Block Five Media
North Lincolnshire and Humberside
Testimonials
"Every organisation needs an Emma!
Emma provides us with extra capacity when we need it, providing a wide range of communications and marketing skills along with design and creative inputs. Her work fits seamlessly with ours and she is a friendly and productive part of our team. Thank you, Emma!"
Lesley, St Andrew's Hospice
"I’ve commissioned Emma for a number of years and I’m extremely impressed with her capability and skill for translating my organisation's, at times unclear, requirements into quality and successful communications across all media."
Dave, CatZero
"Emma has been producing the Association of Independent Celebrants' member newsletter for almost four years, along with occasional press releases, as needed by the organisation. She is a dab hand at sorting out the quirks of Mail Chimp, of which there are several!"
Kim, AOIC
Portfolio
CatZero Humber
2021 - present
FREELANCE COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER AND PRESS LIAISON • social media planning and creation, copy and DTP for the organisation's news magazine (print and digital) and any other relevant media, liaising with regional press and national press. Leaflets and ad-hoc print media.
St Andrew's Hospice
2018 - 2023
FREELANCE COMMUNICATIONS, DESIGN & DIGITAL MEDIA • Social media and press copy, videos, leaflet and poster design, event literature and media creation, annual review paperwork, staff and community newsletters. Special project work, as needed by the organisation.
AOIC
2021 - present
FREELANCE PRESS OFFICER • Copy for local and national press releases, as needed.  Copy, design and edit of a monthly newsletter for members of a national celebrant organisation
Redline Motor Services
January 2022
PR • Press copy for a Cleethorpes-based motor company, just starting out in the area. Includes accompanying images, as required by Redline.
Culture House
June, 2021
PROMOTIONAL WORK • Press releases and PR for the promotion of a local theatre company’s forthcoming events. The most recent work was for Grimsby’s newest event, Festival of the Sea.
The Kasbah
March 2021
WEBSITE COPY • Research and writing copy for the promotion of the new Kasbah heritage zone, on Grimsby Dock. Included interviews and images, as needed. See www.thekasbah.co.uk
Southbank PR
2018 - 2021
VARIOUS: Press copy, leaflet design, DTP, photographs, local and national press liason, for Lincolnshire PR agency. Clients included LHP, Blue Light Brigade, CatZero, AOIC, St Andrew's Hospice, AGE UK Lindsey, Birdhouse Theatre, and CPO.
University of Lincoln
2019 - 2020
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: SCHOOL NEWSPAPERS • Creating in-school newspapers with children aged 7-18, including Welton St Mary, Whitgift Academy, QEGS Horncastle, Waltham Leas, Caistor Yarborough and Frederick Gough, Scunthorpe.
Environmental
Up Stream, Down River
2022
Having returned in 2021 to Grimsby’s University Centre, to complete the BA (Hons) Top-Up Degree in TV Production, I chose to pursue the subject of documentary films and how they can influence society, before embarking on my Final Major Project.
Passionate about the environment and how people are fighting to make a difference at a grassroots level locally, I was keen to help highlight the work of James Elliott, The Canoe River Cleaner, but soon became aware that if I followed the River Freshney from its source to the Humber, there were three high-profile campaigners and environmentalists whose work I wanted to showcase – Canoe man James, housing development campaigner Lyndsey Downes and Surfers Against Sewage ambassador Toni Buckle-Weavers.
All local people working tirelessly to save the environment, whether that is a rare chalk stream, local wildlife, the flow of the waterways or highlighting issues with plastics and sewage near the seaside, I felt these people were truly inspirational and wanted to make my FMP useful to them.
I very much hope that it not only highlights the amazing work that they do but I also wanted to share a little of what I had learnt during my research into the area. There is a much bigger story to tell overall, and I hope that I can find some funding to pursue this in the coming months. In the meantime, if all the hours I have spent falling down riverbanks and monitoring local sewage outlets ultimately shines a light on the issues these amazing people face, and spurs others into action to help our little piece of the planet, it will have been worth it.
Bio
Emma Mathias
HND Media Production University of Lincolnshire & Humberside 1999
BA (Hons) TV Production Top-Up, First Class University of Hull 2022
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I have spent the last two decades working in a variety of media roles, including videographer, features writer, desktop publisher, ad creator, magazine editor, and features reporter for Trinity Mirror's Grimsby and Scunthorpe newspapers. Also for Trinity Mirror, I was the content editor for the Northern Lincolnshire Journal, Bon Appetit magazine, and The Journal Weddings. I have been a freelance consultant since early 2018.
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Working as an independent, self employed consultant, I also have professional indemnity insurance and public liability insurance.
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If you would like to discuss special projects, or how I may work with your business or organisation, please click here to email direct.