Charity Branding

IE Brand is an award-winning charity branding agency.

We specialise in helping charities and other not-for-profits to engage with their audiences – increasing their impact and reach through brand research, messaging, visual identity and logo design, campaigns, and behaviour change.

Charity brands, more than any other, simply can’t afford to be lost in the crowd. We help our clients to better understand their brands: how they look, sound and behave, empowering charities to increase their impact and income.

Denise Atkins, Associate Marketing and Content Consultant at IE Brand
Denise Atkins
Charity branding award
Gold and Silver for IE at Transform Awards We’re so excited, and we just can’t hide it! IE Brand pocketed two prestigious pan-European branding awards this week – a gold and a silver – for our fantastic Visual Identity design work with FPA’s Sexwise campaign and university agrifood…
Branding a merged charity
Bowel Research UK When two health charities decided to merge, they turned to IE Brand to support them through the process of creating a bigger, bolder, more influential brand. The newly merged charity – Bowel Research UK – will leverage the synergies of its…
Young person's charity rebrand
Eikon Following the launch of their new 5-year strategy, Eikon wanted to review the way they communicated and promoted their work. The charity wanted their brand to better resonate with children and young people, and they also needed it to work harder to…
Renaming and rebranding a Christian charity
Clergy Support Trust IE Brand carried out in-depth stakeholder research, which resulted in 'Sons & Friends of the Clergy' being renamed 'Clergy Support Trust'. We then created new brand messaging, visual identity and a new logo for the Christian charity, supported…
Prestige charity rebrand
Royal Academy of Engineering A project to craft impactful brand messaging for the Royal Academy of Engineering to ensure their new five year strategic vision is accessible. And then an ambitious new visual identity to communicate the Academy’s…
Health charity rebrand
Resuscitation Council UK Following a brand review and extensive stakeholder research, it was clear that Resuscitation Council UK required a top-level rebrand to reposition the charity for a wider audience, to be rolled out on and offline. Resuscitation Council UK is…
Sexual health charity campaign brand
Sexwise A sex-positive new campaign brand for sexual health charity FPA and Public Health England, with a fun, universal appeal. IE Brand conducted stakeholder research to ensure the campaign’s audience had their say, before crafting the campaign’s…
Ollie Leggett, Managing Director & Brand Consultant at IE Brand
Ollie Leggett
Creating a merged charity brand: a roadmap
Might a merger offer some charities the best chance of survival post-pandemic? Merging organisations that operate in a similar space is one possible option for not-for-profits facing tough times due to – or exacerbated by – the Coronavirus pandemic. We take a look at the arguments for this approach, and how to go about…
Ollie Leggett, Managing Director & Brand Consultant at IE Brand
Ollie Leggett
Charity brand blog
165 reasons why brand matters to your charity Is branding a bottomless pit into which the profligate cast hard-earned charity income? Or is it a shrewd investment spent by the strategically enlightened, in the sure knowledge that they will see rich rewards? Ollie Leggett, IE’s MD and top…
Sustainability non-profit branding
Forum for the Future As part of a wider transformation, Forum for the Future chose IE Brand to rebrand the charity. Forum for the Future is a leading sustainability non-profit, leading a global community of over 130 organisations. They needed a brand to reflect this…
  • World Book Day logo on a grey tag, with eyes looking down and to the left inside the double O of book. Shows the date, 2 March 2023
    World Book Day logo on a yellow tag, with eyes looking down and to the left inside the double O of book. Shows the date, 2 March 2023

    World book day banner showing the date 2 March 2023 and the WBD logo, with illustrations by Allen Fatimaharan

    IE Brand & Digital provided intense design and development support for the rollout of World Book Day 2023. Read more on the IE blog.

     

    From our reading for pleasure resources for teachers and families, to the £1/€1.50 book tokens that we give to every child in the UK and Ireland, to our digital adverts, IE helped us to sprinkle World Book Day magic on our campaign assets and website.

    Emma Pritchard
    Manager, World Book Day
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    Teach First logo

    Young girl as an astronaut – Teach First "Challenge the Impossible" campaign by IE Brand

    Teach First is a charity working towards the day when no child’s educational success is limited by their socioeconomic background. IE Brand was appointed to create a campaign to tackle educational equality, kicking off a year of action, campaigning and mobilisation. The campaign needed to resonate emotionally – with anger at the injustice faced by children from poorer backgrounds, as well as a positive vision for change. 

    Explore the full case study for the "Challenge the Impossible" campaign.

    The external perspective IE Brand brought to the project enabled us to step outside of our comfort zone and deliver an exciting and creative campaign identity that packs a punch. The conviction that IE have in their creative ideas is commendable and this really helped drive the project forward when obstacles were met. Feedback from internal stakeholders and our wider network of alumni and partners has been positive.

    Hayley Orrell
    Brand & Marketing Officer - External Relations Division, Teach First
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  • Bank Workers Charity new logo in plum. The name is partly enclosed in a speech bubble shape
    Bank Workers Charity new logo in plum. The name is partly enclosed in a speech bubble shape

    A selection of branded posters for Bank Workers Charity. Messages like "I've been retired from banking for 5 years... I've never felt so lonely" and the words "We're here to help" in the style of a circular stamp.

    A new brand for the Bank Workers Charity, built around their people and their community. Bank Workers Charity offers a safety net to people that have worked in banks, along with their families.

    The new brand uses people's stories and experiences to encourage others to ask for help and start a conversation.

    Read our Bank Workers Charity rebrand case study. 

     
  • Christian Aid logo (grey)
    Christian Aid logo

    Children smiling and waving

    Prior to investing a significant sum in a national campaign to raise brand awareness in the UK and Ireland, Christian Aid commissioned IE to undertake a brand audit and a top-level response to the proposed campaign strategy. 

    The work was effectively a high level 'sense check' in order to ensure that this household name, £100m+ charity was as well prepared as possible to optimise the impact of an omni channel, above and below the line marketing campaign to drive up awareness of the critically important work of the charity.

    IE delivered a succinct and astute evaluation of the challenges facing our brand. They clearly have a passion for their work, combined with a really helpful mix of charity and wider market knowledge.

    Claire Aston
    Head of Strategic Communications, Christian Aid
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    logo of Royal Air Forces Association in blue and red

    RAFA Kidz brand by IE Brand

    The Royal Air Forces Association (RAFA), is a membership organisation and charity that provides practical assistance, expert advice and emotional support to the RAF Family. 

    RAFA's support services are offered to all serving and ex-serving personnel and their dependents. They include welfare support, a befriender service, Wings Break hotels and sheltered housing.

    IE Brand is RAFA's creative partner for their extensive campaign plan, helping to meet the charity's strategic objectives. One of our first projects was to create a new brand for RAFA Kidz, a not-for-profit nursery business that delivers fun, affordable and nurturing early years childcare in a welcoming environment, on RAF stations.

    We also created the "Finding It Tough?" campaign to launch a new series of one-day mental wellbeing courses. We scripted the narration for a series of campaign films based on four different user personas. The campaign materials including postcard mailings and magazine and social media ads have a strong visual signature based on authentic handwriting.  

    It’s been a pleasure working with IE on branding the RAFA Kidz project. They understood our brief straight away and developed a fresh, exciting look and feel that maintains the core elements of the RAF Association brand while creating a fun, vibrant sub-brand that would appeal to parents and children. IE offered us useful advice and insight on how we use the brand to produce a wide variety of deliverables. Working to tight timescales, the team at IE really put us at ease throughout the project, as we knew the design work was in safe hands. The launch of the first RAFA Kidz nursery was a great success, and was really well received by parents, employees and RAF personnel.

    Emily Rooke
    Brand Marketing Manager, Royal Air Forces Association
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  • CharityJob logo (grey) by IE Brand
    CharityJob logo by IE Brand

    New brand for Charity Job recruitment site

     

    IE Brand created a new brand and visual identity for CharityJob, including a new logo and strapline. To coincide with a new improved recruiter website (developed by the in-house team) in October 2017, the visual identity also rolled out across social media, email and offline branding.

    It was important to bring CharityJob's values to the fore, and remind recruiters and candidates that they are more than just a job board. They are a team of passionate specialists with deep sector expertise, enabling charities to thrive in an ever more challenging climate, and helping candidates to make the most of their talents.

    To showcase CharityJob’s 17.5 year history of helping over 20,000 charities and not-for-profits to find their best people, we placed a greater emphasis on real life success stories.

    Explore the CharityJob rebrand case study.

     

    IE Brand have gone above and beyond to transform our brand. We loved the fact that they challenged our team and got us to get out of our comfort zone for this project. It’s been an incredible journey and this marks a new chapter for CharityJob. From the core messages to visual identity, they truly captured who we are as a team.

    Jade Phillips
    Brand & Communications Lead, CharityJob
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  • Career Ready charity logo designed by IE Brand (grey)
    Career Ready charity logo designed by IE Brand

    Career Ready rebrand

    Career Ready is a national charity that links education with business to prepare young people for the world of work.

    Explore how we rebranded Career Ready.

    IE Brand put in the time and effort to really understand our charity and the work we do and this is reflected in the exciting, modern new brand they have developed for us. They have not only created far more engaging visuals, but have also helped us all to think about what we say about ourselves and how we convey those messages – it’s helped everyone to gain a positive, fresh perspective.

    Allie Fitzgibbon
    Head of Communications, Career Ready
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    Anawim logo

    New Anawim logo and strapline "Birmingham's centre for women" shown on a background of a black and white aerial photo of Birmingham

    Anawim helps women in and around Birmingham. Their Women’s Centre is a safe space for those struggling with trauma, the criminal justice system, domestic abuse, addiction, mental health, sexual exploitation – any woman who needs their help. Their wrap-around services and specialised caseworkers can transform women’s lives.

    Read our full case studies on how we rebranded the charity, and how we designed and built their new website

    Working with IE has been transformative for Anawim. The level of research undertaken with such a broad range of Anawim’s women, staff, volunteers and supporters has enabled us to really delve into what makes Anawim unique and enabled us to work together to realise who we are and what we stand for. We have no doubt that our new brand will not only enable Anawim to reach more women who need support, but will also encourage more people to engage with, fund and learn more about Anawim and its values.

    Emily Johnson
    Fundraising and Communications Manager
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