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MOREVER

MOREVER is an independent creative agency for charities and changemakers. Strategy, Creative Communications and Production
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We deliver captivating and powerful stories through film, animation, photography and interactive experiences.

05/12/2024

Our third launch episode of Leading Lights features Dr Sarah Hughes, the inspirational CEO at Mind, the mental health charity.

Sarah has worked in mental health and social justice for 35 years. She has held a number of chief executive roles in the voluntary sector including for the prestigious think tank The Centre for Mental Health.

She holds a professional doctorate on the topic of women and leadership and was given an honorary doctorate by Hull University where she happily studied social work in the mid 90s.

Sarah's vision of becoming the CEO of Mind was established at the age of 18 when she ‘found her people’ during a gap year job at Mind Haringey. She was strongly influenced by her father’s leadership style and her mother’s resilience. She has a clear idea of what it means to be a feminist leader, which she applies to her role daily.

During the conversation Sarah reveals what it takes to lead in really complex environments, which she learned in her role managing mental health services at HM Prison Holloway, along with her understanding of the importance of combining theory and practice.

Sarah also speaks to what it’s like to challenge the perceptions of how a CEO ‘should’ look, speak and carry themselves and her thoughts on the 'strong headwinds' facing the charity sector. She shares how finding levity at difficult moments, her 'CEO squad', and spending time with her family are her coping strategies.

This is a 'must listen' for anyone in the charity sector, or an aspiring leader. We learned so much from Sarah.

Huge thanks to her for sharing her time so generously.

Here's the 🔗 to listen (and watch) on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0kItIm2RbaC61o3iunqd7A?si=2f10de2cf5bd4419

04/12/2024

Episode 2 of Leading Lights features Rachel Clift, the newly appointed CEO of Ben - Support for Life. Ben is dedicated to supporting the people of the automotive industry, providing support for life for them and their family dependents.

Rachel’s background as an international hockey player, combined with a career in the health and wellbeing industry, before becoming Health & Wellbeing Director at Ben have been pivotal in the development of her leadership style.

She aims to provide the freedom for people to do their best work, while knowing you are there if they need you.

In this conversation she shares:
🔦 what climbing Kilimanjaro taught her about doing your best
🔦 how she maintains her work life balance.

She also talks about
🔦‘prioritising joy’
🔦 the importance of a peer network
and
🔦 how she approached the ‘thorough' experience involved in securing her role as CEO.

To listen to this episode head to: https://open.spotify.com/episode/69TCYnB5QtddCdWiWNdfcP?si=4340d1038636411c

And, if you have already listened to Leading Lights, please consider rating and reviewing as it'll help listeners to find us.

03/12/2024

Our first episode of Leading Lights features the incredible Chief Executive of Together Co, April Baker.

Together Co is a loneliness charity that delivers life-changing services in Brighton and Hove through befriending, social prescribing and other volunteering programmes, it supports over 2,000 people a year. This is only made possible by more than 450 volunteers.

It also campaigns nationally and internationally to raise the awareness and impact of loneliness on our health and communities, and the importance of social health.

With over 10 years of senior leadership and board experience in the 'for purpose, not profit', sector, April is passionate about finding innovative and empowering solutions to societal issues, particularly loneliness and social isolation.

In this episode she shares her earliest memories of going out on her bicycle as a young child and why they could have been the spark for the inspiring work she does now at Together Co.

She also explains how she’s committed to bringing ‘social health’ up the agenda in the UK, and why; her biggest influences; how 'habit stacking' works for her; what it’s really like to be in a leadership role in a charity; her ‘why’ and how it keeps her going; and how she protects her reading time and her resilience.

There's so much to dig into!
Here's the link to the episode on Spotify, or find it wherever you listen to podcasts:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/78CMxfY7D8oI6f532ZWmhq?si=6d5f78b29cc74012

02/12/2024

Today’s the day! Leading Lights is live!

Unfiltered conversations with female charity CEOs as they share their leadership stories.

We have 3 incredible episodes which are now available to hear:

🎙 Episode 1 - featuring April Baker CEO of Together Co

🎙 Episode 2 - featuring Rachel Clift CEO of Ben - Support for Life

And

🎙 Episode 3 - featuring Dr Sarah Hugues CEO of Mind

We were humbled by the insights and experiences that these three incredible women shared with us about what life’s really like as the CEO of a charity.

Thank you to April, Rachel and Sarah, for being so generous with your time.
Please, get listening! And, if you enjoy the content we would so appreciate you taking the time to rate, review and subscribe, and tell your friends about it. 🙏🏼
That will help more people discover Leading Lights.

The link to our Spotify page, with all the episodes is below, or you can search ‘Leading Lights MOREVER’ in your podcast app.

https://open.spotify.com/show/1qlL9vtyXulu85UHMj4RNJ?si=3321393f75594796

28/11/2024

We are so excited for this! Our brand new podcast, Leading Lights, launches on Monday, 2nd December 🤩

Hosted by our MD, Abi Mellor, Leading Lights features unfiltered conversations with female charity CEOs as they share their leadership stories.

Find out what the path to leadership of a charity, and the role itself, are really like, from the women who’ve made it there.

Abi’s guests discuss their inspirations, the challenges along the way and how, in such a busy role, they manage life. We’re aiming to help other women walking similar paths hear how to put themselves in the frame for leadership roles while also striking that life balance.

Three launch episodes land on Monday, followed by a new episode on the first Monday of each month. And, we have some REALLY amazing guests lined up for you 🧨🧨

Make sure you don’t miss a thing by subscribing today, ready for launch on Monday.

Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you prefer to listen. Search 'Leading Lights MOREVER' to find it

26/11/2024

Coming soon 👀

14/11/2024

Like all businesses, we simply love getting positive feedback from our clients.

To receive three glowing testimonials in one go - be still our beating heart!

Thank you Young Lives Vs Cancer for this glorious set of reviews. We have loved working with you to create an animation that highlights the wonderful work you do.

Watch this space to see the campaign soon...

11/11/2024

Today, November 11th, we will be reflecting on the sacrifice and bravery of those who have stood in service, both past and present.

We thank them for their courage and commitment.

Photo credit

06/11/2024

- a case study of one of our favourite projects...

THE CLIENT:

THE CAMPAIGN: Why?

THE BRIEF:

1 in 4 parents will lose a baby during pregnancy and birth and 60,000 babies are born too soon every year in the UK.

Tommy’s is the largest charity in the UK carrying out research into the causes of miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth.

Determined to drive awareness in this space, Tommy’s planned a public-facing campaign requiring a number of short films and animations that make it clear that pregnancy complications are physical conditions that can be researched and treated like every other physical condition.

DELIVERABLES:

🎥 x1 campaign hero film

🎥 x4 explainer animations

🎥 x1 vox pop launch event film

🎥 x3 research focussed films

🎥 x10 social ads

🎥Campaign photography

OUR APPROACH:

We pitched a series of beautifully filmed vignettes, which we would weave into a story of increasingly far fetched ‘reasons’ for child loss. During the following weeks we worked closely with contributors to ensure we made an honest film that truly reflected their lived experiences. This meant that focus groups were run sensitively and supportively, so that we came up with a list of authentic WHYs. We invited people from the focus group to feature in the film.

We chose a large Airbnb house for our contributors to stay, so they could support one another throughout the filming experience. The hero campaign film needed to be underpinned by several more information-based animation assets. These were connected conceptually and visually.

We also created optimised executions of the creative for distribution across multiple digital channels, including Facebook, Instagram and the Google Display Network.

THE IMPACT:

👊 13 million reach

👊 396,000 hero film views

👊 45,000 research animation views

👊 44,000 database sign-ups

Here are some of our favourite shots from the campaign photography.

You can watch the Tommy’s Why? campaign hero film at the link in bio, or search: MOREVER Tommy’s Why?

01/11/2024

Ready for the answers to yesterday's oh-so spoooooooky film quiz?

Here the film titles in the order that they appear:

1. Frankenstein

2. Dracula

3. It

4. Coraline

5. Beetlejuice

6. Pan's Labyrinth

7. Candyman

8. Signs

9. Friday 13th (Part 3 if we're being picky)

10. Ringu/ The Ring

11. The Nightmare Before Christmas

12. Event Horizon

13. The Birds

14. The Addams Family

15. Us

16. The Wicker Man

17. Midsommar

18. Sean of the Dead

19. The Witch

20. Bride of Frankenstein

21 The Silence of the Lambs

22. The Shining

23. The Children of the Corn

24. Jaws

25. Let The Right One In

26. Scream

27. The Invisible Man

28. Battle Royale

29. Alien

30. Blade

Which was the hardest? Any you couldn't get?

31/10/2024

How many of these ghoulish faces do you recognize? 🎃

Think you're a true film buff? Try our spoooooooky film quiz! Each image shows a character from a spine-chilling or supernatural movie - but how many can you name?

Share your answers in the comments below... if you dare! We'll reveal the list tomorrow...

Wa-ha-hahahahahahaha! 👻🍿

28/10/2024

Party FOMO warning!

Last week we hosted our 10th birthday party at beautiful Soho House here in Brighton. It was the perfect way to mark our journey from 0-10. Our wonderful clients, collaborators and friends brought their party A-game, and their best dance moves.

Huge thanks to our band, Starling, featuring producer Angeline Elliott, for an incredible live set, and to our in-house DJ Dan Mellor.

Here are some highlights!

25/10/2024

Would it even be our 10th birthday if we didn’t create a film about our journey so far?!

There are a few sore heads around here today. Last night a dazzling array of our clients and collaborators joined us at Soho House here in Brighton to celebrate a decade of MOREVER in style.

It was wonderful 🩷🩷

One of the highlights of the evening was being able to watch this birthday film with an audience. Our in-house creative team (especially Kazz Thompson) worked their magic and packed 10 years of highlights into just a few, action-packed, minutes.

Have a watch…

23/10/2024

Better as a cat?

This month our in-house editor, Kazz Thompson was lucky enough to go to a talk by Nick Park, (director at Aardman, and creator of Wallace and Gromit and Creature Comforts) and Merlin Crossingham (started as an animator on Chicken Run, now creative director of Wallace and Gromit).

She picked up a raft of animation inspiration:

🐔 Did you know that Gromit was originally intended to be a cat? For us, he just wouldn’t be the same in feline form.

🐔 The Aardman mantra is ‘less is more’. This resonates with us. Our experience is that taking something away often makes what’s left behind more powerful.

🐔 Silence is golden. Many of Aardman's most popular characters like Shaun the Sheep, Feathers McGraw, and of course, Gromit himself, are non-speaking. They say so much with just facial expressions and a “very hardworking brow”. Their scenes often rely on music inspired by easily recognisable film references to convey emotions.

🐔 Most of their ideas start with a single sketch. Nick Park drew a chicken digging its way out of a chicken coop, that was the start of Chicken Run.

🐔 They don’t rush the process. Feature films have a 4 year production timeline. Only around 12-15 months of that is filming and editing. The first 2.5 - 3 years is on the story, scripting, storyboarding process. They effectively make the film 2 or 3 times.

If you’re interested in learning more about Aardman, Kazz recommends the documentary ‘A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman’. It’s available on Youtube.

22/10/2024

As a team we get a huge amount of inspiration from listening to podcasts. As part of our 10th birthday celebration, we’ve compiled our Top 10 favourite podcasts.

These are the ones that most inspire us when it comes to storytelling. But, what’s missing?

🎧 Which podcasts do you enjoy that you think we’d love too?

1. Empire Film Podcast - movie news and (self-styled) nonsense. Light hearted but informative.

2. Ear Hustle - made inside and out of San Quentin prison by inmates and former inmates. Great stories well told, a mixture of light hearted and more serious.

3. Criminal - storytellers share their experiences of unusual crimes from murder, robbery and fraud to a dog that pushed kids into a river because he would get rewarded whenever he rescued someone.

4. How To Fail by Elizabeth Day - celebrities talk about their top three failures and what they learned from them

5. The Rest Is Entertainment - pulls back the curtain on television, movies, journalism and more with Richard Osman and Marina Hyde.

6. Beautiful Misfits with Mary Portas - how businesses can make the world a better place when they don’t accept the status quo.

7. Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford - true stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, and hilarious fiascos.

8. The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett - it seems unlikely that anyone could not have already heard of this one, but just in case: it’s an unfiltered journey into the remarkable stories of the people that have defined culture, achieved greatness and created stories.

9. How Stories Happen with Jay Acunzo - quite new, it’s a show for business storytellers focused on standing out and resonating deeper through substance and stories.

10. My life with Dementia - the podcast. Presented by actor and Dementia UK Celebrity Ambassador Jim Broadbent, this features real people (including Aqib, Shahbanu, Ricky and Andy, who have appeared in the films we made for the charity) sharing their experiences of living with, caring for, or losing someone to dementia.

16/10/2024

How exciting! We're on the cover of the Sussex Business Times this month!

We are fiercely proud of our Sussex heritage and place in the Brighton business scene, and this is a fantastic way to mark our 10th birthday.

Our MD Abi Mellor and Creative Director Dan Mellor enjoyed having an opportunity to delve into the journey so far, and pick out the milestones along the way.

Photo credit - the very talented Tom Windsor.

To read the article visit:

https://countybusinessclubs.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&chash=8d7d8ee069cb0cbbf816bbb65d56947e.692&s=cf9fbcb0bd46ec480ebf98f648b974ca

15/10/2024

🎺 🎺 New Work 🎺 🎺

It was an honour to create this film for The King's Foundation’s Building a Legacy network.

The objective of Building a Legacy is to create communities for a more sustainable world by promoting an alternative to the traditional way of building housing estates.

With this film we wanted to show that ‘legacy development’ is very achievable - it works for people and places, both now and into the future.

The film advocates for the unique approach taken by The King’s Foundation. The charity works with landowners to create developments that champion sustainability, benefit existing communities, and create new projects which are more environmentally, creatively, socially and economically progressive than those in more traditional housing developments.

To create the film, our crew more or less ‘moved in’ to two of the developments: Poundbury in Dorset and Tournagrain near Inverness, for several days, so that they could embed themselves in the community. We wanted to show what it’s genuinely like to live there, so they recorded over 30 local people sharing their thoughts and captured many hours of footage of the locally distinctive architecture and community enhancing spaces.

In the final edit, we included a rich mix of talking head testimonial, expert opinion, vox pops and cinematic b-roll footage which we captured using a drone.

To quote Ben Bolgar, Executive Director, at The King’s Foundation:

“The legacy landowner movement could restore that balance with nature to make beautiful places that future generations will be proud of.”

This is the social cut of the film, you can see the full length version on our website.

CREDITS:

Director – Dan Mellor

Senior Producer – Tom Windsor

Producer – Angeline Elliott

Camera A – Dan Mellor

Camera B – Steve Geliot

Drone operator – Dan Mellor

Editor – Vasil Dzhagalov

DIT & Edit support – Kazz Thompson

Additional Footage – Matthias Kremer

14/10/2024

Baby Loss Awareness Week (9–15 October 2024) is an important opportunity to break the silence around pregnancy and baby loss so that families get the support that they need.

Our work for Tommy's , the pregnancy and baby charity, highlights some of the misconceptions around the loss of a baby. We think it's important this week to share the film again in the hope that these myths can be eradicated.

We would also like to express our heartfelt support for anyone who has experienced the loss of a baby.

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Today’s the day! Leading Lights is live! Unfiltered conversations with female charity CEOs as they share their leadership stories. We have 3 incredible episodes which are now available to hear: 🎙 Episode 1 - featuring April Baker CEO of Together Co 🎙 Episode 2 - featuring Rachel Clift CEO of Ben - Support for Life And 🎙 Episode 3 - featuring Dr Sarah Hugues CEO of Mind We were humbled by the insights and experiences that these three incredible women shared with us about what life’s really like as the CEO of a charity. Thank you to April, Rachel and Sarah, for being so generous with your time. Please, get listening! And, if you enjoy the content we would so appreciate you taking the time to rate, review and subscribe, and tell your friends about it. 🙏🏼 That will help more people discover Leading Lights. The link to our Spotify page, with all the episodes is below, or you can search ‘Leading Lights MOREVER’ in your podcast app. https://open.spotify.com/show/1qlL9vtyXulu85UHMj4RNJ?si=3321393f75594796

We are so excited for this! Our brand new podcast, Leading Lights, launches on Monday, 2nd December 🤩 Hosted by our MD, Abi Mellor, Leading Lights features unfiltered conversations with female charity CEOs as they share their leadership stories. Find out what the path to leadership of a charity, and the role itself, are really like, from the women who’ve made it there. Abi’s guests discuss their inspirations, the challenges along the way and how, in such a busy role, they manage life. We’re aiming to help other women walking similar paths hear how to put themselves in the frame for leadership roles while also striking that life balance. Three launch episodes land on Monday, followed by a new episode on the first Monday of each month. And, we have some REALLY amazing guests lined up for you 🧨🧨 Make sure you don’t miss a thing by subscribing today, ready for launch on Monday. Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you prefer to listen. Search 'Leading Lights MOREVER' to find it

Coming soon 👀

Like all businesses, we simply love getting positive feedback from our clients. To receive three glowing testimonials in one go - be still our beating heart! Thank you Young Lives Vs Cancer for this glorious set of reviews. We have loved working with you to create an animation that highlights the wonderful work you do. Watch this space to see the campaign soon...

Ready for the answers to yesterday's oh-so spoooooooky film quiz? Here the film titles in the order that they appear: 1. Frankenstein 2. Dracula 3. It 4. Coraline 5. Beetlejuice 6. Pan's Labyrinth 7. Candyman 8. Signs 9. Friday 13th (Part 3 if we're being picky) 10. Ringu/ The Ring 11. The Nightmare Before Christmas 12. Event Horizon 13. The Birds 14. The Addams Family 15. Us 16. The Wicker Man 17. Midsommar 18. Sean of the Dead 19. The Witch 20. Bride of Frankenstein 21 The Silence of the Lambs 22. The Shining 23. The Children of the Corn 24. Jaws 25. Let The Right One In 26. Scream 27. The Invisible Man 28. Battle Royale 29. Alien 30. Blade Which was the hardest? Any you couldn't get?

How many of these ghoulish faces do you recognize? 🎃 Think you're a true film buff? Try our spoooooooky film quiz! Each image shows a character from a spine-chilling or supernatural movie - but how many can you name? Share your answers in the comments below... if you dare! We'll reveal the list tomorrow... Wa-ha-hahahahahahaha! 👻🍿

Party FOMO warning! Last week we hosted our 10th birthday party at beautiful Soho House here in Brighton. It was the perfect way to mark our journey from 0-10. Our wonderful clients, collaborators and friends brought their party A-game, and their best dance moves. Huge thanks to our band, Starling, featuring producer Angeline Elliott, for an incredible live set, and to our in-house DJ Dan Mellor. Here are some highlights!

Would it even be our 10th birthday if we didn’t create a film about our journey so far?! There are a few sore heads around here today. Last night a dazzling array of our clients and collaborators joined us at Soho House here in Brighton to celebrate a decade of MOREVER in style. It was wonderful 🩷🩷 One of the highlights of the evening was being able to watch this birthday film with an audience. Our in-house creative team (especially Kazz Thompson) worked their magic and packed 10 years of highlights into just a few, action-packed, minutes. Have a watch… #morever10

🎺 🎺 New Work 🎺 🎺 It was an honour to create this film for The King's Foundation’s Building a Legacy network. The objective of Building a Legacy is to create communities for a more sustainable world by promoting an alternative to the traditional way of building housing estates. With this film we wanted to show that ‘legacy development’ is very achievable - it works for people and places, both now and into the future. The film advocates for the unique approach taken by The King’s Foundation. The charity works with landowners to create developments that champion sustainability, benefit existing communities, and create new projects which are more environmentally, creatively, socially and economically progressive than those in more traditional housing developments. To create the film, our crew more or less ‘moved in’ to two of the developments: Poundbury in Dorset and Tournagrain near Inverness, for several days, so that they could embed themselves in the community. We wanted to show what it’s genuinely like to live there, so they recorded over 30 local people sharing their thoughts and captured many hours of footage of the locally distinctive architecture and community enhancing spaces. In the final edit, we included a rich mix of talking head testimonial, expert opinion, vox pops and cinematic b-roll footage which we captured using a drone. To quote Ben Bolgar, Executive Director, at The King’s Foundation: “The legacy landowner movement could restore that balance with nature to make beautiful places that future generations will be proud of.” This is the social cut of the film, you can see the full length version on our website. CREDITS: Director – Dan Mellor Senior Producer – Tom Windsor Producer – Angeline Elliott Camera A – Dan Mellor Camera B – Steve Geliot Drone operator – Dan Mellor Editor – Vasil Dzhagalov DIT & Edit support – Kazz Thompson Additional Footage – Matthias Kremer

Baby Loss Awareness Week (9–15 October 2024) is an important opportunity to break the silence around pregnancy and baby loss so that families get the support that they need. Our work for Tommy's , the pregnancy and baby charity, highlights some of the misconceptions around the loss of a baby. We think it's important this week to share the film again in the hope that these myths can be eradicated. We would also like to express our heartfelt support for anyone who has experienced the loss of a baby.

It's our 10th birthday month! To celebrate, we're posting Top 10s throughout October... When our film crew travel to location, they arrive armed with a detailed plan of what they need to capture on film. But, you never know what golden moment might happen on set, so they also need to be ready for anything. That's why we come prepared with what might seem like a huge amount of kit! #morever10 #filmmaking #charityfilmmaking Today, we're sharing the tools of our trade. The Top 10 kit items that we never travel without.

What do Tutankhamun, Edinburgh and the cast of Othello have in common? They all feature within the books on this year’s Bookbuzz shortlist! Most of the MOREVER team are avid readers. That’s why one of our favourite projects is the creation of the film for the excellent Bookbuzz programme created by reading charity, @booktrust, which we’ve just delivered for the third year in a row. Schools can buy this programme for children in Year 7 or 8. The objective of the programme is to help schools support reading amongst children aged 11 - 13, when daily reading typically drops off as they start secondary school. Students get to choose their own book to keep from a list of 16 exciting and engaging books titles, all selected by a panel of experts. The film is an aid for teachers to help them deliver the Bookbuzz programme in the classroom. It showcases each of the books on the shortlist. The production process involved interviewing each of the authors as they pitch their book to the audience and weaving this film footage together with eye-catching animations, a lengthy soundtrack, graphics from the book covers, and narration by Lucas Richmond. Here are some selected highlights from this year’s film. Credits: Creative Director - Dan Mellor Producers - Aiyana Gane & Angeline Elliott Editor - Kazz Thompson Narration - Lucas Richmond