Mushroom Marketing & PR

17/11/2025

🎶 Lunchtime music in Bournemouth 🎶

If you’re working in central Bournemouth this Wednesday, why not take a break and join me for a live flute performance (with piano accompaniment)?

I’ll be playing a mix of Vivaldi, Massenet and more… and yes, I couldn’t resist sneaking in a festive Christmas tune to finish! ✨🎄

Come along, relax, and let music brighten your lunch hour!

Here are the details:
📍 St Peters Church, Hinton Road, BH1 2EE
⌚ Wednesday 19th November, 1.15-1.45

Hopefully see some of you there!

PS apologies for the terrible photo - it's the only recent one I could find of me playing the flute!

16/07/2025

🌍 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐏𝐑 𝐃𝐚𝐲!

Today we celebrate the power of storytelling, strategy, and connection. At Mushroom Marketing & PR, we believe that great PR isn’t just about visibility - it’s about impact.

From amplifying sustainable innovation to driving engagement for charities and B2B brands, we create campaigns that truly resonate. Whether you’re launching something new or reshaping your voice, our tailored PR solutions are here to support you.

📢 Ready to make headlines for all the right reasons? Let’s talk:

www.mushroommarketing.co.uk

18/11/2024

Thank you to the team at Patch (above Bobby's in Bournemouth Square)!

It was my first day trying out the new co-working facilities and you made me feel very welcome.

With a choice of two beautiful rooms to work from (and lots of tea from the well-equipped kitchens! 🫖 ), I was surprised at how much work I did!

It was also great to chat with other co-workers, too. The atmosphere is friendly and relaxed and I look forward to my next day working here. 😉

01/03/2024

Our Director, Emma's photo is featured in client Blackmore Ltd's printed desktop calendar for March!

(businesses can claim your free one here: https://bit.ly/2024BlackmoreCalendar )

🌳 The photo was taken at Shelley Park in Bournemouth.
It is situated right next to the tennis courts and Shelley Manor Medical Centre building, which was originally lived in by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein).

🎭 Sir Percy, who was “an enthusiast for theatre”, had a theatre built inside the building. The Shelleys and invited friends would rehearse plays and hold public performances for up to 300 people to raise funds for health facilities in Boscombe. Celebrated locals such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Henry Irving were regular guests. When the theatre was opened up again to the public in 2010, the first performance was Frankenstein - by candlelight. Sadly, the theatre hasn't opened up to the public again since the lockdown.

18/12/2023

☃️We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2024! ☃️

Thank you to all our customers, suppliers and friends for all your support throughout 2023.
We are looking forward to 2024 - we have some exciting projects lined up!

A few last marketing reminders from us for 2023:
❄️ have you updated your Google Business Profile festive opening times?
❄️ have you added a Google Business Profile post with your festive opening times?
❄️ have you set up a Christmas email footer with your festive opening times?
❄️ have you scheduled your 2024 new year posts?
❄️ have you finalised your 2024 marketing activities?

Our festive opening times (giving us some time to recharge our batteries so we can hit the ground running in 2024!):
🎄Open until midday 20th December
🎄Open from 2nd January

See you in 2024!
With festive wishes from Emma @ Mushroom Marketing & PR

17/10/2023

Thank you to our client, Blackmore Ltd, for inviting us as their guest to the superb Dorset Business Awards.

We are delighted to announce that Blackmore won the Environmental Impact award for their environmentally-friendly printing business - huge congratulations to them.

Having worked with them for a number of years, we know how deeply ethical and environmentally-aware they are, so we are thrilled that they came away from the awards with a 'win'.

Congratulations to everyone who attended the awards - you all made it a very special night!


Dorset Chamber

28/09/2023

It was great to meet up with some fellow PRs ( Zoe Hiljemark - PR & Marketing for Photographers and Liz from Brilliant Fish PR & Marketing ) at last night's event 'The Future of AI in PR', organised by CIPR Wessex at the impressive Bournemouth University Fusion Building.

Some thoughts I came away with:
💡 AI is the 'probabilistic sequence of predicting words', which means that every piece of content (and imagery) created by AI needs to be checked so that it is factually correct, ethical and appropriate (this was showcased by one of the speakers when he asked AI to write his LinkedIn bio: AI had fabricated a book that he had 'co-authored'!)

💡 Rather than using AI (such as ChatGPT) to create content, it can be better used at coming up with ideas, analysing data and completing some admin tasks

💡 AI can free up my time on admin tasks so that I can spend more time on strategic/ creative work

💡 I will consider including the wording 'this document has been written by a human and not by AI', as now the assumption is that some documents have been created using AI

In my experience, AI is useful for many things, although I have personally found that any content I created using AI didn't use the right tone of voice or nuance, and some of the wording didn't accurately represent what I was trying to say.

Therefore, until the AI model is more advanced, it is still a useful tool, although it certainly can't replace the experience and emotional intelligence of an individual - yet!



PS This post has been written by a human :)

13/09/2023

It's always a bonus to appear next to some tips from Deborah Meaden!

https://issuu.com/unstuck/docs/s_a_250823_web/18


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16/02/2023

Introducing Rehema, who is our new Marketing & PR Intern, joining us from the Communication and Media degree course at Bournemouth University.

We're visiting the super-busy Packaging Innovations event at the NEC today, meeting up with clients, and enjoying talks from packaging-related experts.

10/06/2022

At last, a sunny lunchtime! 'Lunchtime loops – get away from your desk at lunchtime for a quick blast in the best of the weather' 🚲