About
Hello, and welcome to Sharpe Communications!
Sharpe Communications was founded by Kathy Sharpe – an award-winning freelance copywriter and communications consultant based in Leeds.
We love working with organisations that make a difference. So, if you’re in education, charity, the arts, the public sector, or not-for-profit, and you’re passionate about making a positive social impact, you’re in the right place.
With 20+ years’ experience in further and higher education marketing and communications, Kathy knows the sector inside out. However, we’re happy to work with organisations across all sorts of sectors as long as they share the common goal of trying to make the world a little better!
Kathy is a proud member of the Professional Copywriters’ Network and the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), with CIPR Accredited PR Practitioner status. We follow the professional codes of conduct of both CIPR and ProCopywriters, so you can be confident you’re in safe hands.
From copywriting, proofreading and editing to PR, internal and external communications, crisis and change communications, and SEO-friendly web content, we can help you find the right words to get your message across.
Need an award bid that stands out? We’re pretty good at those, too – with a 100% success rate at getting award entries shortlisted or winning (apart from one… but that’s a long story!).
Got a project in mind? Get in touch for a friendly chat. We’d love to hear what you’re working on and see how we can help.
Experience
Graduating from the University of Birmingham in 2000 with an MPhil research degree, Kathy has since worked in the PR and Marketing Departments of a range of education and public sector organisations.
Kathy was employed by the Federation of British Artists, Mall Galleries, and King’s College London before relocating to Leeds where she married and had two children. Before making the transition to freelancing, she worked at Park Lane College and at Leeds City College.
Following a large-scale merger of three local colleges in 2009, Kathy was part of the marketing team that led on the award-winning public-relations campaign to establish the third largest further education institution in the UK.
Over the last 20+ years, Kathy has worked with and led communications teams with responsibility for corporate communications, collaborating with Human Resources, Senior Management, and Support Services departments.
Contact
Please contact us to arrange an informal chat about your copywriting and communications requirements and where we can best enhance your existing work:
