Gingerbread

Campaigning for active Single Parent Families

Gingerbread are the national charity providing advice, support and community to single parents. Their aim is to create a society in which single parent families are treated equally and fairly, helping to equip single parents with skills and employment, as well as campaigning to make services more accessible to all families – whatever their shape or size. With the support of Sport England, they wanted to address the financial and social barriers to exercise that many single parent families face by helping many more access leisure facilities.

Services: Branding, Print Design, Campaign, Copywriting, Social Media

Result

We created a campaign brand and marketing strategy to help pilot a scheme in two local authorities in the North West of England, with the aim of getting more single parent families engaged in leisure and sport activity.

Working with both the charity’s campaign team and the leisure trust’s marketing teams, we drew on existing research to test a variety of different messages and visual approaches in a series of workshops. From this face-to-face work with service users, we created a name, campaign brand and series of marketing materials to trail across both sites. The core brand name is affirmative and positive, helping single parent families take part in their wellbeing.

Engaging new customers with printed promotional materials and social media assets, the campaign created empowering, identifiable messages and imagery, breaking down barriers to participation and celebrating the collective time together for single parent families.