Snippets

Our Client Services Director, Matt Johnson, will be running the London Marathon on Sunday 23 April. His chosen charity is Tommy’s, the UK’s largest pregnancy and baby loss support charity.

We’re wishing Matt a smooth and pain free event. A seasoned runner, he’s been training hard and hopes to make it round in a good time, as well as raising lots of money. If you’d like to make a donation, please do so on Matt’s Just Giving page at bit.ly/mattlondonmarathon

To help boost Matt’s total, we’re holding a coffee and cake morning at our office on Wednesday 19 April from 10.30am. There’ll be lots of lovely home baked cakes – do feel free to drop in and join in the fundraising fun.

We’re thrilled to have won UK Dev Agency of the Year (medium size) at the UK Dev awards.

We were also finalists in two further categories:

• App of the Year for SaveMoneyCutCarbon
• Third Sector Website of the Year for NHS Suffolk & NE Essex Integrated Care Board

The international panel of award judges said: “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.”

We’re thrilled to be helping SaveMoneyCutCarbon make it easy for people to save money and the planet. We’ve developed and just launched EcoWise. This is an online platform where employees of client companies earn Planet Points for learning about sustainability. Points can be exchanged for discounts on products from SaveMoneyCutCarbon’s website.

Erin Ericson, CMO SaveMoneyCutCarbon, said “We’re delighted with Fellowship’s development of EcoWise - our online carbon literacy platform for company employees. EcoWise rewards employees for learning how to be more sustainable, cutting their energy bills and saving money. The Fellowship team have brought it to life in an easy to use and engaging way. Articles and quizzes and other interactive features make learning with EcoWise a really enjoyable and rewarding experience.”

A few months ago, Jaye Dry from Conversion Communications came to us with a multisite project for CSO Marine Group, a strategic solutions provider for the offshore energy and marine renewables sector.

They needed to integrate three outdated and inaccessible websites with their parent website, in a way that could be quickly and efficiently updated.

We provided them with a cohesive design with three key aims:

1. Increasing brand awareness.
2. Improving each company’s online presence with responsive and accessible websites.
3. Improved user journeys to generate more leads and increase sign ups and sales.

Check out the new websites here >

Having entered the UK Dev Awards 2023 – our first foray into any award scheme – we’re getting ever so slightly excited that we are finalists in three categories.

• Dev Agency of the Year (medium size)
• Third Sector Website of the Year: For our NHS Suffolk & North East Essex ICB Website
• App of the Year: For our SaveMoneyCutCarbon Home app

Now we’re just keeping everything crossed that at least one of these will be a winner.

Watch this space.

Crown Worldwide has appointed Fellowship to create an exciting motion graphics / video project.

Crown Worldwide Group is a privately owned, global logistics company founded in 1965 and headquartered in Hong Kong. They are an extraordinary and purposeful business committed to making it simpler to live, work and do business anywhere in the world, delivered through our broad portfolio of complementary brands.

The Fellowship team went out for an evening of festive fun at the Giggling Squid in Bury St Edmunds.

We enjoyed some good food, great company and shared some entertaining Secret Santa gifts, with Callum's Beard Lights the highlight!

We also had some fun at the expense of Greg, our web designer, who took it all in good spirit.

Yesterday, Darren & Matt had meetings in Norwich with two amazing agencies, Fountain Partnership and Quickfire Digital.

Even though there are 19 of us, we can’t specialise in everything digital. Our deepest expertise lies in WordPress, WooCommerce, website integrations and bespoke development.

Fountain are experts in digital marketing, while Quickfire Digital are specialists in Shopify websites.

Our company name, Fellowship, means "A group of people with a shared purpose.”

Ours is to help businesses grow. This doesn’t just apply to clients but also to partners who share our ambitions, values and standards.

It’s three years since Rubious became part of Fellowship, adding three new staff and a wealth of additional knowledge and talent to our team.

Greg Goodson joined us as Lead Web/UX Designer, David Ashcroft as Web Developer and Callum Hubert as Web Designer/Developer.
The merger also brought us a range of new clients, including SaveMoneyCutCarbon, Stanley Gibbons, Inform Direct and Shelbourne Reynolds.

When Rubious joined us that took our team to 11 people. There are now 19 of us.

As our clients keep growing in size and number, we keep growing to ensure they get the quality and range of services they deserve. 

What will the next three years bring?

Yesterday, Darren Hickey (our MD) attended the Agencynomics 3.0 – Change is Coming event in London, which focused on Web3.

This is a new, exciting phase of the internet which we're keen to learn more about. There were some fantastic presentations by leading experts which covered many Web3 areas such as:

• Blockchain
• Tokens
• Smart contracts
• Dapps (Decentralized Applications)
• NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens)
• DeFi (Decentralised Finance)
• DAOs (Decentralised Autonomous Organisations)
• and, of course, The Metaverse.

Over the coming months, our team will explore some of these areas in more detail. In particular, we’re keen to see if we can identify any opportunities Web3 may offer our clients.