Client Projects

CLIENT PROJECTS

Soil Association Certification: BOOM Awards 2023

As Project Manager for the 6th year running, I led an in-house Marketing, Communications, PR and Events Team, to deliver the bi-annual Best of Organic Market (BOOM) Awards. Celebrating all things Organic from Beauty & Wellbeing to Fashion & Textiles and Food & Farming. Back to a full-scale in person event in Bristol, with live streaming for those who wanted to join online.

Together we achieved:

12 sponsors including headliner Huboo Technologies.
Expanded the professional judging panel.
Introduced new public vote awards attracting 4k votes.
Launched new branding and winners assets.
Launched a new online judging system for over 400 entries.
200 in person guests at the stunning Paintworks in Bristol with inspiring and engaging branding, features and installations.
57 positive press pieces with 13.4 million reach.

Hot Pickle Trading Ltd: Project Management, Retail Experiences & Consumer Insights

Over the last 11 years I have worked across a number of roles at award winning experiential agency Hot Pickle. This includes planning and delivering over 50 pop-up shops, retail experiences and global consumer market research projects for a number of brands and major food companies such as; Hello Fresh, Sipsmith Gin, Diageo, Unilever, General Mills and Storck. We also developed a bespoke training course on LEAN ways of working.

"Thank you so so much for your dedication to making the week ahead such a highly impactful experience for some of the future leaders of the business.”
Global Head of Ice-Cream Sales, Major Food Brand

Soil Association Certification: Organic Cotton Campaign

As Project Manager I led an in-house team alongside campaigning charity HUBBUB and interactive theatre company The Bakehouse Factory to engage the public in the benefits of organic cotton for people and planet. A truly multi-channel approach including a live installation at Westfield London alongside press and digital coverage.

Together we achieved:

26 million press reach including full page feature in Guardian fashion pages see article here.
Engaged 15 brands and retailers including Arcadia, ASOS, Aldi, Burberry, Cath Kidston, John Lewis, New Look, White Stuff
Opportunity to see installation 21,000/ 625 conversations
Social media reach 700,000
130% uplift in traffic to Soil Association website

Wood For Tree's Brand Experience Consultations

Ran a series of consultations for clients looking to understand more about why brands are investing in events and experiences for building brand loyalty, making the most of product launches and even for consumer research.

"Everything went really well, the client was super happy and the team you spoke to got a lot of value from it – great job!"
Oli Johnston, Senior Design Researcher, Wood for Trees

Soil Association Certification: BOOM Awards 2021

Worked with an in-house team for the fourth year running to deliver the bi-annual Best of Organic Market (BOOM) Awards. Extremely challenging during the Covid 19 Panedemic but we focused on our efforts on an interactive online experience and small in person ceremony to meet restrictions.

Together we achieved:

10 sponsors including a partnership with Ocado Retail.
Expanded categories beyond Food & Drink to include Farming, Fashion & Textiles and Beauty & Wellbeing.
Introduced new free entry for smaller businesses.
270 tuned in online.
20.5 million press reach,
9 million potential social reach and 18.5K engagements.
9.5K public nominations/votes.

City to Sea: Project Management Workshop & Consultation

Developed and delivered a bespoke one day workshop & project consultation for Project and Programme Managers at City to Sea.

City to Sea is an award-winning not-for-profit environmental organisation campaigning to stop plastic pollution - from city to sea.

"Lou has brought both exceptional project management skills and a real creative eye to the BOOM Awards. She and her team delivered something so smoothly and effectively executed, with an attention to detail that was amazing. The creative oversight made everything sing from the table decorations at the press launch to the finalists boards and graffiti (my favourite bit) on the night. The complex multi-faceted project was delivered on time, to brief and she built a real team spirit across all engaged with the BOOMs." Clare McDermott, Business Development and Marketing Director, Soil Association Certification.

Lou was amazing at leading us all, rallying us and keeping the creativity and the project moving – it would never have happened if she hadn’t come along to lead the way with her relentless enthusiasm and skill. And to think she started all that with a tiny baby – honestly, it’s amazing!” Tiina Wastie, Events Manager, Soil Association Certification.

Soil Association Certification: BOOM Awards 2019

Managed an in-house team to deliver the BOOM Awards, which celebrates the hard work, dedication and innovation in the organic sector across a wide range of food and drink products, retailers, restaurants, packaging initiatives and marketing campaigns. This project was all about making some noise for organic!

Together we achieved:

16 sponsors including headline sponsor Abel & Cole
Over 500 entries and nominations from organic businesses
38K webpage views/ 4.3K consumer votes / 3.3K data capture
2 million reach on twitter/ 35.8 million press reach including The Daily Mail, Huffington Post and Closer magazine.
300 attendees at a beautifully branded and engaging Awards Ceremony in East London - see video below for taste of it!

Soil Association Certification: Provenance Pilot

Delivered a cutting-edge pilot project in partnership with Provenance , As Nature Intended and Eversfield Organic to track food in the supply chain (using blockchain technology) from farm to shop shelf. Packs were scannable for real time information about the product's journey and certification status.

Together we achieved:

Successful project delivery including local and national press, radio and TV coverage including The BBC and Sky News.

"Thanks again for working with us over this year - we've loved it and you've been an amazing help on our start-up journey :)" Founder & CEO, Provenance

Soil Association Certfication: Website User Research

Designed and led a research project with in-house Digital Marketing Manager to get a better understanding of what users need, want and expect from their landing page to help inform future planning and development.

Together we achieved:
Clear conclusions on what was working well for users and where they faced barriers with either content, structure or functionality, with recommendations for potential solutions.

"The research is really interesting and thank you for getting it to such clear conclusions and outputs – it’s just so straight forward it’s amazing. I feel like a curtain has been lifted." Clare McDermott, Business Development & Marketing Director, Soil Association Certification

Research Europe: Project Management Workshop & Consultation

Developed and delivered a bespoke one day personal workshop & project consultation for Research Consultant and Project Manager needing to up-skill.

"I'm much more confident now and can already see it having a positive impact for me and my team...when can we talk about rolling it out?"
Rosie Kuhn, Principle Consultant

Research Europe

Kumon: Project Management Workshop & Team Building Day

Developed and delivered a bespoke one day workshop for the South West Regional Team in Bristol for planning an up and coming campaign and improving team processes.

"Using an existing project made the content/ activities very relevant and will impact our projects immediately. We have already formulated a plan to use going forwards – feeling very motivated to now put it into practice!!"
Area Manager, Kumon Europe & Africa