We worked with our friends at Age UK County Durham to create their fantastic recipe book ‘Eat Well, Feel Great’. The book provides colourful and delicious meals and snacks for one or two people and provides advice on how to eat well and feel great in later life. https://www.ageuk.org.uk/countydurham/
ABCUL is the main trade association for credit unions in Britain and is a co-operative of co-operatives, governed by volunteer directors representing credit unions to governments, policy makers and the media. We worked with ABCUL to update their branding and provided various promotional materials and resources for their 2018 annual conference.
We were very proud to work with Co-operatives UK to create a series of graphics and report layout for their ‘Working Together’ innovations project helping co-operatives protect gig economy workers. You can find out more here
We helped Co-operatives UK put together the layout and design of a fantastic new book by Ed Mayo called ‘A Short History of Co-operation and Mutuality‘. The book is a ‘two languages in one’ flip book in both English and Spanish and is described by Frank Trentmann, Professor of History as “A very thoughtful, deeply […]
We worked with Rhizome to create a new brand identity and fantastic new website to help them provide facilitation, training and organisational development to NGOs and co‑operatives across the UK. Rhizome works with activists and campaigners, community groups, and to those organisations that support activism in all its forms. Rhizome brings together the skills and experience of a co-operative of […]
Community-owned and committed to music in Newcastle Alpha designed a new brand and website for The Globe in Newcastle. First of all, we asked the question: Who would go to The Globe? This lead to researching colours for the brand, settling on a stunning gold, sharp purple, and a gorgeous deep grey. While this is […]
Alpha completes report design for tight deadline. The Scottish fair trade organisation JTS has for several years been working with rice farmers in Malawi to increase yields and develop export markets. From 2013 to 2016 the work was funded by the Scottish Government’s International Development Department. JTS produced a comprehensive report on the project for the […]
We were delighted to create the branding for the first North East Social Enterprise Festival held at Newcastle Racecourse in October 2015. We also enjoyed a highly productive day at the festival meeting the many social enterprises from the North East region and the hundreds of people who believe in a better way of doing […]
Parnaby Cyclones is County Durham company that supplies huge processing and separating machines to mining, quarrying, recycling and waste treatment plants all over the world. We’ve been working with this family business for nearly 30 years, with the founder, his son and now his grandsons. In October 2015 we provided a comprehensive design service for Parnaby’s […]
The Co-operative Loan fund lends money exclusively to co-operatives. The organisation’s approach to lending is ethical, accessible and sympathetic to your co-op’s needs; it’s entirely funded and run by co-ops, so – unlike many conventional lenders – truly understands and actively supports democratically owned and controlled enterprises. The Co-operative Loan Fund reinvests any surpluses into the fund to […]