Hebble
&Stone

About

Secure, accessible websites for people doing good things

We're a non-profit Community Interest Company helping mission-led organisations, local groups and small companies thrive online.

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We believe that the organisations and companies making the world a better place deserve world-class digital foundations.

Too often, small, vital community groups and businesses are held back by digital fragility. Outdated code, insecure platforms, and visual setups that inadvertently lock people out. We founded our Community Interest Company to close that gap, providing the technical resilience and visual clarity that small organisations and firms need to thrive.

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We support small companies, social-purpose organisations and community groups across the UK and Europe. This includes registered charities, CICs, local sports clubs, grassroots groups, and businesses who are trying to make the world better.

We specialise in helping organisations with fewer than 20 staff. They're often the ones doing incredible work on the ground but lacking a dedicated tech or design team to maintain, secure, and modernise their systems.

Digital exclusion, accessibility-compliance risks and security failures rarely happen out of malevolence; they happen out of a lack of time, budget and understanding. But the real-world consequences compound quickly.

We do a full audit of your digital presence and explain the outcomes in plain English. We give you clear steps on how to improve, and offer support for anything you might not be able to do yourselves.

We didn't structure ourselves as a traditional creative agency, because we don't share their motivations. Hebble & Stone is registered as a non-profit Community Interest Company.

We are operationally robust, radically transparent and entirely dedicated to helping you focus on what you do best: making a difference, whether you're a charity, mission-led organisation or a business trying to do more than just make money.

  • No shareholders

    Every penny of surplus we generate is legally locked and reinvested directly back into helping us deliver critical services to those who need them most.

  • Free resources

    We use our profits to develop free, open-access tools, guides and materials that help small groups and companies improve their digital health independently.

  • Statutory

    We report annually to the UK CIC Regulator to prove exactly how our activities have benefited the community.

Who are Hebble & Stone?

Photograph of Matt Bedford.

Matt

Technical & strategic lead

Matt has more than 15 years in production systems. He ran a digital agency for ten years and was Digital Director for the Swiss eCommerce Association before focusing full-time on his passion: coding and systems architecture. He started Hebble & Stone after seeing small organisations charged a fortune for fragile, inaccessible sites that nobody had bothered to make work for the people they were meant to serve.

Why I co-founded Hebble & Stone

I'd spent years building robust systems for big brands and enterprises. I wanted the groups and firms who are trying to do more than just make money to have the same solid foundations and to know there were like-minded businesses out there who are on their side.

More about Matt's expertise
  • Full-stack web development: the building, not just the advice
  • Security audits, hardening and serious incident response
  • Performance and reliability for low-bandwidth, older devices
  • Accessible, standards-first front-end engineering
  • Technical strategy and maintainable, hand-over-ready architecture
Photograph of Lewis Clegg.

Lewis

Design lead

Lewis is a graphic designer with over a decade of experience spanning brand, identity and editorial. From offline production to fully-digital platforms serving tens of thousands of people every day, he's the brain behind Hebble & Stone's visual world and the way the work shows up to clients. His instinct is always for clarity over decoration, the kind of design that quietly helps people find what they need.

Why I co-founded Hebble & Stone

Considered design shouldn't be this luxury reserved for organisations with huge budgets. I wanted to give smaller companies and mission-led groups the kind of clear, accessible identity that usually only big brands get to enjoy.

More about Lewis's expertise
  • Brand and visual identity design
  • Editorial design and layout
  • Magazine design and offline materials
  • Accessible, inclusive visual systems
  • Logo and wordmark design
  • Fully-responsive modern web-design
  • Art direction and photography direction

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