Recent Charity Videos & Photography Projects in 2025

The National Lottery Community Fund asked us to produce a launch video film to highlight future funding plans for the grassroots organisations they support. We built visual storytelling into the film to tell the impact stories of families attending a healthy eating and cookery club, run the Aston Villa Foundation and funded by the TNLCommunity Fund.

“Gaby, Estefanía and the team showed exceptional expertise in developing our films. I’d highly recommend Magneto if you want an agency that’s proactive and bold with their approach.”
Neil Cahill, Strategic Communications Manager, TNLCommunity Fund

The Motability Foundation commissioned us to create an authentic recruitment film featuring the real experiences of staff. We brought people together for an informal chat so they could share what matters to them in a natural and engaging way.

The client was delighted, they said, “We could not be happier with results. The video is uplifting, inspiring, modern and fresh just what we wanted.”  

OnSide are a national charity that runs more that a dozen Youth Zones – amazing inner city spaces for young people. They commissioned us to make a film that would explain who they are and what they do, to raise awareness and create connections with local sponsors.

We created a video that showcased real stories in a fresh new style: using the stories and experiences of young people, we crafted a script that tells the story from multiple perspectives.

Filmed in Youth Zones in London and Manchester, the video uses the voices of a dozen young people, tours the facilities on offer and takes viewers into the heart of what this wonderful charity does.

Lupus is an autoimmune condition which has many possible symptoms and can have a significant impact on people’s health and lifestyle. Lupus UK commissioned a film that would help them attract participants to clinical trials by answering frequently asked questions and common concerns about taking part.

With their help we gathered a group of clinicians, researchers and people with lived experience and produced an informative and reassuring set of answers.  

Asthma & Lung UK are keen for people with lung conditions to know about the benefits of healthy exercise, so they asked us to make them a suite of videos to demonstrate safe activities and to use individual case studies to inspire people to get moving.

We brought together 3 people with asthma, along with qualified instructors to make a series of demontration videos, and then met up with each person to find out how they’d benefitted from adding an appropriate level of exercise to their daily routines.

A coalition of more than 40 NHS charities, this organisation commissioned Magneto to make a brand film that would be shown on several digital TV channels.

The aim of this brand film was to help create an identity for the charity and to let people know what they do and who they help. As budgets were tight the video needed to make use of existing assets, so we created a film that used striking still images to powerful effect, combining them with a tightly crafted script and bold graphics.

As part of our recent brand video for the Refugee Council, our clients asked us to undertake some stills photography too. We spent an amazing day with internationally acclaimed poet George Szirtes.

George has lived in the UK for most of his life since arriving here as a refugee from Hungary in 1956. He came here as a small boy, having travelled by train and foot with his parents, who had themselves survived Nazi concentration and labour camps. George has gone onto write award winning poetry in English and Hungarian.