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Movement Marketing for Charities & Small Businesses

MUVIST® Academy is the only course that teaches charities and small businesses how to build an engaged community. Every other platform assumes you already have one.

Organisations that have benefited from the experience of MUVIST® practitioners & their teams

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In their words

Trusted by marketing leaders

What I valued most about working with Paula was her combination of strategic depth and practical discipline. She challenged 'how it has always been done', helped me strengthen my strategic thinking and gave us movement marketing frameworks we can actually apply to build deeper engagement and sustainable supporter momentum.

Alex EdgeHead of Marketing & Communications, MEI Charity

MUVIST® helped us transform a national test-drive initiative into something our community genuinely wanted to join. Movement marketing gave us a framework that works at speed, connects commercial activity to community impact and builds relationships that outlast a single weekend - that is how you grow a business people believe in.

Steve GregoryCommercial Marketing Director, Busseys
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Built to Last

Movement marketing is a practical way to help charities grow supporter engagement and businesses build customer loyalty without spending more. It turns one-off campaigns into a simple system that keeps people coming back, getting involved and bringing others with them. One engine that grows any charity or business, whatever its size.

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The numbers

How movement marketing outperforms standard campaigns

When you build a community, not just run ads, the frameworks you learn on this course translate into real, measurable growth within 12 months.

45%
Avg. increase in market share for movement marketing programmes*
25%
Avg. growth achieved by MUVIST® clients in year one
40%
Avg. increase in ROI vs static campaign strategies*
100
Meals funded through Felix for every full enrolment

* McKinsey - see the full source in our Resource Library. Your decision to learn Growth by Giving immediately funds meals for people facing food insecurity.

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The course · Grounded in real research

With a movement, or without. Watch a year.

Research from McKinsey, Bain, Nielsen and Wharton consistently shows that people who stay, refer and arrive through word-of-mouth are dramatically more valuable than those you acquire once and lose. This model compares two paths over twelve months: one where you build a movement and keep people coming back and one where you keep running one-off campaigns. Same monthly spend either way.

When you build a movement, even a modest increase in people who stay and refer, can turn into a much larger donation or revenue base over twelve months, without increasing monthly spend.

With a movement Without (business as usual)

Benchmark model on equal monthly spend, not a single dataset. Sources: FEP, Bain, McKinsey, Nielsen, Wharton.

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Drag inside Nielsen's cited 20–50% band — the share of purchases driven by word-of-mouth.
With a movement 0 engaged supporters
Without 0 engaged supporters
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−50%

customer acquisition cost when growth is advocacy and personalisation led.

McKinsey
+25–95%

profit lift from just a 5% increase in customer retention.

Bain & Company
92%

of people trust word-of-mouth from people they know above any advertising.

Nielsen
+16–25%

higher lifetime value from referred customers, with 18% lower churn.

Wharton
Inside the course

Four modules. One plan you run on Monday.

Around 8–10 hours, fully self-paced, with worksheets you use from hour one. Tap a module to see what you’ll do - and what you keep.

It all builds to your 30-day activation plan

Week 1SeedSet the story & first invitation
Week 2BuildRecruit & recognise early movers
Week 3PeakYour movement moment lands
Week 4SustainLoops keep it going
Day 30Plan readyRun it & show your board

You finish with a ready-to-run 30-day plan and a one-page dashboard your board, trustees or leadership can actually read and support.

Growth by Giving in practice

You learn. Communities eat. Everyone benefits.

For every full course enrolment, 100 meals go to Felix, the UK's leading food redistribution charity tackling hunger and food waste by rescuing surplus good food and getting it to people who need it, including thousands of frontline charities and community groups across the country. This is not a donation prompt. It is built into how MUVIST® Academy works; when you invest in your organisation's growth, another community benefits automatically.

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Practical ideas on Movement Marketing, Growth by Giving insights and first access to new resources, straight to your inbox.

Sign up to get a practical movement marketing guide that explains why some supporters and customers stay and others drift away, and helps you map your audience into six clear roles so your next campaign keeps more of the right people coming back.

Why Some Volunteers Stay & Others Move On - MUVIST Academy Q2 2026 guide
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Ready to grow your movement?

Start the course, join a free live webinar or explore a partnership. Every full enrolment funds 100 meals through Felix.