Welcome!
We’re a not-for-profit club of over 500 amazing creative professionals from more than 30 disciplines using our creative skills to support local Social Impact Entrepreneurs, Charities and Community Initiatives for free. Founded in Peckham in 2018, our mission is to help our local communities thrive and grow by unleashing the incredible power of the UK’s Creative Industries, starting right here in South East London.
Eradicating FGM in the UK.
Sarian - CEO of Keep The Drums
We supported Sarian through the creation of a new brand toolkit and website to help her on her mission to eradicate the practice of FGM in the UK and in Sierra Leone.
CIC Volunteer Ana - Brand Designer
We helped Ana find her impact by using her creative skills to create a new brand for Keep The Drums and support them on their mission to eradicate FGM.
Giving a voice to local businesses.
Sandra - CEO of Tree Shepherd
We supported Sandra with the set up of Peckham Business Forum through the creation of a new brand toolkit and website to help represent the local businesses in Rye Lane and give them a voice.
CIC Volunteer Bethan - Designer
We helped Bethan find her impact by using her skills to support Peckham Business Forum with a new brand toolkit and website.
Providing sustainable employment for refugees.
Laura - CEO of CONCAT
We supported Laura on her mission to give female refugees in war-torn areas of the world sustainable employment with a Social Media Strategy & Design Templates that help concat communicate its amazing purpose.
CIC Volunteer Adam - Social Media Strategist
We helped Adam find his impact by using his skills to support Concat with a Social Media Strategy that has helped them communicate their purpose more effectively.
The Impact Review
The Impact Review Q4 2023 is our quarterly summary of the projects CIC has been doing with our local charities and community businesses. It brings to life the incredible work they are doing in the community and profiles the CIC volunteers who have given their time and talent to help them achieve even more.
How does CIC deliver impact in South-East London?
We support impact businesses better achieve their missions by offering them free senior creative resource to support their marketing needs. We deliver these projects through our Impact Volunteer Platform, our Impact Awards programme and our Community & Fundraising Events in our space in the Bussey Building, Peckham. We fund this work through fundraising and with the profits of our sister Creative Agency, FSC.
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VIP matches creative professional volunteer hours to local impact business marketing needs - delivering top-notch marketing support on an on-going basis allowing social impact entrepreneurs, charities, CICs and community initiatives to maximise their impact.
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Impact Awards are £4000 of creative resource awarded to fund foundational projects such as Business Visions, Social Media Strategies or Design Toolkits - given to impact businesses that are just starting out. We award 36 of these a year.
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The CIC community space in Bussey Building, Peckham is used to bring our members & partners together to meet and collaborate, for fundraising events, and for our partners and community collaborators to use for their own events.
Our Volunteer Impact Platform.
Our volunteering platform connects creative professionals who want to volunteer their creative skills for good with local impact businesses who are doing good in their communities. Through VIP we offer our local Impact Partners ongoing free creative support across areas such as campaign & comms planning, print, digital comms, social assets, and photography.
Our Impact Awards.
Our Impact Awards are £4000 worth of senior creative resource delivered via 8 week projects across foundational areas such as business and vision planning, brand & logo toolkits, social media strategies, campaign & comms strategies, and website development.
We award 9 Impact Awards per quarter (36 per year) to local Impact Businesses who have community prosperity at their heart - and we manage, deliver & guarantee all the Award projects ourselves.
Our events range from fundraising Live Music, Stand Up and Ted X style speaker events that directly fund our work in the community - to free social and community events for our Volunteers and Charity Partners to meet, chat and collaborate with each other.
Our Community & Fundraising Events.
Become one of our amazing Impact Partners.
Our Impact Partners are local Social Impact Entrepreneurs, CICs, Community Businesses and Charities who we support with free creative resource to help them deliver impact in their community.
Join more than 500 creative professionals.
Our volunteers find their impact by supporting local community businesses through skills-based volunteering. They also get to meet like minded creatives across a broad range of disciplines ranging from designers, consultants and researchers to musicians, actors and illustrators.
Experience CIC at one of our upcoming Events.
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CIC Welcome (online)
4th April, 9:30am
Interested in getting involved but not able to make it in person? Join us online to hear more about the CIC's mission and our volunteering opportunities.
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CIC Welcome
17th April, 7pm
Interested in getting involved? Join us to hear more about CIC's mission and our volunteering opportunities over pizza and drinks and meet other local creatives looking to find their impact.
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CIC Social
25th April, 7pm
Connect and catch-up at our members only Social, and be inspired by our Impact Partners and Keynote speakers over drinks, food and music.
CIC FAQs
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If you are a creative professional, you can join as a volunteer and pledge monthly hours. If you are an Impact Business, you can apply for an Impact Award or to be part of the VIP beta trial. You can also support us by coming to our fundraising events.
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To support a local impact business you do need to be a creative professional - as the volunteering is skills based. If you are not a creative professional you can get involved in other ways - by coming to our fundraising events, supporting us on social media, and through direct donations (available summer of 2024).
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If your business has social impact at its core - then, yes, we may be able to help you with marketing and design. We are focusing on Peckham and South-East London at the moment - but we are always open to working with amazing impact companies outside of London too (we are planning to set up more CICs across the UK soon).
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We fund the CIC through fundraising activities like events and merch - and through our sister creative agency, FSC - which donates a percentage of its profits to allow us to do the work we do.
Pop in and say Hi!
Creative Impact Club CIC
AG1, Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham, London SE15 4ST
Hours
Tues/Wed/Thurs
9am–6pm
