We hope you are enjoying using our website. We welcome feedback on it, so we can keep improving it.
Phase 4
This version of our website was created in 2021 by two of our core team – Steph Ball, Communications Hub co-Lead and Jo Dodds co-Strategy Director. It was an international collaboration with Steph in Canada and Jo in the UK.
Phase 3
Jo Dodds refreshed and simplified the website design as an interim measure in 2019.
Phase 2
The second version of our website was created in 2015. A great deal of thought, creativity and hard work has gone into its refreshed design, and we would like to tell you who was involved and thank them very much:
Our website designer for flair and infinite patience: Su Gregory from designers-i and Andy Harris from A1 Web stats.
Our initial scopers for their foundational approach Brandpie
Our web curator and web refresh project manager for keeping us on track and on budget: Mez Fokeer, on secondment from the Department of Work and Pensions to our Core Team
Our content writer and new site organiser for wordsmithying excellence and sharp customer focus: Richard Mortimer, on secondment from the Ministry of Justice to our Core Team
Our web refresh decision making body for their sage advice:
David Parkinson, Digital Communications Officer – NHS Employers
Hannah McNicholl, Head of Communications- National Audit Office
Jill Thornton, People & Strategy Director – Blue Arrow
Marek Pruszewicz, Editor BBC World News
Nicholas Creswell, VP Performance & Talent Management – Thomson Reuters
Our web refresh Core Design Team for their fantastic springboard ideas:
Angela Phillipson, DWP
Deborah Gannon, Internal Communications Officer, CITB
Jane Tidswell, ORC International
Kath Armitage, Training and Coaching, LHFP Ltd
Sandy Wilkie, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Sarah McPake, Radley Yeldar
Cindy Vallance, University of Kent
Michael Harvey, DWP
James Dalton, First Group plc
Dunni Alao, DWP
Our quality assurers in the EFS Core Team for their application and enthusiasm: Tanya Rice, Anne Wilsdon, Cinthya Quijano, Anke Black, Victoria Hatton, Jacqueline Reed, Jo Dodds, Cathy Brown, Nita Clarke, David MacLeod.
Phase 1
And finally to Thomson Reuters for designing and hosting our first website and ongoing support while we developed this redesign.