Public Affairs
Our public affairs work helps you navigate political pressure, identify opportunity and engage with stakeholders who shape outcomes. We combine principled counsel, research and practical experience to guide clear communication and confident decision making in complex or fast moving environments.
Specialisms
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Campaigns
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Select Committee Training
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Perceptions Audit
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Lodestone Foresight
#INVESTHER
Lodestone led a pro bono campaign #InvestHER to reverse legislation that would have a disproportionate impact on female founders and investors.
Following a six-week campaign, our call – to reverse the income threshold change for angel investors from £100,000 per year to £170,000 – was heard and the Spring Budget 2024 announced a reversal to law. We joined the City Minister at No11 to discuss our campaign and how to unlock finance for female founders the following day.
Other services
“Lodestone helped us to refine and focus our public affairs approaches so that our communications became tighter and our efforts more targeted. As a charity with a huge impact but a tight budget this support and advice has been invaluable. Everyone we work with on the Lodestone team is always intelligent, insightful, well connected and well informed, and a delight to work with.”
“Our objective was raising our profile in the political sphere and working with Lodestone has really brought that on. It’s a really refreshing approach that Lodestone takes. It’s looking at our individual problems and making bespoke solutions for how to address them whether that’s with politicians or by doing wider campaigns.”
“Lodestone supported Nominet in delivering a roundtable in the House of Commons on Defending the Free and Open Internet, featuring high level political and industry speakers, including the relevant minister, their shadow and a select committee chair. The Lodestone team offered expert, bespoke support across the entire project from concept to delivery, using their experience in the tech sector and vast network to curate an event which was timely, relevant and of interest to parliamentarians and industry leaders. Lodestone helped us in securing the desired outcome of positioning Nominet as a leading convener in this space.”
“Lodestone provide PICTFOR with secretariat services and are responsible for curating our annual events programme, holding regular policy discussions with our industry members and parliamentarians to provide 10-12 parliamentary events a year. Lodestone’s vast network in the tech sector is invaluable to PICTFOR which prides itself on championing diverse voices from across the sector. Lodestone have grown the PICTFOR membership, creating a broad church of diverse members who contribute to and sponsor our dynamic events.”
“Lodestone supported Birmingham City University to deliver an event in the House of Lords to promote our work on diversity in the creative arts. The event was a phenomenal success – the expertise, advice, and contacts Lodestone brought to our event was without doubt key to its smooth delivery, attendance by key stakeholders and the wonderful feedback we have received. It was a genuine pleasure working with the team and we absolutely couldn’t have done it in the way we did without them.”