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2022 is a rather special year for us. We’re celebrating 20 years of Fellowship.

From a one man band founded by Darren Hickey, we’re now an 18 person agency.

Over the years our office has been located in a castle, a back garden portakabin, a rural barn conversion and is now in a business park by the A14.

Our very first project was a new logo and website for a small local business. Since then we’ve done hundreds more. Our clients have included Thomas Cook, Cancer Research UK, EasyJet, NHS, Sony and Panasonic.

Among the standout projects have been building Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life website in 2012. This used groundbreaking Cognitive Match technology, that matches individuals with tailored content, in realtime.

Also designing a huge range of graphics for PM David Cameron’s speech at DP World London Gateway before the G8 summit in June 2013.

Our focus has always been on fundamentals – building distinctive brands and effective websites.

We help our clients grow through no nonsense, jargon-free marketing – underpinned by strong strategy. And by establishing long term partnerships based on being friendly, helpful and responsive. As well as being creatively and technically talented.

We’ll be sharing more about our story, our projects and our people over the coming months.

Here’s to the next 20 years!

Seventeen of the Fellowship crew got together last night for our Christmas meal. Sadly, we had one absentee due to Covid.

This was the first chance for many of us to meet some of our new colleagues. We ate in a huge Tipitent in the grounds of The Weeping Willow in Barrow, west of Bury St Edmunds.

Excellent food, great company and some entertaining Secret Santa gifts made for a fun evening.

Huddling around the giant pyramid heaters, swaddled in sheepskin rugs, proved increasingly popular as the night wore on.

When he’s not busy working as a WordPress Developer, our latest recruit coaches Cockfield United’s goalkeepers.

Mike Onslow has over 10 years of agency experience, building bespoke WordPress and WooCommerce websites.

Mike’s favourite assignments include a website for Colchester Zoo, where he’s a regular visitor. Plus a challenging project for Freespace which involved a lot of admin area customisation, so the client can easily maintain, edit and use the complex blocks that make up their website.

When he’s not busy at work or out on the football field, you’ll often find Mike out with his wife exploring National Trust properties and hunting waterfalls.

Our new Digital Project Manager, Alexander Brewis, used to be a high ranking sword fencer in the men’s sabre.

He’s also a skilled voiceover artist. Last year he played Father Christmas in an ad for a US company that makes novelty socks.

Valuable as those skills are, they’re not why he got the job. He has an extensive background in software and IT, working as an App Developer and Support Technician before moving into Project Management.

A qualified Prince2 Practitioner, Alexander has delivered WordPress websites, software and apps to clients in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing and healthcare.

He’s clearly well suited for the ahem, cut and thrust of Fellowship work.

If your company has just the one website offering products or services to customers in multiple countries, you’re likely to be ranking poorly and losing sales.

This multisite project for Flexiteek showcases our ability to build and integrate targeted websites with similar functionality, across multiple countries. One WordPress CMS installation powers websites across five countries: UK, Spain, Poland, France and Italy. The content on each site is professionally translated, rather than relying on Google translate. Together with international targeting in Google Search Console, this helps them to rank well in each country’s SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).

Take a closer look here: flexiteek.co.uk / flexiteek.es / flexiteek.pl / flexiteek.fr / flexiteek.it

Talk to us today to find out how we can help your business grow with our WordPress multisites.

If your company falls into any of the following three scenarios, you’d likely benefit from our specialism in multisites – multiple websites powered by one WordPress CMS installation.

1. Companies with multiple brands, that require a separate website for each one.
2. International companies with a single brand, that require dedicated, translated websites for each territory / country they operate in.
3. Companies that require a website with individual micro-sites, one for each sub-brand, product or service.

We’ve recently launched a Multisite for Cambridge Econometrics, a world leading economics consultancy who we rebranded five years ago. Since our rebrand the business has thrived, with a 50% increase in staff numbers and two new offices opened in Europe.

Earlier this month, Cambridge Econometrics opened for business in North America. They commissioned us to build a dedicated US website to promote their services. We extended their existing WordPress website, which we built in 2016, to deliver their new dedicated US site: https://www.camecon.us/

Our solution provides three great benefits for the client:

1. Time efficient: A single Content Management System, enabling the client to change the content on both sites quickly and easily.
2. Cost effective: Affordable web hosting and ongoing future development for one website, instead of accumulative costs of running multiple sites.
3. Scalable: Easy to add additional websites that target new countries or territories if required.

Cambridge Econometrics already has several US consulting engagements underway, and we look forward to helping with their future growth and continued success.

I’m really excited to welcome Danny Turnbull to the Fellowship team as our first Non-Executive Director.

Danny is a Managing Consultant at Cactus – one of the UK’s largest agency growth and M&A consultancies – having worked with over 1,000 agencies in the last 10 years. Before joining Cactus, Danny spent thirty years working in agencies, the last fifteen of which he was leading major agency brands in the UK and Europe.

Having done some work with Cactus over the last year or so, I know that Danny will bring a tremendous blend of experience, insight and enthusiasm to this new role. Our team has been growing steadily and with Danny’s guidance I’m confident we’ll go from strength to strength.

We’re delighted that business continues to grow here at Fellowship. We’re currently recruiting for two more roles – a WordPress Developer and a Project Manager. So, if you’re looking for a new challenge and want to join a growing agency, then we’d love to hear from you.

Apply for the WordPress Developer role here.
Apply for the Project Manager role here.

Business is continuing to increase here at Fellowship, so we’re on the hunt for another full-time web developer. If you’re looking for a new challenge and want to join a growing agency, then we’d love to hear from you. You can find out more here.

We’ve just launched a unique and exciting project – Flexiteek Islands For Everyone – showcasing our CGI and development skills.

Flexiteek is a world leading manufacturer of synthetic teak boat decking and marine products.

In an industry that is awash with beautiful photos of amazing yachts, we set out to create a campaign that…

• Demonstrates that Flexiteek 2G is the perfect decking for all boat types, from small tenders to superyachts
• Showcases the decking as the star of the show (rather than the boat)
• Stands out from the crowd, and has the ‘Wow!’ factor.

Here’s what we did…
Working with our CGI partner, we created Flexiteek Bay, a stunning image that features a tropical island with a range of boats to suit all budgets  – ‘Flexiteek Islands For Everyone’.

We then built an interactive microsite so users can explore the boats and their deck designs. Our developers had fun using Vue and Tailwind for rapid prototyping, which then transitioned seamlessly to the finished product.

We’re delighted that Google’s Lighthouse has awarded the site a maximum 100 point score to each of its areas – performance, accessibility, best practices and SEO.

Along with the website, we’re also managing a global digital marketing campaign as well as designing printed ads for marine magazines. Finally, Flexiteek Bay will take pride of place in the new exhibition stands we’re producing for this season’s boat shows around the world.

Explore for yourself: https://islandsforeveryone.flexiteek.com