Whether it’s to consult with or inform people about a new infrastructure project, it’s vital that your communications team understands the need to get the job done on time/on budget whilst protecting your reputation, and that they have good local knowledge about potentially affected communities.

This is where the Freshwater stakeholder communications support approach is second to none. Our dedicated teams work out of different regions, which means you benefit from our unrivalled combination of on-the-ground contacts and specialist knowledge.  We know that flexibility is critical – whilst strategies have to be clear and never lose sight of the objectives, it’s important that engagement and communications can be quickly modified to deal with stakeholders’ changing understandings, perceptions and reactions to plans.

Building close day-to-day working relationships with your team, both centrally and within each specific location, as well as your other third party contractors, will also ensure that everything we do is fully co-ordinated with your other communications and operational activities. 

What’s more, at a time when the introduction of the IPC means organisations will need to commit more resource to consultation with communities affected by infrastructure works, by contracting out this support it is possible to capitalise communications over the life of the project. Our experience in stakeholder communications and engagement for major infrastructure schemes, both consulting and informing, is wide ranging.

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"There is an increasing need to consult residents, customers and ‘stakeholders’ in the UK means that many organisations have no choice but to maintain a sizeable PR department. That development benefits Freshwater UK.”                                                                        Investors Chronicle