Ian.briggs@aberfield.comI’m a communications professional with 20 years’ experience working in the media sector, firstly as a journalist and today as a director at Aberfield Communications. Aberfield is a public relations, brand and marketing communications and social media consultancy that works with major organisations across a range of diverse sectors. Everything we do aims to have a positive influence on the opinions, perceptions and behaviours of our target audiences. Our goal is to influence and make a positive difference to how they feel, think and act, adding measurable value for our partners. Our expertise ranges from advising boards on mergers and acquisitions, supporting organisations in times of crisis, running major community and stakeholder engagement programmes and devising and launching high impact creative campaigns across media, social media and digital. And a whole lot more in between.We work across a range of sectors including property and regeneration, food and drink, professional and financial services, the public sector, education and skills, healthcare, hospitality and the visitor economy. Our client partners include The Compleat Food Group, Sofina Foods (Karro Food Limited and Young's Seafood), Wellington Place (MEPC), Theakston Brewery, York Minster, Castle Howard, Fortus, The Helmsley Group, NG Bailey, York Biotech Campus, Lincoln & York and The Harris Partnership.