Keystone Marketing

18/12/2025

Spotted this? ⬇️

Is your business completely dependent on your time and presence?

Are you juggling too many balls in your business and life? Feeling overwhelmed?

If this sounds familiar, don’t miss our BIPC Women in Business session this January!

Our first expert speaker Hayley Williams, Founder of Keystone Marketing, will share how your story, personality and values are your most powerful marketing tools; understand how you can develop the confidence to connect and communicate from a place of purpose, not pressure.

Our second business expert Claire Harris, Founder, Promote Mental Health, will share business insights, and practical tips to help you find balance, and how to build those important personal strategies for your self-care.

Expect great conversations, networking opportunities, and plenty of takeaways to put into action.

Whether you’re just starting out or already established, this event is for YOU.

Book your place today!
Apply here: https://e8j6.short.gy/aJshMp

We can’t wait to see you there!

16/12/2024

Last week, we tackled The Escape House - St Neots as a bit of end-of-year fun - a 90-minute fully immersive escape room experience newly opened in St Neots.

Don't worry; this isn't a post about what an escape room taught us about marketing, but teamwork and collocation were undoubtedly on show in spades!

We absolutely loved having a go...and got out in the nick of time. It was also fabulous to learn more about the two professional film stuntmen who have brought the concept to our town.

Interested in the start-up story?
Read more at www.huntspost.co.uk/news/24546925.escape-house-open-st-neots-august-31/

Tempted to book a session?
Head to www.theescapehouse.co.uk

25/10/2024

You might have noticed it's been a while since we've posted here. We're not very active on this platform, but our latest insights and updates are always available elsewhere ⬇️

⭐FOLLOW US ON LINKEDIN:
A regular behind-the-scenes look at what we're up to
https://www.linkedin.com/company/keystonestneots/

⭐VISIT OUR WEBSITE:
The place to be inspired by our featured case studies and more
http://keystone-marketing.co.uk

02/07/2024

Take a look at all the local community initiatives featured at the St Neots Festival this weekend, thanks to our zone sponsorship. 👇👇👇

As the official sponsor of the Community Zone, Keystone St Neots is enabling these exceptional groups and initiatives connect with potential new audiences and increase their reach and engagement - for free.

Our partnership with this year's St Neots Festival really is the perfect match - with the positive impact the organisers are striving to achieve mirroring our deep business ethos.

Come along to the Community Zone to meet local people making a difference to others and to our planet – and, whilst you are there enjoy music, singing, creative activities, and so much more. Discover more on the St Neots Festival website: https://lnkd.in/eiH2s_ch

13/02/2024

We're hiring!

🚀Digital Engagement Executive - 12-week fixed-term contract supporting the delivery of key projects from April - June.

Offered at 12 hours a week, the role could be the perfect bolt-on for a social media freelancer with a bit of spare capacity, or a digital comms guru who's looking for a part-time job around other commitments.

We'd love someone to join us at Keystone HQ in St Neots, but remote working is an option too.

Know someone brilliant? Tag them here and they can then access the job description. We can't wait to find an incredible digital marketer to join the team.💥

Applications close on Sunday 25th February with virtual interviews taking place in early March.

APPLY: http://tinyurl.com/digitalmarkexec

26/01/2024

Who will get a YES? Cambridgeshire public asked to help choose the line-up of a popular arts programme.

Six years ago, The Library Presents - an affordable arts programme - launched in Cambridgeshire libraries thanks to £570,826 of funding and support from Arts Council England. Since then over 30,000 have enjoyed over 900+ hours of entertainment.

One of the unique features of the programme is that the public helps to choose who they would like to see on the line-up. 40 performers have been included on the Spring shortlist. It's now up to the great Cambridgeshire public to pick their favourites!

Choose from live music and theatre, puppetry and circus performances, dance and storytelling. There is something for all tastes and all ages.

Make your selection by Friday 9 February either online or at participating libraries (including St Neots!).

✅ Who would you choose?

👉 https://www.library.live/the-library-presents

Keystone has worked with the team at Cambridgeshire County Council on comms support for this programme since 2023.

20/12/2023

Is storytelling one of your marketing tools?

Here's a quick example of how and why it works...

Three years ago the Environment Agency approached us with a desire to create a more interesting and colourful version of their Annual Fisheries Report – a data-heavy report detailing the impact of income raised from fishing licence sales.

Every story needs a hook* and with fishing licence holders designated as our primary audience, we knew we had to reel* them in with stories that would resonate with their love of fishing.

For example, for anglers, more fish in the water = greater odds of making a catch. So we highlighted how they, as licence-holders, had helped restock over 455,000 fish into rivers and stillwaters in 2022-23.

The art of storytelling is as old as time. Simply spend a little time figuring out who your main audience is and what will make them sit up and listen and away you go!

It’s been a pleasure working with the Environment Agency alongside SladeDesign to create this report - thank you for the oppor-tuna-ty*.



🐟*all puns are fully intentional and without apology!

Our annual fisheries report for 2022/2023 is now out!

Between 1 April 2022 and 31 March 2023, we sold over 900,000 fishing licences to anglers – generating nearly £21m in income.

Fishing licence income is vital to the work of the EA, enabling us to reinvest into activities including incident response, enforcement action and habitat improvements to support fisheries.

Over the last year, licence income directly funded over 250 projects to improve fishing and fisheries and allowed us to work with over 1000 delivery partners to:

🐟 Improve fish stocks and habitats
🎣 Provide new facilities for anglers
✅ Make fisheries more accessible

Read more: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nearly-21-million-invested-in-fisheries-across-england-through-fishing-licence-sales

03/11/2023

Did you spot that two towns and one village in have been named by Muddy Stilettos as some of the best places to live in England and Cambridgeshire for 2024?

We were over the moon to see that was one of the communities mentioned; particularly for its "lovely riverside setting" - as it took us right back to memories of our project at Godmanchester Mill Steps.

We led stakeholder and community engagement for the £407k ecological project in Godmanchester, working with Huntingdonshire District Council Environment Agency National Highways +Godmanchester Town Council +Godmanchester in Bloom +Godmanchester Community Liaison Group

Want to see?
https://keystone-marketing.co.uk/project/godmanchester-mill-steps/

10/10/2023

The boomerang effect is quite common in our line of work. By setting our clients up with a solid comms framework, alongside the right messaging and engagement tools, we naturally remove ourselves from the party. While giving a client the tools and independence to carry on without us can be a very satisfying feeling, we also LOVE returning to a former project... Like this one!

We helped bring to life when it was a new programme idea developed by the team at Business & IP Centre Cambridgeshire and Peterborough back in 2021. Now entering its third year, with a prize pot that has more than tripled in size to a whopping £75,000, we're so pleased to be involved again. Having already supported nearly 200 local businesses so far, we want to help more people than ever hear about it.

So please do share details about this programme with everyone in your network who would JUMP at the chance to win a grant of up to £10k to help their new business take flight 🚀

Learn more: https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/bipcjumpstart

💭 Do you know someone who would JUMP at the chance to take their business to the next level, but needs a bit of a nudge?

Why not give them a gentle push in the right direction and tell them about Jumpstart? It’s designed to…

🔥 fuel the success of aspiring entrepreneurs

💡turn innovative ideas into thriving a business

🚀 help dreams take flight.

We’re looking for up to 24 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough-based start-up and pre-start businesses to share a £75k prize fund.

If you know someone who has the potential to move forward, why not gift them a little confidence and suggest they apply to Jumpstart?

Learn more: https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/bipcjumpstart

26/09/2023

Hot on the heels of a sell-out summer season, The Library Presents is back this quarter with a 10-week long season of 52 events, full of fun and fantasy.

And that means we've kicked off the comms! 💥

We love working with the TLP team at Cambridgeshire County Council - injecting our well-regarded marketing skillset and community engagement expertise into the communications programme.

There are events running right across Cambridgeshire and tickets really are very low cost for such high-quality performances.

Tickets: https://www.library.live/the-library-presents

28/07/2023

Wowzers, where's the time gone!!?

Earlier this month, we celebrated our 10th anniversary and are super proud of the impact we've made and the lovely people we've met along the way.

Our thanks to Shumë for being such fabulous event hosts (and keeping the drinks flowing!), i-d Image Development for capturing the reception so beautifully, and to all our guests – including current Mayor of St Neots Rob Simonis

Click the link to find out more about our double digit milestone and how we can help you grow your business too ⬇️

https://keystone-marketing.co.uk/keystone-celebrates-double-digit-anniversary-milestone/