Group innovations and collaborations across industries and continents are popping up week to week, all over the world. Collaboration can form a crucial incubation network for creativity and give rise to game-changing campaigns and products. The industry needs more of this than ever as we navigate testing times, and we hope we can contribute in some small way from our hilly corner of West Yorkshire.

Working together is the bedrock of everything Stanley & Co. does, both in house, and with our clients. Between us we have all the experience of a full-service agency, but with a personal touch. We want to build brands that connect with their audience in a simple and human way. We’ve grown relationships and connections over the years through good karma, not corporate networking, and as a result we can bring videographers, animators, photographers, copywriters, the lot, into your projects.

There is strength in numbers, and collaboration can have a much deeper impact than just driving financial profit. It can traverse whole sectors, different technologies, ways of working, motives and outcomes; all coming together to enrich everyday life for ordinary people, in ways they didn’t think possible.

Take, for example, the Head of IT at Rolls Royce, who having lost his father to Motor-Neurone Disease (MND), was inspired to task his team with a challenge - making this cruel condition ‘something you can live with, not die from’. Together with the Motor-Neurone Disease Association (MDNA), Rolls Royce worked in partnership with Intel and Dell to create a truly life-changing piece of technology, allowing people living with MND to ‘bank’ their voices using iwillalwaysbeme.com.

The huge increase in ‘voice-banking’ can be directly attributed to this award-winning collaboration (Cannes Lions, if you were wondering…), which makes the product both easy to use, and widely available. This is the type of project that fuels and inspires us here at Stanley & Co. It speaks directly to one of our core tenets; positive change to people’s everyday lives can grow directly from partnerships, drawing on many and varied expertise, one innovation at a time.

Stanley & Co. works best when we’re working together. We can explore, get creative, find solutions, and produce incredible work that suits you down to the ground. Genuine collaboration is what we aim for with all our clients. We’ll never patronise you, or act like we’re the experts. We’re here to listen, take heed, and build your vision. You know your business best, and we keep that in mind whenever we meet, dream up ideas, and deliver your perfect brand.

We each have a decade and a half of creative and strategic branding experience. We’ve built brands from the ground up, we’ve successfully rebranded companies that have been around for years, we’ve done ad-hoc refreshes, we’ve done complete overhauls; you name it, we’ve done it. Whatever we do, we’re committed, we’re creative, we’re all in - and we’re in it for you.

The three of us (Nikki, Jane and Michael - hello!) have worked together for 15 years. But it feels odd to reduce it merely to ‘colleagues’. Ultimately, we’re friends. We know each other's experience inside out - our collective skills perfectly complement one another, and that’s what makes us such an effective and unique team. We’ve supported each other personally and professionally over the years, and as a result, tackled some wild briefs and delivered excellent responses every time.

We pride ourselves on finding a similar energy with our clients so that we can find solutions to even the most complex challenges. Whether you’re after big and bold, or small-scale and subtle, we will work with you to find a way to communicate exactly what you want, visually and verbally. We strongly believe that we’re better together.

We’re Stanley & Co. and the ‘Co.’ is you.