• "Rachel’s entry showed creativity, the results spoke for themselves with blanket coverage and the campaign clearly generated mass mainstream awareness for a worthy cause." 

  • "Rachel's organisation of the media at our Security and Resilience Forum helped make the event an enormous success. She effortlessly coordinated the national media including nine TV crews and helped secure excellent coverage for Smiths. Her professionalism and media relations skills under pressure proved invaluable."

    Stephen Phipson
    Group Managing Director, Smiths Detection

  • "Rachel's handling of the PR for the Close the Door campaign has been nothing short of brilliant. She worked with the national media to give us excellent coverage, set up our social media campaign and organised an opportunity to speak in front of the Environment Committee of the London Assembly. She has wrought magic."

    Jeannie Dawkins
    Director, Close the Door

  • "Rachel has done a great job as copywriter on our last five annual reports and has made an often tedious process much less painful. She is able to cut through the corporate verbiage and articulate our story and strategy in a clear and compelling way, as well as finding the right stories to bring it to life."

    Ian Robson
    Finance Director, Ashtead Group

  • "Working with Rachel was a joy and a breeze.  She quickly established good working relationships with the team and clients.  Her wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise across a broad range of PR disciplines are deployed wtih collaborative grace.  And she can do all that in Mandarin too!"

    Chris Salt
    Founding Partner, HeadLand

  • "Rachel is always full of energy and ideas and is great fun to work with.  She is a good listener who also speaks her mind.  She gets us to think laterally with an instinct for what will work and what won't, and she is particularly good at making our legalistic prose more readable. We value Rachel's advice and involve her in all our major marketing and strategic planning projects."

    Hugh Elder
    Managing Partner, Gordon Dadds


Welcome to Larchmaker

Larchmaker is the trading name for Rachel Lankester, a 20 year corporate and  financial communications expert.

Rachel was, until February 2007, Group Communications Manager for the FTSE 100 global technology business, Smiths Group plc. Prior to Smiths, she was a Director at the City consultancy Citigate Dewe Rogerson in both London and New York. She has also worked for Capital MS&L and Weber Shandwick.

Larchmaker news

Close the Door wins Climate Week Award for Best Campaign

Larchmaker's favourite campaign, Close the Door, has won a Climate Week Award for Best Campaign. The Climate Week Awards were announced at Lancaster House and the award for Best Campaign was presented by Lucy Neville-Rolfe, Executive Director at Tesco in charge of Corporate Responsibility.  Rachel Lankester works pro bono for Close the Door and in 2011 won PR, Communications and Public Affairs Freelancer of the Year for her work for the campaign.