3:nine

3:Nine works across healthcare, education, and the environment, sectors where technical detail often gets in the way of a clear message. Founded in 2005, the consultancy has built its practice around translating specialist and often complex subject matter into stories that hold up under press and public scrutiny. Colin Hallmark, founder and lead consultant, brings more than 25 years of marketing and communications experience to that work.

The consultancy structures its services around four areas, moving from research through to execution. On the research side, this includes stakeholder research, media monitoring and analysis, competitor communications intelligence, communication audits, and social media analysis. From there, work moves into communications strategy, message research and development, campaign planning and budgeting, and social media strategy and policy creation. Day-to-day delivery draws on a small team with distinct roles: Fred Sculthorp as consultant, Katrina Sproge handling content, Lesley Streatfield covering visual communications, and David Campion managing audio-visual work.

That structure supports the core PR disciplines 3:Nine is built around: media relations, press releases and newsroom management, thought-leadership PR, crisis communications, and corporate communications, backed by measurement and coverage reporting. The combination of audience and competitor research at the front end with dedicated content and visual specialists further down the line reflects an approach built for sectors where the underlying subject matter, whether a clinical trial, a curriculum change, or an environmental policy, needs to be both accurate and persuasive before it reaches a journalist, regulator, or the public.