Morhamburn is a Scottish public affairs and media relations company. Based in Edinburgh, working with counterparts in London, Cardiff, Belfast and Brussels, we support companies, organisations, trade bodies and charities to help them get their message across to policymakers and the media. The aim is to change things: be it about achieving better policy, forging clearer understanding, or creating a more efficient operation.
Morhamburn is one of Scotland’s leading public affairs companies. Public Affairs is about getting evidence-based messages across to policymakers. It’s everything from persuading parliamentarians to champion a cause to ensuring people on the ground are able to share their expertise with government and local government.
At Morhamburn we use our knowledge and experience of politics and law-making to advise you how to make sure that what you have to say is heard by the people you need to reach.
If it isn’t true then it won’t work. So when we are developing policy we build it on the foundation of evidence: facts, numbers, real experience and systematic surveying of the people who are delivering in whatever field you are interested in.
Research is at the heart of what we do. We collect information all day every day and provide daily and weekly reports for different audiences. Our monitoring of the media and policy is as likely to include something from the Wall Street Journal and the European Commission as from their counterparts closer to our office. Along the way we have become acknowledged experts in, for instance, healthcare, consumer and procurement policy.
It’s sometimes difficult to separate our work with journalists from what we do with politicians. In both cases we persuade but what is different is the approach. With rather a lot of combined years of experience as journalists, we have a pretty good idea of what helps editors because we can still remember what it’s like to fill daily hours of radio and TV and the blank sheets that will be tomorrow’s paper.
We will help you devise a strategy that fits your needs with or without the lobbying bit. We will support your staff when there are nasty things to say as well as nice, provide comprehensive and entertaining media training, produce copy, publications and even speeches on your behalf and, because we have no lives, we offer a twenty-four hour press office service too.