As 2025 comes to an end, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on Ballyhoo’s accomplishments and celebrate our wins from the past year.
Life at Ballyhoo
Team Milestones
This year, our team has celebrated some big milestones. Sam, our marketing manager and front-end developer has been with us for 13 years, our back-end developer James has been with us for 11 years, and Rebecca celebrated 4 years with us! We think the world of our team and know that they make Ballyhoo what it is today.
Ballyhoo Turns 16
This year, we celebrated Ballyhoo turning 16 years old – that’s the average life span of a wolf! We are so proud of how much we have accomplished in our 16 years, and we are very grateful to our amazing clients who have supported us throughout our journey. We even have seven clients who have been with us from the very beginning!
“Ballyhoo have been our web partner since day dot and have been instrumental in our continued growth from our initial launch as Discount Fire Supplies to where we are today as Huvo! Happy 16th birthday and we look forward to continuing on this journey together.” – Tariq, Huvo
Awarded Gold Award Fair Payment Code
This year, we have been awarded the Fair Payment Code Gold Award by the Office of the Small Business Commissioner (OSBC) on behalf of the Department for Business and Trade. This award rewards businesses for adopting fair payment practices for suppliers, specifically focusing on small suppliers, with the Gold category celebrating businesses that pay at least 95% of all invoices from suppliers within 30 days. This achievement showcases our commitment to building and maintaining strong relationships with our suppliers.
Awarded Ethical Business Excellence Award 2025
We have won the Ethical Business Excellence Award 2025 in the UK Enterprise Awards 2025 hosted by SME News. These awards honour businesses in a range of industries and celebrate the best of the best. We feel that this award truly represents what Ballyhoo stands for – being a committed business, having ethical values, morals and principles.
Awarded Best Family-Run Design Agency 2025 Midlands
In addition to the Ethical Business Excellence Award, we also won the Best Family-Run Design Agency 2025 Midlands in the UK Enterprise Awards 2025. This award recognises the hard work and resilience of Ballyhoo.
Community
B30 Food Donation
Continuing our annual tradition, we organised a food donation drive with our fellow residents of Pure Offices Longbridge to collect for the B30 Foodbank. We dropped the boxes of donations at the local donation point, also making a cash donation, which helps the foodbank to purchase items that they need.
Christmas Donation
Instead of sending our clients Christmas gifts, we opted to make a charitable donation. Each of our team members nominated their preferred organisation, with clients voting on a poll to choose one charity from the shortlist.
We are proud to have made a donation to Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity.
Children in Need
In November, we were proud to make a donation to the important work of Children in Need, supporting children and young people throughout the UK.
Save the Children
Earlier this month, we celebrated Christmas Jumper Day, making a donation to Save the Children.
2025 Projects
Ongoing support and improvements for our client’s websites continues to be a large part of our daily work, but making new websites for both existing and new clients is still our passion. Here are a few website launches from this year that we’d like to celebrate:
Huvo
Following a rebrand from the previous Discount Fire Supplies, Huvo needed their website to be updated in-line with the fresh brand concept. We refreshed the website with a new custom WordPress theme; including new logos, colours and illustrations, helping to reframe the brand direction and allowing them to grow, whilst continuing to enforce their competitive edge and retain customer loyalty.
Suncompare
We launched a website for Suncompare, sister brand to Snowcompare, focusing on their new Summer focused side of the business, allowing customers to find ski resort transfers at the best price available with optional extras.
Snowcompare
We fully redesigned the Snowcompare website to increase conversions by simplifying the user journey and highlighting its already successful comparison functionality and new features.
“We’re proud to have worked with Ballyhoo from the very beginning of our online business. Their commitment, adaptability and knowledge have helped us grow from an initial idea to where we are today. It has been a pleasure to have had them develop our very first website, then our second company website and now looking at launching our third unique site. We are excited to continue our partnership into the future as well.” – Dave, Snowcompare
StudioGötz
We created an immersive WordPress website for specialist architectural designers, StudioGötz, to showcase their striking visuals and projects, demonstrating their eye for detail and offering users inspiration.
“It has been a pleasure working with Ballyhoo over the last few months, creating our new website and brand guidelines. They have been professional and personable throughout, bringing energy, enthusiasm and lots of ideas to the table. They have listened and steered as appropriate, and provided a clear framework for developing the look, mechanics and content of the website. I am delighted with the end product, and how it reinforces the Studiogötz brand. Heart felt thanks to Ballyhoo!” – Volker, StudioGötz
Looking Forward to 2026
As we look ahead to 2026, we are excited about the many projects we can’t wait to share with you and the opportunities that a new year brings. We want to take this space to thank our clients and those who support Ballyhoo, and wish you a happy and healthy start to the new year.
