Sustainable digital
Marketing & Creative Studio

Inspiring change, one story at a time

Content Strategy

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Services

We help innovators and changemakers stand out online and expand their work. We blend content strategy, videos, and storytelling to create maximum impact on websites and social media.

Unleash the power of purpose

We're a UK-based sustainable creative studio made up of creative directors, digital innovators, and designers with an OBSESSION for social and environmental justice.

We work with mission-driven organisations from social businesses, local governments and charities to make a real difference.

Videos that cut through the noise

Create a real emotional connection with your audience and supporters.

Our love of filmmaking has taken us around the world, filming documentaries, commercial videos, creating artful animations as well as covering sustainability events.
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🎥 Our work has been featured on the BBC, ITV, Channel4 and more.

Video production

Storytelling + SEO = Real Impact

Storytelling creates true engagement with your brand, products & services. It puts your audience at the centre of the story.

We use brand storytelling frameworks to create the most effective content strategies for your website and social media channels.

💬 We've helped Habitat for Humanity GB achieve 100% growth year-on-year over 3 years.

Content strategy

Keep on top of digital marketing

We've launched over 30 websites, big and small, helping build thousands of web pages.

We've helped 10+ organisations across the world manage their digital transformation (hello AI!), as well as run Meta Ad Campaigns, and run epic social media campaigns.

🎉 Our work was featured twice at the UK Department for Culture, Media & Sports.

Digital marketing services

Impactful design and imagery

Refreshing the look of your website or putting together a new campaign? We can help you with those custom graphic designs.

We've designed research, impact and ESG reports for a variety of industries.

📸 We also specialise in documentary-style photography to achieve the most natural-looking styles that boost authenticity.

Design & photography

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Testimonials

“A creative agency that is excellent at managing digital content and social media platforms not forgetting web design! Great at storytelling and offering trainings that help boost employees capacities in impact storytelling. A team that is dedicated to excellence. I like how they are proactive and always taking time to brainstorm with clients and develop customized solutions!”

Caroline Nyamamu

Habitat for Humanity Africa

“The Restless team helped us triple the organic traffic on our website within 8 months, created ad campaigns with a direct 2.5x ROI (not including LTV) and launched our online store which went from £3.5k/month to £12k/month within 4 months. Can't recommend enough - a great digital content and marketing partner.”

Lee

Spray Group

“Just want to let you know that the video worked great at the [World Habitat Day] event.
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A lot of people LOVED it and said that it was the best thing at the ceremony! So thanks a lot for realizing this great idea!”

Katerina Bezgachina

UN-Habitat

"Restless Stories supported me in organizing a large-scale regional conference. They were responsible for all digital work, including graphic design, video production, social media engagement, newsletters, report design, and countless print branding elements. Working with them was seamless and ensured that the event had strong promotion and audience engagement. It was a resounding success!"

Deena Khalil

MENA Housing Forum

“Perceptive, skilful, helpful, professional, dependable, creative - all these epithets describe Restless Stories. I have turned to Dario for work on website design, social media, filming and stills photography. What is particularly gratifying is that he not only has enviable technical savvy but also have great sensitivity. This is exemplified by the talent that graces his work both visually and musically.”

Tim Thomas

Musical Producer

"It was great to work with Dario. He would come up with solutions for a range of web and digital marketing problems, including SEO and Video Production, which produced some great results."

Alex Wilkes

Zava

"The team at Restless Stories are masters at translating the work of an organisation to making it approachable & engaging through effective communications.

I worked with the team for a large, continent wide conference to develop reports, newsletters, graphic design and social media. Their contributions made the event an overwhelming success."

Robyn Emerson

Africa Housing Forum

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Studio

The Restless Studio is where we run our very own projects - usually funded by our sustainable creative studio work. Sometimes it's a social business, sometimes it's a fundraiser.

Sometimes it's a children's book.

For the next 10 years, we will be working on projects supporting the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The profits from any work that doesn't fit this scope will be used to fund SDG-related projects.

We've helped raise +£240k for charity in the campaigns we've contributed to.

*NEW: use our "Demand Climate Action" profile picture frame on social media.

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Clients

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Works

Digital strategy

Social media advertising campaign for Call Companions

We ran several UK-wide Meta (Facebook & Instagram) advertising campaigns, powered by a series of animated gifs, for the launch of Re-engage's new "Call Companions" service during the first lockdown of the pandemic. The launch was a roaring success with over 4,000 applicants over three months.

Digital strategy

Photography

Photographing isolated older people at a tea dance

Working with Re-engage has been eye-opening. You don't really see how much social isolation is going on among older people in the country until you meet some of those they support. And even then you're barely scratching the surface.

Photography

Creative campaigns

Documentaries on evictions & sustainable communities

A creative campaign pitched and developed for Habitat for Humanity. A series of documentaries, interactive videos and more for an EU-funded project to raise awareness of the UN's SDG 11 - with a focus on land rights, slums and gender equality.

Creative campaigns

Video production

Bluebird Care Camden & Hampstead: Company Presentation

A week after I'd watched "The Fundamentals of Caring" on Netflix, I received an email from the CEO of Bluebird Care Camden & Hampstead about creating a video for his business. No need to say I was already pre-sold!

Video production

Digital strategy

Re-engaging with digital: charity website redesign

Changing a name is a big deal. It’s not a decision that’s made lightly. Especially when it’s a charity rebrand. How do you change a small organisation founded in the 1960s that has one of the largest volunteer bases in the UK with over 12,000 members?

Digital strategy

Creative campaigns

Marketing an Online Event: the Europe Housing Forum

In July 2021, we were asked to provide marketing support for an online event, the Europe Housing Forum, scheduled to take place in November 2021. Some of the duties included social media management, content creation, email marketing, and paid advertising on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Creative campaigns

Video production

A Music Video Fundraiser for King's College Hospital

Aside from paying the filming and editing, this was a fairly low budget video production. The hospital we partnered with to raise funds for their cause has let us use their chapel to film, and the "actors" are all volunteers. There was a great amount of red tape around filming in the hospital so that was not an option. Instead, we opted for the beautiful chapel that we found on the hospital grounds.

Video production

Creative campaigns

All About Dog Breeds: A to Z of the Best Pooches For You

This is an exciting new series of videos produced for Discover Dogs - the annual event organised by the Kennel Club in London. A complete list of all dog breeds recognised by the Kennel Club in the UK to help you find out the best one for you

Creative campaigns

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