Transcript of “Opinion Battlegrounds” Podcast By Chelgate Chairman, Terence Fane-Saunders   Welcome back to Opinion Battlegrounds. My name’s Terence Fane-Saunders , and I’m Executive Chairman of Chelgate Ltd – an international strategic PR firm specializing in Issues and Crisis Management. Usually I’m joined for these podcasts by one or two friends and colleagues, but the challenges of this virus lockdown mean that I will be flying solo for a while, talking to you from my remote self-imposed isolation here high up in the North York Moors. If you have joined us before, you’ll know what this is about. We look […]

Michael Hardware, Director of Planning and Property at Chelgate Local, has published an in PlacemakingResource on 30th March titled The Show Must Go On discussing virtual planning meetings.  You can read the article below or using this link (subscription required).     The development industry is pulling together so work can continue during the coronavirus restrictions. Efforts are being made to ensure the disruption caused to the housing supply is not too dramatic. That said, the industry, like almost all others, has been severely impacted. That impact may lessen as we settle into our new ways of working and realise what […]

  As the building industry is looking at ways it can continue to operate through the coming months, our Chelgate Local division has assembled an engagement package that takes direct contact out of the process but still enables effective consultations to take place. With most people confined to their homes, an effective campaign will be able to maximise outreach into the community and to engage hard-to-reach groups. We have created a combination of measures to promote the consultation as widely as possible within the local communities. These include direct mail to their homes, providing multiple channels for responses, increased social […]

  A great deal has happened since Chelgate decided to close its offices and move to home working’ on 10th March in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. We took an early decision to avoid travel and meetings and protect our staff, clients and prospects as the underlying spread of the virus was not being recognised or reported. Subsequent statements by the Government on 20th March and this week have sought to protect the NHS and save lives asking us all to, as far as possible, stay at home. Our teams are effectively working remotely. We have had access to […]

International Issues and Crisis Management Consultants, Chelgate Ltd have announced a switch to “minimal presence staffing” at the company’s London Headquarters.   In a memo to staff Chelgate Executive Chairman, Terence Fane-Saunders said that the company would be making “important changes to the way we work, in order to protect our staff, our clients and our business contacts. “Public transport is potentially a petri dish for the virus, and I want to minimise the degree to which people are required to expose themselves to this risk. I also want to minimise the risks created by unnecessarily bringing together groups of […]

The latest episode of our “Opinion Battlegrounds” podcast is now live. This week we are happily chewing over the Iowa fiasco, Boris the Pub Bruiser and the Labour leadership One Horse Race (or is it?) SoundCloud Download

When Chelgate Itself Was Under Attack by the Misinformation Merchants Over the years, many of our clients have been the targets of misinformation, fake facts and social media storms based around carefully planted false narratives. This is the new world of opinion battlegrounds – something we discuss in our new “Opinion Battlegrounds” podcast. But it was quite a new experience for Chelgate itself to be targeted this way. This happened shortly before Christmas. The story, in short, was that a prominent online newspaper ran a story about Chelgate that was then picked up, promoted, republished, embroidered and commented upon across […]

Chelgate has launched a new fortnightly podcast.  Called “Opinion Battlegrounds” the team discusses and dissects recent arguments, debates and controversies.  They don’t take sides or decide  who was right and who was wrong.  Their focus is on the art of persuasion; on the argument.  Who won it,  and who lost? What techniques did they apply?  Did those techniques work? Normally, Opinion Battlegrounds runs every two weeks, but for the British General Election we ran an Election Special, within a few hours of the election result. Listen to Opinion Battlegrounds with any of these links: Spotify Podcast Apple Podcast SoundCloud Podcast […]

The Chelgate team in Brussels was celebrating last week having won the ‘Best In-House Agency Collaboration’ award at the PRCA’s European Public Affairs Awards 2019. The award was given for our work with the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) to establish a new way of working with the European Union. Our aim was simple. Alongside LowCVP, we wished to develop a new working relationship with the EU Commission’s in-house scientific body, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) – a body of increasing importance in the formation of EU policy proposals. This project has been a great success over the past twelve-months […]

You are invited to our Breakfast Briefing on the impact of an aging population on housing provision     Get up to speed on the government’s latest policies and guidance on later living and explore how developers and planners can help provide housing which meets the needs of all sectors of the economy. Chelgate Local and Barton Willmore would like to invite you to a breakfast briefing on the impact of an aging population on housing provision. You will hear from the MHCLG officer responsible for development of new policy and guidance in the area, together with leading local politicians, […]