'A thrusting public affairs agency on the cutting edge of politics and lobbying with an innovative approach to political communications’ – PRWeek
Weber Shandwick Public Affairs is the strong choice in public affairs.
With close to 50 registered consultants in London and 100 registered clients in the UK, Weber Shandwick Public Affairs is the leading public affairs consultancy in the UK by size and skills base. We operate throughout the nations and regions of the UK dealing with all relevant legislatures.
We have 30 years’ experience in advising businesses and organisations on political communications, with a practice heritage founded on the successive combination of formerly competing practices, including GJW, Shandwick Public Affairs, Charles Barker Public Affairs and others.
We are leading members of the Association of Professional Political Consultants and abide by its Code of Conduct. We are committed to ethical and transparent conduct in public affairs.
Our team is drawn from the media, all-party politics, the voluntary sector and government. Our market-leading focus on people training and practice development makes us the destination employer for a highly competitive sector.
We serve organisations large and small, with a prestigious and diverse client list featuring Virgin Media, Barclays, War Child, the Bar Council, Abbott and many more.
Our services
- Parliamentary lobbying and campaigns: our core skill is the delivery of effective campaigns to drive issues in Parliament and the assemblies across the UK
- Political monitoring and intelligence gathering: through our Knowledgeshop brand, we provide bespoke services to track issues and policy and advise clients on how to respond
- Political and public policy events: we mobilise large numbers of Parliamentarians and policy-makers at a variety of events, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, seminars and receptions
- Contact-building and profile-raising: we put clients in touch with key political and policy figures, raising the profile of their organisations and concerns
- Political media relations: we add press coverage to the mix of channels used to promote a public affairs case
- Coalition building: we put together groups of third party organisations, identifying advocates and aligning their views with those of our clients, seeking to press an issue more cohesively
- Select committee training: we prepare clients to make effective presentations to Parliamentary committees and similar hearings
- Community relations and grassroots campaigns: where the views of individuals and communities have a direct bearing on decision-making, we manage and mobilise their views in the client interest
- Regulatory affairs: we provide public affairs campaigns, which integrate into client engagement with regulators including the Competition Commission, OFT, OFCOM, OFWAT and others
- Crisis and issues management: in circumstances where a crisis or issue has political origins, we provide responsive, senior level support and counsel
- Litigation communications: where clients are engaged in litigation, we work closely with their legal teams to provide communications strategy and support
- Political auditing: we research and measure political attitudes to client organisations
- Audience analysis, political marketing and database development: we build defined audience groups for clients and their issues and manage the application of that data
- Opinion research: working with our specialist research team, we provide quantitative and qualitative research for use in the context of political campaigns
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