2017 has been an exciting and fruitful year here at Friendly Creatives. Here’s a look back on what we’ve been up to over the last 12 months… To contact us to help you achieve projects like these, email info@friendlycreatives.co.uk now!…
Ian provides e-learning chapter for pan-EU project for Creative Alliance
As part of his Creative Alliance role, in 2017 Ian represented the company and presented his e-learning chapter at a multi-agency conference in Poland, provided detailed research and surveys into Work-Based Learning, creating a substantial chapter to help teachers and…
Website and Social Media Set-Up for Writer Liz John.
We recently built a website, and social media account, from scratch to our client’s specifications. We recently spent a day with writer, Liz John, helping her setup up and establish a shiny new website and Twitter profile. We trained Liz…
One Day Website for The Moseley Building Company
This was one of our trademark “One Day Websites”, in which we built a website from scratch to our client’s specifications, trained the client in how to run it, and handed over to them, all in one day…
Friends of Eastside Park Website
This website includes an interactive map, an animated slider, photo galleries, an events system and other content. The client was provided full training and our Handover Guide to run the site themselves in future at no cost.
Mentee wins High Sheriff Award
One of the apprentices mentored by our Director Ian Kennedy over the last year has won a prestigious award from the High Sheriff for his exceptional work for his employer. And we’re very proud of him too!
Pre Metro – Light rail website design
We’ve been creating this attractive website for a light rail company who run a unique, eco-friendly service in Stourbridge which could be extended to many parts of the country…
BOLD Text Playwrights – WordPress training and website enhancements
Ian spent half a day with this client, smartening and sharpening their website, adding new features, and training the clients in how to manage it to its full capacity. Before the commission, the site was full of clunky features, like…
BBC Make It Digital Traineeships – we’re an official Work Placement Provider
In 2015 we have provided many weeks of formal work experience for a diverse group of unemployed young people working on the pilot programmes of the national BBC Make It Digital Scheme, getting the learners to produce lots of varied…
Jaanika Okk Arts Management website
This one-day website commission for an arts management professional has enabled us to train the client, build the website in full and hand over to her on the day. The site includes an attractive tabbed index pages, customised coding as…
ActiveParks Birmingham website
Friendly Creatives were commissioned to design and build an interactive map website to enable visitors to immediately discover the nearest park to them where they could participate in sports and exercise events.
Digital Marketing Workshops for Creative Enterprise and Creative Alliance
In spring and summer 2015, Creative Alliance and Creative Enterprise used our expertise to help deliver a series of day-long Social Media workshops across the West Midlands region (Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry, Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Leamington Spa) aimed at introducing local creative professionals to Social…
Digital Apprenticeship Manager, Creative Alliance
Since April 2014, Ian has been working part-time for National Training Provider of the Year 2014 winners Creative Alliance, with the job of creating apprenticeship jobs for new talent for the creative industries. Ian is also an assessor of these…
New look for our website for writer Raj K Lal
It’s been a pleasure to work again with one of our early clients to modernise her site when her needs for it changed. The original site had been made to the style and specifications she requested, but she was now…
Birmingham Open Spaces Forum website
This website includes fully bespoke graphic and web design, as well as an interactive map displaying hundreds of member organisations and open spaces across a city of a million people. There’s also an events system and a newsletter system built…
Creative Writing Adult Education Courses for BAES (2013-)
Ian has been appointed to run many Adult Education courses since autumn 2013, covering Creative Writing in many locations for Birmingham Adult Education Service, and an observed lesson was graded as ‘outstanding’…
WordPress and design training for DesignTrainingUK clients
Ian and Scarlet are training providers for DesignTrainingUK and have provided varied high-end training for their clients, including now providing WordPress training for clients to run their own websites…
The Producers’ Forum – filmmakers’ organisation Communications (2011-14)
From July 2011 to April 2014, Ian worked as the Communications and Member Services Coordinator for the Producers’ Forum, transforming its communications, website and member subscriptions. The Twitter, Facebook and newsletter following has gone from under 2,000 to over 3,500 cumulatively…
Jane Campion Hoye website – writer/actor/coach, Inspire2Speak
To complete a site that had already been initialised, Ian redesigned the header image, amended the website’s style and layout, and added smooth new animated slideshows as well as a testimonials widget and other effects, while training the client to…
Make Me Smile Balloons & Events website
This colourful new site makes the most of the client’s vivid images of their creations, with a large slider on the homepage that links to different sections of the site, plus an interactive map and Flash picture galleries. The site…