Goodwork
| website: | http://www.goodwork.uk.com |
Company details
[Login to edit this information]What does it do?
Goodwork is a marketing and communications company that specialises in working with charities and on projects with a clear social objective.How is it social?
Goodwork’s social returns are reflected in the service it provides to its clients in promoting social issues and encouraging positive action. The company provides marketing experience to social businesses and charities. Goodwork’s success in connecting with people who are ignored by conventional communications agencies reflects the market that exists for socially minded organisations and their stakeholders. The company’s work for charities reflects its social concerns and ambition to create social impact, through encouraging people to make positive changes in their lives.
What is its business model?
Goodwork is a social marketing and communications company with experience in corporate, charity and public sector communications, project management, corporate social responsibility, graphic and 3D design, fundraising, research, event management, copywriting and PR. The company has worked with clients such as BT, Cancer Research, Great Ormond Street Hospitals, the Labour Party, Marks & Spencer, PepsiCo, Sainsburys, Shell, Vodafone, Volvo and Westminster City Council.
In 2006 the company’s ‘Breaking the Sound Barrier’ campaign for the Royal National Institute of Deaf People won the 'Best Integrated Campaign' and 'The Grand Prize' at Haymarket's Third Sector Excellence Awards. Projects in 2007 included an anti-smoking campaign for Cancer Research UK, and a project for Marie Stopes International, called ‘Zoom in’, designed to raise awareness among young Europeans of the sexual health problems prevelant in the Third World.
Its history
Goodwork was founded in late 2006 by Patrick John Padget and evolved from the marketing communications and design agency Creative Change Ltd. Padget was inspired to set up Goodwork after working with his son for three years and learning from him how to see the world in a different and more positive light. The business specialises in commmunicating and marketing to misunderstood or ignored citizens and consumers with the aim of inspiring them to take action to change their lives.
More information
| Current shareholders: | No information provided |
| Chair: | Patrick John Padget |
| Year of incorporation: | 2006 |
Company snapshot
| Company type: | Ltd |
| Address: | Goodwork Limited, 367 Chiswick High Road, London, n/a, GB, W4 4AG |
| Telephone: | +44 (0)20 87472956 |
| Blog: | |
| CEO: | No information provided |
| Industrial sector: | Business services |
| Social / Environmental benefit: | Awareness and advocacy; |
| Certifications: | Not Applicable; |
| Social business sector: | Other; |
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