Providing marketing and design advice to charity partners

For many charities, the continuing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis have created a perfect storm as they look to meet a surge in demand for their services whilst also facing increased costs and financial challenges themselves. It is more important than ever for us to work with the Charles Russell Speechlys Foundation charity partners to use the skills and expertise of our people to support them with cost-relieving projects and to help them build their capacity where they have limited resources.

We have been working with two Foundation charity partners to provide marketing and design expertise. 

Home-Start Guildford (one of Home-Start UK’s local networks) reached out to Charles Russell Speechlys to understand whether we can support them on social media training.  They were planning to pay for an external training workshop but reached out to us first and we were happy to help with a bespoke session. Our marketing team worked with them to develop their social media strategy, creating top tips, and enabling them to save money on social media training.

Our design team worked with Khulisa to redesign their assets and promotional material for their flagship ‘Face-It’ programme, a 6-week programme designed for young people at risk of offending, exploitation, and exclusion. The programme builds self-awareness and encourages pupils to reflect on the root causes and triggers of their disruptive or challenging behaviour.  It is important for Khulisa to be able to promote their programme to more schools to help them increase the number of young people they can reach to positively impact their behaviour, sense of self-worth and confidence.

Nora Russell, Head of Fundraising and Comms at Khulisa said: "This is just incredible…This might feel like a small or easy job for them, but it really adds so much value to our ability to secure partnerships, ups our professionalism and will be something our delivery team can feel proud presenting to schools. We currently simply do not have the skill set or time internally to work on a project like this."