Copywriting. Editing. Proofreading.
Around the world, around the clock.
What we do
We create engaging content for the advertising and marketing industry.
If you’re an advertising agency, marketing department or government organisation, we can help you create polished, error-free professional communications that inspires actions and get results. We can operate independently or as an extension of your team, either remotely or in person if you’re based in Canberra.
Copywriting
Whatever your industry, our professional copywriters can help with your content needs. Our writers are experienced in advertising copywriting, content provision, content strategy, content design, plain English writing, UX writing, technical writing and plain English training.
Editing
Our experienced editors can suggest ways to enhance your written content and polish your writing to a professional level. This means correcting the grammar, as well as recommending changes which improve the flow, make the meaning clearer and enrich the user experience / customer journey.
Proofreading
Proofreading is the final check for spelling, punctuation, grammar and consistency before a piece is published. Our team of expert proofreaders will spot typos, fix errors and ensure your design is consistent, so your marketing materials are correct, professional and ready to print or publish.
The team at Catch the Sun are content geniuses.”
Nadean Mamic, Associate Director – Projects and Innovation, University of Canberra
How we can help
We can buy you time.
Catch the Sun Communications is a virtual freelance communications agency with headquarters in Canberra, Australia. We provide copywriting, editing and proofreading services to advertising, marketing and creative industry clients in the UK, Europe and Australia.
We ‘catch the sun’ for our clients, using the favourable time zone differences between Europe and Australia to offer quick-turnaround ‘overnight’ copywriting, editing and proofreading.
A word from our founder
Our handpicked global network of trusted freelancers is managed by our founder and director, Maddie Sinclair, who has over 20 years of experience in advertising, marketing and content provision.
The UK/Australia location difference works really well. Catch the Sun proofreads our Suzuki work ‘overnight’ and marked-up versions arrive in our inboxes early the next morning. This saves us much-needed production time.”
Iva Tanku, Account Manager, Red Brick Road
Brands we’ve helped
You’re doing an excellent job and the ‘catch the sun’ concept works really well for us.”
David O’Connor, Group Marketing Director, BIMM Institute
Our work
Providing our clients with high-quality, on-brief marketing content.
Proofreading
Red Brick Road + Suzuki
Copywriting
University of Canberra’s Digital Student Journey
EDITORIAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Imperial College London’s D/srupt magazine
COPYWRITING, EDITING & PROOFREADING
Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP)
PLAIN ENGLISH TRAINING
NTT + Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Editing
Simpson Travel’s villa books project
Editing & Proofreading
Smartraveller’s Travel Smart booklet DFAT
CREATIVE CONCEPTING
The Ideas House + Marriott International
Flexible working
Whatever your team’s content requirements, we have a freelance model to suit.
Let’s collaborate
We can work as an extension of your agency or marketing team on an ongoing basis.
Hire a freelancer
We’ll select the perfect editorial freelancer for your one-off job.
Hire a content team
We’ll provide you with a cherry-picked team of expert freelancers for your editorial project.
Our blog
Read our latest posts
Five of the best English grammar podcasts
If you read our blog post about why typos happen, you’ll know that typos occur easily and they can be hard to find and fix. In that post we talked about distraction being one of the causes of typos and errors, but another cause for mistakes in copy is a lack of...
Homonyms, homographs and homophones
The English language can be a bit tricksy. Words can look or sound the same, but have completely different meanings. There are different variations of this, but as a general rule they can be categorised as follows: Homonyms – words that spell and sound the same, but...
Why typos happen and how to avoid them
Have you ever made an embarrassing typo? Perhaps you’ve never made one that attracted quite so much ridicule as the infamous ‘covfefe’ gaff by Donald Trump but, still, typos are undoubtedly something you’d rather avoid at all costs. In this post, we take an in-depth...