About the Agency
Speed – because reputations don’t wait
Speed is one of the UK’s fastest growing PR agencies – PRWeek Top 40, PRCA Large Consultancy of the Year – with serious range across consumer and B2B, earned media, social and influence, reputation and risk.
Passionate, curious and ambitious, we care as much about the impact of our work as you do. That’s who we are.
Whether you’re scaling a consumer brand or navigating the complexity of B2B comms, we bring the strategic and creative PR firepower to make your business impossible to ignore.
Kelly has spent 30 years shaping brands and leading teams. As MD of Speed, PRCA Regional Chair, and industry Fellow – the highest honour the sector gives – she’s spent the past decade building the agency to what it is today. Mum to Isla, devoted to Collie-Poo Cosmo, and a budding artist with a backstory that includes a stint as a wedding singer.
Becky is focused on leading teams to deliver excellence through creative solutions that drive business success. With more than 20 years’ experience in PR, she has worked across a wide range of sectors, but her passion lies in helping brands that make family life richer. Outside work, she is kept busy by her two daughters and an ever-evolving house renovation project.
Clare heads up Speed’s business & corporate division, specialising in B2B, corporate communications and reputation building. Her passion is in helping businesses communicate with purpose and developing campaigns that make a genuine impact. Outside of work, Clare spends her time being outwitted by her young family or navigating the chaos of a house renovation.
Sarah is not going to lie, she has over 30 years’ experience in PR, which means she’s been able to pack in ‘a hell of a lot’. For the last 20+ years she has been a Creative Director, with highlights including award winning campaigns for Superdrug, Coca Cola, Unilever, Barclaycard, McVities and Boots.
Helen leads the show across our lifestyle & food brands. She’s a seasoned PR professional with over 20 years’ experience leading multi award-winning creative campaigns.
Julia leads our digital team, bringing over 20 years’ experience delivering award-winning digital campaigns to clients from all sectors, all over the world. She makes a mean souffle and has been known to write questionable fan fiction from time to time.
For most of her career Nic has specialised in delivering brilliant campaigns for consumer brands across family, FMCG and travel. With a passion for culture, community engagement and people, she also leads our cultural agenda, making sure Speed is a positive place to work. Believing that cultures don’t just make themselves, Nic runs a purposeful programme which focuses on creating a workplace where the team can thrive, developing and nurturing the talent of the future through meaningful partnerships that create a positive employee experience.
Money 20/20 is a pivotal event on our calendar, and Speed Communications played a key role in making it a success. Their expertise was instrumental in raising our brand’s profile, cutting through the conference noise, and securing valuable media coverage and interviews for our key spokespeople. With the Speed team on the ground, we were also able to produce impactful social content that garnered attention, even from our investors. Having partnered with Speed for several years, we see them as a trusted extension of our marketing team. They understand the complexities of our business and consistently help us navigate a competitive media landscape, delivering tangible results through meaningful earned coverage.
Speed fully understands the unique nuances of each of our brands, as well as our business and the marketplace. It is this expertise and tenacity that has led to growing our scope of work with Speed over the years. Time and again, they have proven their strength in consultancy, creativity and media relations delivering strong results with excellence. Speed are a pivotal partner in driving success for our portfolio of beauty brands.
Excellent experience with Speed! Their team is professional, responsive, and genuinely committed to delivering great results. They are easy to work with, keep everything well organized, and show great attention to detail and dedication. I highly recommend Speed to anyone looking for reliable and effective PR support.
We see Speed as an extension of our internal team and make sure that we provide regular access to our senior leadership team and respond quickly to opportunities. As a result, they understand our business voice in the market, the personality of our spokespeople and how senior people want our messages conveyed. Our sales team report that the door opens far quicker on cold calls due to better awareness and trust in our brand thanks to Speed’s work.
The first time we met with Speed we were blown away by their pitch. They had totally understood our brand, and how and what we wanted to communicate – so much so that we were able to use the entire proposal as our plan for 2024. Working with the team has been a real joy – it’s a very collaborative relationship, and everyone feels like an extension of our own marketing team.
The Life Is Better Filtered campaign has positioned BRITA as a champion of collaboration and best practice by creating a content legacy. It incorporated a successful media relations strategy and turned our sales team into a band of campaign advocates, leading to an overall 25% increase in web traffic and contributing towards a record sales year. Oh, and it generated thousands of MQLs (3 x the target amount) and a 6.4% growth in sales! In total, this campaign has now been nominated for 7 award shortlists and counting thanks to our fantastic PR agency Speed.
I’m really impressed with the team at Speed. They truly understand our brand and our consumers and the team are dedicated and passionate. They offer a strategic, yet commercial approach and are extremely results-oriented. They present us with creative and inspiring ideas which they underpin with ambitious and realistic KPIs. A flexible, hardworking, diligent and lovely team – they are a joy to work with!