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Email Library Campaign: Ofgem Energy Aware
February 7th, 2023 - Harry Thomas
Ofgem's Energy Aware campaign provides information on ways to reduce energy use, cut costs, pointing consumers towards financial schemes and...
Email Library Campaign: Help for Households
February 2nd, 2023 - Harry Thomas
A campaign to raise awareness of the support available amongst those that need it most.You can access the resources available to this campaign...
Cookies and Challenges: An interview with Joanne Sweeney
December 8th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess
Cookies and Challenges with Joanne SweeneyThis week I was delighted to talk to the multi-award-winning Joanne Sweeney, Chief Executive of the...
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New email library for national campaign toolkits
November 30th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess
On 30th November at #CommsAcad 2022, LGcomms and e-shot launched a new resource for LGcomms members. Have you noticed that in many of the national...
Building successful behavioural change campaigns
October 18th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess
Many government communications seek to change behaviours in order to implement government policy or improve society.The objective of most behaviour...
Forfront awarded G-Cloud 13 framework contract
September 16th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess
Tailored e-shot™ packages available on G-Cloud 13 from November 2022. Forfront, a UK-based software house, is delighted to announce that nine of...
Are your emails digitally certified?
August 9th, 2022 - Dan Hare
Apple is set to make changes to the way email is handled on the iPhone in September with the introduction of the iOS16 update. From this point,...
Cyber-attack learnings for Local Government
March 3rd, 2022 - Sadie Burgess
In January the Government announced that local authorities will receive £37.8m to boost their cyber resilience.The funding has been announced as...
Retaining resident engagement in 2022
February 7th, 2022 - Sadie Burgess
I have to start this piece by acknowledging we are not actually out of the Covid-woods yet – however we are now moving into a more stable period...
Cyber Essentials Plus
December 16th, 2021 - Sadie Burgess
Forfront is proud to announce that it has achieved the Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation. .Cyber Essentials is a Government-backed and...
Accessibility Best practice Public Sector
Great quality copy is effective and inclusive
December 2nd, 2021 - Sadie Burgess
As communicators, we want to get out our message successfully. A copywriter’s work is about crafting clear, concise, compelling copy. But writing...
Public Sector Best practice Accessibility
Accessible Communication: A new standard set by Essex County Council
November 25th, 2021 - Sadie Burgess
This week we were lucky enough to attend the Public Service Communications Academy event.The Public Service Communications Academy (Academy) is a...
Public Sector Template showcase
Local Government email templates
November 19th, 2021 - Sadie Burgess
Our design team are always working hard to come up with new, engaging and useful templates, be it functional, seasonal or special interest. Each...
What Impact will social value have?
November 2nd, 2021 -
Social value is not just important because the Cabinet Office say it is, but government departments, suppliers and indeed, the charities who stand...
New guidance on public sector communications
September 1st, 2021 - Sadie Burgess
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published a new resource to help public sector organisations understand when the direct marketing...
Software + Service = Success
June 7th, 2021 - Sadie Burgess
Forfront are delighted to, once again, offer services through both G-Cloud and DOS frameworks. But the benefit of being able to offer not only an...
SMS Best practice Public Sector
How the Public Sector can alert and engage with SMS
March 2nd, 2021 - Sadie Burgess
The value of SMS as a direct and effective marketing tool is well documented, but a growing number of public sector organisations are beginning to...
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