We’re so proud of what we’ve achieved over the last twenty years, but we’ve come to a moment where stopping feels like the right thing to do.
Whatever your relationship with Eff, thank you for supporting us! Giving children and young people a meaningful voice is now much more common than twenty years ago, and together, we’ve played a massive part in making that happen. So, thank you.
A bit more about why we’re closing…
We have loved making beautiful and effective work in collaboration with children and young people, but we need a break. Giving children and young people a meaningful platform takes time, commitment, and substantial resources – both financial and in terms of our team’s energies. Post-COVID, many of our customers’ strategic plans changed, creating long delays in our planned work. We decided to complete all the work on our roster, then pause and think about structuring our work to be more sustainable in the long term. This has included our CEO, Eloïse Bella Day, writing a PhD thesis to document what we did and how we did it so others can learn from and build on our creative research.
But although Eff is ending in its current format, what we believe in – helping children to say the unsayable – will live on in every single person that has taken part in one of our projects. Staff, young people, the creative freelancers we’ve worked with, our clients and partners, our funders and investors are now all taking their experiences on with them. Already, we’re seeing young people we’ve worked with entering the social justice, creative and marketing industries with a deep understanding of why co-creation is so important.
If you scroll down this page, you will find case studies of our favourite works.
If you’re a young person who has worked with Eff and would like help with a reference, or if you’re interested in our methodology and impact, please reach out to Dr Eloïse Bella Day
Thanks again for being part of Eff’s incredible journey!