strategic communications with purpose
communications strategy : embedding social purpose : connecting communities
Driven by a belief in the power of strategic communications to effect meaningful change, I work with organisations to help them understand, embed and share the positive impact they can have on people and places
In my own business, I’m on a mission to make regenerative environmental choices and support the communities around me. Since 2021 Matt Appleby Consulting has been a Certified B Corporation®
Read more about the sustainability and impact of my business
I’m also a director of two social enterprises which are helping me to make a difference in the areas I’m passionate about - great local food & drink businesses and working to help connect communities
strategic support
Running Wales’ largest integrated PR agency and then leading the Prince’s Responsible Business network for BITC Cymru has given me the opportunity to work at the highest levels of business, government and civic society.
Those experiences and networks have shaped my approach to consultancy, putting purpose, responsibility and social impact at the heart of everything I take on.
If they are values that you share, I can support your business through:
corporate & communications strategy
developing & embedding organisational purpose
brand & creative planning
strategic review & reporting
stakeholder engagement
impact reporting and case studies
copywriting
In the past year I’ve completed consultancy projects for organisations including Wales Cooperative Centre, IPO, Life Sciences Hub Wales, Creative Cardiff and the IWA.
food & drink campaigns
I’m at my happiest in the kitchen and I’m a self-confessed recipe and beer geek.
In 20 years of agency life, I was lucky enough to work with many of Wales’ highest-profile businesses, running campaigns for SA Brain & Co, Hilton, PGI Welsh Lamb & Beef, Otley Brewing Co and Gower Brewery.
In 2016 I channelled my lifelong interest in food and drink into my own brewing business, Roath Brewery. Selling at farmers’ markets led to joining the board of Riverside Real Food, the social enterprise behind Cardiff’s Riverside, Roath and Rhiwbina farmers’ markets.
Recent food and drink campaign clients include Food Cardiff, the Zero2Five food innovation centre, Street Food Circus and Castle Quarter Arcades.
“Matt’s deep enthusiasm for food & drink
is really infectious”
Simon Wright, author & restaurateur, BBC Radio Wales’ Wales on the Menu
Grow Social Capital
Grow Social Capital is a social enterprise working to address the challenge of changing levels of social capital in society.
These changes are at the root of many social issues and challenges including growing divisions and distrust, fewer people getting involved in civic society, and more feeling more isolated.
I am one of four directors who founded Grow during 2020’s lockdown. As we move into post-pandemic recovery, we are developing new responses to enable organisations, communities and individuals to do something practical and positive to grow social capital.
Riverside Real Food
Riverside Real Food is the social enterprise behind Cardiff’s farmers' markets - it runs weekly markets in Riverside, Roath & Rhiwbina.
Passionate about supporting and helping small independent food businesses - and a former market trader in my Roath Brewery days - I’m a volunteer director working to help get the best food from farmers and producers into the heart of the city.
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professional standards
I’m proud to be one of the CIPR’s Founding Chartered Practitioners - and was the first in Wales.
I’m a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and member of ipse - the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed , the British Guild of Beer Writers and the Institute of Welsh Affairs.
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