Hough Bellis Communications

From our homes to yours... here's wishing all of our clients, colleagues and friends the very best for the festive period. As always, we'll be available throughout the next week if you need us for anything. Otherwise we look forward to seeing everyone in 2025!

Best of luck in your new role Ben Powell. We're sure we'll see you in 2025 for a brew in Chester.

Wildlife populations are plummeting! Our friends at Garden Organic are raising funds to help their mission to reverse biodiversity loss and end climate chaos. 🐝🌳🦋🌷 Find our more here or get in touch with the wonderful Hannah Rogers 👇👇👇👇👇👇 https://lnkd.in/eRSvWHc8

Always great catching up with Bobbie Hough from Hough Bellis Communications to discuss strategic comms. We first met three years ago when I introduced him to our charity, and I remain hugely grateful for his ongoing advice and support for The Joshua Tree. His expertise in strategic comms and campaign planning is invaluable. We are fortunate to have Hough Bellis Communications as a charity partner. Based near The Joshua Tree, they work on a national level, delivering impactful projects that improve people's lives, be sure to check them out!

🎉 It’s Heat Trust’s ninth birthday! Since our scheme’s launch on 25 November 2015, we’ve grown from protecting 15,000 heat network consumers to 85,000 today. We’re very proud of how our small non-profit organisation has paved the way for future Ofgem regulation of heat networks. We launched two years before the Competition and Markets Authority began its market study of heat networks that resulted in its 2018 call for Ofgem to regulate the sector. We were then, and continue to be, the only consumer-protection scheme for heat networks. Our work has led the way in setting standards of customer care with a proven and scalable assurance framework. Heat Trust registration gives consumers confidence that their heat supplier has not just made a commitment to delivering best-in-class customer service in principle, or on paper, but is independently monitored and held to account against clear standards. Only consumers on Heat Trust registered heat networks are currently able to access the Energy Ombudsman for customer service complaints. Heat Trust’s scheme standards are the foundations on which Ofgem is building its future regulations and we’ll maintain them until equivalent Ofgem protections are both in place and enforced from around 2027. As we enter our tenth year, our priorities remain protecting consumers on our registered heat networks and helping as many heat suppliers as possible get #RegulationReady by registering with us and meeting our standards. Heat Trust registration continues to be a requirement of several government funding schemes for heat networks, including the Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) and Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP). #HeatNetworks #ConsumerProtection

We’re celebrating another year of our brilliant partnership with the team at Studio 91. Together we create video content that brings stories to life for projects that improve people’s lives. For the past three years we’ve been working with the team offering cutting-edge production services that turn concepts into polished and professional content. Video is no longer a nice to have when it comes to storytelling – audiences demand it. The latest data from Ofcom shows that as many people now get their main news from social media video platform TikTok as do from the Guardian. Almost 70% of people say they want to hear about services via video rather than text. So, whether it’s for campaigns, community engagement or internal comms, drop us a line today to find out how we can bring your stories to life. Ben Horrigan 🎥 Video Producer

Newsletter Alert 🚨 Check out our latest 💸budget special💸 roundup, which covers the essential takeaways from Labour's budget unveiling and updates from the Hough Bellis team. Read here 👇

In his latest article for HQN, Bobbie Hough of Hough Bellis Communications argues that Tenant Satisfaction Measures have been a good thing for social housing https://lnkd.in/e5qiJxdW #ukhousing

New regulations in the housing world aren't currently topping the "looming reputational dangers" list for many local authority communicators - but they probably should be (!) Really pleased to share a panel with the marvellous Bobbie Hough at LGcomms Academy yesterday, talking all things TSMs, C-gradings, and what this all means for councils. Huge thanks to Louise Neilan who had the idea for the session and worked with me to pull it all together; and also to the comms leads who came along and had so many questions to ask and insightful.points to raise. You were brilliant 👏 Elsewhere on day two, the session on what our new Government means for local government left me with lots of fresh ideas to take back to Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, while the "unconference" slot, led by the ever-brilliant Helena Hornby , found me in a breakout discussing the challenges of SEND comms and provision - and what we as communicators can do to help families. Genuinely loved being a part of Academy again this year. So many people told us it was their best yet; which was in no small part down to the energy and enthusiasm of host Lucy Downham Chart. PR and the Wigan team. It'll be a challenge for me and fellow LGComms exec members/organisers to try and better it in Bristol in 2025... best get to it! Andy Allsopp Alix Macfarlane Danni Clayton Eddie Coates-Madden Michael Stringer Andrew Hadfield-Ames Georgia Turner Chart.PR MCIPR Kerry Middleton Louise Gibson Chart.PR

🎥The HB team is out filming in Liverpool today, working on an exciting new project! 👀🎬