PROFILE: ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL POLITICAL CONSULTANTS (APPC)- UK

The Association of Professional Political Consultants (APPC) is the self-regulatory body for UK public affairs practitioners. As well as its traditional membership base of consultancies, APPC membership is available to trade associations, in-house PA teams and individuals.

The APPC has three main roles:

1. To ensure transparency and openness by maintaining a register of political practitioners
2. To enforce high standards by requiring members to adhere to a code of conduct
3. To promote understanding of the public affairs sector, and the contribution made by political practitioners to a properly functioning democracy

Organisations using political consultants come from the voluntary, campaigning and public sectors, as well as from private industry. By employing consultancies which are members of the APPC they can be sure that their consultants operate within a strict ethical framework.

List of Members

1. Access Partnership
2. APCO Worldwide Limited
3. Airport Operators’ Association
4. B2L Public Affairs
5. Bell Pottinger
6. Bellenden
7. Brevia Consulting
8. Burkitt Communications
9. Burson Marsteller
10. Cavendish Communications
11. Chambre Public Affairs
12. Champollion
13. Cherton Enterprise
14. Cicero Group
15. Citigate Dewe Rogerson
16. Cogitamus
17. Connect Communications
18. Costain McCade, Illiam
19. Denovo Strategy
20. Deryn Consulting
21. Edelman
22. EPPA (UK) Ltd.
23. EUK Consulting Ltd.
24. Field Consulting
25. Fleishman-Hillard
26. Fishburn
27. Four Communications
28. Freshwater Public Affairs
29. FTI Consulting UK PA
30. GK Strategy
31. Grayling Political Strategy
32. Greenhaus Communications
33. Grogan, Rosemary
34. Guide Public Affairs
35. Hanover Communications
36. Helen Johnson Public Affairs
37. H+K Strategies
38. Hume Brophy
39. iNHouse Communications
40. Insight Consulting Group
41. Incisive Health
42. Instinctif Partners
43. Interel Consulting UK
44. JMC Partners LLP
45. Just Health PR
46. Ketchum
47. Lansons PA
48. Lexington Communications
49. Luther Pendragon
50. Maitland Political
51. Message Matters
52. MHP Communications
53. MRM
54. Munro & Forster
55. MWW
56. New Consensus Communications
57. Newgate Communications
58. NKA Public Affairs
59. Open Road/Blue Rubicon
60. Pagefield Communications
61. PB Political Consulting Ltd.
62. Perspectiva Consultants
63. PHA Media
64. PLMR
65. Political Intelligence
66. Portland
67. Positif
68. PPS Group Ltd
69. Principle Affairs
70. Quiller Conslutants Remarkable Group
71. RLM Finsbury
72. Snapdragon Consulting
73. Sovereign Strategy
74. Stratagem- NI
75. Teneo Strategy
76. Tenovus
77. Weber Shandwick Public Affairs
78. Wellington Street Partners
79. Westbourne Communications
80. Westminster Advisers
81. Westminster PA
82. Whitehouse Consultancy