Health and Behaviour Change

Client

Public Health England (Yorkshire and Humber)

Project

Breathe 2025

Inspiring a smokefree generation by the year 2025.

Breathe 2025 is a national movement that exists to ensure the next generation of children are born and raised in a world free from tobacco, where smoking is unusual.

Our job was to help communicate the vision of a smokefree generation by the year 2025 to people in Yorkshire and the Humber.

We created an engaging online tool and set of resources to empower local authorities to take action and make Breathe 2025 their smokefree policy.

Featuring various Yorkshire locations and our mini campaign ambassador Charlotte, we scripted and art directed a film to share our vision for a smokefree future and inspire others to join the movement.

This film was shown on city centre screens, at cinemas, and at both regional and national events. See how we took to the streets to capture content and spread the word with help from Charlotte…

To communicate a vision of a smokefree generation by the year 2025, to capture efforts in realising the vision with digital resources that could be used to target local authorities across the region in order to fulfill the following objectives:

Make it easy for local authorities and health organisations to understand the vision and sign up to it.

Make it easy for the vision to become their main policy for tackling smoking prevalence.

Empower local authorities to adopt the brand and digital resources to unite regional campaigns and efforts.

Ensure local authorities upload their efforts on the website so that as a region, we can archive all efforts.

Our strategy was all about being smart and ensuring we could empower influencers to spread the word.

We first set about creating the name and brand concepts; linking to clean air, childhood innocence, community empowerment and celebration, we delivered the ‘Breathe 2025’ concept with its cool blue colours, moving balloons and ‘ribbon’ font.

With a reasonably low budget versus quite a big ambition, our strategy was all about being smart and ensuring we got buy-in from communications, PR and health board leaders in local authorities to ensure the Breathe 2025 vision was network marketed for us through their communications channels reaching health services, schools, organisations and eventually the public.

We weren’t just talking about creating a digital platform, campaign and video, we were talking about innovating how Yorkshire and the Humber combats smoking related illnesses and deaths together in a completely new way.

Breathe 2025 is something that has never been achieved before, as every city generally works in silos on their smoking cessation projects and therefore efforts, success and celebration can lack strength or become lost. We wanted to create a focal point for tackling smoking across local authorities, NHS, local health and wellbeing boards.

We wanted to make it as simple and empowering as possible, setting the following strategy:

1. Create an online platform that can capture all efforts, promotes a strong united voice across one region, empowers organisations and individuals to get involved and captures data that we can use to promote how well the region is performing

2. Write and produce a compelling vision film that captures the essence of the project, sets the scene, explains the vision and gets those that see it revved up to join Breathe 2025

3. Create a comprehensive set of resources that speak to varying audiences and inspires them to make the Breathe 2025 brand and vision go further – we don’t have a marketing budget so essentially this pack has to get people to do our marketing for us

We developed a pledge site that allows users to agree to the vision, make a unique pledge, select a pre-populated pledge, make a video pledge and share pledges.

As well as pledging, users can read about recent smoking cessation big wins, view facts about smoking in the region, access useful resources and join the pledge wall that celebrates everyone’s efforts.

The site has an overhanging countdown clock to make the vision real. Users can enter a simple step-by-step process for pledging which ends with them receiving a personalised certificate and email.

The database allows us to communicate to those that have pledged and download data in order to analyse the efforts by city, town and postcode.

The site is responsive and has built in capabilities to grow. The original proposed designs allowed users to see efforts by location and efforts nearest to them. It was decided that this capability will be launched when we reach 2025 pledges which expect to see happen in the first year.

  • All 15 local authorities in Yorkshire and the Humber have signed up to Breathe 2025.

    Breathe 2025 has been adopted and, for the first time, the smoking policy for each local authority has one vision at the heart of all tobacco control strategies: this is now consistent across Yorkshire and the Humber.
  • Breathe 2025 is leading local action on work across the UK on the implementation of standardised packaging (video resources created from speakers across the UK.)

    Nationally recognised movement on tobacco.
  • Featured on Yorkshire and Humber’s first mass media ITV campaign in association with Cancer Research UK. Quit 16 adopted the Breathe logo from the digital resources for their TV adverts which ran between Coronation Street and prime slots visible by 8 million.
  • 1,372 local authorities, schools, individuals and organisations have pledged action through the Breathe 2025 website.

    City centre big screens in Bradford and Leeds showed the Breathe 2025 film with potential views of 600,000 throughout the scheduled period.
  • Breathe 2025 has featured on a fleet of buses around Leeds after the resource was accessed by Leeds CCG South and East, with a possible 800,000 views over the course of the campaign.

    Barnsley Parkway Cinema played the Breathe 2025 vision film before every film for a month with an estimated 84,000 viewings.
  • An estimated £500k worth of goodwill advertising has been generated using the campaign's digital resources and channels across the region.
  • Breathe was nominated for a national award for best public sector campaign, website or app at the 2016 DADI awards.
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