Zealous exists to grow your impact
Zealous is visual submissions management platform built to remove friction when running programs to support your communities.
Founded in 2011 to support the creative industries, our awards software has been used by thousands of clients from across all sectors to scale their impact.
Our mission
Facilitating the creation of more opportunities
Our journey began with a mission: to create more opportunities for creators to be celebrated and advance in their craft. To achieve this, we focused on providing the best tools to those supporting the creative sector, enabling them to scale the impact of their programs.
This vision led to the development of a modern, highly visual submissions management platform that allows candidates to showcase the full stories behind their work and empowers judges to make informed decisions through a transparent process that respects their time.
The success of our product has led to its adoption beyond the creative sector by agencies, foundations, and corporations seeking more effective ways to manage submissions for their programs.
The idea
Creating a virtuous circle
By empowering more people to create opportunities within the creative sector, we aim to ignite a global explosion of creativity. During our journey, we discovered that our service can help other industries celebrate their communities and engage with their stakeholders.
Since opportunities span across disciplines, we believe that expanding them across all industries benefits everyone in the long term.
Read how artist Maggie Williams grew her practice through Zealous.
Our belief
Creativity makes our world a better place
We continue to exist to support the creative industries. By serving a diverse range of clients, we can scale our revenue, increasing our positive impact on the creative sector.
We do so by running our own programs (using our platform – of course!) to support emerging creators and organizations in scaling their ambitions and producing works that enrich our world.
Initiatives we have run to support the creative eco-system include showcases, events and awards. You can read more about them here.
News
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We’ve been funded
It’s always been our plan to secure funds to allow us to grow and, ultimately, become self-sufficient. It’s important for us to raise from the right people to protect our community and we’re thrilled to say we’ve found that person! Read article
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Is Personal Branding more Important than Authenticity
We celebrated our second installation of Zealous Meetups – another evening of cross-disciplinary connections, happy chatter, and a lesson in why creativity matters. Our panelists Lanre, Francesc, and Lennie swapped wisdom and shared experiences of dance theatre, holiday lights, and dyslexia, telling the truth as well as they can to help people understand themselves and… Read article
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Our first meetup: Creative Collaborations
Nearly 100 of us gathered in the Waterstones basement for drinks, laughs, story-sharing and a brilliant panel of collaborative creative professionals who cannot be stopped by funding, freak-outs, or other people’s parameters. Read article
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Why We Exist
Creating isn’t easy. It’s a constant balance of making time to produce great work, seeking the resources to do so, sourcing the talent to make it happen, and keeping up with shifts in technology, distribution, funding…Whether you are creative, dependent on creatives, or both, our goal is to save you time and money that you… Read article
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2016: A Year in Review
2016 saw us welcoming 10,000 people to Zealous X, organise an impromptu exhibit at the Green Rooms Hotel which sold nine of our artists’ works and put 32 of you in front of the UK’s biggest cultural organisations, and much much more! Read article
