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Why Choose Us?

Noun: Fellowship

A group of people with a shared purpose.

Ours is to help you grow your business.

Helping your business grow

We’re an enterprise level WordPress agency.

Established

For over 20 years we’ve helped many clients solve business challenges – ranging from ambitious SMEs to multinationals and global groups. Most of them have become long-term partners.

Deep Expertise

With an in-house team of eight highly skilled, full time developers, we can tackle most website and digital challenges.

Based in East Anglia

We’re based in Suffolk, just off the A14, east of Bury St. Edmunds. That’s 40 minutes from Cambridge and within easy reach of London. The kettle’s always on!

The best of both worlds

We do the thinking

An exceptional website needs more than just great design and development. We can help with:

  • Defining your goals, objectives & KPIs
  • Competitor analysis & positioning
  • SEO strategy & audits
  • Website architecture
  • Brand direction
  • Audience personas & user journeys
  • Project scoping

 

and the doing

Our creative and technical expertise means we can help you with:

  • Beautifully crafted copywriting
  • Photography & videos
  • Web design & UX
  • Accessibility
  • Performance & efficiency
  • Security
  • Scalability

Leadership team

We’re experienced professionals, not juniors learning on the job.

Darren Hickey

Founder & Director

Darren founded Fellowship 20 years ago. A highly experienced web and graphic designer, he’s worked on numerous brands including Sony, NHS, Thomas Cook, Cancer Research UK and Panasonic.

Matt Johnson

Client Services Director

Matt ensures we continually deliver exceptional work across our retainers, projects and digital marketing campaigns.

Paul Lewis

Head of Strategy

Formerly Director of Communications at RSPB, Paul is a Certified Brand Strategist and has completed Mini MBAs in Marketing and Brand Management. He’s spent over 30 years helping organisations stand out from the crowd. Paul’s an ace copywriter with a way with words and a large following on Linkedin.

Gary Kyle

Head of Operations

Before joining Fellowship, Gary had 15 years experience of developing systems to meet international quality standards. He is always busy improving our day to day work processes and ensuring we have the right balance of experience and capabilities across the team.

Jo RIches

Account Manager

Having previously run her own agency, Jo is very happy to be ‘hands on’ again, looking after our client accounts and projects. Her extensive experience means she can add value across the full range of our work.

Alex Gant

Alex Gant

Lead Developer

Alex leads our team of 8 developers and is responsible for our web development processes. A very experienced full-stack web developer, Alex lives, breathes and sleeps WordPress. He loves nothing more than solving technical challenges for complex websites.

Meet the whole team

Our Values

Our 5 guiding principles.

Being the best we can be

We set high standards, paying attention to detail and taking personal responsibility for our actions.

In depth expertise

We’re all experts at what we do, continually striving to improve our skills and knowledge.

Collaborative team players

We’re a team and support each other by following processes properly.

Excellent service & support

We give our clients prompt, personal attention, communicating clearly and offering proactive advice.

Positive can-do attitude

We support our clients and colleagues, helping them solve problems as if they’re our own.

Winner – UK Dev Awards 2023 – Dev Agency of the Year (medium size)
Winner – UK Dev Awards 2023 – Dev Agency of the Year (medium size)

“This agency was a clear winner for us. They have a great client mix with international, public and private sector clients. We loved their strong view of staff skills evolution to support growth and retention. Their ESG and climate-based projects show a well-positioned place in the market.”

Panel of Judges

We love solving problems for our clients. Working together, we can transform the fortunes of your business.”

Darren Hickey Founder & Director at Fellowship

Your perfect partner

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Experts

There’s not much our designers, developers, writers, strategists and project managers don’t know about effective marketing.

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Years and Counting

We’ve come a long way since Darren started Fellowship at his kitchen table.

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NPS

Net Promoter Scores for B2B industries range from 39 to 65.

Client Stories

Winner UK Dev Awards 2024
WooCommerce Website for Gratnells
 

WooCommerce Website for Gratnells

For our WooCommerce website for Gratnells we migrated data for over 2,500 products from three existing sites and built a bespoke 3D product configurator.

WooCommerce Website for Gratnells
116 Site Multisite for Genesee & Wyoming USA
 

116 Site Multisite for Genesee & Wyoming USA

Genesee & Wyoming USA commissioned us to build an ambitious WordPress Multisite to promote their railroad business.

116 Site Multisite for Genesee & Wyoming USA
15 Years of Helping London Gateway Grow
 

15 Years of Helping London Gateway Grow

We’ve helped DP World London Gateway grow to a £182 million turnover business employing over 1,000 people.

15 Years of Helping London Gateway Grow

All client stories

Breakout room
Sarah Colley – Digital Marketing Manager, NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB)

You guys have been legends from start to finish, I’m so pleased with the final website. Massive thanks to you all, you’re a fab bunch to work with.”

let’s work together