About us
JFG Comms is a virtual public affairs consultancy specialising in stakeholder engagement, political communications, and diversity. We work with customers in the transport, infrastructure and construction sectors.
We're experts in creating innovative ways to connect people and policymakers to enable better policy. We provide the creative spark to help companies develop and achieve their communications and stakeholder engagement goals.
Our story
Less than one quarter of UK transport workers are women. After returning from maternity leave and noticing the lack of female role models in the sector, our founder, Jo Field decided to take action. She used her campaigning expertise to drive forward the women in transport agenda and reach out to inspire young women to choose transport careers. As a result, Jo won the everywoman in Transport and Logistics Industry Champion award in May 2016. This inspired Jo to set up JFG Comms later that year.
Our purpose is to improve communications and engagement on transport and infrastructure projects. This will help the industry reach a wider audience and encourage more women to consider transport careers.
We work with customers and partners aligned with our purpose and together we deliver great campaigns.
How we can help
Transport is at the forefront of the Covid-19 crisis. From operating frontline services, to making sure our supermarkets are stocked and our packages are delivered on time, transport is keeping Britain moving in these challenging times.
But transport is also facing considerable set-backs. Services have been decreased while people stay at home, reducing passenger numbers and fare income. As lockdown restrictions are eased, transport operators need to introduce social distancing as well as building people’s confidence to return. The sector needs to encourage more walking and cycling as well as dissuading people from getting back in their cars.
For transport policymakers, there is also the opportunity of harnessing some of the positives from the ‘new normal’. As the biggest emitter of carbon, transport is at the forefront of the climate crisis. More people working from home and travelling less has considerable environmental benefits. These could be integrated into transport planning for the future.
New transport infrastructure is also an important part of the recovery. It will create jobs and skills as we build our way out of recession.
Customer and stakeholder advocacy
Transport, infrastructure and construction businesses are asking how they can improve relationships with customers and stakeholders to gain a competitive edge and emerge from the covid-19 crisis stronger than before.
Effective communications and engagement are key to managing disruption, protecting your company’s reputation, and keeping your customers and employees loyal.
We can help you develop your communications and engagement strategy, position your narrative and build customer and stakeholder confidence in new products, services and ways of working that are emerging in response to covid-19.
We will help you understand changing government priorities and build stakeholder advocacy about what your company does, allowing you to influence the policy agenda and ensure your business’s performance thrives.
Improving gender balance
With men making up nearly 80 per cent of the workforce in the UK’s transport sector, there remains a deepening under-representation of women. Diversifying your workforce not only produces a pipeline of talent for the future, but also boosts your bottom-line. Research shows organisations with diverse teams are more likely to outperform their competitors. Building a diverse workforce is now more important than ever. We can support all aspects of your diversity and inclusion programme and help you build a more diverse team.
We have the knowledge and expertise to advise businesses and help ensure they come out of the covid-19 crisis stronger than ever before. Please contact us to discuss your requirements or sign up to our blog for news and advice.
A growing body of research finds that the more diverse and inclusive an organisation, the better positioned it is to attract, retain, engage and advance talent, and the more productive, creative, and, ultimately, profitable, it is likely be. This is of huge importance to the traditionally male-dominated transport sector as it faces a future in which constant innovation is crucial to on-going success.
Transport
Construction and Engineering
Gender Diversity and Pay Gap
The transport industry contributes over £90 billion a year to the UK economy. But a wealth of reports warn the industry must undergo a radical overhaul to remain competitive in the face of disruptive forces, such as Brexit, globalisation and technological innovation.
As the transport and infrastructure sectors undergo unprecedented change, organisations are asking themselves how they can better communicate with customers, engage their stakeholders and use their positions of influence to inform policy.
Strong inter-industry and public relations are becoming more and more essential as transport projects increase in size, ambition and scope. Projects, for example, like London's Crossrail, which...
Each of these pillars requires carefully planned communication and engagement strategies.
JFG Communications specialises in working with transport and infrastructure organisations to develop innovative strategies and campaigns to help them inform, consult and engage their stakeholders. We help companies develop and influence policy, build stakeholder support, partnerships and advocacy, and protect reputations. We provide specialist stakeholder engagement training to boost your team's skills. We advise businesses on how they can create gender diversity and inclusivity policies and communications to increase female representation at all levels. To learn more about how JFG Comms can help your organisation with any of the above transport and infrastructure issues, check out our work or get in touch.
We're proud to be providing stakeholder engagement, public affairs and diversity consultancy to a number of high-profile brands. We're also creating innovative partnerships to help improve gender diversity in transport. Here are some of our current and recent customers and partners.
We're working with the Transport Planning Society on their Transport Planning Day campaign to highlight best practice in engaging and empowering communities, and putting people at the heart of transport plans. The 2019 campaign is live and inviting nominations for the People's Award for a transport planning initiative that has improve people's everyday lives.
The 2018 campaign was named as a finalist in this year's CIPR Excellence awards. The campaign was also shortlisted for Best In-house / Consultancy collaboration in the 2018 Public Affairs awards.
We worked with Better Bankside on stakeholder engagement for the Low Line, a new world-class walking destination for South London.
Our Founder, Jo Field, is a CIPR trainer and delivers the stakeholder engagement course.
We worked with the CIPR's construction and propety special interest group, researching the opinions of women working in construction PR.
APPG for Women in Transport
We worked with Heathrow to develop a suite of diversity and inclusion communications materials to give senior-leaders the know-how to establish diverse teams