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Communications campaigns

Communications are key in achieving behaviour change and whether you are trying to engage and encourage residents about their recycling behaviour, the sustainability of their travel habits, reducing their food waste or reducing their energy or water usage, communications will be important.


You might be trying to achieve a general awareness of a particular environmental initiative or specifically targeting particular audiences in relation to their behaviours and habits. Whatever your goal, we can get to the heart of it and achieve your objectives with incisive and informed communications and campaigns.


From planning a full, integrated communications strategy to development of specific communications elements such as a website, advertising campaign or leaflet, we can put together the messages and methods to engage, encourage, educate and enable your audiences and achieve your goals.


We have consultants with many years experience of developing and delivering successful communications approaches and in-house design capabilities to make them a reality.


Our recent work includes:

We have also developed a range of innovative and interactive food waste reduction roadshow resources which are available for sale.

Project Synopses

All change in Torbay!

Resource Futures deliver communications and community engagement activities to ensure successful service change from fortnightly co-mingled to weekly kerbside recycling

Composting in East Sussex

Householders who had never home-composted before, or those who just needed a little support, could contact the Compost Doctors over the phone, by email, at events or at talks and presentations to discuss their composting questions and issues.

Engaging the Residents of North London with Love Food Hate Waste

Resource Futures recruited and managed two embedded Outreach Workers to support the North London Waste Authority’s, WRAP funded, Love Food Hate Waste campaign. During the seven month period, the Outreach Workers organised and delivered over sixty roadshows in supermarkets, businesses, libraries and at community groups, across NLWA’s seven constituent boroughs, to engage more than 3,500 people with the campaign.

News and Events

Community RePaint: A Helping Hand for Hearts and Minds in 2011

In 2011, householders, traders and paint manufacturers donated 343,957 litres of paint to Community RePaint schemes, which then distributed 217,112 litres to community groups and individuals saving 565 tonnes of CO2 – the equivalent of taking 192 cars off our roads - and providing 766 volunteer and training opportunities. The network now has over 65 schemes across the UK with four new schemes about to start at the beginning of 2012.    

Resource Futures seeks new Non-Executive Chair

Following restructuring during 2011 Resource Futures is now looking to strengthen its Board with a new Non-Executive Chair.  The company is forecasting a three-fold increase in its profit from 2% in the year ended March 2010 to 6% for the year ending March 2012.  The new position will join Chief Executive Officer Jane Stephenson MBE and Operations Director Sam Reeve, bringing independent scrutiny and advice to this successful business at Board level. 

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