Our client: Playgroup Australia
“We were very pleased with the outcomes of our recent project with Hamilton Stone. Hannah brings great expertise and insight to her work and freely shared that wisdom with us while providing a very professional service, within tight timeframes. Hannah took the time to learn about our sector and organisation and crafted a very strong and polished product. We have received positive feedback from stakeholders on the document she produced for us, and also highly value her strategic advocacy advice which we will be using over the coming year”
Playgroup Australia is a national not-for-profit, representing state and territory organisations that support over two thousand playgroups across Australia, operating in most postcodes and involving well over a hundred thousand families.
Playgroup Australia wanted to make a submission to the Australian government’s budget process for 2020, and plan for advocacy around the submission.
What we did for Playgroup Australia
Hamilton Stone began by getting the organisation to reflect on its goals and prioritise them. We supported this process by placing those priorities in the context of the fiscal and political environment of the next one to two years.
We synthesised Playgroup Australia’s internal documents and the substantial groundwork they had been doing over the last 18 months, as well as published research about early childhood play. This allowed us to develop a case around each of their key priorities, aligning them with what the Australian government had communicated about its objectives.
More fundamentally, we developed an advocacy strategy for Playgroup Australia that put their goals around program funding in a broader context, giving them options for deeper engagement with government.