Ellee Seymour

Career Summary

Ellee Seymour MCIPR

Address: 20 Top Street, Stretham, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB6 3JL

Phone: 01353 648564 07939 811961

Email: ellee.seymour@btopenworld.com

Web: http://elleeseymour.com

Nationality: British

Present position Press consultant and journalist

Summary

Ellee Seymour has had an extensive career as a journalist and press consultant.

• She shows initiative, flair and determination in following through projects.
• She raised the profile of Conservative candidates in the Eastern region during the general election in May 2005.
• In the last five years she has raised the profile of Euro MP Robert Sturdy.
• She advises prospective parliamentary candidates.
• She has been successful in attracting high profile media coverage for business and politicians.
• She has obtained a PG Certificate in Applied Social Science Research Methods (distinction).
• She is a full Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
• She is an active trustee of Headway Cambridgeshire, a leading national brain injury charity.
• She has developed the social media as an additional PR tool. She writes a personal news/political weblog and is ranked as one of the UK’s top political and environmental bloggers. Her weblog has been featured on the BBC Politics Show, BBC News 24 and in The Guardian. It is included on the website of Foreign Secretary David Miliband and is being archived by The British Library.
• She recently completed the postgraduate CIPR Diploma in Public Relations.

Positions currently held

• Press Officer for a Euro MP: Appointed in August 2002 by Robert Sturdy, Conservative International Trade spokesman, writing press releases and arranging TV and radio interviews on subjects ranging from bird flu, international trade and the EU sugar regime, liaising with international organisations to launch a high profile sugar campaign. She also writes letters to The Times and Telegraph on his behalf.
• Press and Campaigns Officer for Julian Sturdy: Prospective parliamentary candidate for York Outer, organising campaigns and raising his media profile to contest the next general election. She was appointed in June 2006.
• Press Officer for NIAB: The National Institute of Agricultural Botany, a world leading plant science research organisation conducting innovative trials which could shape the way parts of the world are fed in future years. She has secured major positive media coverage for their pioneering work.
• Press Officer for CHASTE: Churches Against Sex Trafficking in Europe, writing press releases and actively promoting their work to abolish trafficking.

Relevant recent positions

• Conservative Eastern Region Press Officer. Appointed by Conservative Central Office in January 2005 to promote parliamentary candidates in marginal seats for the general election, organising regional campaigns, writing press releases and providing extensive media coverage, liaising with the worldwide media.

• Press Officer for a Conservative parliamentary candidate. Appointed July 2004 to promote Julian Sturdy who stood in Scunthorpe against Environment Minister Elliott Morley. Again, there was very positive press coverage.
• Press Officer for Westminster MP. Appointed in July 2004 to raise the profile of Malcolm Moss, Conservative MP for North East Cambridgeshire. He had many positive radio interviews and stories in the local press as a result of her proactive work.

• Press Consultant for small businesses, including Temping Fate, a premier East Anglian introductions agency; The Development Centre, a private clinic for drink and drug addicts; Winning Minds, a coach and NLP practitioner, and teenage coach Marie Munro who advises parents and teenagers. Her work has resulted in extensive media coverage, including TV, radio and high profile features. She also assisted Felsted School, Essex in promoting the International Baccalaureate Diploma.

• Press Officer for Essex Environment Trust: Writing press releases about awards made to local community and environmental projects from landfill tax funding, a position held for two years.
• Researcher, writer and photographer: Researching and writing a publication for Cambridgeshire County Council’s education department on Citizenship to promote it as a flagship county, also obtaining high profile endorsements. She extensively researched the project and took many of the photographs.
• Press Officer to UK leading independent waste consultant David Davies, publicising his high profile data-rich projects, obtaining endorsement from the Environment Minister for the national launch of his unique Recycling Atlas for England and Wales.
• Freelance journalist: Writing features for Resource, a leading UK waste magazine, on waste and recycling in the EU accession countries, the plastic bag levy in the Republic of Ireland, leaf composting and social and community recycling projects.
• Press Officer to magician Dr Bondini: A Cambridge based magician who wanted to raise his profile for the launch of a UK tour in December 2003. Ellee Seymour arranged competitions and press coverage.