles Barker Public Relations in the mid-1980s before joining the Daily Mail as a staff writer, from which he went to GQ Magazine as a journalist.
He returned to PR by joining the press office at the Royal College of Nursing where he was involved in membership services, media relations and lobbying.
He left London to work as an educationalist for Save the Children Fund at High Island Vietnamese Detention Centre, and then returned home to the Westcountry where he worked for Northcliffe Newspapers re-working the commercial editorial aspects of the group’s newspapers.
He founded PR Works in 1996.
He is one of 25 Business Ambassadors for the city of Exeter and is the science representative on the city’s marketing committee. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, a member of the South West Public Relations Officers’ Group, a member of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Medical Public Relations Association, a graduate of Common Purpose, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the advancement of Arts, Science and Technology and Patron of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum.
Anne Curtis
Anne read English at London University, graduating with a 2/1 Honours degree in 1973. She then spent a year at Harvard University on a Kennedy Scholarship, learning many things, including how to run a radio station, reporting on the British General Election, and charting the sharpening of race relations issues on campus.
Returning to London in the middle of a Recession (1974), she got her first job in Public Relations working for the London Borough of Hounslow, who enabled her to begin her PR training. She achieved a Communications, Advertising and Marketing Education Foundation Certificate, and their Diploma in PR, winning the Edelman Prize.
She moved from public sector PR, where issues of value for money, planning, Womens’ Refuges and a new Civic Centre were top stories, to agency work with David Pilton Advertising, handling PR for a range of the agency’s clients including CBS records, Kwiz Darts and Dynatron Radio – blue chip accounts at the time.
After a break for marriage and a family, she returned to work, for herself, starting her own PR consultancy in Dorset. She ran it successfully for ten years, with clients in professional services, the Arts, manufacturing and food production, before being invited to join PR Works, heading up a new office in Taunton with clients in manufacturing, professional services, IT and the Arts. A move to Wiltshire means the Taunton office is now actually near Westbury, which places Anne conveniently at the mid point between Cardiff, Exeter and London, in all of which places she has clients. Over the years she has worked both paid and unpaid for a number of Arts Festivals and music organisations as a development and fundraising manager and marketing and PR consultant.
Anne is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and a Member of the Kennedy Scholars Association.
