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About My Special PA

My Special PA was founded in 2009 by Emma de Polnay, formerly a set designer and art director for the Film and TV industry. My Special PA is a business service for creative professionals, run by creative professionals with business and administration skills. We offer freelance, specialist PA and VA services to artists, designers, media professionals and other creative company owners, including business development, supplier liaison and marketing. Our USP is liberating our clients from the often-overwhelming commercial and administrative demands of their daily business, allowing them to focus on the creative core of their work. Every PA on the team has a creative background and we ensure that we assign the right PA to each client’s requirements to enable a truly tailored support solution. For more information please visit our website – www.myspecialpa.co.uk

Brighton Wedding Wonderland for Artists Crossie & Pure Evil

Somehow amongst all the other projects we’ve all been working on in the last few months, Esme also managed to create a dreamy Brighton wedding wonderland for our artist client and dear friend Lisa Uzzle-Edwards a.k.a Crossie and her new husband, artist … Continue reading

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PR Specialist Andrea Freeman joins My Special PA

We are thrilled to welcome our new PA and PR Specialist Andrea Freeman as the fourth member of the MSPA Team…. With a sharp eye for detail, style and design, Andrea is quick to assess a businesses’ marketing and PR needs … Continue reading

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Sarah Dryden to work with Creative Huddle

Our Sarah Dryden’s just about to start work with Creative Huddle Creative Huddle have an exciting and high value proposition – training individuals and companies in how to make creativity a competitive advantage. They are also a brilliant fit as an MSPA client - harnessing … Continue reading

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Now We Are 3….

    Here’s hoping you had a lovely Jubilee weekend. I couldn’t resist the cupcake picture – No more Union Jacks though I promise. I trust you haven’t found yourself too disorientated by landing right in the middle of your … Continue reading

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Why MSPA brought ‘Social Media for Business’ to Brighton

I’m Just Too Busy for Social Media! Yes and that’s exactly what we thought…. For a while now it’s occurred to me that whilst Brighton is such a vibrant digital business hub, no-one is effectively servicing the online marketing needs … Continue reading

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‘Lively Life’ with Bella Pieroni

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Since I started working with Bella Pieroni in 2009, we have run 7 x ‘Lively Life’ drawing workshops at different venues. This March we ran our second workshop at the Rosvik Gallery Bella guides the workshops rather than teaching. This provides … Continue reading

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Helen Pynor at The Wellcome Collection

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Fine artist Helen Pynor was one of our first clients at My Special PA Pynor trained initially as a biologist, before completing a BA in Visual Arts from the University of Sydney, and much of her work involves extensive archival research and close collaboration … Continue reading

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#mspatip – How to maximise your iPhone’s battery life

Let’s face it our beautiful, shiny, colourful little friends with all the ‘luverly’ useful apps have a pretty pitiful battery life. Much of this may be obvious to some, but I’ve seen very tekky friends of mine utterly puzzled by … Continue reading

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A BIGGER but much cheaper London Members Club

Last Wednesday 8th February, I took a well needed day off and went to see the  David Hockney  exhibition at the Royal Academy. We got there just before 10am in the peak of big freeze temperatures and stood in line … Continue reading

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New Service #2 – Business Strategy for Creative Professionals

We get a lot of enquiries from creative professionals requesting help with developing an effective business strategy. My Special PA’s services have all been carefully moulded and refined from what our clients tell us they need and could most benefit … Continue reading

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