We’ve really hit the ground running at Wildfire HQ in 2010, so we’re now looking for a fantastic senior account exec to join our growing team.
We want someone who’s oozing creative flair, has a great sense of humour and is eager to work with a driven, but friendly group of PRs who really know their stuff. You’ll also need a minimum of two years experience, with strong contacts in the IT and business press and a passion for digital and social media.
In return, we offer a very competitive salary plus a range of benefits and training opportunities.
If you’re up for joining one of the UK’s brightest and fastest growing young tech agencies, send us your CV or drop us a line or a tweet to find out more.
Earlier this month, the Wildfire Byte Night team (Debby, Dan and Danny) packed sleeping bags and longjohns to spend the night sleeping beneath the lights of Tower Bridge on London’s Potter Field.
It is the second year in a row that Wildfire has sent a team to the IT industry’s annual sleep-out in support of Action for Children, so this year – a year wiser – we came fully prepared for London’s crisp, autumn air.
We tried some different fundraising tactics this time around, including children’s facepainting and cupcake decorating at the Surbiton Festival – a bit of an adventure!
But as all the money we raised went to support vulnerable children, it was definitely worth it.
Our clients, friends and family stepped up again this year with donations and help in abundance. Along with the other Byte Night teams we contributed to an incredible £440,000 (to date) for Action for Children.
You might have read that Gordon Brown had a few problems with a television interview this week. So, always happy to help, we thought we’d show him how it should be done.
Cue a video from industry magazine PR Week featuring Wildfire’s very own MD, Debby Penton.
In a wide-ranging conversation, the debate covers how to market gadgets to women and the role of women in PR…
[If overt displays of self-promotion easily offend you then probably best to move on... but hey, we are PRs after all!]
Wildfire has been named as the 13th most active PR consultancy on social networking tool Twitter by top trade mag PR Week.
Whilst the numbers are actually not quite right (91 per cent of our team are actually regular Twitter users), and the authenticity of the study itself has been called into question, it is still nice to be named alongside (and above) some of the industry’s biggest names, including some of the so-called social media/digital ’specialists’.
Here at Wildfire we incorporate and weave ‘digital’ into everything we do for clients rather than operating in its own little world.
It’s important that all PRs are aware and knowledgable about new digital trends and Twitter certainly falls into this category.
We are excited about the potential Twitter offers for PR and marketing. So, if you aren’t following us already, please do:
As we posted previously, five members of the Wildfire team will take to the streets of London next Friday to sleep rough and raise money for Action for Children as part of the annual Byte Night event.
We have been busy bullying friends, family and clients to give generously and they have supported us in their droves. We’ve now passed the £2,000 mark which is fantastic!
A special thanks to Cowplain School in Hampshire who raised £27.46 for our cause at their weekly cake sale. And also to Louise, who will be braving it early on Sunday morning at a local car boot sale. Louise plans to live-Twitter her experiences so keep an eye out for that.
On Friday 3 October, five members of the Wildfire team (Debby, Sarah-Anne, Kate, Claire and Danny) will be sleeping rough in London (with quite a few other people in the PR/Media IT industry) in order to raise money for the NCH and help get homeless children off the streets as part of Byte Night.
We’ll be in the fortunate position of only having to do it for one night with plenty of warm clothes, hot drinks and brollies, but plenty of children sleep rough every night without such luxuries so we’d be really grateful for any support you can give.
Here are some shocking stats about children in care in case you need any further persuasion:
60,300 children were in care at 31st March 2006. These youngsters will have dramatically different life chances than other children and young people, as highlighted through the following statistics:
Children in care are three times more likely to be cautioned or convicted of an offence.
(Working with children, NCH, 2006 / 2007)
Children in care are four times more likely to have a mental health disorder.
(Handle with Care – an investigation into the care system, Centre for Young Policy Studies)
One in five homeless people are care leavers.
(Working with Children, NCH, 2006 / 2007)
Over 30 per cent of care leavers are not in education, training or employment at age 19 compared to 13 per cent of all young people.
(Dfes Care Matters green paper, October 2006)
Those leaving care at 17 or 18 were 50% more likely to be unemployed or out of school than those leaving care at 20 or 21.
(Dfes Care Matters green paper, October 2006)
More than a third of new cases of homelessness last year were young people aged under 25. Just under a quarter of people who became homeless over that period were forced to leave their last home because parents were no longer willing to accommodate them. https://www.odpm.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1002882&PressNoticeID=2364
There is a huge percentage of the UK’s youth who are vulnerable to homelessness, unemployment, loneliness and sexual exploitation. Their situation is often the result of leaving residential or foster care or leaving home early because of violence, abuse or family conflict.
We’ve really hit the ground running at Wildfire HQ in 2010, so we’re now looking for a fantastic senior account exec to join our growing team.
[If overt displays of self-promotion easily offend you then probably best to move on... but hey, we are PRs after all!]
