Today we are launching our new London DEI Plan 24/25 for Virgo Health and Golin. It’s been months in the works, with many people across the agency inputting and contributing to help us create a reflection of what we have heard, what we have learnt, what we have achieved, as well as what we will focus on for the future. Transparently tracking and sharing our progress on inclusion and representation is a critical part of this. We are sharing the first cut of our representation data collected from our new voluntary disclosure system, Self ID, alongside the results from our inclusion survey BELONG. While our BELONG data gives us lots to be positive about and demonstrates the impact of the last two year’s focus on DEI, we are still in the process of building our new Self-ID data to understand our representation across nine diversity dimensions. Unfortunately, this means we lack full enough data to run a meaningful EPG report this year and participate in this week’s PRWeek Pay Gap Report. As soon as we have more complete data we will report our EPG and other pay reports annually and set stretch targets for under-represented talent. View our London DEI Plan 24/25 here - https://lnkd.in/e3H9EXiC And a huge thank you to our brilliant cover artist, Baraka Carberry, AKA @Bokiba, a Midlands-based British Guyanese artist. We worked closely with Baraka to convey the joy we know diversity and inclusion can bring. We hope you agree she did an incredible job.
Virgo Health
Public Relations and Communications Services
Shoreditch, London 14,470 followers
We are a global healthcare communications agency. We dispense pioneering and creative campaigns, driven by human insight
About us
We’re a global healthcare communications agency and our manifesto is Being real, Being relevant...Being Human. Healthcare is an industry with people at its heart. Everything we do through communication is about helping people make better decisions about health and wellbeing. Being Human means communicating in a personalised and authentic way. It means recognising what people really think, believe and do. It means understanding our clients and audiences as individuals. It means working together with conviction, integrity and passion to achieve exceptional results. Our UK HQ is in Central London, with offices in New York and China and a global reach through the IPG network. Our team works across two core divisions, supported by The Pharmacy, our in-house design and digital team. Virgo Health Communications: Prescription PR and policy communications, corporate reputation, digital and internal communications for corporate and niche health industry clients. We also offer specialist consumer health PR services for high street health and wellbeing brands. Virgo Health Education: Tailored content to educate and inform healthcare professionals using a range of communication channels. The Pharmacy: Our creative studio houses experts in creativity and design, digital and social, and meetings. Our Pharmacy team use their expertise to develop bolder, braver content that captures the attention of our clients’ audiences. We’d love to hear from you if you’d like to work with us – as a client or an employee: www.virgohealth.com
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- Public Relations and Communications Services
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- 51-200 employees
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- Shoreditch, London
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- 2003
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- Healthcare communications, Medical Education, Social Media Strategy, and Design & Digital
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Proud to bring our healthcare expertise to this brilliant new ASICS campaign with Brian Cox, inspiring desk-bound officer workers to get up move for their mind 👇
“Run, jump, roller-skate. Whatever, I don’t care. JUST MOVE, FOR YOUR MIND.” Introducing #DeskBreak by ASICS, because spending hours at our desks can be a danger to our mental health. ASICS recruited the world’s scariest boss, Brian Cox, to deliver an unmissable public service announcement to desk workers. This is because our Global research shows our mental state starts to decline after only two hours of continuous desk-based working and stress levels rise significantly after four hours. BUT, working with Dr Brendon Stubbs to deliver our Desk Break Experiment, we showed a simple 15-minute movement break can help reverse the effects. It's time to make this part of working life. So… Don’t just sit there. Take a Desk Break to move your mind. #SoundMindSoundBody #DeskBreak #MoveYourMindwithASICS Proud to work with ASICS and this amazing team Caroline Fisher Gary Raucher Esther Turkenburg Fiona Berwick Gemma Combellack Hannah Giles Vicky Plato Lydia Goldman Sam Mildner Migle Kriauciunaite Jessie Brooks Elliot Riordan Alex Wood Amy Paton Ellie W. 🔥 🔥 🔥 Golin London Virgo Health
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Last night at London HQ we hosted Justin Webb, BBC Radio 4 Today and Americast presenter, who shared his extraordinary insight on being at the forefront of the BBC's US election coverage and his perspective on the US elections and their future implications. Covering everything from Kamala's late entry to the power of Trump's appeal. Why the Hispanic population could swing the vote, the unchartered waters of TikTok influence and whether Swifties could really make a difference at the polls. Justin was the BBC’s North America Editor when Obama was elected and was the first Ex US journalist to interview Obama, with this election being another pivotal moment in US history and Justin leading the BBC's coverage, we were so excited he could join us. Huge thank you to Justin Webb and all who attended.
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Looking forward to hosting an evening with Justin Webb - BBC Radio 4 Today presenter and Americast host. Justin Webb is at the forefront of the BBC's US election coverage, he will be joining us at Golin/Virgo HQ to share his perspective on the US elections and their future implications. For remaining spaces please email Jade Parker [email protected].
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Time to nip it in the butt? Bit of a damp squid? You may have spotted famous wordsmith Gyles Brandreth on Instagram or This Morning this week saying a few commonly misheard sayings. That's because Specsavers have teamed up with Gyles to launch the next step of our misheard campaign, The Misheard Manifesto, correcting the nation's mishearing of well-known sayings 👂👂 As new research reveals friends and family are just too polite to tell each other they are wrong, Gyles, who has revealed he has hearing loss, is helping us call on the nation to finally banish ‘wriggle room’, ‘escape goat’, ‘damp squid’, ‘nip in the butt’, and other incorrect phrases. Huge shout out to the team Emily Davis Natasha Weeks Beth Whitworth Liam Earl Vicky Plato Naadhirah Khan Lydia Goldman Alex Wood Elliot Riordan Bex Wilson Sam Mildner - Lisa Hale Paul Ainsworth Kim Bull Robert Fox Nick Rainbow (he/him) Victoria Simpson - Clarke
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How do you get families to focus on children's eye health this summer? Bring some eye test fun to summer holiday days out...
Our research showed 1 in 4 kids have never had an eye test. So how do you put children’s eye health on parents’ radars? Create something unmissable that both parents and children can’t ignore. Introducing Specsavers' Eye Screen Van. Popping up on London’s South Bank and The Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh, the van was equipped with ice lollies and visual screeners to help identify any potential eyesight problems in children and prompt parents to book an eye test. It’s taken a good few months to plan and deliver this campaign for Specsavers but all worth it when the coverage starts coming through and is packed with photos from the events plus our video. Thank you to our brilliant clients for letting us have a bit of fun with this one, while of course still delivering an important message, and the team who pulled it off. Nicola Gibbons Emily Reed Lisa Hale Victoria Simpson - Clarke Katherine Arnull Alex Wood Elliot Riordan Emily Davis Dean Ismail Paul Andrews Jess Moore Golin London Virgo Health #EyeScreenVan #kidseyehealth #kidseyetests https://lnkd.in/e_ss-2YF
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Virgo Health's Grant Alison shares his career story with Careers in Healthcare Communications. The initiative aims to raise awareness of the wide range of roles in healthcare communications. Read his story here, thanks for sharing Grant! 👇
Check out Grant Alison's insights into working in the healthcare communications sector and what his role as an Account Director at Virgo Health involves! ➡ What area of Healthcare communications do you work in? I’m part of the pharma comms team at Virgo Health, currently working across two accounts with a corporate comms focus. ➡ What types of projects do you work on? Typical projects include media relations and press office, social media strategy and channel management, executive visibility, corporate events, content development and anything else that comes our way! ➡ What does a typical day at work look like? As much as I'd love to avoid a cliché, there isn't a typical day at work. That said, some of my daily responsibilities include reviewing materials – social media calendars, thought leadership articles, and metrics reports; preparing communications plans and media strategies, such as for an upcoming corporate announcement; as well as ongoing client liaison and generally ensuring my teams have everything they need to deliver for our clients. Other key responsibilities include preparing client budgets, supporting on new/organic business proposals, managing account finances, inputting into resourcing and always keeping our finance team in the loop. ➡ What has been the highlight of your career in Healthcare Communications? One standout would be my first-ever promotion. Early in my career, I always had a fear that I wasn’t ‘cut out’ for the job and lacked a lot of confidence. Being promoted gave me a much-needed boost and helped me realise that healthcare comms was the industry for me. ➡ What advice would you give someone looking to start their career in Healthcare Communications? Firstly, be a sponge for information and ask lots of questions. There’s a lot to take in and no one will expect you to be an expert. I would also say that healthcare comms is a team sport – you aren’t alone and you should always lean on those around you. Read the rest of Grant’s career story: https://lnkd.in/gyjfRn6A Discover Healthcare Communications organisations recruiting new talent: https://bit.ly/4a8zX0W #HealthcareCommunications #MedComms #Pharma #LifeSciences #MedicalWriting #HealthcareComms #ClinicalTrials #PatientEngagement #GraduateJobs #NewJob #CareerStories #HealthcareCommunicators
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Great to get Lulu on GMB this morning talking about hearing protection and hearing checks at Specsavers, following research that reveals half of festival goers think loud music has damaged their hearing, but nearly as many say they won’t wear hearing protection at a gig this summer ☀️ Incredible coverage still rolling in too! Natasha Weeks Beth Whitworth Emily Davis Vicky Plato
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Last night we won Excellence in multichannel communications at the Communique Awards for our Specsavers, The misheard version campaign! Huge congrats to our teams and client🙌⭐
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Another Successful 415 Club recently, a networking group set up for healthcare/medical communications professionals from ethnic minority backgrounds that we have the pleasure of sponsoring. A Huge thank you to Mayowa Olutade who Is leading the network and a moment to acknowledge Martin Conway, 415 Clubs founder who is sadly not with us anymore but is to thank for the existence of this initiative.
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