Membership offer: e-shot’s email healthcheck
This is an offer from LGcomms partner e-shot. For more than 20 years our team of email experts have been helping our clients optimise their email campaigns and now we …
A masterclass in branding, campaigns and developing a commercial approach to communications
The latest session for the 2022-23 Future Leaders cohort brought us to the offices of Manchester City Council (MCC), a visit that seemed popular with the cohort’s strong and mighty North West contingent.
LGcomms: Fit for the future
Alix Macfarlane is Joint Chair LGcomms I find myself looking backwards and forwards as we reach another summer of living with Covid 19, the third summer since the pandemic changed …
Tackling inequality in public sector comms
The biggest ever survey of local public service communication teams has been launched by LGcomms in a bid to better understand diversity within the industry. The survey is first ever …
An update from Andy Allsopp
It’s become obligatory for politicians to produce 100-day reports about the whirlwind of activity and progress they’ve overseen since taking office. Well, I’m not a politician, so I’m taking the …
A question of diversity… (…and how you can help answer it)
The comms profession has a problem. OK – before you get out your own laundry list, the particular problem I want to talk about today is diversity. Diversity amongst comms …
LGcomms thanks PRCA for support as four-year relationship ends
LGcomms, the leading local authority and public service communications and marketing membership body, has thanked the PRCA for its support and development as the four-year relationship between the two draws …
Blog: why should we prioritise our politicians?
I’ll be honest with you – local politics used to baffle me. Upper tier, lower tier, counties, districts, unitary authorities, combined authorities…don’t even get me started on parish and town …
Blog: Let’s get Phygital
I really love digital. It’s probably fairly obvious from my job title. Most of my working life has been spent shouting the virtues of digital platforms, their ability to target …
Blog: Six TikTok lessons for public sector comms teams
Back when banana bread was in vogue and pandemic protections were still a thing, my team and I took a cold look at our social strategy. The results sent us …