What you should know about Principle Consulting?
We are the leading consultancy for charity public affairs, policy and campaigning work. We strive towards a fairer, more just society by empowering charities to develop impactful policy solutions and get their voices heard through effective public affairs and creative campaigns.
Our central mission has three key areas:
For over 20 years we have continuously secured significant, lasting, policy and legislative change, advising and supporting over 60 third-sector organisations across policy areas including health, children’s rights, homelessness, refugee and migrant rights, education and volunteering.
We’ve ensured charities are heard at Westminster, devolved and local governments and received multiple high profile awards for our game changing work. We bring a unique perspective as an agency rooted in the work and priorities of our individual charity clients, whilst at the same time, bringing insights and intelligence from our work across the sector, adding value and driving innovation. Our 20 Years of Impact Report tells the story of our 20 years of partnership, innovation and change.
“Principle have been integral to our work in securing Government support to eliminate hepatitis C in the UK. It’s been an incredible long term partnership and has helped transform hepatitis C prioritisation and care.”
CEO, The Hepatitis C Trust, 2025
We believe that making a difference should be accessible to all.
As a not for profit social enterprise we offer affordable rates for our expert services on purpose, because we want our services to be a resource for the charity sector – affordable for organisations with limited budgets and enabling those with larger budgets to maximise capacity and outcomes.
“Principle’s social enterprise model delivers exceptional value for money because it comes with high quality advice.”
Director of Strategy & Communications, St John Ambulance, 2021
As a not for profit social enterprise we are dedicated to ensuring that careers in charity policy, public affairs and campaigns are accessible to people of all backgrounds and life experiences. We use our funds to resource our widening access internship and work experience programme for students learning English as an additional language, as well as, schools and colleges outreach. Since 2020, we have hosted six widening access internships to break down barriers to getting into work in our sector and our work experience partnership with Uxbridge College is in its ninth year.
Internships | Work experience | Schools outreach
“The Principle internship programme was my first real introduction to the world of policy and public affairs, and it gave me a genuine head-start into the sector. It helped me see how policy and public affairs worked in practice, hone in on the areas I enjoyed most – working with health charities – and gave me a strong foundation from which to build my career.”
Previous Intern
We aim to build packages that suit your requirements, by only deploying the most necessary tools and services which will lead you to the greatest impact.
We take take a Theory of Change approach to campaign strategy, analysing the picture from where you want to be all the way back to where you are now, taking a holistic view of the strategy needed to achieve your goals.
We pull together the right mix of our policy development, public affairs advocacy and creative campaigns skillsets and expertise needed to achieve the policy change you want to see. By considering all aspects, we ensure the approach agreed is cohesive, strategic, and aligned with your long-term objectives - bringing your key stakeholders along with us.
Working alongside your expert team, the work will get underway to support you to achieve your charity’s policy, public affairs, and campaigning goals.
Principle Consulting (trading name) is the same company as Principle Affairs Ltd, company number 05467588 (full details available on Companies House).
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