Use your marketing skills for good
Use your marketing skills for good
You have a brilliant marketing mind; use it for good, with others, for real world causes.
Create immediate impact with causes who need support
We work with causes that need support with their marketing; the impact is immediate.
Learn from and collaborate with other like-minded marketers
An opportunity to collaborate with other brilliant marketers around a common cause.
Create a tangible and immediate impact
The session impact is tangible and delivers an actionable strategy for the cause we're working with.
Challenge yourself, collaborate and learn from other marketers
You want to challenge yourself and collaborate with others to create impact. Learn from fellow marketers and bring your ideas and experience to a real marketing brief from a charity, cause or impact startup.
Collective problem solving is the best way to network, learn and create impact.
Volunteer a small amount of time for a huge impact
Volunteering can take all shapes and sizes. We often don’t use our skill sets to volunteer for maximum impact.
In only a few hours, your experience and ideas on a problem a charity or cause is facing; you can create a multiplied impact that continues long after the session.
marketing team impact
Impact Marketing Sprints with your team
Tailored and facilitated impact marketing sprints in-house to build team collaboration with huge impact
A tailored, designed and facilitated collaboration session around an impact problem to inspire your team to use their skills to make a difference.
You team can collaborate to solve real marketing problems faced by charities or causes you care about. Enabling your team to not only gain different perspectives from their experience but also reflect deeply on their own ability to drive collaboration in their team and organisation.
Impact Marketing Sprints FAQs
How long is a sprint? and where?
We facilitate these sessions to have maximum impact in a few hours.
All Impact Marketing Sprints are in-person at this stage; to really get the benefits of this collaborative session.
What should I expect in the session?
The session will be facilitated by Chris Thornhill and Nicola Telford and will consist of a short introduction to the challenge from a member of the cause, followed by a number of brainstorming and group exercises, intended at getting the best from all of the minds in the room.
I'm quite new to marketing, can I participate?
Yes! This is an opportunity to learn with others and create an impact.
Time in a role is not a marker of your ability to contribute.
We aim to ensure there are many different perspectives in the room for optimal output. Everyone’s voice is encouraged!
What's the cost?
Sprints are free to attend but have limited space. We allocated slots on a first come first served basis when the participant call out goes out.
Can I do a Sprint with my team instead?
We offer tailored, facilitated sprint sessions for teams.
These are an opportunity to build team morale, have fun and create impact with your colleagues.
Get in touch with Nicola to discuss an in-house sprint session!
Can I choose which charity or cause I want to support?
We find charity and cause marketing problems that can be tackled in a sprint and make the most impact. A high level overview of the brief will be displayed in the event details.
If you would like to put an idea forward for a charity or cause that might like the support of the collective club mind; get in touch.
What is the output?
This depends on the marketing challenge the cause is facing.
A representative of the cause will attend the session to understand the thinking behind the proposed solutions.
We will also nominate a note-taker & provide an actionable document for the cause team to take forward and implement.
There are, of course, opportunities to provide follow up support if participants want.
Can we support a sprint with sponsorship?
Of course! There are options to sponsor the session financially or with offers to participants and the cause.
If you’re interested in sponsoring a sprint or have other ideas about how we can collaborate for impact; please contact Nicola to discuss.
For Causes
Get free marketing support from brilliant marketing minds
Do you need support, ideas and brilliant minds working on your marketing strategy? Impact Marketing Sprints bring together marketing minds from different roles, backgrounds and experiences to put their mind to your marketing needs.
Impact Marketing Sprints are brought to you by Growth Animals & Impact Marketing Club
Chris Thornhill
Growth Animals
Chris is Co-founder and CEO of Growth Animals, the B-Corp Pending, ethical marketing agency, that helps businesses to grow their bottom line AND positive impact. He is a champion of marketing that is helpful, educative, inspiring and impactful. Fusing decades of client side and agency marketing experience, he provides the strategic guidance and facilitation expertise for our Marketing Sprints.
He is also a Trustee for Dementia Support, a charity committed to improving the lives of both dementia sufferers and carers, with big growth ambitions, is a mentor for Brightside, a social mobility charity that creates inspirational online mentoring relationships which help young people make confident and informed decisions about their future, and is a doting father of three incredible young girls. He's also a passionate foodie and a self-confessed whisky connoisseur.
Nicola Telford
Impact Marketing Club
Nicola is the founder of the Impact Marketing Club - a community of impact-driven marketers coming together to connect, empower & inspire so that people, planet & society can thrive.
Nicola strongly believes that marketing and social impact are not mutually exclusive & by collaborating for impact we can influence great change with effective marketing.
"The Impact Marketing Sprints are not only an opportunity for immediate impact with skills we already use for our clients and customers, but also a development opportunity as we learn from each other and challenge ourselves on a common problem."
