Journalist. Communicator. Speaker. Author. Entrepreneur.
Motivated by a desire to address pressing social challenges through effective communications, Becky founded Slack Communications in March 2013.
Becky offers a rare combination of skills including strategic communications, PR, editorial, public affairs, fundraising and events management gained over a 26-year career in media and communications. She has expertise in the fields of politics, human rights, poverty and inequality, education, health and social care, housing, equality and diversity, and charity and business management.
As founding managing director of Slack Communications, she has written and delivered countless multi- and single-channel comms strategies for charities and mission-led organisations – regionally, nationally and internationally. She loves storytelling, particularly stories of the transformational change that charities and good causes have achieved for the world.
Becky also has 19 years’ experience as a journalist, having edited and written for news and consumer affairs titles, such as the Guardian, New Statesman and Independent, charity and business specialist media, and women’s lifestyle titles. She is author of Effective Media Relations for Charities: What Journalists Want and How to Deliver it and regularly trains charities and businesses in how to work with the media.
An experienced event curator and chair, Becky has worked on political events in Westminster, at the political party conferences and for large charity conferences. She has just completed a Masters in Political Strategy and Communications where she focused on communicating radical social welfare reform, growing social justice movements and tackling racial and gender prejudice in politics.
Becky is based in Belgium where she’s enjoying hanging out in the EU quarter, eating waffles and enjoying the local architecture.
What can Becky do for you?
- Conduct a communications audit
- Design and implement communications strategies
- Create and deliver PR and media outreach strategies
- Write and edit speeches, presentations, special supplements, guides, articles and report
- Organise conferences, receptions and parties
- Train people in the art of storytelling and other communications skills
- Chair panel discussions, debates and other events
Find out how you can hire Becky here.
