Voices in Exile first came to us with a focused brief. They’d secured funding from Brighton & Hove City Council to become the central hub for local ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) information, and they needed a dedicated, genuinely accessible webpage to make that happen – one that a newcomer to the city with very little English could use.
That first project set the tone for everything that followed: clear, visual, accessible design, built around the people who’d be relying on it.
The full site is here: https://www.voicesinexile.org/
Once that first piece of work landed, the conversation grew. Voices in Exile were sitting on a website that had served them well but had become harder and harder to maintain – every small change meant going back to a developer, and the design had drifted out of step with their brand and their brilliant work.
So they went ahead with two further pieces of work with us: a one-off SEO package to strengthen the foundations of the site, and a full website redesign.
The most important decision we made together was how to redesign it. Rather than hand-build a set of fixed pages that would need a developer every time anything changed, we built Voices in Exile a bespoke, reusable template system – futureproofing the site so their team can build and edit pages themselves, without paying a developer for every tweak.
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“Howard helped the organisation I work for to develop a new website. He was always very prompt with communication and completed projects within tight deadlines and to the highest professional standards. We hope to work with him again soon.”
– Susan Blaylock
Voices in Exile now have a website that looks like the organisation behind it – modern, warm and credible – and, crucially, one they own. The block system means their team can create new pages, swap content, add a video, update the footer or publish a case study in minutes, without a developer and without a bill each time.
Our one-off SEO package is designed lay down the technical and on page foundations, and included:
As a result of this work, we saw a positive trajectory in page 1 rankings:
These are our current keyword rankings:
| brighton refugee charity – ranks 1st |
| example of witness statement – ranks 1st |
| immigration advice brighton – ranks 1st |
| refugee charity brighton – ranks 1st |
| refugee support brighton – ranks 1st |
| voices in exile – ranks 1st |
| brighton migrant resources directory – ranks 3rd |
| esol courses brighton – ranks 3rd |
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