Uganda Development Services website
UDS are exactly the kind of NGO we set up to work with. Operating in rural Uganda to relieve poverty, they've been making a tangible difference in people's lives for 16 years. Their previous website had been servicing them well for half a decade, but was starting to suffer on both the content and the functional sides; it was time for a change.
Using our own Blanc Tools CMS, built in partnership with Hawkz, we've developed UDS a great looking, flexible and powerful website that'll keep their online presence fresh, current and relevant for many years to come. Blogging, podcasting, page-editing, file managment... it's all there!
One Voice website
For many years now, Tearfund have run an annual event calling people to focus on, and pray for the plight of people all over the world suffering at the hand of poverty. Global Poverty Prayer Week, they called it. 2011 will be different; they're still hosting GPPW as a focal-point for the year, but this year they are trialling a year-long experiment in digital prayer, and we've had the privilege of helping them develop it. Our brief was 'twitter for prayer', and this is what we came up with...
CBHA website
We were very excited, back in April, when The Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies appointed us to brand them and build them a website. It's been a challenging brief, with so many stake-holder's to consult and satisfy, but it's been a challenge that we've relished and thoroughly enjoyed. The site's fully content managed, and integrates things like Google Maps to deliver higher-level mapping of data.
We're proud to be playing our part in humanitarian sector, and look forward to helping the CBHA to develop their visibility strategy in the months and years to come.
The site can be found at thecbha.org, go take a look!
Restored website
We've been working for the last month along-side a new charity called Restored. "Restored is an international Christian alliance working to transform relationships and end violence against women." We've developed a rich website, designed to be as flexible as possible in the short-to-medium term, which will be able to absorb what ever they choose to throw at it while they are establishing themselves...
Blacklock Jewellery
Blacklock Jewellery are a family-run business, dating back to 1832. They specialise in bespoke jewellery design, and my goodness, do they do it well! This project has been somewhat epic in its scale, starting with a full branding exercise; progressing through a huge website design and build including a comprehensive CMS and fully-functioned e-commerce framework; right through to asset development involving a small army of content suppliers including 3D artists, photographers, models, stylists and copywriters.
We've thoroughly enjoyed working with the Family Blacklock, and we look forward to many more years of collaboration. Chris Blacklock has also done us the honour of writing a glowing endorsement.
UPDATE: On 14 May, we discovered that the Blacklock Jewellery website (3 months old at that stage) had beenshortlisted for 'E-tailor of the year' by the UK Jewellery Award 2010. A massive achievement that we're very proud of.
Bloom website
Bloom are a brand consultancy based in Clapham, London. They redeveloped their brand through the course of 2009, we've had the privilege of working along-side them to bring it to life online.
Endorsement: Blacklock
“RG&B have helped Blacklock Jewellery come back to life through the creation of a stunning new website that delivers on many levels. From the outset a thorough strategic review was undertaken and brand template created that gives real depth and leverage. What has impressed me the most is that the thought process has not stopped upon completion of the strategic review but has continued and evolved as significant development work has progressed. It is unusual to get such a thorough and complete 360 degree approach to marketing and it is something we are lucky to have had. As a business we could not ask for more and I would recommend RG&B to anyone.”
Chris Blacklock, Blacklock Jewellery
Endorsement: Bloom
“Starting my first web design project was very daunting but you’ve very patiently walked me through all the steps, with clear no-nonsense explanations of how the whole thing works, helping me to visualise everything from initial creative concepts to how easy the ‘self service’ content management system is to use. It’s been a very positive education and you naturally bridge the gap between creative ideas and technical consulting, which is incredibly reassuring.”
Jemma Golby, Business Operations Manager, Bloom
Tear.nl Carbon Calculator
Back in April ‘08 we worked with Tearfund UK to develop a carbon footprint calculator. In the last week, we've been involved with pushing live a similar interactive for Tear (aka Tearfund) in the Netherlands. Working in Dutch has been fun; though a cursory glance at our collective browser histories will reveal a large volume of traffic to and from Google's translator page! If you can read Dutch, go take a look; if not, wander across to Tearfund UK's original calculator, and get mitigating!
St. Andrew’s kids & youth-work branding
The second stage of the St.Andrew’s Chorleywood brand project, was to give their kids and youth work departments a makeover...
Tearfund “Lob a Loo Roll” game
Through our relationship with Tearfund, we're frequently asked to develop online components to off-line campaigns. This is another of those projects. If you'd gone along to a charity conference, or some other event where Tearfund were exhibiting this campaign, you'd have seen the odd spectacle of passers by being challenged to see whether they could "lob a loo roll" into a toilet bowl some meters away...
Anoo website
Anoo are lot like us; independent, creative, professional... We've partnered on a number of job over the last few years and the results have always been fantastic. They asked us recently to lend a hand on their own website, with Anoo's Alex Normanton (Creative Director) fully in control of the aesthetic, we developed a robust and expandable content management system that enables them to effortlessly keep their site up-to-date.
St. Andrew’s branding & website
St. Andrew’s Chorleywood is what the Anglicans Church refers to as an “uber-church”, and with their scale comes a myriad of problems around communication. Many departments, talking independently to many people groups, through many media streams and multiple touch points, produced my many individuals. It all adds up to a potential tsunami of confusion...
Matthew Macaulay website
Matthew Macaulay is a fresh new singer-songwritiing worship leader from Chorleywood. He was in need of a website to link up with the launch of his first album, As for Me (link opens iTunesMS). It was a really fun, fast paced job; the original album artwork was designed by our friends at anoo, and the development was expertly executed by our other set of friends Hawkz, up in Brummyham. It's a lovely little site built upon a Wordpress back-end, allowing Matthew to administer the site himself, as well as giving him full-on blogging functionality.
Tearfund Carbon Calculator
As part of their continuing drive to champion the impact of man-made climate change on the developing world, we've been working with Tearfund to develop a carbon foot print calculator. Feed it key bits of information about your lifestyle, and it'll calculate an annual amount of money to donate, which will be spent in the developing world to mitigate your personal impact on climate change. As always, it's been a great job to work on, partially because of the interactive side of things, and partially because the calculations that sit under the hood have been an exciting challenge to develop.
Go take a look, and start taking steps to mitigate you personal impact on this planet's resources!
