Projects

Environment Agency
We are one of the Environment Agency's preferred contractors for delivering stakehholder engagement in England and Wales. We work with them on subject matters ranging from flood alleviation schemes to energy from waste; all with the purpose of helping them work out appropriate ways of engaging with stakeholders and if needed, facilitating events.

Finding Sanctuary
Finding Sanctuary is a project to design a mutually acceptable Marine Conservation Zone for the South West of the UK. There are some forty key stakeholders involved at a regional level and many more at a more local level. We are working as the project's process consultants to help design, manage and run the engagement process and as the facilitators to help the stakeholders negotiate collaboratively. The final output will be a set of recommendations to the UK government in mid 2011. The Finding Sanctuary project website has more details. Finding Sanctuary meeting reports are available here.

Rugby Cement
There has been a cement works in Rugby for over 100 years. Over the past decade or so relationships between the local community, the district council, the Environment Agency and Cemex (the company who owns the cement factory) have been problematic. We have been working with them all to develop a new way for them to collaborate and negotiate with each other. Rugby Cement meeting reports

SAGE (Stakeholder Advisory Group ELF EMF)
During the course of transmitting electricity, or by appliances using it, electric fields (EF) and magnetic fields (MF) are generated, together these fields are known as electromagnetic fields (EMF). In 2004 the UK adopted new guidelines which set MF levels above which people should not usually be exposed to. The question of whether to adopt precautionary measures below these levels, known as extremely low frequency (ELF) EMF, is being considered by SAGE. We acted as process consultants to help design and establish the process, as on-going process managers and facilitatios for SAGE between 2004 and 2008. Current SAGE work

Metropolitan Police
We were a partner in a team which designed and delivered training for the Metropolitan Police to help Safer Neighbourhood borough sergeants deal with meetings and liaison with their partners and to help the Met's senior policy officers understand and learn key concepts and practice in community consultation and engagement.

Financing the Urban Renaissance (FUR)
Initial funding was provided by the British Property Foundation (BPF) and the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) for local government. We worked with ContinYou to develop a detailed simulation exercise to enable learning about collaborative working between local government councillors and property developers. We have been one of the team delivering the training on behalf of the Planning Advisory Service , part of the Local Government Association (LGA).

CoRWM (Committee on Radioactive Waste Management)
CoRWM is a government appointed committee that advises government on waste management options for the UK's radioactive wastes. We worked with them to design and facilitate their consultative national stakeholder forum. Over 18 months, this roughly quarterly event brought together a wide range of national groups / organisations, ranging from Greenpeace to British Nuclear Fuels. The purpose was to enable stakeholders to have an input into CoRWM's work.

Magnox Electric/BNFL
A national stakeholder dialogue set up to work with around 50 stakeholders to agree a Decommissioning strategy for the UK’s first generation of Nuclear Power Stations. Over a 2 year period we worked with stakeholders to help them agree recommendations to the UK government on the way forward for decommissioning the UK's first generation of nuclear reactors. This involved designing the engagement process, running working groups and larger stakeholder meetings. We tailored Problem Structuring Methods such as "Stategic Action Planning" for use in the process.

National Science Museum
The National Science museum owns an old world war two airfield near Swindon in Wiltshire. They keep things like the national bike collection and early passenger aircraft there; things that are too large to display in London.
Up until recently it has not been open for easy public access but the plan is to change this and turn it into a major UK visitor attraction. We worked with them to involve local, national and regional stakeholders in developing these plans and the overall strategy.

WWF-UK
This work was one element of a wider research project, of which WWF-UK were a core partner. The aim was to find out and share effective local government policies for sustainable development. As part of this we Ddesigned and moderated European wide Internet Debates on Sustainable Development Policy and practice.

National Tyre Distributors Association (NTDA)
Business Strategy Development for the UK Tyre Industry. Through the design and facilitation of stakeholder conferences and workshops we helped the industry develop better working relationships across its diverse sectors; manufacturers, retailers, equipment suppliers, government and helped them agree and set future priorities .for the industry and carry out some more immediate business planning.

Environment Agency
We worked with the Agency to design and run a national stakeholder dialogue to agree solutions to dealing with Waste Tyres in the UK. There were around 50 stakeholders involved over 2 years.
We worked on a separate initiative to engage community organisations involved in recycling to inform The Agency’s guidelines for the community re-use sector.

DEFRA
A series of workshops to involve key, national stakeholders in informing/developing UK government waste minimisation policy.

DTI
A one off national stakeholder event to resolve some of the outstanding issues with large scale offshore wind farm developments in the UK.

Performance and Innovation Unit at the Cabinet Office
A large, national Stakeholder conference/workshop on Waste Minimisatation as part of the government’s waste policy review.

Trowbridge / Norton Radstock Regeneration (BDOR)
Llocal & regional stakeholder involvement processes, initiated by the local authorities to deliberately involve local residents and stakeholders to work together to agree what they wanted to see in their town centre regeneration schemes.

West Sussex County Council
A regional stakeholder engagement process to resolve differences over a proposed Flood Alleviation Scheme for the city of Chichester.
A stakeholder conference to agree the key elements of the county’s Rural Strategy

Environment Council
The Environment Council is a charity that aims to enhance environmental decision making. We have undertaken the lead Lead Facilitation and process design on several projects for them, such as: a national stakeholder dialogue on waste & the planning system, DETR waste policy development, Stroud Valley and London Biodiversity Action Plans and support facilitation on the British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) national stakeholder dialogue and numerous others,

 

 

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