Collective

We’re a worker-owned agency that designs, builds and supports websites for organisations we believe in.

Insightful and evidence-based, our work is driven by user need

Our services are designed to deliver your goals.

With over 25 years of experience in impactful design, development, and strategy, we are committed to delivering technically robust and user-centric solutions.

Our process-driven, person-centred approach ensures that your teams are supported at every step of their digital journey, from discovery to ongoing support.

We’re passionate about accessibility. We believe it should be at the heart of all digital strategies.

We help embed accessibility into your organisation and practices and build your confidence and skills in discussing and delivering accessible products, services and content.  

Our Certified Professional in Web Accessibility, Maria, provides consultancy, accessibility audits, mentoring and training.

Creating accessible digital products that are compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2)  Level AA – a legal requirement for UK public sector bodies – also delivers improved readability, page speed and SEO performance; by doing the right thing for some of your audience, everyone benefits.

Our accessibility services

Our comprehensive audits can help you unlock the full potential of your digital estate.

Each audit is a deep dive into your digital assets and provides tailored actionable insights.

With every audit, you'll receive a detailed report outlining our findings and a clear remediation roadmap to guide your team through the necessary changes.

Whether you need a focused audit on specific areas or a holistic overview, our flexible modular approach allows you to choose individual audits or combine them for a complete picture.
 

Our audit services

Our focus is always on user engagement.

From detailed content audits to seamless content migrations, we'll partner with your organisation to enhance every aspect of your content life cycle.

Our content services

We specialise in translating complex messages and service delivery into clear, compelling visual communications.

Whether revitalising your organisation's brand, modernising your digital presence, or launching a campaign, our team's expertise ensures your message reaches its audience and drives meaningful engagement and action.

With over 25 years of experience creating innovative and impactful designs, we bring a design thinking, person-centred approach to brand and identity design, ensuring that your brand resonates deeply with your users.

Our design services

Data-driven communications strategies are vital to help organisations deliver their mission.

Our digital communications and marketing services can be delivered as an integral part of a larger project, under an ongoing support and maintenance agreement, or as a standalone piece of consultancy.

From an analytics review or SEO audit of your website to optimising your e-commerce conversions or maximising the value derived from your Google Ad Grant, we’ll help you evaluate what’s working well and what’s not and create an actionable roadmap for improvement.

Our Digital Communications and Marketing services

Our team has the knowledge and experience to help you navigate the right path in an increasingly complex digital landscape.

Our multidisciplinary team will work with you to ensure your digital ecosystem meets organisational goals without wasting time and resources.

Digital Strategy Services

Drupal has been Agile Collective’s core technology from day one, with some of the team's experience dating back to the mid-2000s. 

Whether we’re delivering a major new Drupal project or supporting your Drupal site for the long term, you’ll be working with a team that knows Drupal inside out.

Discover more about our web development services

As lead technical partner through the Discovery, Alpha, Beta and Microsites phases of LocalGov Drupal – the publishing platform for local government in the UK, created by councils for councils – we've been working since January 2020 with a growing number of local councils and other agencies to realise a vision of collaboration and code-sharing that has rich potential for increasing the speed and quality of development, and for reducing costs, for local government website projects.

As well as driving the technical development of the distribution itself, we provide a range of LocalGov Drupal services to councils including development, design, training, consultancy and support.

Our services for local government.

We don’t mind a bit of heavy-lifting, and working with large, complex organisations usually entails tackling interesting technical challenges, often in partnership with both internal client teams and external service providers.

CMS migration projects are notoriously difficult but we’ve got a lot of experience, including successful migrations for Oxfam International, ActionAid and Oxfordshire County Council.

In an increasingly API-first world, integrations are also a common requirement. We have solid experience with payment gateways, CRM systems like Salesforce, CiviCRM and Dynamics. If there’s an API, we’ve got it covered.

More on our migration service

More on our technical integration service

With dedicated support systems and staff, a rock-solid SLA, and a laser focus on customer service, we understand how fundamental long-term support can be to healthy client relationships, especially as clients increasingly prefer a continuous improvement model over the traditional ‘big bang’ of yesteryear.

Over the years, we’ve built up our support and maintenance service to be more than 30% of our business, delivering reliable and responsive support concurrently for more than 40 clients and counting. This covers everything from priority attention for critical security updates and server management through user support and routine maintenance to ongoing improvements and access to our full services.

Discover more about our support and maintenance services.

We offer a range of technical services to enhance and improve your digital offering.

From site rebuilds to complex integrations, our experienced team has helped hundreds of organisations to create and improve user-centred digital products. 

Our technical services

We offer comprehensive training services to empower your team with the skills and knowledge needed to maintain and enhance your digital presence. Our training covers various aspects, including accessibility, Drupal development, and digital strategy.

Discover more about our training offer

Effective communication begins with a deep understanding of your users. 

Our User Research and Audience Analysis service helps you uncover crucial insights about your users, beneficiaries, and stakeholders.

Our UX services

We have worked with

  • Actionaid
  • BASW
  • British International Studies Association
  • CAST
  • Catalyst
  • Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
  • Climate Outreach
  • Co-operatives UK
  • Crohn's and Colitis UK
  • Croydon council
  • Cumbria County Council
  • Eden Project
  • Ethical Consumer
  • Freedom from Torture
  • Fundraising Regulator
  • International Co-operative Alliance
  • International Land Coalition
  • International Planned Parenthood Federation
  • International Union for Conservation of Nature
  • Lambeth council
  • LocalGov Drupal
  • Modern Art Oxford
  • Oxfam International
  • Oxford City Council
  • Oxford University Hospitals
  • Oxfordshire County Council
  • RECOFTC
  • RISE
  • Start Network
  • Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Charity
  • UNICEF
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Southampton
  • War on want

What our clients say

We've been delighted with their expertise, vision and dedication to the task.

As a group of councils, we didn't have any expertise in collaborative working with open source code. It was essential that our suppliers could guide us, and Agile Collective has been more than equal to the challenge. We recommend Agile Collective wholeheartedly. They are very capable Drupal builders and thinkers, and all round good people to have on your team.

Will Callaghan

I would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Agile Collective and have genuinely found them fantastic to work with.

I think you’d be hard pushed to find another whole team of people like this. I usually have one or two people within suppliers I use that I prefer to work with, but I would happily go to any team member at Agile Collective and know that I would receive great service.

Chrissie Duxson
Communications Manager, BISA

We found Agile Collective to be a fantastic co-operative to work with.

They have been helpful and supportive all through the web build process, offering detailed explanations and advice where necessary and also responding quickly to requests and issues as they have arisen. We now have a much quicker website, that has 100% uptime. Their work on our e-commerce has improved sales by just over 80% year on year while other metrics have also shown improvement including bounce rates and time on site.

Tim Hunt
Co-Editor and Director, Ethical Consumer

What really made a difference was the human side of the project.

We had a complex stakeholder context and Agile Collective always knew just what to do. Our project was deeply collaborative and delivered a wonderful website that everybody is over the moon with! I can't thank them enough.

Rob Safar
Digital Producer, ActionAid

I felt that everyone I met at Agile Collective understood and shared our objectives and our values as an organisation.

It was great to work with skilled, motivated people who take real ownership of the project and were invested in its success. I'm only sad we were too scattered across the globe to have a beer after work.

Ed Crompton
Web Developer, Oxfam International