Our Impact
We’re making an impact in our communities by unleashing the incredible potential of the UK’s creative industries.
Our mission is to increase prosperity in our local communities, starting in Peckham and South East London.
As a not-for-profit members club (and Community Interest Company) of over 500 talented creative professionals across more than 30 disciplines, we use our creative skills to fundraise and work with local social impact start-ups, charities and community initiatives.
Last year our Creative Impact Club invested over £250,000 in delivering community projects and events.
FSC IMPACT IN
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FSC COMMUNITY
INTEREST
COMPANY
FSC uses the profits from Agency Projects to fund a not-for-profit Community Interest Company with a vision to unleash the amazing potential of the UK’s Creative Industries to drive prosperity in local communities.
Our mission is to pull the UK’s amazing creative talent into paid social impact work – focusing them on solving local social & environmental challenges.
We award Impact Awards that pay for our members to creatively support social entrepreneurs & community leaders to deliver local prosperity. We also offer our members as Creative Volunteers to our charity partners, and we support our community through regular creative skill-shares via Hackathons and Business Surgeries.
FSC IMPACT LOOP
1. ATTRACT
the UK’s top creative talent by helping them find purpose using their skills on social impact projects.
2. ASSEMBLE
cutting-edge agency teams of creative talent to deliver exceptional client work.
3. ACCELERATE
social impact by using the profits from client work to fund and support social impact start-ups, charities and community projects with creative resource.
FSC COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
FSC uses the profits from Agency projects to fund a not-for-profit Community Interest Company (CIC), with a vision to unleash the amazing potential of the UK’s creative industries to drive prosperity in local communities.
Our mission is to pull the UK’s amazing creative talent into paid social impact work – focusing them on solving local social and environmental challenges.
We give out Impact Awards that pay for our members to creatively support social entrepreneurs and community leaders to deliver local prosperity. We also offer our members as Creative Volunteers to our charity partners, and we support our community through regular creative skill-shares via hackathons and business surgeries.
We attract some of the best creative talent in the UK and build award-winning bespoke project teams that deliver exceptional outcomes for our clients.
We use the Agency profits to fund, resource and deliver projects via our CIC for social impact start-ups, charities and community initiatives.
FSC IS GIVING THE UK’S
CREATIVE TALENT THE OPPORTUNITY TO USE THEIR SKILLS FOR GOOD
OUR IMPACT
AWARDS IN 22/23
Our Impact Fund has supported a wide range of social impact entrepreneurs, charities and community initiatives, including anti-FGM charity Keep The Drums, Lose the Knife, which is trying to eradicate the practice in the UK and Sierra Leone; body positivity platform Anti-Diet Riot Club; reading club Dope Readers, an inclusive community and safe space for young readers with an accent on Black and POC authors; hyper-local charity SE15 Community Fund, which supports families in the cost-of-living crisis; bicycle repair shop UpCycle, which trains children to fix bikes and encourages bike-riding amongst minorities; and web development agency Concat, which trains women from war-torn countries to be coders.
THE ANTI-POLLUTION REVOLUTION
Wateraware Collective’s mission is to create a living map of water quality in the UK – and beyond – to ensure the protection of our planet’s blue spaces. To do this, they’re developing smart data analysis software to enable the viable use and mass-scale rollout of low-cost water quality sensors. FSC worked with Wateraware to produce a vibrant brand toolkit to help them share their important message and further their cause.
HOW THE IMPACT FUND IS USED
Our CIC Impact Fund supports social impact businesses, charities and community initiatives with our members’ creative skills, for free.
We do this by giving out 9 x £4,000 Impact Awards every quarter (equating to £144,000 worth of creative resource every year), focusing on helping entrepreneurs and charity founders deliver more impact to their communities.
FSC members can support across most business and marketing needs, from business vision and planning through to brand design, website development, social media strategy, campaign development and much more.
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