About
“What we like about Cast from Clay is your ideas. You take us out of our comfort zone.”
Cynthia Mugo International Livestock Research Institute
We are a strategic communications consultancy for non-profits that want to influence policy. We advise our clients on both what they should be developing to have policy influence, and practically how to do it.
“What we like about Cast from Clay is your ideas. You take us out of our comfort zone.”
Cynthia Mugo International Livestock Research Institute
Policy Unstuck?
Policy Unstuck is our weekly interview series. We’ve interviewed nearly 100 ministers, political advisers, and policy leaders to build a dataset of what works. Not necessarily what the consultancy case studies or the award ceremony submissions say worked, but what worked from the decision-maker’s perspective, in what way, and why.
We publish 800 word edits of those interviews, which you can subscribe to receive {HERE}. And we use those insights in our client work to challenge assumptions and default ways of working, helping us to do things like run a campaign that led to several countries {ADOPTING NEW POLICY COMMITMENTS} or devising a new way for a client to {APPROACH HUMANITARIAN ADVOCACY}.
Our team
Aneesha Madugalle
Senior Consultant
Cat Carvalho
Senior Designer
Danny Godfrey
Junior Consultant
Jamie Horton
Lead Consultant
Johnny Luk
Senior Adviser
Keith Burnet
Senior Counsel
Marie Guirlet
Brand & Graphic Designer
Marta Prokopiv
Junior Developer
Natallia Nenarokamava
Head of Strategy
Nazar Pelekh
Senior Developer
Nicholas Taylor
Commercial Director
Oleh Kachmar
Developer
Seb Arvai
Digital PM
Tom Hashemi
CEO
Volodymyr Senyk
Senior Developer
Our services
ServicesStrategy
We help you figure out what needs to happen.
Creative
We help you figure out how it needs to happen.
Digital
We help you make it happen.
Let’s get your policy unstuck.
Hire us to run a policy impact diagnostic.
Not making the progress you want?
We’ll apply the lessons of the Policy Unstuck interview series to your policy area, building on the insight from dozens of interviews with ministers, special advisers and former civil servants, and combine that with bespoke stakeholder research to give you a view on what is holding you back.
You can get a sense of the questions we’ll be answering by reviewing our 10 Commandments of Policy Impact. It’s a 2 month process, costing £20,000+VAT, and you’ll leave with a set of practical, tangible recommendations on what you need to do. Book a call with Tom to discuss further.
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