Doublescotch Consulting specialises in policy research and analysis, lobbying and representation, and other forms of communication.
Please consider contacting us if you need an extra contract resource to help you to influence or manage the policy process effectively, or to communicate clearly and persuasively.
We are based near Edinburgh. Wherever you are in the UK or further afield, in a wide variety of sectors - and whether you are dealing with a local, national or UK-level subject, or you need support on an EU or international issue - our experience and involvement could make it easier to achieve your aims.
We do
freelance and interim policy work, with a professional
consultancy service
to assist and advise you in:
- lobbying, representation and responding to consultation
- influencing or challenging those who make or implement policy
- public affairs work, parliamentary and regulatory affairs
- managing, developing, analysing or interpreting policy and strategy
- clarifying, communicating and explaining policy to others.
Other services are:
- work for committees, trade associations or other representative organisations
- writing reports and other official documents/submissions
- general writing and/or editing, copywriting, plain English editing
- internal and external communications
- speechwriting and presentations
- data collation and analysis
- training
- assisting with events and workshops
- specific projects.
Do you need help to gather up ideas and information, analyse them, and turn them into plain language?
You and your organisation may have important ideas, opinions or data on a policy issue or other subject; but no-one able to capture them, analyse them logically, and express them crisply and persuasively.
You may not need marketing or public relations, but simply someone to put the substance of what you need to communicate into well-reasoned, clear English – within the time available.
And often your only difficulty is lack of time. Managers and their teams face heavy pressures. Workload in areas like regulatory affairs has sudden peaks, so it is hard to fix resources in advance.
We provide a flexible and reliable additional resource, when it is needed.