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.

Marine Conservation Zones - South West
Between 2009 and 2011 we worked as process consultants and facilitators with the Finding Sanctuary project to develop recommendations for Marine Conservation Zones for the South West of the UK. There were some forty key stakeholders involved at a regional level and many more at a more local level. We designed, managed and ran the engagement process to help the stakeholders negotiate collaboratively. The final set of recommendations to the UK government is available on the Finding Sanctuary project website.

Irish Seas Conservation Zones Project
This is a sister project to Finding Sanctuary, focused on the Seas off the North West coast of England. We have been appointed as the project's facilitators and process consultants to work with the stakeholders to help them and the project overall produce their recommendations to the UK government. The Irish Seas Conservation Zones project website has more information.

Department of Energy and Climate Change & Sciencewise
We have worked with the Fuel Poverty and Office of Carbon Capture and Storage teams in DECC as mentors and process consultants to help them think about and plan their stakeholder engagement work.

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

Stakeholder Advisory Group ELF EMF (SAGE)
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.

Nuclear Power Station Decommissioning
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 Development
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.

Waste Tyre Disposal, Recovery, Recycling and Re-use
We worked with the Environment 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.

UK Waste Policy
We designed and ran a series of workshops to involve key, national stakeholders in informing/developing UK government waste minimisation policy for DEFRA.

We designed and ran a large, national Stakeholder conference/workshop on Waste Minimisatation as part of the government’s waste policy review for the Cabinet Office's Performance and Innovation Unit.

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

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.

Chichester Flood Alleviation
A regional stakeholder engagement process to resolve differences over a proposed Flood Alleviation Scheme for the city of Chichester.

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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