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fox&cat
Fox&cat is a new kind of fully-integrated communications agency – one that delivers genuinely inspirational campaigns and programmes with equal consideration to client’s unique pressures and team welfare. Why?
You’ll know exactly how intense workplace pressure can become. And if that’s left unmanaged, it can have a hugely negative impact on team culture, quality of work and our mental health.
For our clients and our own teams, we do both: helping to manage the stresses of working in comms and, in doing so, making sure we deliver properly integrated and genuinely excellent work.
So say hello to better work (and a better night’s sleep).
Say hello to fox&cat.
With our unique network structure, there are no top-heavy and expensive agency management costs.
Instead, we invest in the best talent, bringing together a collective of genuine and proven comms experts with top agency backgrounds. For our clients, that means powerful programmes and cut-through campaigns at a significantly lower cost than our agency competitors.
So we outperform them on concepts and cost. And we do the same with delivery too.
From strategists and creatives to project managers and client leads, our network of freelancers has you covered from concept to impact in terms of integrated campaigns.
We’ve got over 250 years of experience between us, we know each other well and are all happy and motivated masters of our craft. And we’ll create a perfectly balanced team, customised specifically for you, who’ll work with you, to deliver the campaigns and programmes you need.
You’ll also have a permanent and dedicated client lead, alongside hybrid teams that are experts in working with the most frequently-used reporting, referencing and approvals systems in pharma and healthcare, including Zinc and Veeva. They can work on secondment too.
Our mission is to help communications professionals deliver and thrive under pressure.
That’s why we work hard to help you manage the unique pressures of the role as well as creating engaging and enduring integrated comms for you. We do this in one of two ways:
Firstly, we have a planning process called ADAPT™, which takes into consideration your unique working styles, pressures and desires alongside your comms briefs. The result? We can deliver stress-free agency support every time.
Secondly, we provide free events to help alleviate pressure and stress our clients and the wider industry as an area of our own corporate social responsibility:
- We’ve launched Under the tree, our free-to-all training programme to help anyone working in comms learn how best to thrive under pressure
- We also run bespoke mental wellbeing and training events to help our comms clients overcome some of the unique stresses holding them back
Areas of Expertise
Full integrated communications
Select a skill you need, or use our full suite of services
- Strategy
- Creative
- Digital
- Social
- Graphic design
- Video & animation
- Copywriting
- Health policy
- Multichannel media
- Web (front and back)
Therapy areas of expertise
- Neurology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthodontics
- Functional foods
- Cardiology
- Diabetes
- Gastro-enterology
- Wound care
- Inflammation
- Oncology
- Anti-biotics
- Rare diseases
- HIV
- Hemophilia
- Medical devices
- Immunology
- Alzheimer's
Read more about our services here.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Under the tree
Under the tree is a safe online space where communications professionals can learn the skills and techniques needed to transform workload stress and pressure into a positive influence. It has been developed with, and fully endorsed by: PRCA, CIPR and HCA. Find out more here.
Clients
Pharmaceutical companies - oncology
Team
Press Releases
- Mental health in PR: New industry-wide CPD-accredited training programme launches to help manage work-related pressure and stress
Fox&cat, CIPR, PRCA and HCA launch Under the tree: a free training programme designed to equip agency, in-house and independent communications practitioners with the skills they need to manage work-related pressure and stress.
- Fox&Cat Now Helps All Communications Teams To Thrive Under Pressure
Specialist communications agency fox&cat relaunches today with a refined proposition: to help all communications teams thrive under pressure. So, whether pressure is being felt in an in-house team, an agency, or even a business in need of a comms function, fox&cat can step in to help.
- Next Generation Consultancy Launches To Help Creative Agency Teams Manage The Pressures Of Agency Life
A new ‘mould-breaking’ virtual support agency, fox&cat emerges today with a clear mission – to help creative agency teams manage the growing and evolving pressures of agency life. Initial roll-out targets pressurised healthcare communications teams with a network team of ten.
White Papers and Resources
- The speed of science and the pace of comms
Pharma red tape slows comms but there is a solution, Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, writes.
- Humancomms for humancare?
Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, writes on the role of humour in healthcare comms: PharmaComms 2023
- #Wellbeing Week: Let's tackle pressure
Hear from Paul Hutchings, founder of foxandcat.online, with tips and advice to help your comms team thrive under pressure
- Employee wellbeing in creative agencies: three tips to get you started
- Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, and new friend, Welfy, a workplace wellbeing training firm, discuss the importance of collaboration
- Managing unhelpful pressure in your creative agency: the human approach
Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, answers the questions: what does it mean to be human in 2021? Are we putting ourselves under too much pressure?
- Happiness and wellbeing: you can have both, but they’re not the same thing
- "Wellbeing needs to remain central to leadersip", writes Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat. In this article Paul and his network explain the difference between wellbeing and happiness. And how problems (of all things) can make us happy
- How nature can help you manage the pressures of agency life
- Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, outlines how nature can help you can boost staff wellbeing in your agency this Mental Health Awareness Week
- Leaders leading leaders: objectivity and respecting the micro-leader
Passionate leaders go far. But clip their wings, fail to recognise their skills or respect their passions, and you’re set for uproar. Especially with Gen Z now established in the workforce.
- Oh no… not more training
Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, discusses ways to help your team manage pressure in a more human, pressure-centric and engaging way
- Want to give perfect client service? Tough luck, you’re human
In this article an ex-client of mine, Liz Skrbkova, and I explore the (unhelpful) pressures of trying to perfect the client-agency relationship
- Feeling the pressure?
Pressure affects us all differently. But one thing is certain... left unresolved, pressure will have a lasting negative effect on the culture of your agency
Videos and Podcasts
Testimonials
Fox&cat always hits the ground running, is fully committed and beautifully manages any project we throw at them. Fox&cat is a totally new approach to comms agency support and one I already see helping the team here thrive under pressure.
Emma White, In-house communications contractor (pharma)
Networks
Latest content on this profile
- The speed of science and the pace of comms
- Pharma red tape slows comms but there is a solution, Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, writes.
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- Humancomms for humancare?
- Paul Hutchings, founder of fox&cat, writes on the role of humour in healthcare comms: PharmaComms 2023
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- Mental health in PR: New industry-wide CPD-accredited training programme launches to help manage work-related pressure and stress
- Fox&cat, CIPR, PRCA and HCA launch Under the tree: a free training programme designed to equip agency, in-house and independent communications practitioners with the skills they need to manage work-related pressure and stress.
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- #Wellbeing Week: Let's tackle pressure
- Hear from Paul Hutchings, founder of foxandcat.online, with tips and advice to help your comms team thrive under pressure
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- Fox&Cat Now Helps All Communications Teams To Thrive Under Pressure
- Specialist communications agency fox&cat relaunches today with a refined proposition: to help all communications teams thrive under pressure. So, whether pressure is being felt in an in-house team, an agency, or even a business in need of a comms function, fox&cat can step in to help.
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- A holistic approach to managing pressure in MedComms
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