Telling Your Best Story

Ensuring your target audiences understand your organisation’s real impact

Public First

Across the world, Public First is trusted to help tell the impact story of global brands like Google because we take a radically different approach to traditional economics consultancies. From Germany to Nigeria to the UAE, we help organisations explain how their work contributes to the economic and social wellbeing of their market.

We take your stories as seriously as we take your numbers. Economic and social impact reports must be written for external, non-specialist audiences – not just those with a pre-existing interest in a particular organisation or sector.

Our Team
Rachel Wolf
Founding Partner; former policy adviser to three Prime Ministers
Natascha Engel
Partner; former MP and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, and Government Commissioner
Gabriel Milland
Partner; former political journalist and Head of Communications in Whitehall
James Frayne
Founding Partner; former Director of Communications in Whitehall; Opinion research and polling expert
Jonathan Dupont
Director; former senior fellow at Policy Exchange; Quantitative research expert
Jonathan Simons
Director; former head of Open Public Services at Cabinet Office; Strategy unit and Treasury for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
Luke Tryl
Former Special Advisor and Civil Service Strategy Director
Seb Wride
Research Manager; psychologist; polling and behavioural research expert
Ruth Newton
Policy Analyst; Economist and econometric analysis expert
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Our Services

By bringing together our different specialisms, Public First can help you develop evidence and find the best framing to make your argument compelling to  policy makers

Data

• Modelling
• Economic and social impact
• Forecasts
Opinion Research

• Polling
• Focus groups
Policy

• Policy design
• Literature reviews
• Workshops and roundtables
Communications

• PDF and HTML report design
• Animation and video
• PR and media support
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Our Reach

Public First has worked to support brands and institutions across the globe to demonstrate their impact.

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The average household would rather lose their car, TV licence or an hour’s sleep than access to online search

– Google’s Economic Impact, Public First, 2020

Most popular uses for Google Search in
Germany (size=popularity)
 
 
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if we could boost cloud prevalence in the North East to match that of London, it would help boost local productivity and wages by the equivalent of three years’ worth of pay rises.

– The Impact of AWS in the UK, Public First, 2020

Today, AWS is being used by many leading British brands
Pfizer

Pfizer’s Sandwich site generates £212 million in additional tax revenues for the government, enough to fund an additional 3,730 nurses for the NHS.

– The impact of Pfizer’s Sandwich site in the UK, Public First, 2020

Productivity across industries (£ per hour) 
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“This report provides a comprehensive, carefully evaluated, and highly logical package of economy-wide and sectoral policy options to implement ambitious goals for progressively decarbonising the UK economy”

Ian Parry, Principal Environmental Fiscal Policy Expert, International Monetary Fund

The Impact of a Carbon Charge in the UK

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“VISITS TO THE POST OFFICE HELP DRIVE ANOTHER 400 MILLION VISITORS TO OTHER SHOPS, RESTAURANTS AND LOCAL BUSINESSES”

– The Economic and Social Impact of the Post Office, Public First, 2020

Two-thirds of Britons (67%) have a Post Office within a ten minute journey
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