All-female design agency move offices to accomodate new jobs

The micro-business, founded by twin sisters, Abigail and Chloe Baldwin, has moved premises from their first offices close to Braham park in Leeds to Bowcliffe Hall, a Georgian country estate close to Wetherby.

Chloe noted that the team are proud to call Bowcliffe their home, adding: “Where we were before, that was our very first office ever, and we felt super proud of that, but now this is more in line with our dream, it feels like a real step up so we’re really happy.

“Buttercrumble is an active community and we needed a space to reflect that. Bowcliffe provides an abundance of beautiful spaces for us to meet with clients and get creative.”

The move has allowed the company to create two new roles, creative champion and happiness manager.

Buttercrumble will be launching a number of high-profile projects with the public sector and international brands soon, and also plan to make an additional hire within the next year.

The all-female team is responsible for producing design solutions for organisations such as Chester Zoo, Mamas and Papas, and John Lewis.

Chloe and Abigail were the first in their family to work in the creative industry, and the first in their family to own a business.

The pair now actively champion creative education to young people, and have worked with organisations such as British Library, Leeds City Council, and the Saturday Club Trust.

Chloe said: “It's so important to try and encourage more people into design roles, especially if they come from a background like us, where they didn't really have any creative role models.

“Nobody in our family did anything within the creative industries, and nobody really had their own business either, our family has always been really super supportive, but all they can do is kind of encourage us, we didn't really have anyone to turn to for career advice.

“I'm so passionate to show people that if you like art or you like being creative that it can be vocational you don't have to be this starving artist.”