…….about an ambitious wee marketing agency, born in Bonnie Scotland, now serving clients across the globe.
Armed with not much more than a notebook, pen, a laptop and a mobile phone, on 1st September 2002, a wee marketing agency that was soon to become Volpa, was born in our founder’s spare bedroom. With a vision, even then, to develop a truly integrated agency offering, what started as one person is now a collective of very skilled individuals offering clients a strategic one stop shop spanning the full marketing discipline.
We’re often asked what our name means. And how we came up with it. It wasn’t immediate. In fact we initially traded as Thunder Communications for the first couple of years before hitting on the idea of Volpa, a variation on the Latin word for Fox, the founder’s surname. We tagged on the cunningly good publicity strapline and we’ve been cunningly good ever since.
Over the years we’ve expanded our team and our services, bending and flexing with the needs of our clients, growing up during the whole digital revolution, embracing the changes to print, ditching faxed (yes, faxed!) press releases in favour of digital distribution methods, and generally honing our trade during one of the most seismic technology shifts in our industry to new and very many ways of communicating with customers.
Like the geeks at a party, we were frequently first on the scene, trying out new technologies, experimenting with everything new and gaining a level of insight that only comes with being digital natives.
It wasn’t long before we were winning awards for our work and delivering fantastic work for our clients. And we’ll be doing it for many years to come.
Check out some of the highlights of the last 18 years on our timeline below.
Volpa believes in continuous professional development and adhering to excellent professional standards.
We are agency members of the PRCA as well as individually members of various professional institutes including the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and the Chartered Institute of Marketing which set and uphold the standards of our professions as well as encourage ongoing learning in our field.
We are committed to staying at the top of our game.
Volpa is a CMS (Communications Management Standard) Accredited Agency.
The Communications Management Standard, managed by the PRCA, combines elements of ‘ISO9001’ and ‘Investors in People’ with criteria specific to a communications consultancy.
It is the gold standard in agency management and provides clients with quality assurance.
Volpa is an accredited Living Wage Employer.
This means that every member of staff in our organisation earns not just the minimum wage but the Living Wage or above. The Living Wage is an hourly rate set independently and updated annually, based on the cost living in the UK.
We believe that every member of staff deserves a real Living Wage.
