Does your organisation have a voice?
Find your voice
We help you communicate
with impact
Rough House Media helps purpose-driven organisations communicate memorably — through media training, presentation coaching, crisis communications and powerful video storytelling.
Our mission is to help you explain why your work matters. We understand the realities not-for-profits and civil society face: diverse audiences, complex topics, limited resources, reputational risk and emotionally difficult stories.
Our clients
Who we work with
Charities
We work with a wide range of not-for-profits, both those campaigning for good causes and those providing services – at home and abroad. We’ve trained everyone from senior leadership, specialists and fundraisers to volunteers and peer educators. We offer a 15% discount for charities.
Professional organisations
Membership and chartered bodies face a particular challenge: communicating with multiple audiences – government, members, regulators and the general public. We train their senior leadership, experts and presidential teams how to get their message across clearly and simply to increase their impact.
Public sector
Public sector organisations range from hospitals and educators to regulators, arms-length bodies and cultural institutions. We have a strong track record training all of these, helping them communicate with confidence, clarity & conviction and build trust, authority and emotional connection.
What we do
Communications matter more than ever
Crisis Interview Training
Delegates learn how to handle challenging interviews when their organisation is under fire.
They pit their wits against a hostile reporter, learning how to hold their own and deliver their key messages with calm authority no matter how tough the interview.
We simulate real-life scenarios so your senior spokespeople can practise before the real thing.
Crisis Management Training
Crisis Simulations
Our fast and furious crisis simulations will put your team through their paces while a rapidly unfolding critical situation evolves.
They are designed to test the ability and judgement of both senior leaders and PR teams as you put your crisis plan into practice.
Choose from a paper exercise, or a more complex simulation with calls, social media and video.
Why trust us?
Ready To Strengthen Your Voice?
Practical insights from people who've worked inside the newsroom
Learn from our team
Charity media and crisis strategies
10 benefits of media training for charities
Often when charities are weighing up whether to plan media training, it is regarded as a “nice to have” rather than essential. However, the benefits go beyond preparing your spokespeople for interviews.
How to write an effective crisis plan
When your charity is facing any critical or crisis issue, handling it effectively is much easier if you have a robust charity crisis plan in place.
Raising your profile
Not-for-profits: how to raise your profile?
If your organisation has a high profile in the media profile, your power to influence events will rise. But how do you achieve this?
Media & presentation skills training case study
The International Chamber of Shipping is a long-standing client. Find out how we approached a programme of media and presentation skills training with them.
The inside track on media relations
Top tips to get stories in the trade press
If you’re a specialist or membership organisation, what steps can yo take to improve your coverage in the specialist and trade press?
Thought-leaders: what not to do
If an organisation wants to be taken seriously and increase its influence, then a good strategy is for its spokespeople to be regarded as a thought leader.
Seven questions to ask before an interview
If a journalist wants to interview you, it’s a great opportunity to promote your organisation. But you need to know how to make the most of it. Here are the steps to take beforehand.
Every day, purpose-driven organisations compete for attention.
In a crowded, distracted world, how do you make your cause or your message impossible to ignore?
How do you secure attention from policymakers, from journalists, from donors, from members, and from supporters?
The organisations able to do this best are those which communicate clearly, emotionally and confidently.
Rough House helps charities, professional bodies and public sector organisations cut through the noise — ensuring your message reaches the people who need to hear it most.