Orlo’s Partners
We’re on a mission to build an amazing group of kindred spirits that share Orlo’s goal of building trust in communities through brilliant conversations. Together, we share best practice and industry insights, and collaborate on exciting initiatives. Meet our fantastic partners or, and if you think you’d make a great partner for us, get in touch!
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Darren Caveney
Creater and Owner
comms2point0 and Creative Communicators ltd
His 28 years in communications, PR and marketing include 10 years as a Head of Comms in local government and two years as a Director of Comms in the NHS. He has delivered in-house training and consultancy for over 300 organisations and has worked directly with 80 councils on a range of consultancy, training and support plus NHS, government departments, universities, housing, blue lights and third-sector organisations.
Expertise
As well as bespoke comms and PR consultancy support, including comms and social media reviews, Darren delivers bespoke training for in-house teams including:
Supercharged social media
Strategy surgery
Creative campaigns
Narrative development
Powered-up podcasts
Mental health and wellbeing for comms teams
An A-Z of public affairs
Georgia Turner
Owner
Georgia Turner Communications
I’m a creative, credible communications professional with 25 years of experience in leading comms, marketing, engagement, consultation and research teams and projects within the public sector. I understand the pressures and possibilities, complexities and capabilities, fun and frustrations of public sector comms and engagement. I use this knowledge to provide advice, capacity and support to my clients for both short-term commissions and longer-term contracts.
Expertise
I specialise in:
Comms and engagement strategy development, for whole organisations or to support priority programmes, projects and issues
Bringing creativity and drive to your comms activities
Communications capacity and capability reviews and structural change
Training to improve your team members’ skills, effectiveness and impact
Mentoring to support team professional and personal development
Leading impactful, brand-enhancing campaigns that influence change in perception or behaviour
Strategic narrative and brand creation and implementation
Stakeholder relationship management
Interim communications leadership
Luan Wise
Owner
Luan Wise
Luan Wise is a Chartered Marketer and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, with over 20 years’ experience in agency, client-side, and consultancy roles. Luan is a specialist in social media, training thousands of professionals across the world to understand and maximise the opportunities available from an ever-changing landscape. Luan is a LinkedIn Learning course instructor, an accredited lead trainer for Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and a coach for Google’s Digital Garage initiative. Luan has written multiple award-winning books about social media marketing and regularly shares social media news and updates via her resource website, www.thelighthouse.social.
Expertise
As an experienced social media consultant, Luan offers social media consultancy sessions on an ad-hoc or retained basis, and also project-based support via social media audits and competitive benchmarking reports. You can learn with Luan via webinars, open workshops or in-house training programmes. Visit www.luanwise.co.uk.
Alex Waddington
Founder
Whetstone Communications
Alex Waddington is the founder of Whetstone Communications. A journalist by training, he is an award-winning leader with deep experience of strategic communications and marketing in top universities, a major police force, and an international charity.
He is a passionate advocate for data-in-communications, using it to help ambitious in-house teams plan campaigns, understand strengths and weaknesses, and tell stories.
Alex supports the wider development of not-for-profit communications professionals by hosting free workshops and webinars on data and AI, and contributes to key events such as the LGcomms Academy, Comms Unplugged and (of course) the Orlo Tour.
Away from comms, he is a Trustee of the Peak District National Park Foundation, and enjoys cycling and climbing mountains.
James Morton
Communications Consultant and Founder
Turn The Page
James has spent the last 20 years creating stories with impact. From an initial career in journalism, he moved into communications with the fire service and became chair of the FirePRO comms network for two years. A graduate of the LGcomms Future Leader programme, he spent five years with creative agency Alive With Ideas.
At Alive, he led numerous award-winning campaigns, comms and branding projects for the public sector, as well as charities and businesses. He created Turn The Page to unleash the power of stories across comms and campaigns and create genuine impact.
Joanne Ford
Communications Consultant
Joanne Ford Communications
Joanne is an award-winning communications professional with 16 years’ experience in public sector comms. Following previous roles at Renfrewshire Council and as Communications Manager at Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, she is now a Communications Consultant and Copywriter supporting public sector comms teams to develop successful communications strategies, deliver creative campaigns and nail their narrative.
Expertise
Storytelling, narrative & tone of voice
Creative campaigns
Communications Strategy
Copywriting & editing
Stakeholder engagement
Communications team development and mentoring
Rebecca Roberts
Founder
Thread & Fable
Rebecca Roberts is founder of Thread & Fable and has more than 20 years’ experience across marketing and communications, with a particular specialism in youth audiences. She’s worked in Premiership Football, across three Olympic and Paralympic cycles, and was a Deputy Director of student recruitment, marketing and communications at a University, before setting up Thread & Fable in 2017. Working across sports, education, public and charity sectors, she’s delivered impactful interim support, expert consultancy and numerous campaigns scaling teams to suit clients, for over a dozen FE and HE clients, the NHS, Plan International UK, Youth Sport Trust, and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office among many others. Her regular engaging youth updates and research helps other marketing and comms teams better reach young audiences, alongside hosting the Hear It Podcast, delivering talks and workshops.
Find out more at threadandfable.com.
Expertise
Rebecca works with clients on an interim or project basis and delivers work through the Thread & Fable Collective by scaling a team to suit clients’ needs.
Marketing & Communications Strategy
Campaign development, delivery and measurement
Content: social strategy, marketing copy, research, articles and PR, creative briefs and management of omnichannel content strategies
Audience insight and research into youth audiences
Message development
Podcast development and delivery
Workshops/team sessions
Public speaking
Orlo’s strategic collaborators
e-shot™ is the digital engagement platform trusted by the public sector to send highly effective campaigns. Whether it is newsletters to millions or targeted messages to individuals, e-shot gives you a simple solution for sending omnichannel and accessible messaging to your audience.
Neighbours around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbours, businesses, and public services. We believe connecting with others is a universal human need. That truth, and the reality that neighbourhoods are among the most important communities in our lives, have been guiding principles for Nextdoor since the beginning.
Participation People puts youth voice at the centre of positive change. We use playful practice that young people relish (love) whilst remaining serious about the solutions we’re creating for our clients. Our expertise ensures meaningful change by co-creating your brand, services and product offering with the young people they impact. We use insight from young minds to bring fresh perspectives, informing the deliverability and outcomes of all our projects. This means better business decisions and longevity of impact are the norm. This improves the effectiveness of your strategies and services, the practice of your staff, and the lives of children and young people.
We are authentic about youth voice, with young people part of our team, shaping our proposals and honing our focus. We make youth voice a part of organisations’ DNA. We build, with young people, positive legacies for those we work with. Participation People would love to help create that impact for you, too.
LGComms is a national body comprising an association of organisations working to raise the standard of communications across the public sector. Members have access to a wide range of seminars, resources and briefings on current communications topics in the sector, alongside events including their flagship annual Academy national conference. LGComms is also committed to creating an inclusive future for public sector comms as part of its Future Leaders programme.
CAN is a media-buying and campaign-management agency that only works with public sector organisations and their partners. We have been delivering low-cost-per-outcome, measurable media-buying across digital channels and empowering local government teams to unlock income and savings from their owned assets since 2014. We know public sector communications people are having to address some of the hardest issues with some of the smallest budgets. We are on your team!
Expertise
- Generating income from advertising that aligns with public policy: income that can be reinvested to bolster tight communications budgets.
- Media-buying and managing programmatic advertising campaigns that reduce waste and improve performance.
- Collating and analysing data sets to better define problems public sector organisations need to solve through their campaigns and meaningfully measuring their impact.
- Making use of council-owned channels (website, email and out-of-home) and audiences to improve campaign performance free of charge.
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