Posts by Alex Willcocks

Engage becomes 100 percent employee-owned

We’re incredibly excited to announce that Engage is now 100% employee owned.

National education charity, the EEF, choose Engage

We love to partner with organisations with purpose and help them achieve their vision faster, which is why we’re delighted to announce our latest partnership with the Education Endowment Fund.

All Agency Day - April 2022 edition

It’s All Agency Day again, a time for everyone to come together for creative collaboration and an all-around good time. The day included a one-time opening of Dave’s Vegan BBQ Shack, taskmaster games, and post-work drinks at Belgrave. Oh and some work in between! ​​

Some royally good news

CATCH, one of the charities we support via Elympics and work with to develop their Superstars app, has had a very special visitor this week. The surprise visit was from none other than His Royal Highness Prince William The Duke of Cambridge.

How to focus, stay fit and have fun when working from home

With the whole Engage team now working from home for the foreseeable, we’ve been busy collating everyone’s top tips for making WFH life that little bit easier, under the headings of Focus, Having fun and Staying fit.

Our plan for COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Like the rest of the World, we’ve been closely monitoring the spread of COVID-19 and continually assessing our response as the situation unfolds. Read more about our response in this post.

Engage graduate from Google Elevator Programme

Read about how we’ve been handpicked as one of a select group of just 30 agencies from across the UK to take part in Google’s prestigious Elevator Programme.

District Chief Superintendent’s Commendation

As 2019 draws to a close and we get ourselves ready to enter a whole new decade (gulp!) it’s great to be able to post one last bit of good news before we power down for the festive period.

Are you ready for Leeds Digital Festival 2019?

23rd April 2019 marks the start of of this year’s 10 day Leeds Digital Festival and it’s set to be the biggest and best yet. Just make sure you book events early to avoid missing out!

Smashing targets: our year 3 Elympics results

For our third year of Elympics we set a target of exercising our way to £8,000. How did we get on?

A look inside our annual staff survey

Read all about how we approach our annual digital staff survey including the questions we ask

Elympics year 2: The results

As our second year of Elympics comes to an end we take a look back over the last 12 months to see how we fared, and whether we managed to beat last year’s total.

‘Dam… you were great!

To celebrate our 10th year in business we hopped on a plane and went to experience the best that Amsterdam has to offer. Did we all make it home? Read on to find out.

Our 3rd chapter begins…

Today marks a hugely exciting milestone for us, as contractors arrive on site and make a start on a 3 month office fit-out project that’s been months in the planning.

Elympics: The final results are in!

As our 12 month challenge comes to an end, we take a look back at how far we’ve come.

Engage crowned back-to-back Code In The Dark champions

Engage named #1 Elite Digital Agency by the Drum

We’re hugely proud to have been crowned the #1 Elite Digital Agency for 1-25 staff in the 2015 Digital Census, published by The Drum.

Introducing Attention to digital™

Read about our process of defining and trademarking ‘Attention to digital™’ and also what the difference actually is between the ™ and ® symbols

Ain’t no party like an Engage Summer Party!

2015 saw us hold the first ever Engage Summer Party. It promised to be a memorable day of games, music, dancing and drinking - and certainly didn’t disappoint!

Slack: One month in

We recently started using Slack App as part of our day-to-day process. One month on, see how we’re finding it.

My favourite tools for getting the job done

Fancy a change of scenery? Try our new style switcher