Published February 6, 2018
Protect24 has turned to Onside PR for marketing and PR support.
The North West providers of bespoke social housing fire protection solutions will work closely with Onside founder James Fletcher for PR and marketing support.
Onside PR and leading digital marketing agency Run Creative will work in partnership to showcase the Protect24 offering.
Protect24 offer a unique and innovative solution for local authorities and social housing associations tasked with providing fire protection to residents in social housing tower blocks.
They provide a complete turnkey solution to the retrofitting of fire protection measures including retrofitted fire sprinkler systems to tower blocks.
Prior to 2007, developers did not have to install sprinklers into buildings of multi-dwelling units of more than six storeys – and as a result, of the estimated 4,000 blocks that provide social housing in the UK only 2% are said to include sprinkler protection.
Crucially, Protect24 provide local authorities and social housing associations with the funds they need to install such systems – with borrowing offered at existing rates of lending.
Onside PR founder James Fletcher said: “I’m excited to work with the Protect24 team. It is a fascinating project that really can change lives and offer protection to those in need.
“The Protect24 offering is a brilliant proposal that removes all the obstacles, that I can see, that would cause local authorities or housing associations to delay the retrofitting of sprinkler systems and fire protection measures.
“I sympathise with the arguments presented by the government and local government is that the huge cost involved in retrofitting sprinklers to multi-storey housing blocks has simply not been budgeted – it just should not ever have been allowed to become a problem in the first place.
“The experts, those fire fighters who bravely ran into Grenfell Tower and other burning blocks agree that sprinklers save lives and that is good enough for me.
“Rather than try and play the blame game, or look to use the argument to attack politicians of any party, let’s simply solve the problem.
“The fact that Protect24 can provide a total turnkey solution and the funds to pay for it is hugely exciting and I look forward to helping the team tell their story.”
Onside PR will work with Wilmslow based Run Creative in the creation of marketing collateral, a website and high level consultancy.
To learn more about Protect24, the services provided or to arrange a consultation with our team click this link.
For all media enquiries contact James Fletcher at Onside PR via this link.
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