Working with us
When you partner with Engage Comms Ltd, you get award-winning Communications Director‑level expertise, combined with the resources of a full‑service marketing comms department.
We work as an extension of your senior leadership team, bringing trusted challenge, clarity and focus at moments where the stakes are highest. Small, senior, and hands-on, you work directly with the people doing the thinking.
We’re not an “agency” in the traditional sense, nor are we freelancers. Instead, we offer the best of both worlds: the strategic oversight and accountability of senior in‑house leadership, alongside the flexibility and breadth of skills you’d expect from a dedicated outsourced team.
We work with a trusted network of web developers, graphic designers, photographers and videographers to offer a fully integrated, hassle-free service – all project managed by us.
Our Founding Directors
Jo
Parker
Founding Director
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Jo Parker
Founding Director
Jo gained 10 years’ experience at a global PR agency before setting up Engage Comms in 2012 to fill a gap in the market for an agency that applied traditional communications and business principles to the digital age as part of a fully integrated marketing offer. She now provides clients in specialist sectors including construction and skills with strategic support on everything from brand development to stakeholder engagement alongside running the business and managing the team to get the best results.
Helen
Gill
Founding Director
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Helen Gill
Founding Director
Helen is a multi-award-winning marketing communications professional who worked in a variety of in-house and consultancy comms roles for SMEs and global organisations in the public and private sectors before setting up Engage Comms in 2012. She leads on strategic projects and campaigns which help clients in niche sectors such as debt and fintech achieve their long term goals. She was the by-lined editor of the B2B chapter of the 2017 edition of leading text book ‘Exploring Public Relations’ and believes that high quality written content is the foundation of marketing communications. In 2022, she was named as an Ambassador of the Money Advice Liaison Group (MALG) for going above and beyond to promote its aim of ‘working together to improve the lives of people in debt’.
Quality over quantity
Most business challenges come back to communication. That’s why (drawing on our background in traditional PR and deep expertise in specialist, niche sectors) we start with understanding, not outputs.
That means you can rely on us to deliver clear strategy, creative execution, and measurable impact – without the compromises.
Using only the most relevant channels to reach the right people in the right place at the right time, we maximise return on investment.
Our values
We are:
Curious
‘Geeks’ by nature; we’re genuinely interested in what you do and we spot the opportunities and stories others miss.
Outcomes-driven
Award-winning; we measure what we do according to the quality of outcomes, not the quantity of outputs so that every penny you invest delivers a tangible return on investment.
Future Gazers
Agile and innovative; we think long term about our own business and yours and keep on top of the latest developments in your sector and ours.
People-people
Not just techies sat behind desks, we take the time to understand your people and business from the inside out and we know how to engage your audiences.
Yorkshire born n bred
Down to earth, straight-talking, authentic and often underestimated; we get the job done and don’t do things by ‘alves.
