PR firm gets HS2 college launch

MANCHESTER-based PR and creative agency Social Communications has been appointed to deliver a multi-media campaign for the National College for High Speed Rail launch.

The college is one of five new employer-led colleges being established in the UK to help students develop world class skills in manufacturing, wind energy and the digital and creative industries.

The NCHSR will deliver the engineers, managers, designers and manufacturers needed to work on the HS2, Europe’s largest infrastructure project along with other advances of High Speed Rail.

The college is currently developing two world-class training facilities in Birmingham and Doncaster and is set to open in September 2017.

Managing director at Social Communications, John Quinton-Barber, said: “As a business we are focused on helping organisations to achieve their aims by delivering high-quality communications across all platforms.

“Working on accounts like these is exactly why we set up Social Communications three years ago and demonstrates our ability to deliver results for schemes of national significance.”

Ben Ruse, managing director (London), said: “This is a really exciting opportunity. With the pipeline of infrastructure, construction and development projects in London and the South East it’s a great time to be back and be part of an agency with such huge potential.”

The appointment is the second high-profile contract Social Communications has won in the education sector in the last three months, after being appointed by the Altius Trust to promote the new Manchester Enterprise Academy.

It will also be the first nationally significant infrastructure project the firm has supported in its aim to expand into the transport and infrastructure sectors.

The PR and creative agency recently opened a new office in London’s King Cross.