Solid gold takeaways from my five years at Pomegranite

Solid gold takeaways from my five years at Pomegranite

On 25 September it will have been five years since Melissa’s first day at Pomegranite. Five whole years of her Monica Gellar-level efficiency, dead-pan humour, expert spreadsheet-ing, kind support, and “safe” hands. Could we be any luckier?

Pomegranite Consulting Melissa Castle

The one where we thank our lucky stars

On 25 September it will have been five years since Melissa’s first day at Pomegranite. Five whole years of her Monica Gellar-level efficiency, dead-pan humour, expert spreadsheet-ing, kind support, and “safe” hands. Could we be any luckier?

We’re looking for freelance graphic designers

We’re looking for freelance graphic designers

We’re looking to find and partner with the right freelancers to work with us on future graphic design projects on a remote basis. We work with foundations, NGOs, changemakers and the education sector to tell their story through websites and social media.

We’re looking for freelance social media managers

We’re looking for freelance social media managers

We’re looking to find and partner with the right freelancers to work with us on future social media projects on a remote basis. We work with foundations, NGOs, changemakers and the education sector to tell their story through websites and social media.

Pomegranite team 2023

You’ll never guess what the word of 2023 is…

Last week, our Operations Manager, Melissa, sent a link to our “show-and-tell” Slack channel about Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2023 - a term for “something we’re thinking about, writing about, aspiring to, and judging more than ever”. Forget the newest development in Taylor Swift’s

WordPress basics course

Learn WordPress basics with Pomegranite’s new online course

We love building online courses for our clients. We love training clients on how to use WordPress so they can update their own websites. It took us surprisingly long to join these dots for ourselves: what if we created our own online course to teach people

Pomegranite turns 10

Pomegranite turns 10

1 July 2023 marked 10 years since we started Pomegranite. It’s surreal. When Liz and I sat down a decade ago to write our business plan, we decided to pepper it with ways we would celebrate big milestones. For our 10th birthday, we thought, we’d have

Rowan Jason Project Manager

Meet Rowan

Sometimes it really does feel like the right people cross paths with you at the perfect time. With Melissa’s promotion to Operations Manager at Pomegranite (the best thing to happen since Taylor Swift rerecorded her music for herself), we needed more project management capacity within the

Pomegranite Operations Manager Melissa Castle

Pomegranite’s new Operations Manager

It’s been so interesting seeing the different evolutions of Pomegranite over the years, as the business has grown, as the team has expanded, and as our lives have changed along with it all. This year has felt, more than any before, like a new era for

Nelisiwe Zangana Pomegranite

Meet Nelisiwe

One thing that continues to surprise me about running a business is how difficult it can be to find the right people to join the team. You need someone with the right skillset, and ideally the right sector experience. But you also need someone with

Callie Joseph Pomegranite

Meet Callie

The two responses I get most often from Callie, either on Slack or in Zoom meetings, are: “Got it.” and “I’m on it!” You know when you look into someone’s eyes as they’re talking to you and you can almost see the mental spreadsheets their brain

Tom's month-long European sabbatical

Tom’s month-long European Sabbath

After two years in a pandemic-restricted world, a week-long music festival on the Albanian coast in the middle of summer seemed like the perfect tonic. What to do both before and after slid into place quickly (thanks in large part to Tash’s knack for planning

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