About Us

ELC Associates is a leading BME marketing and design company was founded in 2009 by Tayo Idowu a graduate of London College of Communications and with a burning vision to build an independent full-service design agency that offered a socially conscious yet creative approach to marketing and printing to the not for profit sector and small businesses.

Along the way he picked up some good staff and built strong relationships with a global young and talented diverse workforce from many nationalities and social backgrounds.With a mix of passion, hard work, grit, resilience and doses of good luck the company thrived.

So, ELC Associates today is a healthy and experienced team of four like-minded people and a tight creative pool of designers, web developers, old PR heads and exciting digital marketing professionals.

Over the last 7 years, we helped hundreds of charities, small businesses and large organisations such as Glaxo Wellcome, Greenwich PCT, BBC etc communicate their vision clearly and coherently totheir target audience.

Our approach as always is down to earth, practical but always visionary. So if you think you’d like to work with us we’d love to hear from you.

Our services include:

► Brand awareness, story telling, increasing sales or web traffic

We help businesses and charities tell their brand stories and increase awareness through social media and PR. By using creative digital strategies such as brand story telling, influencer marketing, blogger outreach, thought leadership marketing, online reputation management, paid promotion and social ads we turn content into increased web traffic and sales and bottom lines.

► Health promotion, charity fundraising and increasing volunteers

Promotion of health and wellbeing is at the heart of ELC’s work. We combine our deep knowledge of marketing, PR, grass root community experience and knowledge of healthcare to create health promotion programs that resonate with health professionals, community influencers, the media and other stakeholders. Thus allowing us to create successful healthy living programs for local authorities, health projects and clinical commissioning groups. . Additionally we’ve used our digital marketing skills to help charities fundraise, increase membership and volunteers or awareness for their worthy causes.

► Business growth, PR and marketing strategists

We help companies leverage the most profit, the highest performance, and the greatest productivity and effectiveness, out of every opportunity within their business. In short, we help businesses optimise and achieve maximum sales and profits with minimum time, effort, expense or risk. How did we get our experience?

As business and marketing strategists on the Growth Accelerator programme (a £200 million programme to help UK businesses achieve their growth ambitions and potential) we advised and coached over 100 businesses to develop and implement their businesses and marketing strategies. We helped them identify and overcome their barriers to growth by assisting with issues such as securing finance, developing their leadership, management or marketing capabilities or commercialising their innovation and ideas.

► Creative graphic, print and web designers

Delivering a client focused quality assured service, we can produce annual reports, newsletters, sales brochures, college or school prospectus, posters, training manuals, etc. Our creative team will involve you at every stage, so that the resulting job is always produced not only to be exactly what you want, but on budget, on time and completely stress free.

► Certified sales and marketing trainers (ELC Training)

ELC Training (a division of ELC Associates) provides bespoke courses to digital savvy business owners and companies who want to improve their skills. Courses we’ve run in the past have included: Facebook Marketing, Social Media Marketing & PR on a Budget, Essential Sales Skills in a Digital World, Word of Mouth Marketing and Strategic Leadership Skills.