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About us
Sidekick School is an initiative from Sidekick Studios, a digital social innovation agency. We create products that make money, change lives and put a smile on your face.
We've been doing it since 2009, although many of our consultants have been working in the fields of design, web software, social business and commercial and social innovation for over a decade.
Our permanent core team and network of specialists are based in a lovely big warehouse space near Old Street, London and we work with a network of experts from the worlds’ of design, technology and enterprise.
Alongside our consulting work for large charities, commercial businesses and government we also support our sister organisation Sidekick Ventures in incubating our fully-owned social businesses that use the web to create social impact. We've supported the creation of three ventures to date, in mental health, youth unemployment and elderly wellbeing.
Our work with social start-up entrepreneurs and senior managers from big businesses means that we can bring a very broad and deep set of experiences to delivering web products through Sidekick School. Our experience of agile, scrappy, rapid design and build processes and larger, more complex integration and change programmes makes us uniquely positioned to help your social organisation take advantage of the web to generate revenue through a new product.
Sidekick School is our biggest and best adventure to date. We're thrilled that we can bring our experience and expertise to a client group that ordinarily cannot access this level of service.
Below you can meet some of the team that will be working on your project at Sidekick School.
Jonathan
Jonathan is a Lead User Experience designer at Sidekick Studios. He's passionate about creating really well designed products that make people smile. Recently he designed mobile research product for an international research agency.
Ian
Ian is a Lead Developer at Sidekick Studios. He has over 15 years experience building software for a huge range of organisations - from startups to the aeronautical industry.
Nick
Nick is Sidekick's Design Director. He's a massive advocate of the value of multi-disciplinary design. He's designed products and services for global brands, tiny startups and everything in between.
Nikki
Nikki is a Graphic Designer at Sidekick. She's a major design nerd, with a passion for mid century colours. Recently she led the brand development of Sidekick's latest venture, The Amazings.
Adil
Adil is Strategy Director and Founder. His career has taken him through working for multinational brands in advertising agencies, a stint at Amnesty International, a marketing consultant, and latterly, a founder of his own social startups.
Jono
Jono is a Lead developer at Sidekick. He's a kiwi by background, but a Londoner by choice. He has over ten years experience building applications for startups, multinational banks, and everything in between.
Paul
Paul is Sidekick's Executive in Residence. Previously he worked with NESTA, and before that setup and ran a range of startups and incubators. He knows what he's talking about.
Jaimes
Jaimes is our resident design research guru. His background is in service design and using his skills in applied anthropology to create human centred briefs for designers and technologists.
Mat
Mat is a graphic designer at Sidekick. He spends his days working on amazing interfaces for startups, and he has a secret musical identity he doesn't talk about.
Kerry
Kerry is our Evaluation Associate. She makes sure we're capturing our knowledge, sharing it well internally and externally, and she checks that we really achieve the impact we say we do
Our Studio
Our lovely open plan studio is a big part of who we are. It helps us work harder and better, and we'd love you to come and work with us, in it. It will have furniture by the time you get here.
