2023 highlights from our UK team

With ground breaking project launches, overwhelming responses from our customers and industry led pieces of recognition, the beginning of 2023 has undoubtedly set the stage for an exciting year ahead!

New deployment launches 🚀

Environment Agency Lincolnshire Coast

Our 9th deployment to go live with the Environment Agency is being used to share information about coastal erosion and the benefits their man-made defences are having on the communities who live, work and visit behind them.

Dundee City Council

Hello Lamp Post is working with Sustainable Dundee to share information about how the community can take action to fight climate change. Topics cover a wide spectrum from: LED Lights, Active Travel, Air Pollution, Green Spaces, Local Services and more. Users will even have the opportunity to win a prize if they take our Dundee Climate Action quiz! Find out more.

South West Water

We’re being used to help improve waste water management and the health of our rivers. We’re achieving this by encouraging people visiting to check the safety of the rivers at that specific moment and provide real-time observations around the quality of the water. Learn more.

Nottingham City Council

We’re working with the council and university to chat with various members of the community about how they feel about climate change, ways they can easily reduce their carbon footprint and learn more about the council’s goals to become carbon neutral by 2028. Read more.

Lightwater Valley Family Adventure Park

To celebrate the arrival of Rex the Dinosaur, Hello Lamp Post has created a fun interactive family trail around the park, with a treat to be enjoyed at the end! An adventure that’s loved by people of all ages, this visitor experience is already putting a smile on so many people’s faces.

Environment Agency School Competition

The Big Green Challenge! We’re working with a variety of schools around the UK to encourage pupils and their parents to learn more about local flooding and the impacts of climate change. The school which interacts the most will win vouchers to enhance their outdoor school environment – to create a wildlife refuge or rain garden.

In other news… 👏

Award

We won: SME Business Elite Awards (Most Innovative Community Engagement Platform 2023) & IT Awards (Best Community Communication Platform Developer 2023).

Comms2Point0 blog

Our Head of Community Engagement, Louise Barker recently wrote a blog around the ‘3 Principles of Effective Public Engagement’. You can read the article here.

Stronger Things event

We attended this year’s Stronger Things event, run by our friends at New Local, at the Guildhall, where we joined the panel discussion: “From the cities of old to the new: How to design urban places around their communities”.

Flood and Coast Conference

It was great to be invited by the Environment Agency for a second year, where we got involved in key Flood & Coastal Risk Management topics and shared more about how we’re working towards a sustainable future.