Cause UK working in the community

Cause UK Limited is an award-winning Public Relations (PR), marketing, and events agency.?Being a ‘mission driven business’ is part of the company’s DNA. The team has helped raise over ￡1m for charities since 2010.?Every year, Cause UK deliver at least one pro-bono project.

Specialising in supporting charitable and ethical foundations, the agency has worked with a number of prestigious clients to support positive social change or good causes.

Cause UK provides tailored PR services, from one-off press releases, bespoke campaigns, to ongoing PR activity.

Its marketing offer includes public relations services, advert production, film and photography, social media content creation, and website development. In addition, Cause UK offers events management services, supporting its clients by creating, organising, and producing events including fundraisers, plays, concerts and festivals.

A PR agency for the beyond-profit sector, we help clients tackle issues such as poverty, homelessness, racism, mental health, inequality and bullying.

Cause UK received Arts Council support as an infrastructure support agency to major arts organisations in the UK, including festivals and art collectives; the team are advisors to the newly reformed Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, sourcing performance opportunities at venues, such as Halifax Piece Hall.

Based in Harrogate, Cause UK has led a number of local community projects over the years, including organising and securing the BBC springwatch team to so a series of events aligned to the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with Chris Packham and Steve Backshall, which covers half the Harrogate District in 2021 and more recently the Harrogate Action on Climate Change initiative with Iolo Williams and Martin Hughes-Games.

We also organised for film Director Ken Loach to give a talk and film screening in aid of the Harrogate Homeless Project at the Wesley Centre in Harrogate. This was also aligned with the Harrogate Film Festival. Cause UK donated net proceeds of ticket sales to the Harrogate Homeless project.??

For the same film festival, we booked Brian Blessed to give a talk/performance at the Royal Hall in Harrogate.?Brian kindly donated our fee to book him to animal charities close to his heart.

Last year we produced a play called ‘The Man Who Captured Sunlight’ telling the story of former Harrogate mayor, Samson Fox.?This was a labour of love and working with Doctor Who writer Gavin Collinson, actors Edward and Freddie Fox and local historian, the late Malcolm Neesam, we worked with two charities the Royal Hall Restoration Trust and the Harrogate Amateur Dramatic Society, donating proceeds of ticket and programme sales and involving a community group of volunteer actors in the production.

It is important for the team to engage with the local community to uphold our values that people planet and profit have equal consideration in everything we do, from operating a paperless office, reducing our carbon footprint by operating electric company cars to engaging only in ethical businesses that also make a difference to our society.?This includes charities, good causes, social enterprises, environmental groups and lobbying organisations.

We represent 20 such organisations at any given time.??We also host one pro bono event/PR campaign per year.?

A list of some of the campaigning work we have done over the years includes:

1. Establishing the social enterprise, the Veterans Artisan Bakery at Catterick Garrison with Marco Pierre White and Rosemary Shrager for veterans at risk of family breakdown, homelessness an addiction, raising over ￡150,000
2. During Covid raising money for specialist school, The Paces in Sheffield involving celebrities, to create a Youtube film, with Lennie, who was 9 at the time, to raise money for his school that provides disability services to young people across Yorkshire.?We secured a donation from the Artic Monkeys and created a film with the support of Rufus Wainwright and Jools Holland, achieving national media profile for the charity.
3. Supporting, the Invictus Trials with pro bono media relations support securing regional and national media coverage for Help for Heroes and Style for Soldiers.
4. Supporting National Energy Action late last year to raise awareness of fuel poverty, working with Eliot Kennedy and securing Sky News and local media to support the campaign to raise money via a charity single.

Environmental work includes representing the Nidderdale AONB, championing its work to safeguard and protect the landscape, wildlife, heritage and farming, taking place across half the Harrogate District,?Recent work includes highlighting unique tree planting software developed by the AONB on Channel 4 News, how farmers are protecting nesting Curlews and how refugees feeling war, have been welcomed into the AONB and taking part in volunteer landscape projects, to boost well-being.

100% of Cause UK’s work has purpose, this year the team have been working to support Free Tibet, to highlight human rights abuses and the destruction of Buddhist sites in the media, as well as the Care Foundation in Pakistan which aims to educate 1 million children by 2025.

All employees and Cause UK freelancers work on at least one pro bono and paid for charity project per year.??Whether pro bono or paid for all projects are given equal time, weight and energy.?

5-7% of Cause UK’s turnover is donated to charitable causes per year.?This includes the value equivalent to time donated to projects.

We work with over 10 freelances at any given time in the year.?Employees who have been recognised for community work includes, Director Clair Challenor-Chadwick who won the Director of the Year, twice (2014 and 2021) at the Institute of Director’s Awards for her work in sustainability, public not for profit work across Yorkshire and the Humber.

All employees have access to free marketing, training and support via google and Reuters certified courses.

All employees feel motivated that Cause UK is ‘mission driven’ giving purpose to work and championing our belief that “there is no more powerful human emotion in belief in a good cause.” Why don't you join us, if you would like to work for us, we would love to hear from you.