Yellow Bird Marketing and Communications

“Funds and help can both in short supply for our sector, especially when there is an unconscious bias associated with our clientele. To this extent, it really is true that good help is hard to find.

Since engaging with Rebecca Erskine, it’s been a pleasure to recommend her and her services to almost all I network with. Rebecca is sympathetic to our needs, respectful of budget, and creative with her solutions. Her diligence, forward thinking and care have lent themselves well to our marketing, comms, fundraising and business planning. Whilst I have found Rebecca to be all these things, she does not dominate or force, yet she is reassuringly knowledgeable in all areas and has become a valued adviser on multiple aspects of our business.”

“As a very specialist charity, we knew we needed an approach to marketing and communications activity that would be tailor-made, and delivered by someone who really understood what we were trying to achieve and who we were trying to reach.

Rebecca quickly got under the skin of our charity, and produced a brand recommendations report and marketing strategy that gave us clear and actionable activities.

Having a structured approach to our marketing and communications means focusing on, and investing in, those activities where we are likely to see the best return.

I would highly recommend Rebecca to other charities who don’t have the budget for a full-time marketer but who need someone with fresh ideas and perspective, and who can turn ambitions into action.”

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"We recruited Rebecca to review, progress and further develop the copy for a new scheme - The UpScaler Project - launched earlier in 2019 for businesses that are looking to upscale. The copy and the creative work needed to comply with ERDF guidelines and the style already developed for the project. Rebecca was reliable, and persistent about getting the right level of information to inform and guide the copy. She took a great deal of attention in ensuring the copy was right, and made several recommendations along the way. It was a pleasure to work with her and hope we can do so again in the future."

"I first met Rebecca through an online business support group and having seen her week in, week out throughout the pandemic I can say that she is an all round brilliant person full of wisdom, kindness and compassion. If you're looking for a truly lovely & trustworthy person to work with, then she is definitely the lady for you to reach out to. Rebecca shared countless gems of professional advice with all of us small business owners in the group. She also spent time talking to me, getting to know my business, and then was able to write me a fantastic profile that captured the spirit of my own business in a way that nobody else has done. Thank you Rebecca, for all that you do (and have done) for myself and so many others. Wishing you every success and happiness."

"We were looking for an agency to support us in reaching new employers and we were referred to Yellow Bird by East Midlands Chamber. Rebecca’s skills, expertise and insight have been exactly what we needed.

Rebecca worked with the management and sales teams to develop a Comms and PR Strategy and supported us through the implementation every step of the way.

Rebecca has become an extension of our team, integrating brilliantly within the organisation and her thorough ‘completer-finisher’ approach means that she looks after the whole process from beginning to end including liaising with staff, customers and media on our behalf.

I would highly recommend Rebecca to businesses both small and large as someone who listens, brings great ideas to the table and most importantly, turns the vision and ideas into reality."

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"SENDS is a community interest company based in the East Midlands and designed to help parents of children with additional learning needs. We support children with communication and interaction, cognition and learning, social, emotional and mental health and sensory and/or physical needs in their familiar surroundings of either home or school.

With school and local authority budgets under so much pressure, our greatest challenge is sourcing funding and garnering support. Of course we're passionate about our work and know what we want to achieve but we don't have the time to work on how we communicate that to potential sponsors.

Rebecca has supported us with a number of communication projects such as writing articles and acting as a critical friend on a large funding application, and has really taken the time to get to know our business. Her input has helped us to ensure that we always write with our audience in mind and with a clear focus on the particular call to action we want that audience to undertake."

“Rebecca is a talented operator with fabulous general management, marketing, client engagement and content-generation skills. In the years she worked for me, she was ever-reliable in coordinating resource to ensure goals were met. Her output - whether working in the private, public or charitable sectors - has always, without question, been of the highest calibre.”

“Rebecca and I have collaborated on projects where I have led on website design and development and Rebecca on content.

It’s often the case when I’m building a website that the client does not have the skills or time themselves to produce the content and that can lead to delays in project sign-off. Rebecca can reliably fill this gap and is always available to field any urgent questions.

She always delivers on time and that’s a great reassurance when I’m working to tight deadlines.”

“Rebecca and I delivered a number of campaigns together including web development, e-campaigns and events to achieve growth of software subscriptions in the public, academic and voluntary sectors in the UK and mainland Europe. She has a very approachable and honest style which made it easy to work with her to achieve joint outcomes.”