News, views
and opinions

Last week was quite a week for team DTW, and a career highlight for me, personally. After three amazing years of working with Sunderland City Council and contractor Farrans Victor Buyck Joint Venture on the city’s new impressive cable stayed bridge, Northern Spire finally opened to traffic. Our role throughout had been to use our knowledge and experience in working with large infrastructure projects to provide support around community engagement, media and public relations, education, social media and video production. It was an enormous task, but one we did with gusto – embedding ourselves with the on-site team, sometimes working

Katie Mitchell is a Junior Creative at DTW specialising in film and digital engagement. Oh, and she does a nice sideline in standing in for members of the Royal Family. Here’s her story of the opening of the Mersey Gateway Bridge. There was much excitement in the DTW office when we were first told Her Majesty the Queen and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Sussex would be officially opening the Mersey Gateway Bridge. From the PR and social media teams, to the animation and video crew – it was all hands on deck to get everything ready for the

Our specialism in infrastructure PR and communications has been paying dividends. We’re proud to say we have picked up two PRCA DARE awards – one for our work on the Northern Spire project with Sunderland City Council, which was awarded Best Public Sector Campaign, whilst work on projects like Mersey Gateway and others in the infrastructure sector was critical in helping us secure the Best Large Consultancy award. We’re really chuffed with both of them – as it recognises our passionate and talented team delivering customer-focused solutions to achieve outstanding results for our clients. The judges comments were great –

Learning. People. A Great Place. Just three reasons why here at DTW towers we’re looking forward to next months CIPR Northern Conference. Learning Anyone who works in the PR and comms industry who has a spare day (haha, but you know what I mean) on Friday 13th July should get themselves booked in now. With a streamline of PR: The Art and Science of Engagement – it’s a stellar line-up and the learning opportunities will be awesome. Want to know how to ‘prepare for’ and deal with nerve agent attacks a la Salisbury (Laurie Bell – Wiltshire Council), learn about

DTW has been awarded a place on ESPO’s National Consultancy 664 Framework for Marketing, Communications and PR (Lot 9b). The framework is available for use by any UK-based public sector organisations and provides buyers with an efficient and compliant route to a broad range of professional disciplines and expertise which can be purchased directly or using mini-competition. We know that procurement can be a big challenge for public sector bodies when it comes to getting high-quality suppliers they need in place quickly. We’ve found that frameworks like ESPO’s Consultancy Services framework can be a big help in helping public sector