We are
Create 51

Strategic communication and engagement specialists with expertise and experience in the regulated utility sector.

Delivering excellence for

our clients

Create 51’s work has allowed us to engage with our stakeholders more deeply and more effectively than ever before. They are an integral part of the WRSE team and I very much value their advice and guidance.

Chris Murray, Independent Chair of WRSE

Create 51 did a fantastic job supporting two national launches of the regional plans. The team showed real leadership in pulling together the five regional groups and engaging with stakeholders from across the sector to deliver excellent events. Create 51 are always professional and flexible and have a real ability to help explain complicated topics in an accessible, informative way.

Jean Spencer, Chair of the National Framework for Water Resources

The role Penny and the Create 51 team played in our recent regulatory submissions was invaluable. From long-term strategic thinking, to addressing matters of customer engagement and providing water sector insights, the Create 51 team’s overall positive can-do attitude, highly responsive outlook and sense of prioritisation were greatly appreciated and Create 51 is rightly viewed as one of our key business partners.

Paul Kerr, Chief Financial Officer, SES Water

Create 51 really embraced the spirit of innovation to create a new consultation plan which enabled us to meaningfully engage and interact with a large and varied audience.

Bob Taylor, CEO, Portsmouth Water

Having Create 51 on board supporting Spring in its vital embryonic stages to help with engagement and communications and everything in between has been a god-send. Working with them is like having an extension of your own team, reliable, insightful and downright helpful. We couldn't have done it without them.

Shaunna Berendsen, Client Programme Director, Spring

The stakeholder webinars which they organised and hosted were particularly successful and well received by those who attended.

Nick Price, Water Resources Planning Manager, Southern Water

 

Our

Work

Environment Agency

Stakeholder Document

Water Resources South East

Engagement and consultation strategy

WaterSafe

Communications strategy

UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) and Spring

Engagement and communications strategy

New Havant Thicket Reservoir

Engagement and communications strategy

Southern Water

Engagement and communications strategy

National Framework for Water Resources

Delivering national webinars

Environment Agency

Stakeholder Document

Water Resources South East

Engagement and consultation strategy

WaterSafe

Communications strategy

UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) and Spring

Engagement and communications strategy

New Havant Thicket Reservoir

Engagement and communications strategy

Southern Water

Engagement and communications strategy

National Framework for Water Resources

Delivering national webinars

Environment Agency

Stakeholder Document

Water Resources South East

Engagement and consultation strategy

WaterSafe

Communications strategy

UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) and Spring

Engagement and communications strategy

New Havant Thicket Reservoir

Engagement and communications strategy

Southern Water

Engagement and communications strategy

National Framework for Water Resources

Delivering national webinars

This is 

what we do...

We evaluate where you are and where you want (or need) to be – and help transform your engagement and communications to get there.

01

Integrated insight and communication

Companies use our expertise to help them integrate the insight gained from their customers and stakeholders into their over-arching engagement and communication strategies and programme of activities.

We often work with in-house teams to support delivery of these, working across corporate communications, policy and public affairs, stakeholder and reputation management, customer research and engagement, design, digital and social media disciplines.

02

Impactful stakeholder engagement

How your business looks and interacts engages with a wide range of stakeholders says a lot about how your business and its brand is perceived.

Our expertise includes stakeholder engagement that identifies and maps key stakeholders – and the interest and influence they will have on your business – to devise the most appropriate and effective methods of engagement.

Companies can then use this insight to inform strategic and tactical decisions that drive a change in how you do business or shape your future plans, as well as influencing changes to future policy and regulation.

03

Creative customer engagement

Insight-led communications and engagement with your customers needs to be based on regular, ongoing conversations. These can then be translated into future strategic and operational plans or programmes of work.

We regularly work with companies, and their insight and research teams, to not only help devise programmes of customer engagement to understand what is most important to them, but ensure there is a clear link thread between “you said, we did” for those scrutinising your work.

04

Compelling reports, plans and strategies

We can help your business develop a compelling story by translating highly technical and complex information into accessible and digestible formats – not least as we recognise that one size does not fit all. That is why we advocate the ‘taste, snack, feast’ approach so the information and the way it is presented can be tailored depending on who is being targeted and why.

We can also use content in more visually-engaging presentations and across digital channels – for example through well organised and professionally-hosted webinars.