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Social Spider is a not-for-profit design, communication and social action agency.

It is a force for social change, providing services principally to the public, charity
and arts sectors. It is committed to helping people communicate with each other as elegantly and effectively as possible.

Social Spider's core services are:

Magazine and newsletter publishing, production and printing
Consultation and project development
Managing participatory media projects

Social Spider offers consultancy in:

Training courses particularly in the arts and social sectors
Fundraising
Setting up online projects
Developing projects from idea to implementation

We work with our clients to understand what they do and discover how to meet their needs. We pride ourselves on delivering our work with simplicity, clarity and style.

Social Spider's ongoing publishing projects include the Hackney youth magazine, Contrast and One in Four, an aspirational lifestyle magazine produced by and for people with mental health difficulties, distributed across England.

Social Spider is a Community Interest Company (CIC) which means we carry out both social and commercial work but all profits must remain in the company and be spent on social projects.

Open Up Conference - 1st Feb 2010

The innovative national lifestyle magazine for and by people with mental health difficulties, One in Four, is presenting a free conference on stigma and the representation of mental health in the media and in public communications. Speakers include: Debra Allcock Tyler, CEO, Directory of Social Change and Sue Caro, Senior Diversity Manager, BBC. The conference is an Open Up Initiative supported financially by Open Up, part of the national anti-stigma campaign, Time to Change.

Renewed funding for housing site

Social Spider has received renewed funding from the Tudor Trust to continue its successful project promoting self help housing across England. The website self-help-housing.org provides information to local groups working to bring empty properties back into use for the benefit of the community. The project delivered in partnership with hact and Agents for Change was launched in November 2008 and received renewed funding in December 2009.

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