CREATIVE IMPACT CLUB CIC

What CREATIVE IMPACT CLUB CIC does

Creative Impact Club CIC is a Community Interest Company (not-for-profit) that operates a volunteer platform connecting creative professionals with local charities and social impact organizations in the United Kingdom. Founded in South London in 2023, the organization addresses a structural market gap: charities and CICs lack the budget to access professional creative services (branding, social media strategy, campaign planning, digital communications, photography), while creative professionals often seek meaningful volunteer opportunities to apply their skills for social impact. CIC's platform matches volunteer creatives with charity partners through a structured Impact Awards program, delivering pro-bono creative outputs across brand toolkits, messaging frameworks, UX audits, and design systems.

The platform comprises three integrated components: the CIC Volunteer Platform (the matching and delivery mechanism), the Impact Awards program (the formal channel that selects and assigns charity projects), and Impact Stories (a case study and showcase portal documenting outcomes). The organization has supported more than 50 local charities and reports delivering over £500k of creative outputs since founding. It is powered by Future Strategy Club, a community for freelancers and creative professionals, and operates from The Conduit Club co-working space in Covent Garden, London.

The business model is non-commercial: all services are provided free of charge to charity partners, with no pricing model, no disclosed revenue, and no external funding rounds. Operations are supported through a partnership with Future Strategy Club. The customer base is exclusively UK-based social impact organizations spanning diverse verticals including youth development, refugee support, community health, cycling advocacy, FGM awareness, prison reform theatre, and financial education.

Name

CREATIVE IMPACT CLUB CIC

Legal name

Creative Impact Club CIC

Website

https://creativeimpact.club

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Creative Impact Club CIC is a UK not-for-profit volunteer platform, founded in 2023, that connects creative professionals with local charities for free skills-based volunteering. It has supported 50+ charities with £500k+ of creative outputs across branding, social media, and communications.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pro Bono Creative Services

NAICS

Civic and Social Organizations (813410), Public Relations Agencies (54182)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro primary industry

Cause/Sustainability & Purpose-Driven Creative Agencies (MPAAAAAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Nonprofit & Cause Communications (BPAFADAK)

Keywords

• Pro bono creative services
• Skills based volunteering
• Charity creative support
• Volunteer matching platform
• Community impact design

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Creative Impact Club CIC operates a volunteer platform that connects creative professionals with local charities and community organizations to deliver free creative services. Through its Impact Awards program, the organization provides pro-bono brand toolkits, social media strategy, campaign and communications planning, digital communications, social assets, and photography to local social impact entrepreneurs, CICs, community businesses, and charities in the United Kingdom.

Product overview

CREATIVE IMPACT CLUB CIC operates a volunteer platform that connects creative professionals with local charities and community organizations. The core offering consists of three integrated components: the CIC Volunteer Platform (which facilitates the matching and delivery of creative skills-based volunteering), Impact Awards (the program through which pro-bono creative support is delivered to charity partners), and Impact Stories (which document and showcase the outcomes of these partnerships). Together, these offerings provide local charities with free creative support across brand toolkits, social media strategy, campaign planning, digital communications, and photography—delivered by volunteer creative professionals who gain impact experience through the program.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CIC Volunteer Platform A volunteer matching platform that connects creative professionals who want to volunteer their creative skills with local charities doing good in their communities. The platform facilitates skills-based volunteering across brand toolkits, social media strategy, campaign and communications planning, print, digital communications, social assets, and photography.
• Impact Awards A pro-bono creative support program that matches local charities and social impact organizations with volunteer creative professionals, delivering free brand toolkits, messaging frameworks, design systems, communications strategy, UX audits, and social media assets.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over £500k of creative outputs delivered to supported charities
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered supporting and minor.

• Future Strategy ClubsupportingGTM or Marketing PartnerFuture Strategy Club (FSC) powers Creative Impact Club, providing operational support and infrastructure for the volunteer platform. FSC is a community for freelancers and creative professionals that evolved to include community impact initiatives.
• The Conduit ClubminorOthersCIC operates from The Conduit Club co-working space at 6 Langley Street, London. This provides the physical hub for volunteer activities and team operations.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Idealist: Idealist is a global nonprofit jobs, volunteer, and organization matching platform serving the social sector. It is a broad incumbent — overlapping with CIC's volunteer matching concept but at much larger scale and with broader scope beyond creative skills.
• VolunteerMatch: VolunteerMatch is one of the largest US volunteer matching platforms connecting individuals and skilled professionals with nonprofit opportunities. It is a broad incumbent in volunteer matching but covers all causes and skills, not specifically focused on creative services like CIC.
• Mother London: Mother is a major independent creative agency known for purpose-driven and socially conscious campaigns. It is a broad incumbent in the same creative-for-good space, but as a commercial agency rather than a non-profit volunteer platform.
• Lucky Generals: Lucky Generals is an independent UK creative agency with a track record of purpose-driven and charity-sector campaigns. It is a broad incumbent — adjacent to CIC's work in serving nonprofits with high-quality creative, but operating commercially rather than via volunteer matching.

Direct peers

• Taproot Foundation: Taproot Foundation is a nonprofit that provides pro-bono services — including marketing, brand strategy, and creative services — to other nonprofits. It is a direct peer in delivering free creative capacity to the social sector, though it operates more as a structured program than a volunteer marketplace.
• Beyond (pro-bono creative): Beyond is a UK creative and brand agency that dedicates a portion of capacity to pro-bono work for charities and social enterprises. It is a direct peer combining commercial creative agency work with purpose-driven delivery to the nonprofit sector.
• The Good Agency: The Good Agency is a UK-based creative and communications agency working exclusively with charities, NGOs, and social enterprises on branding, campaigns, and digital strategy. It is a direct UK peer operating the cause-focused creative agency model that CIC delivers on a pro-bono basis.
• Catchafire: Catchafire is a skills-based volunteer matching platform that connects professionals with nonprofits for pro-bono projects, including branding, marketing, design, and strategy. It is the closest direct peer to CIC, operating the same two-sided marketplace model at greater scale and US-centric.

Emerging players

• SCORE (civic/purpose platform): SCORE is a US nonprofit network that provides free mentoring and pro-bono business support services, including marketing and strategy advice, to small businesses and nonprofits. It is an emerging/scaled peer offering free skilled expertise to mission-driven organizations with overlap to CIC's skills-based volunteering concept.
• OnHand (volunteer app): OnHand is a UK-based employee volunteering platform connecting corporate employees with local charity opportunities. It is an emerging peer overlapping CIC's volunteer-to-charity matching model, though more focused on corporate volunteering than creative pro-bono work.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/creativeimpact.club
• Facebookfacebook.com/CreativeImpactClub
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/creative-impact-club-cic

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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