Sledge year in review: 2025 wrapped

From sustainability wins and new client projects, to employee growth and continued collaborations with long-term partners, 2025 has been a whirlwind, and a very positive one at that.

Below we delve into just some of our highlights and successes.

Growing and glowing together

Our team delivered events and captured content in countries ranging from the UK and US, to France and Italy, and we saw a 25% project growth overall.

On the content side alone, 10 existing accounts expanded from small single-stage production jobs to multi-day, multi-production stage jobs – evidence that when it comes to events, film is a non-negotiable.

Living and breathing our purpose-driven values

We have continued on our sustainability journey this year, and in June doubled down on our impact business model with the launch of a new value proposition, refreshed mission, brand design, and Employee Value Proposition (EVP).

Throughout 2025 we applied our IMPACT Tool to every project to identify ways to elicit the most positive change, and saw an IMPACT Report average of 77%.

While this is above our 60% target, on conducting a mid-year analysis we recognised there was room for improvement with the tool, in terms of measuring those elements we don’t have control over, not just those that we do, and re-evaluating our reporting process is a priority area for 2026.

Nevertheless, we are proud of how we used the IMPACT Tool, including to leave a lasting impact on the local community in Miami. By flexing our creative muscles and looking beyond the norm, Sledge donated several hours of b-roll footage to three organisations doing good in the world.

As a collective we dedicated further time to charitable causes, which saw total hours volunteered increase by 250% and charity partners double. We took a more strategic approach this year, and aligned with charities where we recognised we could add the most value through leveraging our skills and expertise.

These include managing a fundraiser event for SCRUM Studios, who noted our support was "transformational," and spending the weekend capturing the Search and Rescue Lincolnshire team in action for a film we went on to edit, which they are now using as an awareness raising tool.

Crafting our paths

We’re passionate about supporting our people to evolve both personally and professionally, and the agency’s tailored training programme was a key employee development, as well as reward and recognition contributor in 2025.

We’re pleased to share that 10% of employees received a promotion, and all employees received an 8-12% salary bonus for achieving their individual KPIs, and our median tenure rate remains high at 9.6 years.

Being employee owned, new initiatives are a collective effort, and we find their uptake is very positive. These include the YuLife wellbeing app, which we introduced in 2024 and has now been adopted by 86% of employees.

Work we're proud of

There are too many to count, however a special mention goes to the We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) Just Peace Summit in Stockholm – which represented a brand new location for this coming together of global teen leaders, and A Night of Icons donor event, the first of its kind the charity has held in the UK.

Elsewhere partnering with Kite Pharma to weave wellness and accessibility into its Rise 2025 conference was a joy, injecting the buzz into HPE’s sales bootcamp was a whole lot of fun, and building on our partnership with a global finance brand across events and film was incredibly rewarding.

Looking ahead to 2026

Quarter one is shaping up to be a busy one indeed, and the team is currently in the pre-production stage for several projects in the UK and US, meanwhile we’re working away on some further sustainability accreditations, which we look forward to sharing with you in due course.