# Cascaid aims up wake up charity DM creativity with joint creative directors

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/01/15/cascaid-aims-wake-charity-dm-creativity-joint-creative-directors/
- Published: 2007-01-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

In an unusual move, charity marketing agency Cascaid has appointed joint creative
directors. Simon Frank and Reuben Turner both come from big brand commercial agencies.
Cascaid’s managing director Alan Clayton said he has appointed them “to wake up 
and reinvigorate a sector that has become lethargic in its acceptance of poor and
static creativity.”
Clayton added: “Rightly charities have been heavily focussed
on targeting and planning in recent years but timing, relevancy and audience simply
has to go hand in hand with fantastic, hard-working creative to bring in winning
results. It’s time for a shake up and Cascaid will be pushing up the stakes for 
the benefit of our clients.”

Simon Frank’s experience of big brand, above-the-line commercial advertising includes
a 10-year stint at international advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather, EuroRSCG, and
WPP Group agency Red Cell as Executive Creative Director. He has worked on adverts
for Ford, American Express, Guinness, BUPA, the BBC and Microsoft, as well as the
British Red Cross, Landmines (MAG) and Save the Children.

“Charities have powerful stories behind them but the sector simply isn’t ambitious
enough”, said Frank. “It maybe through fear of risk or restricted budgets but there’s
no excuse, creating a campaign without the luxury of throwing money at it should
force more creativity not less and there is huge potential.”
Reuben Turner is joining
Cascaid from DM agency Proximity where he was Creative Group Head responsible for
accounts including Save the Children and RNLI. He has extensive knowledge and skills
in specialist creative for direct marketing and integrated media.

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Like Frank, he is keen to stimulate innovation within the sector. “Charity marketing
is hugely competitive with relatively small audiences”, he said, “everyone waits
for the next big idea but the industry needs far more innovation – there is an old
and lazy sector obsession with dull, poorly created direct mail.

“I want to work with a flourishing energetic agency that’s not afraid to change 
the way we talk to donors and to find new ways of telling the truth about the state
of the world and what our clients can do about it.”

The joint appointment follows business growth of 47% for Cascaid in 2006. Indeed,
the agency is relocating from Reading to central London offices at Oxford Circus.

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