Why Social Progress

We are a social media agency specialising in digital marketing. Whether you’re looking to outsource your social media marketing to us or train yourself or your employees to manage social media in-house, we’re here to help you get to grips with social media for YOUR business.

Every member of the Social Progress Team actively manages social media for clients, ensuring that we are up to speed with the latest platform updates and highly familiar with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram as well as Pinterest, Google My Business and YouTube.

With a Team of 6 people, Social Progress offers a variety of services to deliver strategic digital marketing. From website development to photography, videography to drone imagery and creation of social media graphics, we provide professional and tailored packages to suit each business.

Social Progress also specialise in strategic social media advertising (including Facebook Advertising and Instagram Advertising). Did you know that you can do promotional campaigns on most social media platforms now? If you already have a strong digital presence and you’re looking to take your social media to the next level, why not have a chat with us about one-off social media campaigns or adding an advertising budget to your Content Management Package. Expect results!

What makes us different from the other “digital marketing experts”? Well, Social Progress started out sole-y as a social media training company in 2011 and has developed into a team offering social media management as well as training. We aim for “quality over quantity” so you can be assured that whether you come to us for training or to outsource your social media marketing to us, we will endeavour to get to know you and your business well and tailor the delivery of the service to compliment your marketing plan.

If you’d like to find out more about us, read on or drop us an email to info@socialprogress.co.uk to book an appointment for a chat and a brew to see how we can help you.

Facebook She Means Business Trainers

Janet Bebb and Esther Orridge are now both official Accredited Facebook She Means Business Trainers and have delivered various training events on behalf of the programme across 2019 using a toolkit provided exclusively by Facebook.

The Facebook She Means Business Programme consists of 24 hand-picked #DigitalMarketing specialists from across the UK who have been trained especially by Facebook to deliver Training Events and Meet Ups on their behalf to achieve their ambitious target of training 50,000 female entrepreneurs in 2019 alone. We are delighted to hear that the Programme will once again be active in 2020.

Not only will Janet and Esther be delivering Facebook and Instagram training on behalf of the Programme again across 2020, they will also continue to have access to a network of UK based digital marketing specialists and communication with a contact at Facebook.

You can read more about the #SheMeansBusiness Prgramme on our blog here: Facebook She Means Business Programme

Digital Enterprise Top 100

We’re delighted to be recognised as a Digital Enterprise TOP 100 Digital Tech Adopter for two year running in 2019 and 2020.

You can find a list of all TOP 100 businesses, including Social Progress, on the Digital Enterprise TOP 100 website. There’s also a special report which features our very own MD Janet Bebb talking about a digital future on page 44 and her thoughts on how social media and online trading will dominate consumers shopping experiences.

The Digital Enterprise Top 100 is part of the Digital Enterprise Programme, an ERDF business support initiative brought to you by UMi

West Yorkshire Consortium of Colleges (The Skills Service)

We are delighted to announce that Social Progress have been awarded a contract through the West Yorkshire Consortium of Colleges (The Skills Service) to deliver part funded social media & digital marketing workshops between January 2020 & March 2020.
Look at the full list of Workshops on our What’s On Page and download our pack to find all the information you need in order to check your eligibility and choose your preferred workshops.

If you’d like to apply for the part-funding, contact info@socialprogress.co.uk and we will send you the relevant forms

Digital Enterprise Voucher Scheme and Digital Knowledge Exchange 2020

Social Progress is one of the official training consultancies involved in delivering social media training and social media consultancy through the Digital Enterprise Programme. The First and Second Phase of the Voucher Scheme have been successful and the Third Phase is due to commence in 2020.

The Digital Enterprise has also launched the Digital Knowledge Exchange which is a series of funded training events and sessions for eligible businesses in the Leeds City Region (Europian Union ERDF Funding). Janet Bebb will continue to be presenting, supporting and training businesses through this Programme.

Find out more about the Digital Enterprise and Knowledge Exchange on our Funding Page here: Funding

We’re also active members of Local Community Groups and Networking Organisations:

Did you know that we’re a Fairtrade business and members of the Holme Valley Fairtrade Support Group? We support Fairtrade by providing Fairtrade tea, coffee and sugar for all our visitors and clients when they come for an appointment or attend one of our business networking events.

Kirklees Council launched a Kirklees-based support tool called Kirklees Business Hub. Janet Bebb is one of the official Advocates of Hub Kirklees. You can find out more about Kirklees Business Hub on their website.

Janet Bebb is an active member of Business Networking International (also known as BNI). Janet has been a member of BNI Terriers since 2012 and holds the category of “Social Media” Specialist. If you’d like to attend a BNI meeting and see what it’s all about, get in touch with us.

We’re delighted to be a Huddersfield Giants Community Trust ‘Friend of the Trust’. HGCT are located within The Zone and offer some brillant community focused programmes. We can highly recommend taking the family to The Zone for the day & trying out the Rainbow Slide – it’s awesome!

We are proud members of Mid Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, having attended and exhibited at the Kirklees Business Conferences for a number of years. Honoured to be Social Media Partners of the event and support the event with social media management. You can find out more about MYCCI on their website.

Social Progress are active members of Honley Business Association (also known as HBA) – who are local businesses, groups and individuals from Honley dedicated to developing and supporting their local community. Find out more about HBA on their website: www.honley.info and social media: Facebook, Instagram & Twitter.

We are a Partner of MYnetworkHUD. A free business networking event held on the third Wednesday monthly at Café Ollo (in The Media Centre, Huddersfield) from 9am – 11am. The other Partners of MYnetworkHUD are: Ramsdens Solicitors, Mid Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, Better Telecoms and The Media Centre.

We're delighted to be a part of The Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust 'Fight Club'. Actively supporting a local cancer charity that works to support young cancer sufferers right across the UK.