We’re Really Good Things

A specialist strategy and communications consultancy

Hello.

Really Good Things is a small but mighty strategy + communications consultancy for the challenges we face today. Charities have to work harder than ever, customers and employees demand businesses go over and above to create a better world, and innovation moves at unprecedented pace to drive forward the positive changes we need to see.

With 20+ years’ senior strategic communications experience, Really Good Things was founded by Sarah Klaveness to combine big consultancy thinking and Director level in-house experience, with a small specialist team hands-on approach.

We help deliver transformational change for brands + causes working to make things better - whether that’s a charity that needs to challenge perceptions, a business putting people and planet first, or a world-changing innovation that needs to be shouted about.

We’re highly specialist strategic thinkers, with deep sector knowledge.

The difference we make

Strategy consultancy for purpose-driven brands
  • Customers, stakeholders, and audiences today place significant value on organisations and brands that can confidently communicate the difference they make - for people, for places, and for the planet.

    As a specialist strategy and communications consultancy, we have 20+ years’ experience of communicating impact - helping the organisations we work with to grow and be more profitable, reach new audiences, be more innovative, and be the place people want to work.

    We’ll enable you to be clear about the impact you make by answering the big questions:

    Who are we?

    What are we here to do?

    Why does that matter?

    How do we talk about it?

    What do we need to do next?

    How do we engage and inspire the right people?

  • We’re here to help you get things done, even when it’s not clear where to start.

    We bring deep knowledge of the sectors that interconnect to bring about real change - working across charities, with public-sector bodies like NHS Trusts, with responsible businesses in areas like infrastructure and construction, and with the innovation sector in areas like HealthTech and renewables.

    Because we’ve tackled complex challenges across these sectors, we are a focused expert resource to help you determine the best next steps.

    And we’ll take an integrated approach - across research, strategy, and communications - to make your ambitions a reality.

    Perhaps you want to:

    Enter a new market, or launch a new product or service.

    Influence what people think of you.

    Shift perspectives on a big issue.

    Engage your employees in increasing your social impact.

    Find a new way to articulate your value.

    Create a marketing strategy for commercial growth.

    Boost brand awareness with your key customer groups.

    If you’re a charity, you might want to reduce your reliance on trusts and grants, and build more sustainable income streams to increase unrestricted funds.

  • We work collaboratively with in-house teams, whether you’re a company at the centre of the energy transition, a building society looking to communicate purpose, a biopharmaceutical company wanting to articulate the difference you make to lives, or a charity that wants to increase awareness and raise funds.

    We work closely with in-house teams to bring focused capacity and dedicated expert thinking to your projects.

    You might want to:

    Research and create impactful case studies that evidence why your work matters.

    Spend some time mapping your stakeholders and finding out what they think and know.

    Write internal communications that will inform and inspire your employee teams.

    Give some dedicated resource to improving an area of what you do.

    Developing communications to update your communities about projects.

  • Every organisation has a big thing they are trying to achieve. We’ve probably tackled it before in one form or another, and we can give focused time and expertise to get it done; working closely with your leadership and in-house teams.

    Perhaps you want to:

    Benchmark where you are against your competitors, or look for sector trends to determine your next steps

    Develop a clear plan to launch something new

    Understand how you can increase the impact of your charity or corporate foundation

    Identify partnerships in areas that will benefit your social and environmental impact

    Determine what makes your work unique, and how to talk about the benefit you bring

    Find a way to get noticed by the right people

    Devise a campaign plan to shout about what you do

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Specialist communications consultancy for infrastructure

“We engaged Really Good Things to support the delivery of a number of strategic change programmes.

They nailed it.”

Altrad, leading international infrastructure business

Who we are

Really Good Things is a specialist strategy and communications consultancy led by Sarah Klaveness, and supported by an agile team of highly experienced senior associates.

We work across the sectors that interconnect to deliver the greatest positive change, but have particular expertise in energy and renewables, infrastructure and built environment, charity and community power, arts and culture, healthcare innovation, and corporate social impact.

We’re small but mighty.

Let’s change something.