freelance web design York and manchester
Welcome to the Collective
We’re the business owners getting together to create standout branding and freelance web design in Yorkshire, Manchester and beyond… that gets you seen. Because we know how important it is for your message to be heard. So let’s help you turn the volume up!
Looking for freelance web design in Yorkshire?
You’re in the right place. (Hurrah!)
Maybe right now you’re craving total confidence in how your business looks to potential clients, but you have no idea where to start? And you certainly don’t have time to keep going down the Google rabbit hole to figure out how to do it all yourself…. Nevermind the skills or expertise to have it looking exactly how you want it?
Ugh, we hear you.
It’s stressful, it’s overwhelming, and it’s stopping you from running the business of your dreams. The business you pour your heart and soul into every single day. The business that deserves to be out there in the world with branding that sings its socks off.
It’s time to create your masterpiece!
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What do we do?
Based in York and supporting businesses across Yorkshire, Manchester and beyond, our style is playful, colourful, and creative. By putting our brains together, you get your very own chart-topping website with strategic design so you can show off your unique personality and book in those ‘perfect fit’ clients.
But that’s not all… Not only are we multi-award-winning (oh yeah!), we’re also a climate friendly workforce, meaning that as well as being pitch perfect at what we do, we fund tree planting whilst we do it! We won the Back Her Business Silver Award for our crowdfunding campaign, Empowering Women In Business in 2020, were accepted into the top 100 businesses in the UK by #SmallBiz100, anddd our collective effort won us the IPSE Freelancer Collaboration Award in 2021 for our signature offering: Brimful of Branding™. We are also recommended by Master Manchester as one of their Top Web Designers in Manchester.
What does this tell you?
You’ll be put front and centre in everything we do – and we’ll have fun doing it!
Why That's Her Business?
freelance web design yorkshire
As a collective, our services cost the same as they would if you worked with each of us individually, but you get the bonus of collaboration and communication – not to mention people who LOVE working together! The best part is you’ll work with someone who seriously knows their stuff in each area of your project and we’ll all sing from the same song sheet to create a banging, branding package.
BRANDING FOR WOMEN
We know what it feels like to wear all the hats in your business but not actually get anywhere. Our service is built around helping you feel confident being yourself in business and attracting clients you love, so you can sit back and crack on with what you do best.
FULL-SERVICE APPROACH
Imagine investing your time and money in professional branding, only to undo all the hard work with a glitchy DIY website, meh-level stock images, and words that sound blah… No more! Our branding and web design packages mean you get EVERYTHING you need and a website that works so you can shine bright like a diamond.
Northern based
Based in York and supported by a network of brilliant creatives across Yorkshire and Manchester, we work with businesses across the UK. The way we work means our fees don’t need to cover fancy office buildings and team away days. It’s just us and our Northern charm, and we can’t wait to welcome you into our girl gang (band).
Meet Your Team Freelance Web Design Team in Manchester
Gemma Thirsk
she/her
Founder and Web Design and Development
That's Her Business
From heading up an in-house design team in her hometown to running her own branding and web design business, Gemma packs her extensive experience, creative brain, and pure love of strategic design to help women succeed whilst being unapologetically themselves.
Katy Ennis-Hargreaves
she / her
Creative Director
BOLDISM®
A brand whisperer for those who refuse to be beige. Katy teaches ambitious businesses to articulate their brand boldly – from global big dogs to small-but-mighty startups – she creates stand out strategy, disruptive design and helps brands bring a whole lot of personality. If you’re after meaningful, magnetic branding (with a side of straight talking), she’s your woman.
Amy Killingbeck
she/her
Copywriter
Killer Copy
With a background in Law and over 10 years’ ‘side-hustling’ as a freelance writer, Amy now runs her own copywriting business helping creative and authentic business owners find their unique brand voice, transforming it into meaningful, engaging copy that sounds just like them and attracts their dream clients.
Cassandra Lane
she/her
Personal Branding Photographer
Cassandra Lane Photography
With over 10 years’ experience and a 1st class BA Photographic Arts Degree, Cassandra has a passion for colour and loves creating eye-catching imagery whilst making her clients feel totally at ease in front of the camera.
The lowdown: we’re not just creatives with the exact skills required to take a business owner from feeling a bit flat, to full clarity and confidence in how their business looks online – we’re also friends, mentors, doers, makers, cheerleaders – human. And we can’t wait to work with you!
What People Say About Us
Our values
We want you to know and communicate your values to your clients, so it’s probably best you know ours too!
HONESTY
We’re real people with real businesses. Honesty and transparency are at the heart of what we do and we’ll always tell you how it is without the fluff.
EMPOWER
We vow to support women working for themselves so you can grow and thrive, and ultimately, live the life you want.
COMMUNITY
We believe growth and success comes through helping and supporting each other. Collaboration feeds creativity, and creativity is where the magic happens.
Do we sound like your kind of people? Let’s create the branding of your dreams!