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Katie Powis
Director

A senior communications and engagement professional with over 14 years' experience of supporting clients in the public and private sectors, leading on multi-disciplinary and high-profile communications, engagement and consultation campaigns.

In the private sector, competent in the development and delivery of campaigns in the energy and built environments with a strong understanding of planning regimes for national and local infrastructure projects across the UK. Contributing to the UK's renewable energy mix by leading on the communications and engagement workstreams across projects in tidal, onshore wind, solar, battery storage and grid infrastructure.

Extensive experience in rail and bus stakeholder communications, having designed and implemented the National Bus Reform Engagement Strategy for the Bus Services (Wales) Bill, aimed at communicating the roadmap to franchising. For rail, responsibility for communicating the Wales and Borders franchising arrangements in Mid and West Wales.

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Sara Jones
Associate

Sara has been successfully delivering corporate affairs services and campaigns in Wales for over 20 years, and has vast experience working across the private, public and third sectors.

She has held several high-profile organisational roles acting as a spokesperson whilst setting and delivering on strategic vision. Her breadth of knowledge is based upon extensive experience in public relations, public affairs, stakeholder engagement, local government and crisis management. Most recently she has been working across the renewable energy sector as a consultant on projects including floating offshore wind and solar.

Sara holds a number of roles as a Non-Executive Director and is a supporter of community-based projects. She is passionate about helping to deliver social capital, lending her time and skills to local projects for the benefit of the wider community.

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Lowri Joyce
Associate (Welsh speaker)

A fluent Welsh speaker, Lowri has worked in PR and communications for over 16 years, primarily within the energy and transport sectors.

Lowri delivers on community and stakeholder engagement and consultation campaigns across local and nationally significant infrastructure projects in Wales and England. She has led on significant technical communications and engagement milestones such as final reactor shut down, nuclear generic design assessment and nuclear life cycle extension. She also has experience of working within the transport industry in rail communications and is a strategic leader in the Welsh language sector.

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Katie Powis worked as part of the team delivering stakeholder engagement and consultation communications for Y Bryn Windfarm, a Development of National Significance proposed in South Wales.
Katie provided strategic communications support to Coriolis Energy on what is a complex and challenging project. From the outset we made a commitment to engage widely with stakeholders and the local community, ensuring they were informed at all stages, Katie delivered on this commitment and with competency.
Trevor Hunter, Project Manager
Coriolis Energy
Powis Communications have supported Transport for Wales across multimodal projects since 2019, consistently demonstrating their competency and experience on all things transport, developing strategies, and delivering quality community and stakeholder engagement with passion.
They are easy to work with; confident, capable and get the job done. They deliver results quickly, and concisely, always keeping us well informed and updated. Nothing is too much trouble, they dive right into any challenge set, with a desire to resolve and deliver, and can engage with a diverse range of stakeholders at all levels.
Lois Park, Head of Community and Stakeholder Engagement
Transport for Wales
Powis Communications have worked alongside Golley Slater since 2018 delivering stakeholder relations for public sector clients across Wales.
Their expertise, knowledge and connections have consistently delivered impressive results, helping change behaviours and connecting people with essential government support.
Jemma Gabb, Head of Earned Media
Golley Slater
Powis Communications have delivered two community engagement projects across the UK on behalf of Butterfly Conservation, excelling in working with our staff and volunteers to plan and deliver the strategies.
They helped us to engage people in the community, using their knowledge of local networks and workshop development and facilitation skills, so we were able to improve and develop our volunteer engagement offer, based on feedback from partners, young people and schools. Their evaluation reports are clear and were delivered when promised – we’ll be coming back to them next time we want to work with an engagement consultancy!
Kate Barrett, Head of Volunteering
Butterfly Conservation

Meet our great team

Katie Powis worked as part of the team delivering stakeholder engagement and consultation communications for Y Bryn Windfarm, a Development of National Significance proposed in South Wales.

Powis Communications have supported Transport for Wales across multimodal projects since 2019, consistently demonstrating their competency and experience on all things transport, developing strategies, and delivering quality community and stakeholder engagement with passion.

Powis Communications have worked alongside Golley Slater since 2018 delivering stakeholder relations for public sector clients across Wales.

Powis Communications have delivered two community engagement projects across the UK on behalf of Butterfly Conservation, excelling in working with our staff and volunteers to plan and deliver the strategies.

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