We've taken a dive into the news over the past few weeks and picked out the juiciest news pieces that we think you should know about!
We’re so excited to announce that we have been shortlisted for an award at the UK Agency Awards 2019. The Your Sexual Health Matters Campaign, which made national headlines and onto TV screens across the country earlier this year, has now earned us a finalist slot in the Best Not-for-Profit Category at the prestigious national awards.
Thank you for your interest in becoming a member of the Public and Patient Involvement Assurance Group (PPIAG) for Better Care Together (BCT).
From facial expressions to body language, what non-verbal cues did you miss while you were putting pen to paper? We explore three circumstances where you should ditch the note-taking and capture your research subjects on film instead! Discover how video can improve your research in our expert guide.
As minds and laws change and understanding and education increases, we'll continue to dream, and work towards, creating a fully inclusive world where love - in all its forms - conquers all.
Download the timeline infographic to see how attitudes have changed towards the LGBTQ+ community over time!
We're excited to announce the move to our new city centre based office and the addition of three new colleagues to the Social Change UK Team. Our beautiful new location will enable us to grow our team further and offer some exciting opportunities to support other like minded entrepreneurs in the city.
Designed with your goals in mind, our specialist courses in behavioural change marketing are built on the latest ideas and adapted to incorporate brilliant examples of how people in the real world have made a difference through their work.
For more information on training by Social Change UK, read the training guide here.
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From September 2019, we will be opening up space for social entrepreneurs to work. This will be a space to hot desk, have meetings and importantly, be around fellow changemakers.
LGBT is on the curriculum from 2020. However, previous attempts at introducing LGBT education into schools has faced protests, with debates on whether it’s appropriate at such a young age. Is it here to stay this time?
More and more people are claiming their identity as theirs to decide and no one else. Male, Female or Neutral. But what does this mean for society? Are we heading towards a genderless world?
Medical milestones are being reached every day, so why are Victorian diseases which we should have long eradicated suddenly making a comeback?
Recent data shows that the number of antidepressants prescribed in England has nearly doubled over the past ten years. Does this mean we, as a society, we are getting more depressed? Or are we just getting better at identifying mental health difficulties?
An increasing number of children are becoming problem gamblers, with reports suggesting the issue to be a ‘future public health storm’. In this blog, we explore the contributions of marketing in encouraging more and more children to engage in gambling.
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For You & Baby is a new campaign running in Derbyshire that aims to encourage families to quit smoking during pregnancy and consider breastfeeding after birth.
A programme to support people with mental health problems back into work.
We have been working with Enable East to help them develop and deliver a lottery funded programme to help people with common mental health problems get back into work after long-term unemployment.
A campaign to encourage expectant mothers to quit smoking.
We worked with Hertfordshire County Council to design a campaign to encourage expectant mothers to stop smoking.
Encouraging public sector staff to help local people find support.
We worked with the Royal Borough of Greenwich to encourage public facing staff in Greenwich to sign up to the 'Making Every Opportunity Count' programme - designed to support local residents take full advantage of local public services.
Insight to support the development of a communications campaign.
Cambridgeshire Constabulary asked Social Change UK to conduct research with children and parents in Cambridgeshire to explore their understanding and awareness of Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in a bid to raise awareness and reduce harm.
Encouraging young people to take part in physical activity [without the competition].
We worked with the London Rugby League Foundation to develop a strong student brand for a new intramural tag rugby league.
A campaign to inspire as many people as possible to give up smoking for good.We worked with Kent County Council to develop a campaign to encourage and support as many people as possible in Kent to quit smoking for good.
Reversing the trend - inspiring young people to NOT smoke.
Smoking in some areas of North Wales was shockingly high and the number of young people taking up the habit was rising - especially in girls under 18 years old. We were commissioned by Public Health Wales to develop a campaign to reverse the trend.
We think audience testing is just too important not to do. We test just about everything before launching with a new product, service, campaign or idea.
Our insight lab can test your ideas with your audience. We use lots of interesting methods and approaches we can use to fully immerse your audience in your work. So if you value your audience like we do, talk to us about how we can include them.
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We thoroughly tested a range of ideas, before launching 'Jiggle Wiggle' - a county-wide sexual health campaign in Derbyshire
Read moreEverything, from travelling by plane to eating a banana, has a carbon footprint – even something as seemingly innocuous as making a cup of tea may have a large impact on the environment. We share five ways you can reduce your everyday footprint.
Research to help understand what is preventing healthy placemaking.
We worked in partnership with Design Council to explore the barriers to creating healthy places.
A campaign to raise awareness of sexual health services in Derbyshire - for all ages.
Our brief was to encourage Derbyshire residents to look after their sexual health and visit one of their clinics in the county. Following research, we developed several campaigns targeting different people - including people aged 30-70 years old.
Making behaviour change possible in Croydon.
We are working with Croydon Council to deliver a lifestyle behaviour change programme in the borough.
Project management can feel overwhelming. Especially when you are short on time and resources. So if this is stopping you getting to where you need to be, we can be that much needed team member who can project manage a campaign or change programme from start to finish. We play a variety of roles for our clients from top-level strategic consultancy to programme and campaign roll-out.
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We have an experienced team, ready to get your project off the ground. Meet our team and learn how they can support your project.
Read MoreCommunity engagement is all about involving people in your work and giving them a voice. Engagement brings with it community champions, good news stories, rewards. And above all, it extends the interest and life of an idea, campaign or change.
We can help you engage and activate communities in your work. We manage effective and successful community engagement programmes, either as part of larger public sector change programme or as a stand alone project.
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We worked with the Cambridgeshire community to engage them in community policing issues such as police visability and child sexual exploitation.
Read moreAs a team of PR and marketing professionals and former journalists with decades of combined experience, we are skilled at storytelling. We also know that journalists receive hundreds of news releases every day. Did you know that 90 percent of them end up straight in the deleted folder? At Social Change UK, we make sure that it’s not yours.
Our team has years of experience working with all sectors of the media, from specialised trade publications to radio, television and the national press. We know how journalists work and we know how to create a news release that will grab attention and end up in print or online.
If your in-house resources are limited, we can deal with all of your media enquiries, liaising with journalists, setting up press conferences or one-to-one briefings and arranging radio and TV interviews.
We also make sure our clients are regularly included in the key publications read by their key audiences. We produce well-written by-lined feature articles that position our clients as industry commentators and thought leaders.
Our latest campaign appeared in national and local media. It was even a talking point on Loose Women and Lorraine!
Read MoreToday, digital sits at the heart of marketing. It also sits at the heart of relationships. As agents of change, our purpose is to provide our clients with the digital services needed to help them create and build connections with people and communities - from customers and consumers to patients and the public.
We don't sell digital marketing services. We solve problems and help people to fall in love with an idea, a cause or a client wanting to do some good.
And just in case you need a bit more pursuasion, we are trained by Google, inspired by all things tech and approved by Government, so you're in safe hands.
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We can help you to engage with your audience in a way that matters. The Jiggle Wiggle campaign is just one example of the power of digital marketing to grab attention and change hearts and minds.
Read moreSimply put, this is our bread and butter. We are about people, purpose and change. From road safety and recycling to tackling obesity and raising awareness about cancer and heart disease, we are not afraid to take on tough issues.
Our team have been working in social marketing and behaviour change for nearly 20 years. With two decades of experience under our belts, we know what works and what doesn't when trying to change people's behaviour. Whatever your issue, challenge or vision for change, our services can help you deliver impact. We can work with you from start to finish or we can join you at different stages of the behaviour change journey.
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We apply social marketing theory and best practice consistently in our work. Quit for Them was shortlisted for several social marketing awards.
Read moreStories are how we understand ourselves, and how we share common causes. When tough issues and challenges are shared as a narrative, it doesn’t seem quite so hard or complex to solve.
Our job is to create and curate content that tells the story you want to tell in a way your audience wants to consume it.
Whatever the platform, whatever the medium. Blog posts, white papers, case studies and thought leadership pieces, as well as website pages are all part of this story. You might be pretty good at this, but can’t spare the time - or you might just want an expert storyteller and copywriter to deliver for you or your clients. Either way, we can help.
Your business needs more than competitive advantage, it needs meaning in people’s lives. We create that meaning, so your brand matters to them. We call it mattering - not marketing.
Our changemakers create respectable brands. The kind that people fall in love with. We exist to help you navigate the new purpose-driven economy because we know that doing good and doing well are not mutually exclusive. If you beleive in profit and responsibility, we are the people to talk to.
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We do marketing. But more importantly, we do MATTERING. We only deliver campaigns that work, for clients we love, and causes we believe in. So if you are trying to make a difference in the world with your products and services, we are the people to talk to.
Watch nowVideo content – in all its forms – is a must if you want to build emotional connections with your audience and drive people to your organisation, business, brand or cause.
Whether it’s explainer videos, trailers or communicating a powerful story, video is increasingly recognised for its ability to cut-through noise and engage audiences. We have helped our clients stand out from the crowd, grab attention and provoke action on hard to solve or sensitive topics including smoking, cancer, breastfeeding and mental health.
And here is the thing. You won't just get a video when you work with us. You will have access to a team of behavioural experts, designers, animators, researchers, copywriters and marketers. And they will know exactly how to cut through the noice.
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With our video services, we can help you create the perfect video to showcase your project in new exciting and engaging ways.
Watch the video!We are not web developers. But we work with some really good ones. We are digital designers and researchers. We can deliver beautiful - but desirable and usable websites and apps. But it must be for a good purpose or cause - because we're changemakers, not website makers.
We will allocate a researcher and a designer to work collaboratively on your project. We can apply many different methods and tricks: user tests, fieldwork, A/B tests, interviews, remote tests, guerrilla tests, five-second tests, ghetto tests, and grandma tests to generate, prepare and test good ideas or tech for good.
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We are working with Croydon Council to develop the online health platform 'JustBe Croydon' to help signpost residents to a range of tools and services to help them take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing.
Read MoreWe don’t believe in big or small ideas, just the right ideas.
We will work with you to develop a comprehensive, integrated strategy and deployment plan grounded in metrics, propelled by content and, most of all, tailored to your unique offering and ambition.
We will then help you to skilfully bring your strategy to life deploying our expert team of creative designers, copywriters, behavioural scientists, PR specialists, researchers and marketers, otherwise known as our thinkers, idealists, doers’ and designers.
We worked with Derbyshire Community Health Services to explore attitudes and behaviours towards sexual health and then used this insight to develop a strategy to increase demand to sexual health services in Derbyshire.
Read MoreWe're the sort of people who build evaluation in from start to finish, learning and adapting for our clients as we go. We know how important real time evaluation is - because its knowing whether you are focusing your resources and budget in the right areas and achieving the outcomes you planned for.
Our team can help you determine the right things to measure, analyse and interpret data - in real time or at the end - and importantly they can help you measure impact.
Our research services allow us to truly understand people and find out what makes them tick, which is key in developing products and services that people want and need.
Watch videoWe really believe design can change and we appreciate that the way something looks can transform how people think and feel and how they engage with an idea, a purpose or an ideal.
We've invested in the best creative talent and embedded researchers into our creative team (the kind that understand people). For us it's about insight, knowing how your audience thinks, feels, what they value, their style, their interests and how to inspire them. When we feel we know them well, we bring craft, concept and storytelling together, beautifully, through visual brand identities that look great (and work) both online and offline.
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We worked with Buckinghamshire County Council to develop HeadsUp, a campaign to encourage men to feel happier and provide support to those who need it. Our research helped us create a brand that would resonate with men.
Read moreWe are looking for good investors - the kind of people or organisations who know that the future is shaped by people, purpose and profit working in harmony.
Social Change UK has come a long way since its beginnings in 2010. We've delivered on so many projects and campaigns - all encouraging positive behaviour change. And we are proud to say that we have won a few awards along the way too.
