Thru The Mill Limited is not just an agency but a complete artist development and management service.

We deal with every aspect of our artists' career progression, offering a unique customised service to each of our clients with the specialist backup to support & grow them for the future. This was the brainchild of Giles Squire & Karen Cram who set up the business with intention of trying to help guide future talent and between them they bring many decades of experience.

Our client list is drawn from the world of entertainment and sport. Because we sign only the most talented performers, our small, focused company can work closely with them to develop their skills. Our work involves creating the best opportunities for our clients whether in presentation or in performance.

At the same time we provide a customised back up service so that our clients' main concern is making the most of those opportunities and putting in the best performances.

Giles Squire started his broadcasting career as Britain’s youngest radio DJ at just sixteen with the industrial radio station UBN. In 1974 he joined and helped launch Metro Radio in the North East. Over the next two decades Giles progressed from Senior Presenter to Programme Controller before eventually becoming Metro’s Group Programme Director.

Giles and the team took Metro from being a poor second to Radio 1 back in the early eighties to a station that had three times the audience of any other broadcaster in the region.

In January 1997, Giles joined other ex-directors of the Metro Radio Group who left after the EMAP acquisition to become Group Programme Director of The Radio Partnership, with responsibility for 8 radio stations (including the signal Group and The Pulse).

During this time Giles also helped win the new regional radio license for the South Coast Wave 105.2 FM and was very active with its launch Early in 2000 Giles once again re-joined colleagues to form Forever Broadcasting and acquired the under performing Liverpool station Crash FM. Under Giles’ leadership this was re-launched as Juice and more than tripled its audience within a year. Giles with the team also went on to acquire and re-launch Brighton’s local station Surf as Juice.

In the summer of 2001 Giles was approached by the Capital Radio Group and asked to take on the Group Programming responsibility for their Century brand. During the next four years this brand was completely over-hauled and revitilised and has seen huge growth both in audience and profits.

In April 2005 Giles left and set up his own consultancy before forming Thru The Mill Ltd. Giles was made a Fellow of the Radio Academy in July 2005 in recognition of all his work discovering and developing talented presenters and sat on the steering committee for The Sony Radio Awards for two consecutive years. He is a regular judge and often chairs a panel for the awards.

Karen Cram has become a popular and familiar figure in the fascinating and diverse world of track and field as she dealt with contracts and day-to-day dealings of athletes from world record holders and Olympic medallists to up and coming youngsters with ambitions to climb the fame ladder.

But Karen, a born and bred North East girl was initially in education where she earned a Bachelor of Education degree at Durham University. After teaching she went into the retail business, opening three Units over prime sites in Newcastle over six years, importing direct from Europe and selling exclusive ski and sportswear.

Years of travelling to the major sports events were briefly halted with the arrival of Josie and Marcus but although it curtailed the travel somewhat it scarcely slowed down the entrepreneurial side of this bubbly personality and she set up a consulting partnership in 1990 and continued to advise and negotiate contracts with radio and television and with sportswear companies for her clients.

Not satisfied with that Karen also plunged in charity work as co founder of Comrades of Children Overseas(Coco) , raising funds to support and provide educational needs for children in Bosnia and provisional tutorials and orphanages  for children abandoned with AIDS in Romania.

She is now consulting to Poppy Scotland on Corporate Development, pulling together programmes for corporate association and fund raising at a variety of events including sport and the military.

With her background in teaching she still confesses to a great buzz in helping others to achieve their ambitions, motivating them and helping them find success, where she has a powerful record in making the world a better place for her charges.

Thruthemill is particularly rewarding to Karen, working with young talent and helping them to fulfil their ambitions through her own wealth of experience in so many different areas.

But, perhaps, her greatest talent is her personality and being able to mix with the rich and famous as easily as she does with the youngsters who look to her for that vital helping push up the ladder.